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1 Early career and personal life  





2 Personal life and death  





3 Career  



3.1  As an actor  



3.1.1  Theatre  





3.1.2  Film  





3.1.3  Television  







3.2  As a director  



3.2.1  Theatre  





3.2.2  Film  





3.2.3  Television  







3.3  As a producer  







4 References  





5 External links  














Robert Douglas (actor)






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Robert Douglas
Douglas in Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
Born

Robert Douglas Finlayson


(1909-11-09)9 November 1909
Died11 January 1999(1999-01-11) (aged 89)
Occupation(s)Actor, director, producer
Years active1927–1982
Spouses

(m. 1935; div. 1945)

Suzanne Weldon

(m. 1946; died 1995)
Children2[1]

Robert Douglas Finlayson (9 November 1909 – 11 January 1999), known professionally as Robert Douglas, was an English stage and film actor, a television director and producer.

Early career and personal life[edit]

Douglas in The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

Douglas was born in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire.[2] He studied at RADA and made his stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Bournemouth in 1927.[3] A year later he made his first London appearance in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year.[1]

Personal life and death[edit]

He was married twice, to actresses Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996) and Suzanne Weldon (1921–1995), fathering two children, Lucinda and Robert (Giles).[1] He died from natural causesinEncinitas, California, aged 89.[4]

Career[edit]

As an actor[edit]

Theatre[edit]

Film[edit]

  • 1931: Many Waters (dir. Milton Rosmer) - Godfrey Marvin
  • 1933: The Blarney Stone / (US): The Blarney Kiss (dir. Tom Walls) - Lord Breethorpe
  • 1935: Death Drives Through (dir. Edward L. Cahn) - Kit Woods
  • 1937: London Melody / (US): Girl in the Street (dir. Herbert Wilcox) - Nigel Taplow
  • 1937: Our Fighting Navy / (US): Torpedoed (dir. Norman Walker) - Captain Markham
  • 1938: The Challenge (dir. Milton Rosmer) - Edward Whymper
  • 1939: Over the Moon (dir. Thornton Freeland) - The Unknown Man
  • 1939: The Lion Has Wings (dir. Michael Powell) - Briefing Officer
  • 1940: The Chinese Bungalow / (US): Chinese Den (dir. George King) - Richard Marquess
  • 1947: The End of the River (dir. Derek N. Twist) - Jones
  • 1948: The Adventures of Don Juan / (GB): The new Adventures of Don Juan (dir. Vincent Sherman) - Duke de Lorca
  • 1948: The Decision of Christopher Blake (dir. Peter Godfrey) - Ken Blake
  • 1949: Homicide (dir. Felix Jacoves) - Police Lieutenant Michael Landers
  • 1949: The Fountainhead (dir. King Vidor) - Ellsworth M. Toohey
  • 1949: The Hasty Heart (dir. Vincent Sherman) - Off-Screen Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  • 1949: The Lady Takes a Sailor (dir. Michael Curtiz) - John Tyson
  • 1950: Buccaneer's Girl (dir. Frederick De Cordova) - Narbonne
  • 1950: Barricade (dir. Peter Godfrey) - Aubrey Milburn
  • 1950: Spy Hunt / (GB): Panther's Moon (dir. George Sherman) - Stephen Paradou
  • 1950: This Side of the Law (dir. Richard L. Bare) - Philip Cagle
  • 1950: The Flame and the Arrow (dir. Jacques Tourneur) - Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
  • 1950: Kim (dir. Victor Saville) - Colonel Creighton
  • 1950: Mystery Submarine (dir. Douglas Sirk) - Commander Eric von Molter
  • 1951: Target Unknown (dir. George Sherman) - Colonel von Broeck
  • 1951: Thunder on the Hill / (GB): Bonaventure (dir. Douglas Sirk) - Dr. Edward Jeffreys
  • 1952: At Sword's Point / (GB): Sons of the Musketeers (dir. Lewis Allen) - Duc de Lavalle
  • 1952: Ivanhoe (dir. Richard Thorpe) - Sir Hugh De Bracy
  • 1952: The Prisoner of Zenda (dir. Richard Thorpe) - Michael, Duke of Strelsau
  • 1953: Fair Wind to Java (dir. Joseph Kane) - Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar
  • 1953: The Desert Rats (dir. Robert Wise) - General
  • 1953: Flight to Tangier (dir. Charles Marquis Warren) - Danzer
  • 1954: Saskatchewan / (GB): O'Rourke of the Royal Mounted (dir. Raoul Walsh) - Benton
  • 1954: King Richard and the Crusaders (dir. David Butler) - Sir Giles Amaury
  • 1955: The Virgin Queen (dir. Henry Koster) - Sir Christopher Hatton
  • 1955: The Scarlet Coat (dir. John Sturges) - General Benedict Arnold
  • 1955: Good Morning Miss Dove (dir. Henry Koster) - John Porter
  • 1956: Helen of Troy (dir. Robert Wise) - Agamemnon
  • 1959: The Young Philadelphians / (GB): The City Jungle (dir. Vincent Sherman) - Uncle Morton Stearnes
  • 1959: Tarzan, the Ape Man (dir. Joseph M. Newman) - Colonel James Parker
  • 1961: The Lawbreakers (dir. Joseph M. Newman) - Allen Bardeman (archive footage)
  • Television[edit]

  • 1953: Chevron Theatre (Season 2 Episode 23: "Serenade to an Empty House")
  • 1955: Lux Video Theatre (Season 5 Episode 33: "The Browning Version") - Frank Hunter
  • 1955: Front Row Center (Season 1 Episode 2: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street") - Robert Browning
  • 1957: Panic! (Season 1 Episode 12: "The Vigilantes") - Thomas Burdue / James Stuart
  • 1958-1959: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (2 episodes)
    • (Season 3 Episode 38: "Impromptu Murder") - Inspector Charles Tarrant
    • (Season 5 Episode 1: "Arthur") - Inspector Ben Liebenberg
  • 1959: General Electric Theatre (Season 7 Episode 14: "And One Was Loyal") - Roger Howard
  • 1959-1961: 77 Sunset Strip (2 episodes)
    • (Season 1 Episode 19: "Eyewitness") (1959) - Dr. Emory Williams
    • (Season 4 Episode 12: "Reserved for Mr. Bailey") (1961) - Walter Van Nuys (voice) (uncredited)
  • 1959-1961: One Step Beyond (3 episodes)
    • (Season 1 Episode 14: "The Secret") (1959) - Harrison Ackroyd
    • (Season 2 Episode 29: "Encounter") (1960) - Paul McCord
    • (Season 3 Episode 21: "Night of Decision") (1961) - General George Washington
  • 1960: Adventures in Paradise (2 episodes)
    • (Season 1 Episode 22: "There Is an Island") - Albert Otherly
    • (Season 1 Episode 25: "The Forbidden Sea") - Albert Othery
  • 1960: Walt Disney presents The Swamp Fox (2 episodes)
    • (Season 6 Episode 15: "Redcoat Strategy") - General Cornwallis
    • (Season 6 Episode 16: "A Case of Treason") - General Cornwallis
  • 1960: Maverick (Season 4 Episode 1: "The Bundle from Britain") - Herbert
  • 1961: The Asphalt Jungle (Season 1 Episode 2: "The Lady and the Lawyer") - Allen Bardeman
  • 1962: Thriller (Season 2 Episode 30: "The Specialists") - Antony Hugh Swinburne
  • 1968: Secret Ceremony (TV-Version) - Sir Alex Gordon
  • 1972: Portrait: The Woman I Love (TV Movie) - Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
  • 1974: The Questor Tapes (TV Movie) - Dr. Michaels
  • 1974: Cannon (Season 3 Episode 23: "Triangle of Terror") - Sir Arnold Masters (uncredited)
  • 1975: Columbo (Season 4 Episode 4: "Troubled Waters") - Dr. Frank Pierce
  • 1975: Medical Center (Season 6 Episode 21: "Survivors") - Miles Halloran
  • 1975: The Invisible Man (Season 1 Episode 3: "Man of Influence") - Dr. Theophilus
  • 1978: Centennial (Season 1 Episode 7: "The Shepherds") - Claude Richards (final appearance)
  • As a director[edit]

    Theatre[edit]

  • 1934: Overture 1920 (Phoenix Theatre London)
  • 1946: Lighten Our Darkness (New Theatre Hull)
  • 1956: The Ponder Heart (Shubert Theatre New Haven + Forrest Theatre Philadelphia + Shubert Theatre Boston + Music Box Theatre Broadway)
  • 1956: Affair of Honor (Ethel Barrymore Theatre Broadway)
  • 1956: The Loud Red Patrick (Walnut Theatre Philadelphia + Ambassador Theatre Broadway)
  • 1956: Uncle Willie (Locust Street Theatre Philadelphia + John Golden Theatre Broadway)
  • 1957: One Foot in the Door (Locust Street Theatre Philadelphia + Shubert Theatre Boston)
  • Film[edit]

    Television[edit]

  • 1960: Maverick (2 episodes)
  • 1960-1962: 77 Sunset Strip (12 episodes)
  • 1961: The Roaring Twenties (episode The Red Carpet)
  • 1961-1962: Hawaiian Eye (4 episodes)
  • 1962-1963: Fair Exchange (1. Segment)
  • 1963-1964: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (4 episodes)
  • 1962: The Virginian (episode The Final Hour) = The Final Hour (film)
  • 1965: Kraft Suspense Theatre (episode Kill me on July 20th)
  • 1964-1965: Court Martial (3 episodes)
  • 1965-1967: 12 O'Clock High (16 episodes)
  • 1966: The Fugitive (episode Second Sight)
  • 1966: Daniel Boone (episode The Matchmaker)
  • 1967: Lost in Space (episode The Toymaker)
  • 1967: Mission: Impossible (episode The Diamond)
  • 1967: The Monroes (2 episodes)
  • 1967-1974: The FBI (13 episodes)
  • 1967-1968: The Invaders (episodes The Prophet and Counterattack)
  • 1969-1970: Adam-12 (6 episodes)
  • 1970: The Immortal (2 episodes)
  • 1970: Dan August (episode Invitation to Murder)
  • 1972-1975: The Streets of San Francisco (4 episodes)
  • 1972-1973: Cannon (5 episodes)
  • 1974: Barnaby Jones (2 episodes)
  • 1974: Shazam! (4 episodes)
  • 1974-1975: Medical Center (6 episodes)
  • 1975: Swiss Family Robinson (episode The Pit)
  • 1975-1978: Baretta (9 episodes)
  • 1976: City of Angels (2 episodes)
  • 1976: Columbo (episode Old Fashioned Murder)
  • 1976-1977: Big Hawaii (episode Tightrope)
  • 1977: Future Cop (2 episodes)
  • 1977: Hunter (episode Yesterday, Upon the Stair)
  • 1977: The Man from Atlantis (episode The Naked Montague)
  • 1978: Quincy, M.E. (episode Double Death)
  • 1979-1981: Trapper John, M.D. (4 episodes)
  • 1979: Nobody's Perfect (4 episodes)
  • 1982: House Calls (2 episodes)
  • 1982: Fame (episode A Big Finish)
  • As a producer[edit]

  • 1964-1965: Court Martial (10 episodes)
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c Vallance, Tom (23 January 1999). "Obituary: Robert Douglas". The Independent. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  • ^ "Robert Douglas". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 March 2018.
  • ^ Richards, Jeffrey (26 March 2014). Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York. Routledge. ISBN 9781317928645 – via Google Books.
  • ^ "Robert Douglas, 89, Suave Actor Turned Director". 16 January 1999 – via NYTimes.com.
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