Robert David Hall

Hall's television credits include recurring roles in "The Practice" and "L.A. Law" and guest-starring roles in "The West Wing" and, on CBS, "Touched by an Angel," "Brooklyn South" and "Promised Land."  His feature film credits include "The Negotiator" and "Starship Troopers."  
           
Hall can be heard on many national commercial spots and in the cartoons “Ben 10: Alien Force,” "Batman," "Superman" and CSI: Videogames 5 and 6.  For more than four years, he was the daytime voice and music director of KNX-FM.
 Music has always been a part of Hall’s life.  His first CD, Things They Don’t Teach You in School, was released June 2010. Hall wrote or co-wrote nine of the twelve songs including the title track.  As guest artist he performed at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Saturday June 19th, 2010, on The Grand Ole Opry, the world’s longest running live radio program. 
 
A double leg amputee and a devoted community activist, he is one of the most prominent disabled actors working today. Hall serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization on Disability and was honored by California State Leaders for his contributions as one of the Founders of I AM PWD (Inclusion in the Arts & Media of People with Disabilities). He was honored to introduce President Obama at the 20th Anniversary celebration for Americans with Disabilities Act on the White House lawn on Monday July 26, 2010. He participated in Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis' White House roundtable discussion on ways to create an environment where hiring barriers are removed, accommodations made and pathways to promotion developed for people with disabilities.  He is National Chairman of the Performers with Disabilities Caucus for SAG, AFTRA and EQUITY.
 
In 2007 he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Community Colleges. He received the 2006 Ivy Bethune Diversity Trailblazers Award from Screen Actors Guild and the1998 Harold Russell Award from the Media Access Office.  In spring 2008, he presented New Zealand with the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award at the United Nations and in 2005, he was honored to present the same award to King Abdullah II of Jordan.
 
Hall was born in East Orange, N.J. and lives in Los Angeles with his wife. His birth date is Nov. 9.

Dr. Al Robbins

Born to a single mother in an era when everyone came from a two-parent household, Albert Robbins spent his life as an underdog. Spurned by his peers, he took solace in books from an early age, discovering an aptitude for academia. His mother worked as a nurse, so Robbins spent most nights in the local hospital. The doctors and nurses unofficially adopted him and they not only gave him free reign of the premises, they allowed him to assist in any number of activities the chronically short-handed facility required. From stocking shelves as a ten-year-old to assisting in simple surgeries as a teenager, Robbins knew more about the hospital than some of the doctors who worked there. 
 
After completing his residency at Johns Hopkins, Al Robbins opened a clinic in the then-run-down inner harbor area of Baltimore. He worked as a general practitioner for twenty years before the chronic budget shortfalls and the predatory practices of the newly powerful HMOs forced him to close the clinic’s doors. Strictly out of academic curiosity, he became an Assistant Coroner for the Arlington, Virginia police department, where he worked his way up to Coroner in two years. 
 
Many years of fighting the good fight eventually left him drained, and after shifting into what felt like a natural career change for him (medicine is all about life and death), he and his wife and their three children packed up and moved to Las Vegas. He’s free to pursue his own interests, both at work and at home, and that’s the way he likes it right now. His medical career has somewhat followed the path he envisioned for himself, but his personal life has far exceeded his wildest expectations. His wife and children have replaced books as the center of his life and nothing will ever change that.