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      Robert Preston

      Robert Preston

      Highest Rated: 100% Beau Geste (1939)

      Lowest Rated: 40% 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.

      Highest rated movies

      Beau Geste poster
      Beau Geste
      Victor/Victoria poster
      Victor/Victoria
      The Music Man poster
      The Music Man
      This Gun for Hire poster
      This Gun for Hire
      Junior Bonner poster
      Junior Bonner
      Wake Island poster
      Wake Island
      How the West Was Won poster
      How the West Was Won
      Semi-Tough poster Semi-Tough

      Photos

      WHISPERING SMITH, Robert Preston, 1948 WHISPERING SMITH, Robert Preston, 1948 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, from left: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, 1960 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, from left: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, 1960 THE MUSIC MAN, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Robert Preston, 1962 BIG CITY, Robert Preston, 1948 BIG CITY, Robert Preston, 1948 THE MUSIC MAN, Shirley Jones, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Shirley Jones, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Shirley Jones, Robert Preston, 1962 THE MUSIC MAN, Shirley Jones, Robert Preston, 1962 ALL THE WAY HOME, Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, 1963 ALL THE WAY HOME, Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, 1963 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, from left, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, 1960 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, from left, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, 1960 S.O.B., Robert Preston, 1981, © Paramount S.O.B., Robert Preston, 1981, © Paramount THE MACOMBER AFFAIR, Robert Preston, 1947 THE MACOMBER AFFAIR, Robert Preston, 1947 BEAU GESTE, Robert Preston, 1939 BEAU GESTE, Robert Preston, 1939 BEAU GESTE, from left: Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, Robert Preston, 1939 BEAU GESTE, from left: Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, Robert Preston, 1939 BEAU GESTE, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, 1939 BEAU GESTE, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, 1939 BEAU GESTE, Robert Preston, Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Ray Milland, 1939 BEAU GESTE, Robert Preston, Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Ray Milland, 1939 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, Robert Preston, 1960 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, Robert Preston, 1960 ISLAND OF LOVE, Robert Preston, 1963. ISLAND OF LOVE, Robert Preston, 1963. NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE, from left, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard, 1940 NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE, from left, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard, 1940 TYPHOON, Robert Preston, Dorothy Lamour, 1940 TYPHOON, Robert Preston, Dorothy Lamour, 1940
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      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
      83% 33% Semi-Tough Big Ed Bookman (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet My Father's House Tom Lindholm Sr. (Character) - 1975
      40% 49% Mame Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside (Character) - 1974
      92% 63% Junior Bonner Ace Bonner (Character) - 1972
      No Score Yet 54% Child's Play Joseph Dobbs (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
      87% 74% How the West Was Won Roger Morgan (Character) - 1962
      94% 85% The Music Man Harold Hill (Character) - 1962
      No Score Yet 86% 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 25% My Outlaw Brother Joe Walter (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 27% Best of the Badmen Matthew Fowler (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 28% The Sundowners James Cloud (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 33% The Lady Gambles David Boothe (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet 46% 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% 61% 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% 48% 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% 64% 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
      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