RIP Tim Robertson

 

Tim Robertson Prolific actor / director / writer, best known for Chances, Power without Glory, Prisoner, and Stingers, has died aged 81.

TV Tonight

By David Knox

January 2, 2026

 

British born Robertson enjoyed a long career in Australian stage and screen, joining the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1972. This included the second ever production of Dimboola, directed by David Williamson.

His TV work was prolific in the 1970s including roles in Matlock Police, Homicide, Rush, Division 4, Cash & Company, Tandarra, Bluey, Against the Wind, The Sullivans, Skyways, Cop Shop.

In Frank Hardy’s Power Without Glory he played Arthur West for 14 episodes.

Work continued in the 1980s in Young Ramsay, Scales of Justice, Special Squad, Carson’s Law, Vietnam, Rafferty’s Rules, The Heroes, Round the Twist, Neighbours and A Thousand Skies. He had various roles in Prisoner and 16 episodes of Australia You’re Standing In It.

Other credits included All the Rivers Run II, Skirts, The Flying Doctors, Time Trax, Ocean Girl, Halifax fp, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Kangaroo Palace, Thuderstone, Beastmaster, Shock Jock, Stingers, CrashBurn and Last Man Standing. In Chances he played Jack Taylor for a whopping 90 episodes.

His film credits were equally impressive including The Cars that Ate Paris, Petersen The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Phar Lap, Bliss, Jenny Kissed Me, Kangaroo, The Year My Voice Broke, Evil Angels, The Big Steal, Bodysurfer, Amy, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Holy Smoke and The Eye of the Storm.

He also wrote and directed in theatre, including lyrics for the ill-fated musical Manning Clark’s History of Australia – The Musical in 1988.

ROBERTSON, Tim

Born: 6/16/1944, Braintree, Essex, England, U.K.

Died: 1/2/2026, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

 

Tim Robertson’s westerns – actor:

Rush (TV) – 1974 (Constable Calvin)

Cash and Company (TV) – 1975 (Reed)

Tandarra – 1976 (storekeeper)

Against the Wind (TV) – 1978 (Holt)

All the Rivers Run II (TV) – 1990 (Blackwell)

Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (TV) – 1995 (Trooper John Clark)