Robert Preston was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
Robert Preston Biography / Wiki
| Name | Robert Preston |
| Also Know | Robert Preston Meservey, Preston Meservey, Bob Preston |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1918-06-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 68 |
| Deathday | 1987-03-21 |
Robert Preston Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Music Man | Harold Hill | 1962-06-19 | A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy’s marching band program, but things don’t go according to plan…. |
| Cloudburst | John Graham | 1951-01-01 | Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth… |
| The Sundowners | James Cloud (‘Kid Wichita’) | 1950-02-02 | Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west…. |
| The Night of January 16th | Steve Van Ruyle | 1941-11-28 | Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner (Nils Asther), Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle (Robert Pre… |
| Island of Love | Steve Blair | 1963-06-12 | Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony’s stripp… |
| The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Rubin Flood | 1960-09-28 | In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wif… |
| Outrage! | Dennis Riordan | 1986-01-01 | After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his g… |
| Parachute Battalion | Donald Morse | 1941-09-12 | Director Leslie Goodwins’ 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O’Br… |
| Pacific Blackout | Robert Draper | 1941-12-31 | Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper ho… |
| September Gun | Ben Sunday | 1983-10-08 | Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group o… |
| Night Plane from Chungking | Nick Stanton | 1943-05-31 | Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a … |
| Crime in the Streets | Ben Wagner | 1955-03-08 | Frankie Dane is the leader of a teenage gang, the Hornets. The gang makes trouble for people in the neighborhood, but Frankie carries a darker nature,… |
| Sentinels in the Air | Narrator (voice) | 1956-02-10 | This short shows the important role played by members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve in the USA’s defense against enemy attack…. |
| Going Hollywood: The ’30s | Host | 1984-01-01 | Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get… |
| Junior Bonner | Ace Bonner | 1972-08-02 | With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memor… |
| The Lady Gambles | David Boothe | 1949-05-20 | When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the ca… |
| Whispering Smith | Murray Sinclair | 1948-12-09 | Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go … |
| This Gun for Hire | Det. Michael Crane | 1942-04-24 | Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightcl… |
| Rehearsal for Murder | Alex Dennison | 1982-05-26 | A year after his fiancée’s death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer…. |
| Child’s Play | Joseph Dobbs | 1972-12-12 | At an exclusive boys’ school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is … |
| Tulsa | Brad Brady | 1949-04-13 | It’s Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing’s rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee pla… |
| All the Way Home | Jay Follet | 1963-10-17 | In the early 1900’s Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father’s sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure t… |
| The Lady from Cheyenne | Steve Lewis | 1941-04-11 | Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women’s suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes … |
| Typhoon | Johnny Potter | 1940-05-16 | Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on … |
| Big City | Rev. Philip Y. Andrews | 1948-03-25 | A young orphan (Margaret O’Brien) in New York’s Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men–a minister, a cantor, and a cop…. |
| Disbarred | Bradley Kent | 1939-01-06 | The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to… |
| Moon Over Burma | Chuck Lane | 1940-07-26 | The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon…. |
| Finnegan Begin Again | Mike Finnegan | 1985-02-24 | A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman…. |
| When I Grow Up | Father Reed | 1951-04-19 | Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather…. |
| My Father’s House | Tom Lindholm Sr. | 1975-01-01 | Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-… |
| The Last Frontier | Frank Marston | 1955-12-07 | Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston)…. |
| My Outlaw Brother | Joe Walter | 1951-08-22 | Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged w… |
| Victor/Victoria | Carroll “Toddy” Todd | 1982-04-25 | A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life…. |
| Mame | Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 1974-03-07 | Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt…. |
| The Macomber Affair | Francis Macomber | 1947-04-20 | A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”…. |
| Blood on the Moon | Tate Riling | 1948-11-11 | Mitchum plays drifter cowboy Jim Garry. After receiving a job-offer letter from smooth-talking Tate Riling (Preston), Garry rides into an Indian reser… |
| Beau Geste | Digby Geste | 1939-07-24 | Academy Award winners Gary Cooper and Ray Milland star along with Robert Preston in the epic adventure Beau Geste. When three brothers join the Foreig… |
| Wake Island | Pvt. Joe Doyle | 1942-08-11 | In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical… |
| New York Town | Paul Bryson, Jr. | 1941-10-31 | Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef… |
| Illegal Traffic | Charles Bent Martin | 1938-11-02 | G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the li… |
| Wild Harvest | Jim Davis | 1947-09-26 | Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe’s buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money… |
| Semi-Tough | Big Ed Bookman | 1977-11-18 | A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner’s daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro… |
| Union Pacific | Dick Allen | 1939-05-05 | One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp… |
| Best of the Badmen | Matthew Fowler | 1951-08-09 | After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy’s Quantrill’s Raiders a chance to claim allegi… |
| Reap the Wild Wind | Dan Cutler | 1942-03-26 | The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo… |
| North West Mounted Police | Ronnie Logan | 1940-10-22 | Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor… |
| King of Alcatraz | Robert MacArthur | 1938-09-30 | A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship’s crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the s… |
| Face to Face | Jack Potter | 1952-11-01 | Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, “Secret Sharer”, directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a… |
| Wings Up | Himself | 1943-05-27 | Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces…. |
| The Last Starfighter | Centauri | 1984-07-13 | A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was ju… |
| How the West Was Won | Roger Morgan | 1962-10-01 | The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one … |
| S.O.B. | Dr. Irving Finegarten | 1981-07-01 | A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes … |
| Broadway’s Lost Treasures | Harold Hill (segment “The Music Man”) | 2003-08-10 | The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, w… |
| Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin’ To Do | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-06 | A retrospective of Chita Rivera’s film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others. O… |
| Variety Girl | Himself | 1947-08-29 | Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful … |
| Sam Peckinpah’s West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 | An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western… |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | Robert Preston (uncredited) | 1942-03-05 | Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he’s the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie… |
| Disclosure | Carole ‘Toddy’ Todd (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 | An investigation of how Hollywood’s fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have… |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 | The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York’s Radio City … |
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