William Robbins (died October 1645), also Robins, Robinson, or Robson, was a prominent comic actor in the Jacobean and Caroline eras.
During the English Civil War he was a captain in the Royalist army and was killed during the siege of Basing House.
Robbins career began by 1617, when he was with Queen Anne's Men; he remained with that company for the remainder of its existence.
Robbins may have been one of the members of the troupe who travelled to Ireland with James Shirley to work at the Werburgh Street Theatre in Dublin in the later 1630s.
[3] After the theatres closed in 1642, Robbins, like some other actors (fellow King's Men Charles Hart and Nicholas Burt are good examples), fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War.