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Robert Rockwell

Actor | * 10/15/1920 († 82, 01/25/2003) | Chicago, Illinois (CHI) (United States of America (USA))
Robert Rockwell (October 15, 1920 – January 25, 2003) 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. ()

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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

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Movies with Robert Rockwell as Actor(25)

as Mr. Stewart1991 Hell Hath No Fury
as Parker1981 Murder in Texas
as Chief Danvers1968 Sol Madrid
as Ben Hanson1958 Turn the Other Cheek
as Phillip 'Phil' Boynton1956 Our Miss Brooks
as Forest Ranger at Crash Site (uncredited)1953 The War of the Worlds
as John Ransome1952 Just for You
as (uncredited)1951 The Prince Who Was a Thief
as Lt. Bill Doyle1951 The Frogmen
as Kip Armitage III1950 Belle of Old Mexico
as Detective Lt. James 'Jim' Webster1950 Unmasked
as Dr. Ross Carrington1950 Federal Agent at Large
as Dr. Walter Phillips1950 Destination Big House
as Police Lt. Carroll1950 Lonely Heart Bandits
as Police Lt. Bill Peters1950 Trial Without Jury
as Mark Hampton1950 Prisoners in Petticoats
as Dist. Atty. Devron1949 The Blonde Bandit
as Ron Peterson1949 Alias the Champ
as Bill Jones1949 The Red Menace

TV Shows/Series with Robert Rockwell as Actor(45)

as Mr. Cochran1992 The Golden Palace
as Wally Overmier1985 Growing Pains
as Ralph Flagg1984 Hunter
1984 E/R
1982 Newhart
1981 Dynasty
1979 Benson
as Mitchell1978 Dallas
as Harrison1976 Charlie's Angels
as Tom Bennett1969 The Bill Cosby Show
as Phillip Hampton1958 Yancy Derringer
1958 Bronco
as Dick Benedict1957 Perry Mason
as Maj. Jerry Reynolds1957 Perry Mason
as Cole B. Troy1957 Perry Mason
as Everett Rixby1957 Perry Mason
as Ed Purvis1957 Perry Mason
as Prof. Amberson Adams1955 The Millionaire
as Dolph Randolph1955 The Millionaire
as Mr. Philips1955 Gunsmoke
1954 Lassie
as Jeb Stewart1953 Letter to Loretta
as Philip Boynton1952 Our Miss Brooks
as Jor-El (uncredited)1952 Adventures of Superman
as himself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show

Full Name: Robert Rockwell
Born: Friday, 10/15 1920 (October) in Chicago, Illinois (CHI) (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 01/25 2003 (January) in Malibu (aged: 82)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Other names for Robert Rockwell (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Bob Rockwell"
Robert Rockwell frequently works together with these people:
Loretta Young (117x, Actress)
Bill Erwin (30x, Actor)
Dabbs Greer (28x, Actor)
Denver Pyle (28x, Actor)
Ross Elliott (26x, Actor)
Claude Akins (24x, Actor)
Anthony Caruso (24x, Actor)
Gregg Palmer (24x, Actor)
Parley Baer (22x, Actor)
Morgan Woodward (22x, Actor)
Ann Doran (21x, Actress)
Stanley Wilson (6x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:198873, Added: 07/21/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024