Michael Robbins (November 14 1930 - December 11 1992) was a British actor known for his television work. Formerly a bank clerk, he became an actor after appearing in amateur dramatic performances in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, where he lived at the time. Primarily a comedy actor, he is best known for the role of Arthur Rudge (the persistently sarcastic husband of Olive, who was played by Anna Karen) in the popular sitcom On the Buses. This led to spin-offs and film roles in the same character. His other comedy credits include non-recurring roles in One Foot in the Grave, The New Statesman, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, In Sickness And In Health and You Rang, M'Lord?. He appeared as a rather humorously-portrayed police sergeant in the TV adaptation of Brendon Chase. As well as these comic roles, he assumed various straight roles in some of the major British television shows of the 1960s and 1970s: including Minder,The Sweeney. Z Cars, The Avengers, Dixon of Dock Green and the Doctor Who story The Visitation. He died from cancer in Caterham, aged 62.
