Early Life and Hollywood Career
Born in Logan, Utah, the son of a Brigham Young University music/drama instructor, Robinson graduated from Cornell University at the age of 19 and briefly taught English before turning to journalism. In 1927, he began his Hollywood career writing the titles for silent movies. He graduated to directing in the early 1930s, but after six films he abandoned that field in order to concentrate on writing. The films with Davis included It's Love I'm After, Dark Victory, The Old Maid, All This, and Heaven Too, Now, Voyager, and The Corn Is Green.
Robinson's production credits include Days of Glory, Under My Skin, and Two Flags West, all of which he scripted as well.
In 1935, Robinson was a write-in candidate for what was then called the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay for his work on Captain Blood.
After spending the better part of the 1930s and the early 1940s working at Warner Bros., Robinson moved to MGM in the mid-'40s, then to 20th Century Fox in the 1950s. He retired in 1962 and eventually emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (his wife was Australian). While in Sydney he came out of retirement to write and produce Scobie Malone, in 1975. He died in Sydney.
Robinson's third wife was prima ballerina Tamara Toumanova.
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