1. Robin Sachs was an English actor, active in the theatre, television and films.
11 Facts About Robin Sachs
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Robin Sachs was known for his voice-over work in films and video games.
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Robin Sachs made his later career in the United States, and became known for his role of Ethan Rayne in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Robin Sachs was born in London, the elder of two sons of the South African-born actor Leonard Robin Sachs and the English actress Eleanor Summerfield.
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Robin Sachs appeared in leading stage roles, in Leicester in 1979 in Sartre's The Assassin, Brighton in 1984 in Love Affair with Sian Phillips, and at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon in 1985 in On Approval with Polly James and Christopher Biggins, On British television, he was cast in Brideshead Revisited; Upstairs, Downstairs; Rumpole of the Bailey; Quiller and Gentlemen and Players.
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Robin Sachs played Thomas Culpepper, Catherine Howard's lover in Henry VIII and his Six Wives, and featured in The Disappearance alongside Donald Sutherland.
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Robin Sachs remained based in the US, guest starring in television shows including The Return of Ironside with Raymond Burr.
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Robin Sachs appeared in several science-fiction programmes on television, including Star Trek: Voyager and Torchwood, and in 1999 played General Sarris in the satirical comedy Galaxy Quest, co-starring Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver.
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Robin Sachs became known for his role as the sorcerer Ethan Rayne in the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and for voicing Zaeed Massani in the Mass Effect video game franchise, Admiral Saul Karath in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Sergeant Roderick in SpongeBob SquarePants and Xoloti in Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
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Robin Sachs was twice married: from 1979 to 1991 to Sian Phillips, and from 1995 to 2006 to the American actress Casey DeFranco.
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Robin Sachs died of a heart attack on 1 February 2013.