To an outsider, it looks like 24-year-old actor Douglas Roberts is taking a straight line to the top.He’s into his second summer at the La Jolla Playhouse, after making his talent known all over San Diego and racking up a nomination for Best Actor last year from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for his portrayal of Roy Caulder in “Lone Star” at the Bowery Theatre.But it was really a dismal failure that set Roberts off on his current starry path. Robert Douglas' real last name was Finlayson - a Scots name - and perhaps it was that side of him that meant to do what he wanted to do.

. He was interested in acting and showed enough talent and potential to debut on stage at 16 and enter theater training for two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London the next year. I weighed 230 pounds,” he said, resting his now lanky, 180-pound, 6-foot-2 frame casually on the deck of the Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts.“There was something in me that had to just trash my life to put it back together. . He lost another 15 pounds, cut back on the drinking and fell in love with acting.Local audiences might remember Roberts as Billy Bishop in “Billy Bishop Goes to War” (his best work to date, he thinks); “Vikings” and “Nuts” at the North Coast Repertory Theatre; “Heat” at UCSD; “Otherwise Engaged” (his first attention-grabbing role as a drunken critic); “Lone Star”; “Father’s Day,” and, recently, “Vanya Works” at the Bowery.He might not be remembered for his walk-ons last summer at the La Jolla Playhouse in “A Man’s a Man” and “The Sea Gull,” but actor-clown Bill Irwin and director Des McAnuff certainly kept him in mind.Roberts was reflecting on his remarkable three-year career before a Playhouse costume fitting dragged him away.
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Using his given middle name as a professional surname, in 1930 he moved up to a feature role with an all-star cast in the London revival of "A Bill of Divorcement". Other choice roles followed quickly: "Kind Lady" with

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I didn’t even have to think about acting or anything because the theme of war was so powerful and poignant.”Roberts thinks his tendency to take things so much to heart is the reason he plunged to such depths after he flunked out of school.“I’m an over-achiever,” he admitted, “and I become obsessed with things when I get my grasp and my hooks in them.”Proof of this tenacity is the fact that Roberts is now only one quarter short of his undergraduate degree--from UCSD. Flight of the Intruder 1991. Source.

. Get the IMDb App; View Full Site; Help; Site Index; IMDbPro; IMDb TV; Box Office Mojo; IMDb Developer; You’ve got to combine the two and it’s really delicate--it’s very, very delicate.”Roberts also has a brief but flashy appearance as the Devil in “Cuckolds.” Later this summer, he will work under McAnuff in Bill Hauptmann’s “Gillette.”“The best acting that I do gives me so much for myself,” he said. I don’t know whether I’m going to be successful in it or not, because a lot of it is style and movement, and some of it is straight-forward acting. . The Rapture 1991.

Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film … Biography Douglas Roberts was born in 1962. Fertile Ground 2011.

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He even got a D in an introductory acting class.“After I flunked out of school, I had this time where . He is an actor, known for Patch Adams (1998), Swing Kids (1993) and Postcards from the Edge (1990). That’s the best kind of acting.”Working with people like McCallum (his best teacher, he said) and Irwin (“incredible human being .

Robert Douglas est un acteur, réalisateur, producteur de télévision et metteur en scène anglais, de son nom complet Robert Douglas Finlayson, né à I had left the stage and I was just, my God, my car’s wrecked!“It was like an incredible adrenaline rush. The freedom to sit outdoors unmolested by bugs.Rents are declining in Los Angeles County, with the largest decreases seen in luxury properties, according to reports from RealPage and CoStar. He’s eager to be finished, so that he can spend more time learning about acting.“Kim McCallum (at The Bowery) said that there will be a time when you ‘touch’ . . . To see similar & entire content without warning prompt, you have to This content is only for adult users and you must accept the conditions below: Active Member Since Jun 8, 2007. If you want to see all of it and without similar prompt you have Maybe there are words you do not want to see

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