Randy Robbins was a director best known for his work on the long-running serial dramas The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives.
Robbins began working consistently on The Young and the Restless in 1986 as an associate director, with additional episodes in ’90 and ’93 as a director. In 1988 and ’95 he directed single episodes of Days of Our Lives, which he began working on regularly in ’97. He worked on 119 episodes until 2003.
He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 11 times for his work on the two dramas and wond four times, in a streak from 1986 to ’89, in the category of Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for The Young and the Restless.
He graduated with honors from UCLA, and his first job out of college was working as a researcher on The Dinah Shore Show.
He also served as a governor of the daytime programming peer group for the Television Academy.
Robbins died August 18, 2015, in San Diego, California.
