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Phil Robinson (director)
Philip or Phil Robinson may refer to: Sports * Phil Robinson (footballer, born 1942) (1942–1989), English professional footballer *Phil Robinson (footballer, born 1967), English professional footballer * Phil Robinson (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketer *Philip Robinson (jockey) (born 1961), English flat racing jockey Entertainment *Phil Alden Robinson (born 1950), American film director and screenwriter * Philip Robinson (music), English conductor, arranger and music educator * Philip Robinson (author) (born 1973), English author and journalist *Phil Robinson, Australian bassist of The Cockroaches *Phil Robinson, drummer with Autopilot Off Others * Philip Robinson (RAF officer), decorated Royal Air Force officer * Philip Stewart Robinson (1847–1902), Anglo-Indian writer * Phil Robinson (politician) Phillip Martin Robinson Jr. (born December 28, 1980) is a non-profit executive and American politician who is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Robinson (footballer, Born 1942)
Philip Robinson (21 November 1942 – 1989) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. Active in the Football League between 1960 and 1970, Robinson made 300 career appearances, scoring 31 goals. Career Born in Doncaster, Robinson began his career in non-League football with Montrose Victoria, before turning professional with Huddersfield Town in 1960. He later played for Doncaster Rovers, Bradford Park Avenue and Darlington, before returning to non-League football with Boston United Boston United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The club participates in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system. The club is known as 'the ... in 1970. Later life and death Robinson died in 1989. References 1942 births 1989 deaths English men's footballers Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players Doncaster Rovers F.C. players Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Robinson (footballer, Born 1967)
Philip John Robinson (born 6 January 1967) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Notts County, Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Northampton Town, Chesterfield, Stoke City, Hereford United and Stafford Rangers. He is Manchester City's international youth scouting and recruitment manager. Career Robinson was born in Stafford and began his career with Aston Villa in 1985. He then played for Wolverhampton Wanderers for two seasons which ended with back to back promotions and then achieved the same feat with Notts County. After a short loan spell with Birmingham City, during which he was part of the side that won the 1990–91 Associate Members' Cup, Robinson played two years at Huddersfield Town and played on loan for Northampton Town before joining Chesterfield helping the side gain promotion 1994–95 and then made a return to Notts County where he enjoyed his fifth promotion in 1997–98. Robinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Robinson (cricketer)
Phil Robinson (born 3 August 1963), born Phillip Edward Robinson, is an English former first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leicestershire. Robinson was born at Keighley in Yorkshire, made his first-class debut for his native county in 1984, and played 132 first-class games for the Tykes until 1991, averaging 35.84, passing 1,000 runs in a season on three occasions. He then moved to Leicestershire and played up to 1995, but was somewhat less successful, playing 27 matches without a century, for an average of 23.72. His best first-class score of 189, came in a Roses Match in 1991, in his penultimate match for Yorkshire. After leaving the first-class scene, he managed Leicestershire's Second XI for four years before moving to New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Robinson (jockey)
Philip Peter Robinson (born 10 January 1961) is a former English flat racing jockey. The son of Peter Robinson, a jockey and trainer, he rode his first winner in 1978 at Great Yarmouth. He was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1979 and 1980. One of his most famous victories was his win on Pebbles, trained by Clive Brittain, in the 1984 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. His second victory in this race came in 2001 on Ameerat, trained by Michael Jarvis. Robinson rode in Hong Kong for six years from 1987, becoming Champion Jockey there on two occasions, in 1988-89 and 1989–90, making him the only English Jockey to achieve this feat. Philip Robinson is well respected for having a great tactical understanding of and approach to race-riding. He was the regular jockey for the Michael Jarvis stable for many years; however on Jarvis' retirement in early 2011, Robinson moved to ride for veteran trainer Clive Brittain. Robinson then retired in October 2011. Major wins Great Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Alden Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson (born March 1, 1950) is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include '' Field of Dreams'', ''Sneakers'', and '' The Sum of All Fears''. Early life and education Robinson was born in Long Beach, New York, the son of Jessie Frances and S. Jesse Robinson, who was a drama critic for the '' New York Journal American'' and a media coordinator for the liquor division of the National Distillers & Chemical Corp. in New York. Robinson graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Union College in 1996. Career Robinson directed the baseball film '' Field of Dreams'' (1989). It earned Robinson nominations for the Directors Guild of America Award, the Writers Guild of America Award, and for an Oscar for Best Screenplay Adaptation (the film was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Score Oscars). Other accolades for the film inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Robinson (music)
Philip Robinson is an English conductor, arranger and music educator. He was born in Lancashire and was educated at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. He then studied French horn at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tuition of David Cripps (former principal of both the Hallé and the London Symphony Orchestra), and graduated from Manchester University in 1998. He has held posts as Musical Director of the University of Manchester Chamber Choir, Training Choir and Orchestra, University of Keele Concert Band, Congleton Youth Orchestra and La Faminite Ensemble - a chamber orchestra made up of music students based in the North West. He is in demand as a composer and arranger for a wide variety of different groups, having many of his arrangements performed at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Symphony Hall in Birmingham and the Sage Gateshead. For five years he was Musical Director of Sing Live North West, a choir of over 300 singers from the Greater Manchester are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Robinson (author)
Philip Robinson b. 1973 is a journalist who writes primarily for the ''Mail on Sunday'' and the ''Daily Mail''. He claims that his career has brought him in contact with gangsters, pirates, special forces operators, despotic generals, corrupt cops, professional gamblers, fixers, Lear jet repo men, and multimillionaire hedge fund brats. His first novel, ''Charlie Big Potatoes'', was published in 2003 by Macmillan, and, according to WorldCat, is in 202 libraries Book record in Worldcat WorldCat/ref> and his second, ''USS Alcatraz'', in 2012. He lives with his wife, fellow author Anna Maxted Anna Maxted is an author based in North London, England. Biography Born in 1969, she is married to fellow author and journalist Philip Robinson and they have three young sons. She writes female contemporary fiction, which is viewed as being ..., and their three sons in North London. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Philip British writers British male journalists Living peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cockroaches
The Cockroaches were an Australian pub rock band primarily active throughout the 1980s. The band was founded in 1979 by the Field brothers—Paul (lead vocals), John (rhythm guitar, vocals), and Anthony (lead guitar, vocals)—and Tony Henry on drums and Joseph Hallion on saxophone. They were joined in 1981 by Jeff Fatt on keyboards. In 1986 they signed with an independent label, Regular Records, which issued their first three albums, including '' The Cockroaches'' (March 1987), which peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart; it sold 70,000 copies and was certified platinum by their label. The album spawned the single " She's the One", which became the band's biggest hit when it peaked at No. 7 on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart in April 1987. In 1988, ''The Daily Telegraph'' described the Cockroaches, who played over 300 gigs a year, as the "Hardest Working Rock'n'Roll Band" in the country. In September 1988, the band was promoting their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autopilot Off
Autopilot Off is a punk rock band from Orange County, New York composed of Chris Hughes (guitar), Chris Johnson (guitar/vocals), Phil Robinson (drums) and Rob Kucharek (bass). History Autopilot Off formed in 1996 under the name Cooter. They slowly gained popularity by doing live shows throughout the 90s while sharing the stage with more popular bands such as MxPx, Goldfinger (band), Goldfinger, Sum 41, Yellowcard and H2O (American band), H2O. Cooter released a split with Slick Shoes on May 23, 2000. They eventually recorded their first full-length album, ''Looking Up (Autopilot Off album), Looking Up''. In 2000 the band was involved in a bitter lawsuit with the Mississippi punk rock band The Cooters, who own the trademark to the name Cooter. The New York band changed their name to Autopilot Off in April 2001, and settled out of court in 2002. However, Autopilot Off's record label Fastmusic, took the lawsuit all the way to Federal Court and lost to the Mississippi band. In Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Robinson (RAF Officer)
Air Vice-Marshal Philip Jeremy Robinson, is a decorated British pilot and senior Royal Air Force officer. RAF career Robinson was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 7 May 1992 as an acting pilot officer; he was regraded to pilot officer on 7 May 1993. He was promoted to flying officer on 7 May 1994, and to flight lieutenant on 7 November 1997. Having completed his flying training, Robinson was posted to No. 18 Squadron RAF who were then based in Germany. He returned to England in 1997 and was posted to No. 7 Squadron RAF: he was made commanding officer of the squadron in 2005. From 2010 to 2012, he was commanding officer of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing. Robinson flew Chinooks with the RAF, and also the Army Air Corps' Lynx. He flew in operations in Bosnia, Albania, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) three times for service during the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Stewart Robinson
Philip Stewart Robinson (from around 1889 as Frederick Stennard Robinson) (13 October 1847 – 9 December 1902) and from 18 was an Indian born British naturalist, journalist and popular author who popularized the genre of humorous Anglo-Indian literature. He was briefly an editor for the ''Sunday Times''. Phil was a brother of E. Kay Robinson who was famous for nurturing Rudyard Kipling and founding the British Naturalists' Association. It has been claimed that his style of writing influenced authors like Edward Hamilton Aitken (''Eha''). His youngest brother was Sir Harry Perry Robinson (1859–1930). Life and work Phil was born at Chunar in India and was one of six children of Julian Robinson, an army chaplain and editor of the newspaper '' The Pioneer''. His mother was Harriet Woodcocke, daughter of Thomas Sharpe, Vicar of Doncaster. Phil was educated at Marlborough College and after graduating in 1865, worked as a librarian at Cardiff. In 1869 he returned to India to as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
