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Robert Llewellyn

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Robert Llewellyn was working as a shoemaker when he started helping in the organisation of amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse over looking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called The Joeys. Within six months he had stopped making shoes and started performing professionally.

For the following five years he toured Britain and Europe with the Joeys, performing an average of 250 shows a year. The content of the performances was very strongly linked with the male response to feminism, to 'anti sexism' and 'anti racism.' The Joeys made numerous television appearances and ran sell out shows at Edinburgh Festival for three years.

1989 saw the start of Robert's involvement with the BBC cult comedy series, Red Dwarf which also featured Craig Charles as Lister, Chris Barrie as the Holographic Arnold Rimmer and Danny John-Jules as Cat, not to also mention Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge who both played Holly the ships computer. January 1992 saw Robert making a pilot for an American version of Red Dwarf in Hollywood. The project, made by Universal television for NBC was eventually 'not picked up.

'The Man in The Rubber Mask' a biographical account of his time appearing in Red Dwarf, was published by Penguin books in '94. That year Robert wrote and presented a six part series titled I-Camcorder, for Channel 4, a comic but information packed series which attempted to show you 'how to stop boring your friends and family with your home videos. While spending 6 months living in Australia Robert then wrote a biography of his misspent youth, Thin He Was And Filthy Haired and Therapy and How To Avoid It co-written with Nigel Planer, both, published in September 96.

Robert started presenting Scrapheap Challenge for Channel 4 in 1998, an extraordinary engineering game show, now in its 5th series, where two teams compete to build a machine between sunrise and sunset in a scrapyard. The show has been a huge success both in the UK and the US, where it is shown under the title Junkyard Wars Roberts first novel, The Man on Platform 5 was published in September 1998. The film rights were optioned up by Newline Cinema. The film is finally due to go into production in 2003 and will be shot in London.

His second novel, Punchbag, was published July 1999. The film rights for this book were bought by the BBC and is presently going through endless re-writes. In 1999 Robert wrote a screenplay, Blind Love For the BBC as well as presenting a series of science documentaries for the BBC Open University about Quantum Mechanics. His 3rd novel, Sudden Wealth, was published July 2000.

Roberts 4th novel, Brother Nature, was published October 2001. Apart from further series of Scrapheap Challenge Robert also fronted a BBC series titled Hollywood Science where famous Hollywood stunts are put to scientific test.

Roberts role as the square headed mechanoid Kryten is about to be reprised as Red Dwarf The Movie is due to go into production March 2003 Robert is currently working on his 5th.novel and a new screenplay, written as always in a shed on the side of a hill in the Cotswolds, a picturesque rural area 100 miles from London. He lives with novelist Judy Pascoe, and their 2 children, 4 chickens, a puppy and a hamster. He has a very extensive vegetable patch.

NEWSFLASH
Red Dwarf is back, brand new and with the original cast. Friday the 10th April on the DAVE channel will see Robert Llewelen (Kryton), Chris Barrie (Arnold Rimmer), Craig Charles (Dave Lister) and Danny John-Jules (Cat) return for a three-part special, more than 20 years after it first aired.

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