Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed ''Withnail and I'' (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ''The Killing Fields'' (1984).