Editing Robson Green (section)

== Early life ==
Robson Golightly Green was born on 18 December 1964 in Dilston Hospital in [[Hexham]], Northumberland, and grew up in [[Dudley, North Tyneside|Dudley]], a small mining village south of [[Cramlington]].<ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/robson_green.shtml|title=BBC Drama Faces – Robson Green|access-date=29 January 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716105353/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/robson_green.shtml|archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/robson-green/person/84822/biography.html|title=Robson Green on TV.com|access-date=29 January 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616025806/http://www.tv.com/robson-green/person/84822/biography.html|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> His father, also named Robson Green, was a miner, and his mother Anne was a cleaner and shopkeeper.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/26/robson-green-my-family-values |title= Robson Green: my family values |first=Clyde |last=McGarrigle|date= 26 February 2016|work=The Guardian }}</ref> He was named in the [[North East England|Northeast]] tradition of naming the first son after family surnames: Robson was his paternal grandmother's maiden name,<ref name=bbc /> while his middle name, Golightly, is the surname of his maternal grandmother, Cissie Golightly, daughter of [[William Golightly]], a miner and well-known trade union leader in the 1920s.<ref name="itv north">{{cite web |url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep2week29/robson-green-how-north-was-built |title=Robson Green: How The North Was Built |website=ITV}}</ref>

Green attended Dudley Middle Comprehensive School. After being inspired by jets flying overhead, he decided he wanted to join the [[Royal Air Force]], and at the age of 16, he joined the [[Air Training Corps]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets/whoweare/famouscadets.cfm|title=Famous Cadets|publisher=Air Cadets|access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robsongreen.com/bio.php |title=Who Is Robson Green? |website=RobsonGreen.com}}</ref> though he decided against a career in the RAF after two weeks at an officer training camp. He also learned to play the guitar, later forming his first band, Solid State, in 1982. He also spent one night a week at the [[Backworth]] Drama Centre, and appeared in a series of productions at both school and Backworth.

Green left school aged 16 with five [[GCE Ordinary Level|O-levels]], and joined [[Swan Hunter]]'s shipyard as a draughtsman.<ref name="itv north" /> On one occasion, he also tried his hand at [[Boxing|professional boxing]]. He attended three boxing training sessions for the play ''Francie Nichol'', in which he played a boxer. After two years at Swan's, Green decided on a career in acting. After auditioning, he began training with Live Theatre under the tutelage of artistic director Max Roberts, his previous director at Backworth. During training he continued his musical career as a member of a successful local band, the Workie Tickets.