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Robert Middleton

Robert Middleton

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).

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Movies Starring Robert Middleton (39)

The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)

Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination. ...

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The Mark of Zorro (1974)

The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California. ...

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Remember When (1974)

An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II. ...

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The Harrad Experiment (1973)

At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1966 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place ...

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Even Angels Eat Beans (1973)

Two mismatched buddies are mistaken for mob enforcers in Depression-era America. ...

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Fair Play (1972)

A young man arrives at the town of Fair Play to see his uncle. What he finds upon arriving is a town hiding a secret from any outsiders. The young man must uncover the truth the townspeople wish to keep hidden in order to save his uncle. ...

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Which Way to the Front? (1970)

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler. ...

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Company of Killers (1970)

A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered. ...

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The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men. ...

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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio. ...

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The Adventures of Gallegher (1965)

An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involved in his stories than he had expected. When he discovers a bank robbery, he helps the reporter, Brownie, to apprehend the four-fingered culprit. Later he h ...

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For Those Who Think Young (1964)

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club. ...

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Cattle King (1963)

A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows. ...

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Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)

Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory. ...

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Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles (1961)

Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her one true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set eyes on Marie again. Louis enlists the help of his old friend Fred to break the witch's spell so the young ...

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The Great Impostor (1960)

Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully. ...

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Hell Bent for Leather (1960)

When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the r ...

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Career (1959)

Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake hi ...

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Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return. ...

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No Place to Land (1958)

A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn't handle rejection well, who's out to destroy him. ...

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Bitter Heritage (1958)

A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to return to the town which his father lived. His love interest is Elizabeth Montgomery. ...

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The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by ...

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Nightmare at Ground Zero (1958)

After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results. ...

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Day of the Badman (1958)

Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee. ...

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The Tarnished Angels (1957)

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns' act, he q ...

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The Death of Manolete (1957)

The story of the last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador. ...

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The Lonely Man (1957)

Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to sett ...

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Love Me Tender (1956)

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it. ...

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Friendly Persuasion (1956)

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. ...

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The Proud Ones (1956)

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the ...

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Red Sundown (1956)

When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between smal ...

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The Court Jester (1955)

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England. ...

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Trial (1955)

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism. ...

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The Desperate Hours (1955)

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage. ...

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The Big Combo (1955)

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend. ...

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The Silver Chalice (1954)

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to ...

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Confessions of a Nervous Man (1953)

From the anthology series Studio One. On opening night, a playwright sits in a bar interacting with well-wishers and remembering the problems of getting a play ready for Broadway while anxiously awaiting the verdicts of the eight newspaper critics. ...

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Something For An Empty Briefcase (1953)

Joe wants a different future than one as a petty hoodlum and when he attempts to rob an aspiring dancer Noli, he glimpses the possibilities. He imagines purchasing a briefcase as a start but his crime partner is reluctant to let him go. ...

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Duck and Cover (1952)

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb. ...

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