Trivia

He disliked working in collaboration, preferring to receive solo credit for his efforts. He preferred working for Warner Brothers, because he believed that Jack L. Warner was too tight-fisted to fork out extra money for re-writes, thus more of the original script would be featured on screen.

Initially taught English at a high school in Brigham City, Utah, as well as entertaining a brief journalistic career as a reporter for the New York World. He started in Hollywood as a title writer in 1927 for $100 a week. Robinson was signed as full screenwriter by Paramount (1933-34) and then secured a ten-year contract with Warner Brothers in 1935. There, he worked on some of Betty Davis's and Errol Flynn's best films, including Captain Blood (1935), Dark Victory (1939) and Now, Voyager (1942). After leaving Warners, he had a spell at MGM, then joined 20th Century Fox (1949-54) as writer/producer.

He was a graduate of Cornell University of 1924.