Robert Preston
Highest Rated: 100% Beau Geste (1939)
Lowest Rated: 33% Mame (1974)
Birthday: Jun 8, 1918
Birthplace: Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
Dynamic musical comedy star from the stage who began his career in entertainment appearing in rugged film melodramas (e.g., the unjustly neglected B-film, "King of Alcatraz" 1938) and occasional lighter fare in the late 1930s. His promising early appearances in the Cecil B. DeMille epics "Union Pacific" (1939), "Northwest Mounted Police" (1940) and "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942) did not, however, spell major stardom with the interruption of WWII. When he returned Preston did enjoy good roles in "The Macomber Affair" (1947) and "Tulsa" (1949), but it took a lengthy sojourn on the stage, in which he surprised many with his aptitude for musical comedy, for him to become a major star.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 60% | Crushed | Lucas (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outrage! | Dennis Riordan (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Finnegan Begin Again | Mike Finnegan (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 76% | 70% | The Last Starfighter | Centauri (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | September Gun | Ben Sunday (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Rehearsal for Murder | Alex Dennison (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 97% | 86% | Victor/Victoria | Carroll "Toddy" Todd (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 82% | 31% | Semi-Tough | Big Ed Bookman (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Father's House | Tom Lindholm Sr. (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 33% | 48% | Mame | Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Child's Play | Joseph Dobbs (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 92% | 63% | Junior Bonner | Ace Bonner (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All the Way Home | Jay Follett (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Island of Love | Steve Blair (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 86% | 74% | How the West Was Won | Roger Morgan (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 94% | 85% | The Music Man | Harold Hill (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Rubin Flood (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Savage Wilderness | Col. Frank Marston (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | Jack Potter (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Face to Face | Sheriff Jack Potter (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Cloudburst | John Graham (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Best of the Badmen | Matthew Fowler (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | My Outlaw Brother | Joe Walter (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When I Grow Up | Father Reed (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outlaw Brother | Joe Waldner (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The Sundowners | James Cloud (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | The Lady Gambles | David Boothe (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Tulsa | Brad Brady (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big City | The Rev. Philip Y. Andrews (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 83% | 62% | Blood on the Moon | Tate Riling (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 83% | 61% | Whispering Smith | Murray Sinclair (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Variety Girl | Unknown (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 67% | 59% | The Macomber Affair | Francis Macomber (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Harvest | Jim Davis (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Plane From Chungking | Capt. Nick Stanton (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 94% | 81% | This Gun for Hire | Det. Lt. Michael Crane (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 88% | 51% | Wake Island | Pvt. Joe Doyle (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 80% | 56% | Reap the Wild Wind | Dan Cutler (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pacific Blackout | Robert Draper (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parachute Battalion | Donald `'Don'` Morse (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New York Town | Paul Bryson Jr. (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady From Cheyenne | Steve Lewis (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Night of January 16th | Steve Van Ruyle (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Northwest Mounted Police | Ronnie Logan (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moon Over Burma | Chuck Lane (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Typhoon | Johnny Potter (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 83% | 65% | Union Pacific | Dick Allen (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 100% | 85% | Beau Geste | Digby Geste (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disbarred | Bradley Kent (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King of Alcatraz | Robert MacArthur (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Illegal Traffic | Charles Bent Martin (Character) | - | 1938 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62% | 67% | Terra Nova | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1963 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955-1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Tom Waycroft (Character) | 1955-1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Jack Roberts (Character) | 1953-1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man Against Crime | Pat Barnett (Character) | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1950 |