Robert Middleton
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Robert Middleton, born Samuel G. Messer (May 13, 1911 – June 14, 1977), was an American film and television actor known for his large size and beetle-like brow. With a deep, booming voice, Middleton trained for a musical career at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked steadily as a radio announcer and actor.
One of his early works was as the narrator of the educational film "Duck and Cover". After appearing on the Broadway stage and live television, Middleton began appearing in films in 1954. He's also remembered on television as the boss Mr. Marshall on The Jackie Gleason Show and in film opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours (1955), Gary Cooper in Friendly Persuasion (1956), Richard Egan and Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender (1956), Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack in The Tarnished Angels (1958), and Dean Martin in Career (1959).
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Middleton appeared in many television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure. He was cast as "The Tichborne Claimant" in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show. He appeared in ten episodes of ABC's family Western The Monroes, with costars Michael Anderson, Jr., and Barbara Hershey. Among his several appearances in the long-running Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he portrayed a gangster in high places, Mr. Koster, in the 1956 episode "The Better Bargain". In 1958, he played the villain in the first episode of Bat Masterson. In 1961, he appeared in the episode "Accidental Tourist" on the James Whitmore ABC legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones. That same year, he portrayed the highly sympathetic but fiercely dedicated state executioner in an episode of Thriller (U.S. TV series) entitled "Guillotine". He also appeared in at least one episode of Bonanza (1964).
In the early 1950s, Middleton appeared on Broadway in Ondine. Other significant film roles include The Court Jester (1956) as a grim and determined knight who jousts with Danny Kaye in the famous "pellet with the poison" sequence, and as a sinister politician in The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977). Betwixt and between were an array of brutish mountain daddies, corrupt, cigar-chomping town bosses and lynch mob leaders. Occasionally he showed a bit of levity, as in his recurring role as Jackie Gleason's boss on The Honeymooners (1955) sketches.
Middleton died of congestive heart failure in Hollywood at the age of sixty-six.
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Fotos
Películas (41)
James Dean: Forever Young
2005 · Self (archive footage)
The Lincoln Conspiracy
1977 · Edwin M. Stanton
The Mark of Zorro
1974 · Don Luis Quintero
Remember When
1974 · Kraus, the butcher
The Harrad Experiment
1973 · Sidney Bower
Even Angels Eat Beans
1973 · Angelo
Fair Play
1972 · Jova Purvis
Which Way to the Front?
1970 · Colonico
Company of Killers
1970 · Owen Brady
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970 · Barkeeper - Great Plains Saloon
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · Dennis Wilcox
For Those Who Think Young
1964 · Burford Sanford Cronin
Cattle King
1963 · Clay Mathews
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961 · Amos Gondora
Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
1961 · Martin Plomb
The Great Impostor
1960 · R.C. Brown
The Gun of Zangara
1960 · Mayor Anton J. Cermak
Hell Bent for Leather
1960 · Ambrose
Career
1959 · Robert Kensington
Don't Give Up the Ship
1959 · Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde
No Place to Land
1958 · Buck LaVonne
Bitter Heritage
1958 · Luke Crocker
The Law and Jake Wade
1958 · Ortero
Nightmare at Ground Zero
1958 · Narrator
Day of the Badman
1958 · Charlie Hayes
The Tarnished Angels
1957 · Matt Ord
So Lovely, So Deadly
1957 · Eddie Rocco
The Death of Manolete
1957 · Perea
The Lonely Man
1957 · Ben Ryerson
Love Me Tender
1956 · Mr. Siringo
Friendly Persuasion
1956 · Sam Jordan
The Proud Ones
1956 · Honest John Barrett
Red Sundown
1956 · Rufus Henshaw
The Court Jester
1955 · Sir Griswold
Trial
1955 · A.A. "Fats" Sanders
The Desperate Hours
1955 · Sam Kobish
The Big Combo
1955 · Police Capt. Peterson
The Silver Chalice
1954 · Idbash
Confessions of a Nervous Man
1953 · The Manager
Something For An Empty Briefcase
1953 · Sloane
Duck and Cover
1952 · Narrator
Series (50)
Hunter
1977
Kung Fu
1972 · Marshal Ford
Colombo
1971 · Victor Norris
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
McCloud
1970 · Elliott Jason
Mannix
1967 · Jake Coryell
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Clavering
The Monroes
1966
Get Smart
1965 · The Whip
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Emir El Emid
The Big Valley
1965 · Judge Tyrone, Sidney Glover
The Adventures of Gallegher
1965 · Dutch Mac
Daniel Boone
1964 · Simon Brasher
Burke's Law
1963 · Ezekiel Kindworth aka 'Rocky Mountain', Ragnar Windsor, Jed Hawkes
Vacation Playhouse
1963 · Homer Ferguson
The Investigators
1961 · John DeLuca
The New Breed
1961 · Stanley Mannis
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
The Americans
1961
Thriller
1960 · Ohrback, Monsieur de Paris
The Tall Man
1960 · Paul Mason
The Detectives
1959 · 'Big Jim'
The Untouchables
1959 · Barney Loomis, Mayer Wartel, Mayor Anton J. Cermak
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Howard Bailey
The Rebel
1959 · Arthur Sutro
Wichita Town
1959
Bonanza
1959 · C.J. Shasta, Sam Bryant, Grizzly Martingale
Rawhide
1959 · Josh Green, Matt Harger, Judge John Jefferson Hogan, Duke Aberdeen
Bat Masterson
1958 · Big Keel Roberts
The Walter Winchell File
1957 · Aaron Benjamin
Suspicion
1957 · Banton
Perry Mason
1957 · Judge Daniel Redmond
Wagon Train
1957 · Nate Burkett
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Whit Gaynor
Telephone Time
1956 · Heinrich Schliemann
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Sam Klinker, Louis Koster, Cato Stone
MGM Parade
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Jake Worth, Dutch George, Dorf
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Frank Davis, Dutch Mac
Climax!
1954 · Sheriff
Studio 57
1954 · Maggio
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Henry Tremaine
General Electric Theater
1953 · Lt. Toler, Innkeeper
Cavalcade of America
1952 · William Harper
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Sheriff Ed Mullen
Tales of Tomorrow
1951 · Dr. John Borrow
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Titus Semple
Man Against Crime
1949 · Joseph Merko
Suspense
1949 · Bill West