Film

Robert started his life as a musician and worked with many of the sixties' rock & roll legends. His musical background led to his film career, which has included commissions for the BBC, Granada, WETA, National Geographic Television, Discovery Channel, the United Nations, the World Health Organization. His documentary filming experience has taken him to six continents including many of the world’s remotest locations and provided him with many rare experiences.

Subjects have ranged from John Lennon's home movies to Queen Elizabeth II and Agha Khan, and films involving the political, environmental and social arenas. While in America he has worked on profiles of Jimmy Carter, George Bush, the Chicago Seven, the Black Panthers, Irish author J. P. Donleavy, and a vast spectrum of political, literary and celebrated personalities.

Before arriving in the U.S. in 1987, Robert was regarded as one of Britain's top audio producers/film technicians. Among his British credits are the BBC’s Anthropological Unit's five-part series Diary of a Maasai Village and Dossers, a look at London’s street life; Granada's award-winning anthropological series Disappearing World, a landmark series in ethnographic filming. He worked for year on LWT's award-winning arts series the Southbank Show which featured luminaries such as opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, actor Gene Hackman, author John Mortimer, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and musicians Pete Townsend, Neil Young.

For many years he worked on Granada's hard-hitting investigative report team for World In Action, reporting on a vast range of topics from around the world.

He worked on feature films “Get Carter” starring Michael Caine; Albert Finney’s movie “Gumshoe” and a host of other cinema and commercial projects.

Robert has also tutored at the National Film and Television School of Great Britain and now lives in America.