he was a hero to me. Took on some sleazeball Hollywood mogul/studio in the early 80s. It didn’t help his acting career but who cares? He was married to Dina Merrill, daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post of the cereal family. Beautiful couple.
That's putting it mildly. Robertson was blacklisted for blowing the whistle on producer David Begelman's accounting fraud, and he didn't work in the industry for several years.
The sleasball was embezzeling from his studio by issuing 1099s to actors while cashing their checks as his own. The upshot was Robertson was ostracized because he blew the whistle to the authorities while the sleeze got a promotion to another studio I believe. It was a tremendous scandal and shows what happens in Hollywood if you don’t play ball.