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Robert Preston

Robert Preston

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

08/06/1918

Day of Death

21/03/1987
(69) years old

Place of Birth

Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his fi... Read More

Known For

Disclosure

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Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Broadway's Lost Treasures

Broadway's Lost Treasures

Outrage!

Outrage!

Night of 100 Stars II

Night of 100 Stars II

Finnegan Begin Again

Finnegan Begin Again

The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Going Hollywood: The '30s

September Gun

September Gun

Filmography

Cast

2020

Disclosure

as Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)

2015

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

as Self (archive footage)

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollyw...

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Broadway's Lost Treasures

as Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")

1986

Outrage!

as Dennis Riordan

1985

Night of 100 Stars II

as Self

1985

Finnegan Begin Again

as Mike Finnegan

1984

The Last Starfighter

as Centauri

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as Self - Host

1983

September Gun

as Ben Sunday

1982

Rehearsal for Murder

as Alex Dennison

1982

Victor/Victoria

as Carole "Toddy" Todd

1982

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

1981

S.O.B.

as Dr. Irving Finegarten

1980

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

as Stranger

1977

Semi-Tough

as Big Ed Bookman

1975

My Father's House

as Tom Lindholm Sr.

1974

Mame

as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside

1972

Child's Play

as Joseph Dobbs

1972

Junior Bonner

as Ace Bonner

1963

All the Way Home

as Jay Follet

1963

Island of Love

as Steve Blair

1962

How the West Was Won

as Roger Morgan

1962

The Music Man

as Harold Hill

1960

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

as Rubin Flood

1956

Confession

as Self - Host

1956

Sentinels in the Air

as Narrator (voice)

1955

The Last Frontier

as Col. Frank Marston

1952

Face to Face

as Jack Potter

1951

My Outlaw Brother

as Joe Walter

1951

Best of the Badmen

as Matthew Fowler

1951

Cloudburst

as John Graham

1951

When I Grow Up

as Father Reed

1950

The Sundowners

as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')

1949

The Lady Gambles

as David Boothe

1949

Tulsa

as Brad Brady

1948

Whispering Smith

as Murray Sinclair

1948

Blood on the Moon

as Tate Riling

1948

Big City

as Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

1947

Wild Harvest

as Jim Davis

1947

Variety Girl

as Robert Preston

1947

The Macomber Affair

as Francis Macomber

1943

Night Plane from Chungking

as Nick Stanton

1943

Wings Up

as Himself

1942

Wake Island

as Pvt. Joe Doyle

1942

This Gun for Hire

as Det. Michael Crane

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as Dan Cutler

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Robert Preston (uncredited)

1941

Pacific Blackout

as Robert Draper

1941

The Night of January 16th

as Steve Van Ruyle

1941

New York Town

as Paul Bryson, Jr.

1941

Parachute Battalion

as Donald Morse

1941

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Steve Lewis

1940

North West Mounted Police

as Ronnie Logan

1940

Moon Over Burma

as Chuck Lane

1940

Typhoon

as Johnny Potter

1939

Beau Geste

as Digby Geste

1939

Union Pacific

as Dick Allen

1939

Disbarred

as Bradley Kent

1938

Illegal Traffic

as Charles Bent Martin

1938

King of Alcatraz

as Robert MacArthur