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Robert Rockwell‌

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Robert Rockwell

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Robert Rockwell

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1920-10-15

Popularity

star4.4

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Golden Gate

Golden Gate‌
star0.0
calendar 1981

Belle of Old Mexico

Belle of Old Mexico‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Unmasked

Unmasked‌
star5.2
calendar 1950

Espionage Target: You

Espionage Target: You‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

The Red Menace

The Red Menace‌
star4.1
calendar 1949

A Letter to Nancy

A Letter to Nancy‌
star0.0
calendar 1965

Our Miss Brooks

Our Miss Brooks‌
star6.2
calendar 1956

Trial Without Jury

Trial Without Jury‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Federal Agent at Large

Federal Agent at Large‌
star4.8
calendar 1950

Destination Big House

Destination Big House‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Sol Madrid

Sol Madrid‌
star6.3
calendar 1968

Lonely Heart Bandits

Lonely Heart Bandits‌
star6.5
calendar 1950

The Blonde Bandit

The Blonde Bandit‌
star5.8
calendar 1949

Perfect Alibi

Perfect Alibi‌
star3.5
calendar 1995

The Frogmen

The Frogmen‌
star5.9
calendar 1951

Lassies Abenteuer in Alaska

Lassies Abenteuer in Alaska‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

Destination: America

Destination: America‌
star0.0
calendar 1987

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.‌
star5.0
calendar 1983

Lassie: The miracle

Lassie: The miracle‌
star0.0
calendar 1970

Murder in Texas

Murder in Texas‌
star4.3
calendar 1981

Alias the Champ

Alias the Champ‌
star6.0
calendar 1949

Just for You

Just for You‌
star4.8
calendar 1952

Women from Headquarters

Women from Headquarters‌
star4.0
calendar 1950

Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka

Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka‌
star6.0
calendar 1969

You Gotta Stay Happy

You Gotta Stay Happy‌
star6.4
calendar 1948

Turn the Other Cheek

Turn the Other Cheek‌
star0.0
calendar 1958

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds‌
star6.8
calendar 1953

Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury‌
star8.7
calendar 1991

The Prince Who Was a Thief

The Prince Who Was a Thief‌
star4.9
calendar 1951

Prisoners in Petticoats

Prisoners in Petticoats‌
star6.0
calendar 1950

Tv Credits

Growing Pains

Growing Pains‌
star6.5
calendar 1985

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest‌
star5.6
calendar 1981

Green Acres

Green Acres‌
star7.3
calendar 1965

Here's Lucy

Here's Lucy‌
star6.9
calendar 1968

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210‌
star7.4
calendar 1990

Benson

Benson‌
star7.2
calendar 1979

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show‌
star7.1
calendar 1962

Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes‌
star7.0
calendar 1978

Dynasty

Dynasty‌
star6.5
calendar 1981

Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction‌
star5.8
calendar 1963

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels‌
star6.6
calendar 1976

Knots Landing

Knots Landing‌
star6.8
calendar 1979

Surfside 6

Surfside 6‌
star5.0
calendar 1960

The Bill Cosby Show

The Bill Cosby Show‌
star4.9
calendar 1969

Newhart

Newhart‌
star7.2
calendar 1982

The Golden Palace

The Golden Palace‌
star6.0
calendar 1992

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

Dallas

Dallas‌
star6.7
calendar 1978

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

Lassie

Lassie‌
star6.1
calendar 1954

Eight Is Enough

Eight Is Enough‌
star6.1
calendar 1977

Hunter

Hunter‌
star7.2
calendar 1984

The Waltons

The Waltons‌
star7.1
calendar 1972

Bus Stop

Bus Stop‌
star0.0
calendar 1961

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse‌
star4.3
calendar 1958

The Millionaire

The Millionaire‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

E/R

E/R‌
star5.2
calendar 1984

Yancy Derringer

Yancy Derringer‌
star6.0
calendar 1958

Adventures of Superman

Adventures of Superman‌
star6.6
calendar 1952

Bronco

Bronco‌
star4.8
calendar 1958

Navy Log

Navy Log‌
star4.5
calendar 1955

Racket Squad

Racket Squad‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

The Man from Blackhawk

The Man from Blackhawk‌
star5.0
calendar 1959

Summer Fun

Summer Fun‌
star0.0
calendar 1966

Cavalcade of America

Cavalcade of America‌
star3.5
calendar 1952

State Trooper

State Trooper‌
star5.0
calendar 1956

The Roaring 20's

The Roaring 20's‌
star0.0
calendar 1960

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Maverick

Maverick‌
star6.8
calendar 1957

Our Miss Brooks

Our Miss Brooks‌
star7.3
calendar 1952

The Millionaire

The Millionaire‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957