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Robert Rockwell is a Actor American born on 15 october 1920 at Chicago (USA)
Robert Rockwell (October 15, 1920 – January 25, 2003) was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television situation comedy, Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden. However, he also starred in his own ABC western-themed television series, The Man from Blackhawk in the 1959-1960 season. "Blackhawk" is an insurance company, and Rockwell, at thirty-nine, was cast as the company's key investigator, Sam Logan, who is assigned to weed out fraud in the payment of claims.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, from which he obtained a master's degree. Dramatic roles often eluded him, however, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared, over his almost 50-year acting career, in more than 350 television episodes and, on stage, opposite José Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and with Ginger Rogers during the 1960s in a San Diego production of Whitfield Cook's play A More Perfect Union.
Rockwell was a founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre. He played standard leads in a couple of anti-Communist-era features, including Republic's The Red Menace (1949), in which he is cast as a returning veteran of World War II, who is duped by communists.
In the first episode of The Adventures of Superman, he played Superman's father Jor-El. In 1952, he was cast in the episode "The Porcelain Lion" of Kirby Grant's western aviation adventure series, Sky King. Rockwell appeared in several episodes of the NBC television anthology series The Loretta Young Show (1958), in which he played Loretta Young's husband. Rockwell made five guest appearances on Perry Mason during the run of the CBS series from 1957 to 1966. In 1961 he played defendant Air Force Major Jerry Reynolds in "The Case of the Misguided Missile," and in 1962 he played murderer Cole B. Troy in "The Case of the Shapely Shadow," and murderer Everett Rixby in "The Case of the Lurid Letter."
Later in his career, he appeared on episodes of Growing Pains (1988–1990) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993). His appearances in commercials and voiceovers totaled more than 200, most notably as the armchair grandfather treating his grandson to a piece of candy in the 1995 version of the Werthers Original candy spot.
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Robert Rockwell
Nationality USA
Birth 15 october 1920 at Chicago (USA)
Death 25 january 2003 (at 82 years) at Malibu (USA)
Birth 15 october 1920 at Chicago (USA)
Death 25 january 2003 (at 82 years) at Malibu (USA)
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, from which he obtained a master's degree. Dramatic roles often eluded him, however, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared, over his almost 50-year acting career, in more than 350 television episodes and, on stage, opposite José Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and with Ginger Rogers during the 1960s in a San Diego production of Whitfield Cook's play A More Perfect Union.
Rockwell was a founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre. He played standard leads in a couple of anti-Communist-era features, including Republic's The Red Menace (1949), in which he is cast as a returning veteran of World War II, who is duped by communists.
In the first episode of The Adventures of Superman, he played Superman's father Jor-El. In 1952, he was cast in the episode "The Porcelain Lion" of Kirby Grant's western aviation adventure series, Sky King. Rockwell appeared in several episodes of the NBC television anthology series The Loretta Young Show (1958), in which he played Loretta Young's husband. Rockwell made five guest appearances on Perry Mason during the run of the CBS series from 1957 to 1966. In 1961 he played defendant Air Force Major Jerry Reynolds in "The Case of the Misguided Missile," and in 1962 he played murderer Cole B. Troy in "The Case of the Shapely Shadow," and murderer Everett Rixby in "The Case of the Lurid Letter."
Later in his career, he appeared on episodes of Growing Pains (1988–1990) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993). His appearances in commercials and voiceovers totaled more than 200, most notably as the armchair grandfather treating his grandson to a piece of candy in the 1995 version of the Werthers Original candy spot.
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Our Miss Brooks (1956)
, 1h25Directed by Al Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Gene Barry, Don Porter, Robert Rockwell, Jane Morgan
Roles Phillip Boynton
Rating63%
The Frogmen (1951)
, 1h36Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Warren Stevens
Rating64%
During World War II, Navy Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence (Richard Widmark), a strict disciplinarian, is put in charge of Underwater Demolition Team 4 after its former leader, Lt. Cmdr. Jack Cassidy, is killed in action. The unit's men are distrustful of the professionally aloof Lawrence, and the relationship immediately takes a turn for the worse when they brawl with sailors aboard their transport ship. The ship's captain, Lt. Cmdr. Pete Vincent (Gary Merrill), understands the natural resentment the elite UDT men feel over the death of Cassidy, which they have transferred to Lawrence, and offers to go easy on the team at captain's mast. The "by-the-book" Lawrence, however, elects to hold his own mast and disciplines the entire team just before a dangerous reconnaissance mission to ascertain the safest landing beach during an upcoming invasion of a Japanese-held island. Lawrence is scornfully perceived as afraid when he splits up the platoon and puts team executive officer Lt. Klinger in charge of a diversion to the more dangerous beach, where the main landing is scheduled.
Belle of Old Mexico (1950)
, 1h10Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Estelita Rodríguez, Robert Rockwell, Dorothy Patrick, Thurston Hall, Florence Bates, Dave Willock
Roles Kip Armitage III
Rating63%
An American World War II veteran, fulfills a promise he made to one of his dying comrades by going to Mexico to adopt his daughter. When he gets there, she turns out to not to be the little girl he had imagined but an attractive young woman. He has extreme difficulty convincing his fiancée and employers that their relationship is entirely innocent.
Trial Without Jury (1950)
, 1hDirected by Philip Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Kent Taylor, Audrey Long, Barbara Billingsley, Ruthelma Stevens
Rating60%
Unmasked (1950)
, 1hDirected by George Blair
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke, Paul Harvey, Norman Budd
Rating58%
The Red Menace (1949)
, 1h21Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Rockwell, Betty Lou Gerson, Barbra Fuller, Shepard Menken, Norman Budd, Jimmy Hawkins
Rating50%