Robert Douglas

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-11-09 (90 years old)

Deathday

1999-01-11

Place of Birth

Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. [now Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK]

Robert Douglas

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Douglas (9 November 1909 - 11 January 1999) was born as Robert Douglas Finlayson in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire. He was a successful stage and film actor, a television director and producer. He studied at RADA and made his screen debut at Bournemouth in 1927. A year later he made his first appearance on stage in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year. He was gently mannered with a well modulated speaking voice, who delivered his lines in clipped fashion. He could portray the sinister, conniving rogue as easily as the forthright military officer. He was...

Acting

1955

1949

The Fountainhead

as Elsworth Toohey

1950

The Flame and the Arrow

as Marchese Alessandro de Granazia

1952

Ivanhoe

as Sir Hugh De Bracy

1948

Adventures of Don Juan

as Duque de Lorca

1952

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Michael, Duke of Strelsau

1953

The Desert Rats

as General

1956

Helen of Troy

as Agamemnon

1955

The Virgin Queen

as Sir Christopher Hatton

1959

The Young Philadelphians

as Uncle Morton Stearnes

1968

Secret Ceremony

as Sir Alex Gordon (uncredited)

1974

The Questor Tapes

as Dr. Michaels

1950

This Side of the Law

as Philip Cagle

1950

Buccaneer's Girl

as Alexander Narbonne

1939

The Lion Has Wings

as Briefing Officer

1949

Homicide

as Lt. Michael Landers

1954

1951

Thunder on the Hill

as Dr. Edward Jeffreys

1939

Over the Moon

as John Flight

1949

1954

Saskatchewan

as Benton

1935

1950

Mystery Submarine

as Commander von Molter

1955

The Scarlet Coat

as Gen. Benedict Arnold

1938

The Challenge

as Edward Whymper

1937

London Melody

as Nigel Taplow

1940

The Chinese Bungalow

as Richard Marquess

1951

Target Unknown

as Col. von Broeck

1959

Tarzan, the Ape Man

as Col. James Parker

1950

Kim

as Colonel Creighton

1953

Fair Wind to Java

as Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar

1950

Barricade

as Aubrey Milburn

1953

1949

The Hasty Heart

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1972

The Woman I Love

as Stanley Baldwin

1933

The Blarney Stone

as Lord Breethorpe

1937

Our Fighting Navy

as Capt. Markham

1961

The Lawbreakers

as Allen Bardeman

1931

Many Waters

as Godfrey Marvin

1950

Spy Hunt

as Stephen Paradou

1931

P.C. Josser

as Dick Summers

-

And One Was Loyal

as Roger Howard

Production

1964

1965

The Final Hour

as Director

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