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Robin Squire

Robin Squire

Robin Squire, Ink
Author, Playwright and Screenwriter

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

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January 2014
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About Robin

Rob began his working life as an accounting machine salesman – but found he spent more time jotting down story ideas than selling anything. This led to the loss of his job, till the publication by W. H. Allen & Co. of his first novel Square One (published in paperback by New English Library as The Big Scene) caused him to feel he might be able to make it as a writer.

Other books followed, including A Portrait of Barbara, published by St. Martin's Press and Sphere Books. He cut his screenwriting teeth on a script directed by Norman Cohen in South Africa, and has since written and re-written numerous screenplays, not all of which got made, but the experience of shaping and reshaping them into their final form has created a colourful and intriguing portfolio, while a film titled Knife Edge, on which he was an increasingly isolated writer, featured the pre-Lord Downton Hugh Bonneville and the totally wonderful Joan Plowright, and inspired his hilarious diary-based 'reality novel' about the debacle, soon to be reissued (2015) under the title The Unmaking of a Britflick.

Rob has been an infantry soldier in the British Army (in which he got lots of blisters and became a qualified marksman on the rifle), house-cleaner, bingo steward, spare parts driver, hot-dog seller, magazine journalist, car-jockey, security guard, TV extra, professional proofreader, factory paint-grinder, ditch-digger, copy-editor, and even sold encyclopaedias door to door. His recent work includes Lavender Days, a romantic novella set in the South of France. Lavender Days is soon to be reissued in paperback (2015). The Mystery of the Stolen Brides, An Inspector Dearborn Case is a Victorian detective story with supernatural / psychological overtones, published in Little, Brown's Crime Vault in 2014.

Seeing the Beatles in live performance during a happy-go-lucky hitch-hiking trip to the South of France 'way back before when was invented' inspired his first novel Square One. By an extraordinary sequence of fate and synchronicity, Square One led to his joining the BBC as a reader and grader of incoming scripts in the Script Unit and a trainee script editor in the Doctor Who office. Subsequently, by further quirks of chance, he found himself playing the first monster to appear in colour on our television screens on Jon Pertwee's debut as the Doctor. His memoir about the unlikely sequence of events was published in September 2014 under the title The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy. The foregoing book is now available in print and Kindle formats, should anyone fancy a trip back in time without having to bother breaking into the Tardis. Rob is interviewed by Chris Chapman on the BBC DVD titled Mannequin Mania, issued on BluRay in June 2013.

Gender:
Male
Height:
5' 11"
Weight:
180
Body type:
Average
Hair:
Medium
Hair color:
Grey
Eyes:
Blue
Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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  • The Dance of the Mantis

    The Dance of the Mantis Drama ⋄ Fantasy http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/dance-of-mantis/

  • The Pond

    The Pond Horror http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/pond/

  • Visions of Eternity

    Visions of Eternity Drama http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/visions-of-eternity/

  • Blood On The Dew

    Blood On The Dew Drama http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/blood-on-dew/

  • Darling Heart

    Darling Heart Drama http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/darling-heart/

  • Grain of Sand

    Grain of Sand Drama http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/grain-of-sand/

  • Muckers

    Muckers Drama ⋄ Fantasy http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/muckers/

  • String Horses

    String Horses Drama http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/string-horses/

  • Oscar et Sarah

    Oscar et Sarah Other http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/oscar-et-sarah/

  • Surviving

    Surviving Comedy http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/surviving/

  • The Dying of the Light

    The Dying of the Light Drama http://www.robinsquire.com/screenplays/dying-light/

Credits

  • The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy

    The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy (2015)
    Print by Greenwave Editions Author

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Brides, An Inspector Dearborn Case

    The Mystery of the Stolen Brides, An Inspector Dearborn Case (2014)
    Print by Little, Brown Author

  • Lavender Days

    Lavender Days (2013)
    Print by Greenwave Editions Author

  • Knife Edge

    Knife Edge (2009)
    Film Writer

  • The Forever Box

    The Forever Box (1975)
    Television Writer

  • The Puppeteers

    The Puppeteers (1975)
    Television Writer

  • The Lion's Share

    The Lion's Share (1973)
    Film Writer

  • A Portrait of Barbara

    A Portrait of Barbara
    Print Author

  • Square One

    Square One
    Print Author

  • Captain Peter

    Captain Peter
    Television Writer

  • The Copenhagen Code

    The Copenhagen Code
    Television Writer

  • The Sunshine Gang

    The Sunshine Gang
    Television Writer

  • The Genesis Stones

    The Genesis Stones
    Television Writer

  • Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space

    Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space
    Television by BBC Assistant Script Editor

  • The Disco Kid

    The Disco Kid
    Television Writer

  • Holiday Haunt

    Holiday Haunt
    Television Writer

  • The Switch

    The Switch
    Television Writer

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