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Robert Preston

Robert Preston

Personal Info

Birthday

June 8, 1918

Day of Death

1987-03-21

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Robert Preston Meservey

Robert Preston

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 first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.

O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982).

Known For

Robert Montgomery Presents

Climax!

Lux Video Theatre

Reap the Wild Wind

How the West Was Won

The Last Starfighter

Disclosure

General Electric Theater

Filmography

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 Hollywood Renegade
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
Finnegan Begin Again
as Mike Finnegan
1984
The Last Starfighter
as Centauri
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as Self - Host
1983
September Gun
as Ben Sunday
1982
Rehearsal for Murder
as Alex Dennison
Victor/Victoria
as Carole "Toddy" Todd
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
Junior Bonner
as Ace Bonner
1963
All the Way Home
as Jay Follet
Island of Love
as Steve Blair
1962
How the West Was Won
as Roger Morgan
The Music Man
as Harold Hill
1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
as Rubin Flood
1956
Confession
as Self - Host
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
Best of the Badmen
as Matthew Fowler
Cloudburst
as John Graham
When I Grow Up
as Father Reed
1950
The Sundowners
as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')
1949
The Lady Gambles
as David Boothe
Tulsa
as Brad Brady
1948
Whispering Smith
as Murray Sinclair
Blood on the Moon
as Tate Riling
Big City
as Rev. Philip Y. Andrews
1947
Wild Harvest
as Jim Davis
Variety Girl
as Robert Preston
The Macomber Affair
as Francis Macomber
1943
Night Plane from Chungking
as Nick Stanton
Wings Up
as Himself
1942
Wake Island
as Pvt. Joe Doyle
This Gun for Hire
as Det. Michael Crane
Reap the Wild Wind
as Dan Cutler
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Robert Preston (uncredited)
1941
Pacific Blackout
as Robert Draper
The Night of January 16th
as Steve Van Ruyle
New York Town
as Paul Bryson, Jr.
Parachute Battalion
as Donald Morse
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Steve Lewis
1940
North West Mounted Police
as Ronnie Logan
Moon Over Burma
as Chuck Lane
Typhoon
as Johnny Potter
1939
Beau Geste
as Digby Geste
Union Pacific
as Dick Allen
Disbarred
as Bradley Kent
1938
Illegal Traffic
as Charles Bent Martin
King of Alcatraz
as Robert MacArthur

Climax!

Reap the Wild Wind

General Electric Theater

Disclosure

How the West Was Won

The Last Starfighter

Robert Montgomery Presents