Robert Middleton

Robert Middleton

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1911-05-13
Deathday: 1977-06-14 (66 years old)

Biography

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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).


A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Middleton appeared in many television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure. He was cast as "The Tichborne Claimant" in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show. He appeared in ten episodes of ABC's family Western The Monroes, with costars Michael Anderson, Jr., and Barbara Hershey. Among his several appearances in the long-running Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he portrayed a gangster in high places, Mr. Koster, in the 1956 episode "The Better Bargain". In 1958, he played the villain in the first episode of Bat Masterson. In 1961, he appeared in the episode "Accidental Tourist" on the James Whitmore ABC legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones. That same year, he portrayed the highly sympathetic but fiercely dedicated state executioner in an episode of Thriller (U.S. TV series) entitled "Guillotine". He also appeared in at least one episode of Bonanza (1964).


In the early 1950s, Middleton appeared on Broadway in Ondine. Other significant film roles include The Court Jester (1956) as a grim and determined knight who jousts with Danny Kaye in the famous "pellet with the poison" sequence, and as a sinister politician in The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977). Betwixt and between were an array of brutish mountain daddies, corrupt, cigar-chomping town bosses and lynch mob leaders. Occasionally he showed a bit of levity, as in his recurring role as Jackie Gleason's boss on The Honeymooners (1955) sketches.


Middleton died of congestive heart failure in Hollywood at the age of sixty-six.


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Filmography

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TV Shows 47

Movies 37

self 1

Narrator 1

Kraus, the Butcher
Remember When

Remember When (1974)

Movie
Barkeep (Great Plains Saloon)
The Cheyenne Social Club

The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

Movie
Sidney Glover / Judge Tyrone
The Big Valley

The Big Valley (1965)

TV
6.2
Jed Hawkes / Ragnar Windsor / Ezekiel Kindworth aka 'Rocky Mountain'
Burke's Law

Burke's Law (1963)

TV
6
Ohrback / Monsieur de Paris
Thriller

Thriller (1960)

TV
Mayor Anton J. Cermak / Mayer Wartel / Barney Loomis
The Untouchables

The Untouchables (1959)

TV
5.29
Robert Kensington
Career

Career (1959)

Movie
Arthur Sutro
The Rebel

The Rebel (1959)

TV
C.J. Shasta / Sam Bryant / Grizzly Martingale
Bonanza

Bonanza (1959)

TV
1
Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde
Don't Give Up the Ship

Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)

Movie
Josh Green / Judge John Jefferson Hogan / Matt Harger / Duke Aberdeen
Rawhide

Rawhide (1959)

TV
4
Big Keel Roberts
Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson (1958)

TV
Judge Daniel Redmond
Perry Mason

Perry Mason (1957)

TV
4.33
Honest John Barrett
The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones (1956)

Movie
A.A. 'Fats' Sanders
Trial

Trial (1955)

Movie
Louis Koster / Sam Klinker / Cato Stone
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

TV
4.75
Jake Worth / Dutch George / Dorf
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke (1955)

TV
6
Police Capt. Peterson
The Big Combo

The Big Combo (1955)

Movie
Robert MiddletonRobert Middleton

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1911-05-13

Deathday
1977-06-14 (66 years old)

Birth Place
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Samuel Abraham Messer

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