Robert Coleby (born 1947,
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) is a British actor. Active since the 1970s, he has over 70 film and television credits to his name.
Coleby played Richard Craig in several episodes of the Australian
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All SaintsAll Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama which airs on the Seven Network Tuesdays at 9:30pm. The programme debuted on 24 February 1998 and has been one of Australia's highest-rating dramas...
between 2001 and 2004, and appeared as William Maplewhite in two episodes of
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in 2001 and 2002. In 2005 he portrayed
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in the fictionalized
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Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty PleasureDynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure is a 2005 American television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty...
, based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time
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Robert Coleby (born 1947,
IpswichIpswich is a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe in Suffolk and Harwich and Colchester in Essex...
,
SuffolkSuffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
,
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
) is a British actor. Active since the 1970s, he has over 70 film and television credits to his name.
Recent career
Coleby played Richard Craig in several episodes of the Australian
medical dramaA medical drama is a television drama in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. While not as popular as legal/crime drama, it is still easily identifiable occupational based drama....
All SaintsAll Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama which airs on the Seven Network Tuesdays at 9:30pm. The programme debuted on 24 February 1998 and has been one of Australia's highest-rating dramas...
between 2001 and 2004, and appeared as William Maplewhite in two episodes of
The Lost World-Novels:*The Lost World , a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle*The Lost World , a 1995 novel by Michael Crichton, a sequel to Jurassic Park...
in 2001 and 2002. In 2005 he portrayed
Rock HudsonRock Hudson was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in several romantic comedies with his most famous co-star, Doris Day...
in the fictionalized
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television movieA television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a...
/
docudramaA docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction.-Generalities:Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:...
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty PleasureDynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure is a 2005 American television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty...
, based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time
soap operaA soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble,...
DynastyDynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard and Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...
. Coleby played Alexander Preston in the 2006 American
telenovelaA telenovela is a limited-run television serial melodrama popular in the Americas, comprising a great part of its production budget. The word combines tele, short for television, and novela, a word that Latin literary studies associate with medium-span romances. Telenovelas are essentially soap...
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, and Howard Webb in a 2006 episode of the Australian drama
McLeod's DaughtersMcLeod's Daughters was a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit a vast outback cattle station...
. He later played Paul Devers in the 2007 American
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The Starter Wife.
Personal life
Coleby is married to Lena Coleby; their children are Australian actors
Anja Coleby- Career :Coleby played Holly Myers in some episodes of Flipper and was part of the main cast, and then appeared in episodes of a number of science fiction and action series, including Water Rats and Farscape...
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Conrad ColebyConrad Julius Coleby is an Australian actor.-Biography:The son of actor Robert Coleby and brother of actress Anja Coleby, Conrad attended Somerset College on the Gold Coast, graduating in 1996. In the same year, he played the role of Colonel Juan Peron in the school's production of Evita...
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