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person_profile-Robert Rockwell

Robert Rockwell Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Robert Rockwell

Date of Birth:

Oct 15, 1920

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 25, 2003

Biography of

Robert Rockwell

    Robert Rockwell was an American stage, film, radio and television actor. He is best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television sitcom Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden.

    A native of Lake Bluff, Illinois, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, from which he obtained a master's degree. During World War II he enlisted in the US Navy for four years serving in Washington D.C. 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. He appeared in the first Superman television show episode as Clark Kent's father, Jor-El in 1952. He appeared in a 1959 Perry Mason episode "The case of the Deadly Toy" as love interest to the defendant Claire Allison as Dick Benedict. He starred in the 1961 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Misguided Missile" as an Air Force officer court-martialled on a murder charge. He later starred in the 1962 Perry Mason episodes "The Case of the Lurid Letter" as Everett Rixby, a high school principal, and the murderer Cole B. Troy in "The Case of the Shapely Shadow". He also appeared as Ed Purvis in the 1965 episode Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Candy Queen".

    Rockwell starred in his own ABC western-themed television series, The Man from Blackhawk in the 1959-1960 season. Rockwell was cast as the Blackhawk Insurance Company's key investigator, Sam Logan, who is assigned to weed out fraud in the payment of claims. He also played Sam Thompson in Thompson's Ghost, Tom Bennett in The Bill Cosby Show[4]:106 and Officer Russo in Adam-12.

    In 1967 he played a littering tourist in the Lassie episode "Lassie's Litter Bit", an iconic episode which earned a trip for Lassie to the White House to shake hands with then First Lady "Ladybird" Johnson who had used the famous collie in her Keep America Beautiful Campaign.

    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, in which he is cast as a returning veteran of World War II, who is duped by communists.

    Later in his career, he appeared on episodes of Petticoat Junction, Growing Pains, and Beverly Hills, 90210. 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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Filmography of

Robert Rockwell

Found 25 Movies in total

... 1995

Hell Hath No Fury

Mr. Stewart ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1987

... 1983

... 1981

... 1969

Sol Madrid

Chief Danvers ( Actor )

... 1968

A Letter to Nancy

Pastor ( Actor )

... 1965

Our Miss Brooks

Phillip 'Phil' Boynton ( Actor )

... 1956

The War of the Worlds

Forest Ranger at Crash Site (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1953

Just for You

John Ransome ( Actor )

... 1952

The Prince Who Was a Thief

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1951

The Frogmen

Lt. Bill Doyle ( Actor )

... 1951

Prisoners in Petticoats

Mark Hampton ( Actor )

... 1950

Lonely Heart Bandits

Police Lt. Carroll ( Actor )

... 1950

Trial Without Jury

Police Lt. Bill Peters ( Actor )

... 1950

Destination Big House

Dr. Walter Phillips ( Actor )

... 1950

... 1950

Federal Agent at Large

Dr. Ross Carrington ( Actor )

... 1950

Belle of Old Mexico

Kip Armitage III ( Actor )

... 1950

Unmasked

Detective Lt. James 'Jim' Webster ( Actor )

... 1950

The Blonde Bandit

Dist. Atty. Devron ( Actor )

... 1949

Alias the Champ

Ron Peterson ( Actor )

... 1949

The Red Menace

Bill Jones ( Actor )

... 1949

You Gotta Stay Happy

Eddie ( Actor )

... 1948