Robert Rockwell

Robert Rockwell

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1920-10-15
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As: Bob Rockwell

Movies List of Robert Rockwell

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Golden Gate

1981 Movie
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Belle of Old Mexico

1950 Movie
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Unmasked

1950 Movie
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Espionage Target: You

1964 Movie
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The Red Menace

1949 Movie
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A Letter to Nancy

1965 Movie
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Our Miss Brooks

1956 Movie
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Trial Without Jury

1950 Movie
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Destination Big House

1950 Movie
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Sol Madrid

1968 Movie
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Lonely Heart Bandits

1950 Movie
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The Blonde Bandit

1949 Movie
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Perfect Alibi

1995 Movie
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The Frogmen

1951 Movie
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Destination: America

1987 Movie
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Lassie: The miracle

1970 Movie
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Murder in Texas

1981 Movie
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Alias the Champ

1949 Movie
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Just for You

1952 Movie
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You Gotta Stay Happy

1948 Movie
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Turn the Other Cheek

1958 Movie
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The War of the Worlds

1953 Movie
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Hell Hath No Fury

1991 Movie