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Robert Kendall is a Actor American born on 26 june 1927 at Stephenson (USA)
Robert Kendall (June 26, 1927 – November 12, 2009) was an American actor, writer and teacher.
Kendall was born Arthur Robert Kendall in Stephenson, Michigan in 1927, and moved to Battle Creek as a child. In 1945, he won a "Hollywood at Your Door" talent contest at the W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, and headed to Hollywood to take up the prize of a screen test. Upon his arrival, Kendall was told the company who had sponsored the contest had gone bankrupt and was asked for a loan. He returned to the YMCA where he was staying to discover that his clothes had been stolen. Undeterred, he took work as a waiter in a drive-in restaurant until he was noticed by Sylvia Sidney's talent agent Christopher Hofeld, and invited to try out for some roles at the Universal Studios lot.
Kendall auditioned for Universal and was given the small role of Hassan in the 1947 musical Song of Scheherazade starring Yvonne De Carlo and Jean-Pierre Aumont, and the next year appeared in Casbah, also starring De Carlo, alongside Tony Martin. During the 1950s, he played gangster Baby Face Nelson in several installments of the Gang Busters TV serial. He also played him in the 1960 film Ma Barker's Killer Brood.
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Birth name Arthur Robert Kendall
Nationality USA
Birth 26 june 1927 at Stephenson (USA)
Death 12 november 2009 (at 82 years) at Seattle (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 june 1927 at Stephenson (USA)
Death 12 november 2009 (at 82 years) at Seattle (USA)
Kendall was born Arthur Robert Kendall in Stephenson, Michigan in 1927, and moved to Battle Creek as a child. In 1945, he won a "Hollywood at Your Door" talent contest at the W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, and headed to Hollywood to take up the prize of a screen test. Upon his arrival, Kendall was told the company who had sponsored the contest had gone bankrupt and was asked for a loan. He returned to the YMCA where he was staying to discover that his clothes had been stolen. Undeterred, he took work as a waiter in a drive-in restaurant until he was noticed by Sylvia Sidney's talent agent Christopher Hofeld, and invited to try out for some roles at the Universal Studios lot.
Kendall auditioned for Universal and was given the small role of Hassan in the 1947 musical Song of Scheherazade starring Yvonne De Carlo and Jean-Pierre Aumont, and the next year appeared in Casbah, also starring De Carlo, alongside Tony Martin. During the 1950s, he played gangster Baby Face Nelson in several installments of the Gang Busters TV serial. He also played him in the 1960 film Ma Barker's Killer Brood.
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Lurene Tuttle, Dan White, Tristram "Tris" Coffin, Myrna Dell, Robert Kendall, Victor Lundin
Roles Baby Face Nelson
Rating55%
To the horror of her husband, Kate Barker, known as "Ma," teaches her four young sons to steal money from the collection plate in church. Her husband tries to convince her to stop using her sons to commit crimes, but is ignored. Ma expresses her contempt for "sissies" and says that "guts" is the only virtue. Her husband leaves her when their sensitive son Herman is arrested after Ma forces him to rob a fun fair. After this, the local sheriff runs Ma Barker and her boys out of town.
Guns Don't Argue (1957)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Myron Daniel Healey, Jim Davis, Don C. Harvey, Sam Edwards, Richard Crane, Baynes Barron
Roles Baby Face Nelson
Rating49%
The film takes the form of a docudrama in which Federal agents speak to camera about the war on gangsterism in the 1930s. Using contacts with gun molls, agents track down criminals. The film dramatizes the crime careers, and final capture or deaths of John Dillinger, the Barker Gang (Ma Barker, Fred Barker, Arthur Barker, Alvin Karpis), Bonnie and Clyde, Homer Van Meter and Pretty-Boy Floyd.
Casbah (1948)
, 1h34Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Märta Torén, Hugo Haas, Thomas Gomez
Roles Ahmed
Rating59%
Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was in turn an American English-language remake of the 1936 French film Pépé le Moko. The plot, which follows that of the 1938 film rather faithfully, deals with Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin), who leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne De Carlo), his girl friend, is infuriated when Pépé flirts with Gaby (Marta Toren), a French visitor, but Pépé tells her to mind her own business. Detective Slimane (Peter Lorre) is trying to lure Pépé out of the Casbah so he can be jailed. Against Slimane's advice, Police Chief Louvain (Thomas Gomez) captures Pépé in a dragnet, but his followers free him. Inez realizes that Pépé has fallen in love with Gaby and intends to follow her to Europe. Slimane knows the same and uses her as the bait to lure Pépé out of the Casbah.
Song of Scheherazade (1947)
, 1h45Directed by Walter Reisch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Brian Donlevy, Terry Kilburn, William Ching
Roles Hassan (uncredited)
Rating63%
Rimsky-Korsakov, a midshipman in the Imperial Russian Navy, secretly yearns to be a composer, but naval regulations prevent him from doing so. He uses a stopover in Tangiers to work on his next composition, Scheherazade (which is actually a symphonic suite but in the film is a ballet), with the tacit support of his captain. There he meets Cara de Talavera and her mother, and romantic events and complications ensue. He has to leave to return home to Russia, where his ballet is staged, but Cara unexpectedly turns up as one of the dancers, and they are reunited.