Robert Middleton
Age: 66 | From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1911-05-13 15:57:10
Death: 1977-06-14 15:57:10
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 28
TV Involvements: 46
Most Famous Work
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Middleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Columbo
(1971) Victor Norris
Perry Mason
(1957) Judge Daniel Redmond
Daniel Boone
(1964) Simon Brasher
Bonanza
(1959) Grizzly Martingale
The Big Valley
(1965) Sidney Glover
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Cato Stone
Rawhide
(1959) Duke Aberdeen
Gunsmoke
(1955) DorfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Edwin M. Stanton | |
| N/A | ||
| 1974 | Don Luis Quintero | |
| Kraus, the butcher | ||
| 1973 | Sid Bower | |
| Angelo | ||
| 1972 | Marshal Ford | |
| Jova Purvis | ||
| 1971 | Victor Norris | |
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Colonico | |
| Owen Brady | ||
| Barkeeper - Great Plains Saloon | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | Jake Coryell | |
| 1966 | Clavering | |
| N/A | ||
| Dennis Wilcox | ||
| 1965 | The Whip | |
| Emir El Emid | ||
| Judge Tyrone | ||
| Sidney Glover | ||
| 1964 | Simon Brasher | |
| Burford Sanford Cronin | ||
| Dutch Mac | ||
| 1963 | Jed Hawkes | |
| Ragnar Windsor | ||
| Ezekiel Kindworth aka 'Rocky Mountain' | ||
| Homer Ferguson | ||
| Clay Mathews | ||
| 1961 | Stanley Mannis | |
| N/A | ||
| Amos Gondora | ||
| N/A | ||
| Martin Plomb | ||
| 1960 | R.C. Brown | |
| Monsieur de Paris | ||
| Ohrback | ||
| Paul Mason | ||
| Ambrose | ||
| 1959 | 'Big Jim' | |
| Barney Loomis | ||
| Mayer Wartel | ||
| Mayor Anton J. Cermak | ||
| Robert Kensington | ||
| Howard Bailey | ||
| Arthur Sutro | ||
| N/A | ||
| C.J. Shasta | ||
| Sam Bryant | ||
| Grizzly Martingale | ||
| Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde | ||
| Duke Aberdeen | ||
| Judge John Jefferson Hogan | ||
| Josh Green | ||
| Matt Harger | ||
| 1958 | Big Keel Roberts | |
| Buck LaVonne | ||
| Luke Crocker | ||
| Ortero | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Charlie Hayes | ||
| 1957 | Matt Ord | |
| Aaron Benjamin | ||
| Judge Daniel Redmond | ||
| Perea | ||
| Ben Ryerson | ||
| 1956 | Sam Jordan | |
| Mr. Siringo | ||
| Whitney 'Whit' Gaynor | ||
| Honest John Barrett | ||
| N/A | ||
| Rufus Henshaw | ||
| 1955 | Sir Griswold | |
| N/A | ||
| A.A. "Fats" Sanders | ||
| Sam Kobish | ||
| Sam Klinker | ||
| Louis Koster | ||
| Cato Stone | ||
| Jake Worth | ||
| Dorf | ||
| Dutch George | ||
| Police Capt. Peterson | ||
| 1954 | Idbash | |
| Frank Davis | ||
| Dutch Mac | ||
| Sheriff | ||
| 1953 | Henry Tremaine | |
| Lt. Toler | ||
| Innkeeper | ||
| 1952 | William Harper | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1951 | Sheriff Ed Mullen | |
| N/A | ||
| Dr. John Borrow | ||
| 1950 | Titus Semple | |
| 1949 | Joseph Merko | |
| Bill West | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
