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person_profile-Robert Middleton

Robert Middleton Died at age: 66

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Robert Middleton

Date of Birth:

May 13, 1911

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jun 14, 1977

Biography of

Robert Middleton

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    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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Filmography of

Robert Middleton

Found 34 Movies in total

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Edwin M. Stanton ( Actor )

... 1977

The Mark of Zorro

Don Luis Quintero ( Actor )

... 1974

Remember When

Kraus, the butcher ( Actor )

... 1974

The Harrad Experiment

Sid Bower ( Actor )

... 1973

Even Angels Eat Beans

Angelo ( Actor )

... 1973

Fair Play

Jova Purvis ( Actor )

... 1972

Which Way to the Front?

Colonico ( Actor )

... 1970

Company of Killers

Owen Brady ( Actor )

... 1970

The Cheyenne Social Club

Barkeeper - Great Plains Saloon ( Actor )

... 1970

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Dennis Wilcox ( Actor )

... 1966

For Those Who Think Young

Burford Sanford Cronin ( Actor )

... 1964

The Adventures of Gallegher

Dutch Mac ( Actor )

... 1964

Cattle King

Clay Mathews ( Actor )

... 1963

Gold of the Seven Saints

Amos Gondora ( Actor )

... 1961

The Great Impostor

R.C. Brown ( Actor )

... 1960

Hell Bent for Leather

Ambrose ( Actor )

... 1960

Career

Robert Kensington ( Actor )

... 1959

Don't Give Up the Ship

Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde ( Actor )

... 1959

No Place to Land

Buck LaVonne ( Actor )

... 1958

Bitter Heritage

Luke Crocker ( Actor )

... 1958

The Law and Jake Wade

Ortero ( Actor )

... 1958

Day of the Badman

Charlie Hayes ( Actor )

... 1958

The Tarnished Angels

Matt Ord ( Actor )

... 1957

The Death of Manolete

Perea ( Actor )

... 1957

The Lonely Man

Ben Ryerson ( Actor )

... 1957

Friendly Persuasion

Sam Jordan ( Actor )

... 1956

Love Me Tender

Mr. Siringo ( Actor )

... 1956

The Proud Ones

Honest John Barrett ( Actor )

... 1956

Red Sundown

Rufus Henshaw ( Actor )

... 1956

The Court Jester

Sir Griswold ( Actor )

... 1955

Trial

A.A. "Fats" Sanders ( Actor )

... 1955

The Desperate Hours

Sam Kobish ( Actor )

... 1955

The Big Combo

Police Capt. Peterson ( Actor )

... 1955

The Silver Chalice

Idbash ( Actor )

... 1954