- Doug and Joe Robinson taught actress Honor Blackman Judo self-defense tactics for her part in The Avengers (1961). The two brothers appeared as foils in many pictures for her 1965 book 'Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence'.
- With his brother Douglas he ran a gym on Old Compton Street, teaching actors how to fall and avoid injury in action sequences as well as instructing them in judo. Pupils included Sean Connery, Brian Blessed and Peter Bowles.
- He hoped to get the part of Grant in "From Russia With Love", but lost out to Robert Shaw because, he believed, he was Sean Connery's golfing partner. When cast in "Diamonds Are Forever" Connery got his salary raised from £2000 to £9000.
- Brother of actor/stunt man Joe Robinson
- 7th Dan in judo and Wado ryu Karate.
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