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Robert Rockwell
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Acting
Birthday
1920-10-15,Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

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Golden Gate
1981-09-25

Belle of Old Mexico

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Belle of Old Mexico
1950-03-01

5.2

Unmasked
1950-01-30

Espionage Target: You

0

Espionage Target: You
1964-01-01

4.1

The Red Menace
1949-08-01

A Letter to Nancy

0

A Letter to Nancy
1965-01-14

Our Miss Brooks

6.2

Our Miss Brooks
1956-04-24

Trial Without Jury

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Trial Without Jury
1950-07-08

Federal Agent at Large

4.8

Federal Agent at Large
1950-03-12

Destination Big House

0

Destination Big House
1950-06-01

6.3

Sol Madrid
1968-02-07

Lonely Heart Bandits

6.5

Lonely Heart Bandits
1950-08-29

The Blonde Bandit

5.8

The Blonde Bandit
1949-12-22

3.5

Perfect Alibi
1995-09-04

5.9

The Frogmen
1951-01-25

Lassies Abenteuer in Alaska

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Lassies Abenteuer in Alaska
1968-11-03

Destination: America

0

Destination: America
1987-04-03

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.

5

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
1983-02-06

Lassie: The miracle

0

Lassie: The miracle
1970-10-11

Murder in Texas

4.3

Murder in Texas
1981-05-03

Alias the Champ

6

Alias the Champ
1949-10-15

4.8

Just for You
1952-09-27

Women from Headquarters

4

Women from Headquarters
1950-05-01

Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka

6

Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka
1969-01-01

You Gotta Stay Happy

6.4

You Gotta Stay Happy
1948-10-28

Turn the Other Cheek

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Turn the Other Cheek
1958-01-01

The War of the Worlds

6.821

The War of the Worlds
1953-08-13

Hell Hath No Fury

8.7

Hell Hath No Fury
1991-03-04

The Prince Who Was a Thief

4.9

The Prince Who Was a Thief
1951-05-17

Prisoners in Petticoats

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Prisoners in Petticoats
1950-09-18

6.5

Growing Pains
1985-09-24

5.6

Falcon Crest
1981-12-04

7.3

Green Acres
1965-09-15

6.9

Here's Lucy
1968-09-23

Beverly Hills, 90210

7.4

Beverly Hills, 90210
1990-10-04

7.214

Benson
1979-09-13

7.088

The Lucy Show
1962-10-01

Diff'rent Strokes

7

Diff'rent Strokes
1978-11-03

6.5

Dynasty
1981-01-12

Petticoat Junction

5.8

Petticoat Junction
1963-09-24

Charlie's Angels

6.646

Charlie's Angels
1976-09-22

6.8

Knots Landing
1979-12-27

5

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

The Bill Cosby Show

4.9

The Bill Cosby Show
1969-09-14

7.2

Newhart
1982-10-02

The Golden Palace

6

The Golden Palace
1992-09-18

6.5

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

7.6

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

6.734

Dallas
1978-04-02

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

6.133

Lassie
1954-09-12

Eight Is Enough

6.1

Eight Is Enough
1977-03-15

7.2

Hunter
1984-09-18

7.1

The Waltons
1972-09-14

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Bus Stop
1961-10-01

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

4.3

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958-10-06

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

5.2

E/R
1984-09-16

Yancy Derringer

6

Yancy Derringer
1958-10-02

Adventures of Superman

6.657

Adventures of Superman
1952-09-19

4.8

Bronco
1958-09-23

4.5

Navy Log
1955-09-20

6

Racket Squad
1951-06-07

The Man from Blackhawk

5

The Man from Blackhawk
1959-10-09

Cavalcade of America

3.5

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

0

Summer Fun
1966-07-22

5

State Trooper
1956-09-25

The Roaring 20's

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The Roaring 20's
1960-10-15

Letter to Loretta

5.8

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

6.8

Maverick
1957-09-22

Our Miss Brooks

7.3

Our Miss Brooks
1952-10-03

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

7.6

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.6

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.6

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.6

Perry Mason
1957-09-21