Bill Robinson — Maximum Overdrive Character Profile

About Bill Robinson

Cook and paroled ex-convict at Dixie Boy Truck Stop who suspects foul play during the machine attacks. Leads survivors to escape to Haven, destroys a platform truck with a grenade, and eliminates the Green Goblin truck using a rocket launcher.

Bill Robinson — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Emilio Estevez

Appears in

Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (6)

• Bill Robinson — Professional Coworker — Duncan (J.C. Quinn)

  Fellow employees who work together before the siege begins.

• Bill Robinson — Professional Coworker — Wanda June (Ellen McElduff)

  Fellow employees at the truck stop who share the same fate.

• Bill Robinson — Alliance Refugee Ally — Curt (John Short)

  Allied survivors who rely on each other for protection.

• Bill Robinson — Alliance Refugee Ally — Connie (Yeardley Smith)

  Allied survivors who find refuge and escape together.

• Bill Robinson — Alliance Combat Ally — Brett (Laura Harrington)

  Fellow survivors who assist each other in combat and escape.

• Bill Robinson — Alliance Survivor Partner — Hendershot (Pat Hingle)

  Allied survivors working together to defend the truck stop.

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• Rolf (R. Pickett Bugg)
• Barry (Robert Gooden)
• Frank (John Brasington)
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