
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Middleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Фильмография

Перри Мейсон
1957

Коломбо
1971

Бонанца
1959

Караван повозок
1957

Миссия невыполнима
1966

Напряги извилины
1965

Дикий дикий запад
1965

Менникс
1967

Неприкасаемые
1959

Сыромятная плеть
1959

Дэниэл Бун
1964

Дымок из ствола
1955

Кульминация
1954

Большая долина
1965

Telephone Time
1956

Театр Зейна Грея
1956

Триллер
1960

Правосудие Бёрка
1963

Саспенс
1949

Бэт Мастерсон
1958

The Rebel
1959

Studio 57
1954

Tales of Tomorrow
1951

The Detectives
1959

Альфред Хичкок представляет
1955

МакКлауд
1970

Райские приключения
1959

Подозрение
1957

The Tall Man
1960

The Investigators
1961

Новое поколение
1961

Cavalcade of America
1952

Man Against Crime
1949

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Which Way to the Front?
1970

The Walter Winchell File
1957

Дружеское увещевание
1956

Часы отчаяния
1955

Театр «Дженерал Электрик»
1953

Letter to Loretta
1953