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Robin Houston was born in 1947 and is 77 years old now.
Birthday: 1947
How Old - Age: 77
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Robin Houston - Biography
Robin Houston is a British TV newsreader and actor. After starting his career as an announcer and stage manager, he became one of the pioneers of commercial radio in the United Kingdom. He went on to read the news on television for 15 years and to become one of the most well known announcers in television entertainment. For many years he was a host of television quiz shows, and is now a veteran voiceover artist with over 50 years' experience in the field.
For over 14 years, from September 1978, he presented the lunchtime bulletins of Thames News on Thames Television, covering the ITV region of London and the home counties. From April 1980 he also presented the nightly late Thames News bulletins, broadcast immediately after News at Ten. He continued to be seen twice-daily on Thames News until the end of Thames Television's contract in December 1992. He read over 5,500 news bulletins in that time.
As an actor he starred with Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft in the 1986 animated film When the Wind Blows in which he played the radio announcer warning of a nuclear attack. He was the newsreader in Kenny Everett's science fiction radio and television serial Captain Kremmen and has performed in a number of film and television dramas, including Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Custard Boys, Kavanagh QC, Thursday the 12th, Holby City, Dempsey and Makepeace and The Gentle Touch. He has also performed in several television situation comedies, including A Fine Romance, Nobody's Perfect, No Problem! and Two's Company.
He has also narrated over 100 audiobooks for the Talking Book service of the Royal National Institute of Blind People, for Listening Books' Sound Learning educational initiative and for other publishers.
He is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a Long Service member of the British actors' union Equity.
