Robert Preston

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-06-08 (69 years old)

Deathday

1987-03-21

Place of Birth

Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA

Robert Preston

Biography

Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards. Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in N...

Acting

1955

The Last Frontier

as Col. Frank Marston

1977

Semi-Tough

as Big Ed Bookman

1972

Junior Bonner

as Ace Bonner

1951

My Outlaw Brother

as Joe Walter

1984

1962

How the West Was Won

as Roger Morgan

1982

Victor/Victoria

as Carole "Toddy" Todd

1981

S.O.B.

as Dr. Irving Finegarten

1962

The Music Man

as Harold Hill

1947

The Macomber Affair

as Francis Macomber

1974

Mame

as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside

1949

The Lady Gambles

as David Boothe

1948

Blood on the Moon

as Tate Riling

1939

Beau Geste

as Digby Geste

1951

Cloudburst

as John Graham

1948

Whispering Smith

as Murray Sinclair

1950

The Sundowners

as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')

1942

Wake Island

as Pvt. Joe Doyle

1939

Union Pacific

as Dick Allen

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as Dan Cutler

1942

This Gun for Hire

as Det. Michael Crane

1982

Rehearsal for Murder

as Alex Dennison

1972

Child's Play

as Joseph Dobbs

1940

1941

The Night of January 16th

as Steve Van Ruyle

1941

New York Town

as Paul Bryson, Jr.

1938

King of Alcatraz

as Robert MacArthur

1949

Tulsa

as Brad Brady

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Robert Preston (uncredited)

1963

All the Way Home

as Jay Follet

1963

Island of Love

as Steve Blair

1951

Best of the Badmen

as Matthew Fowler

1947

Variety Girl

as Robert Preston

1941

1940

Typhoon

as Johnny Potter

1941

Parachute Battalion

as Donald Morse

1986

Outrage!

as Dennis Riordan

1948

Big City

as Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

1952

Face to Face

as Jack Potter

1939

Disbarred

as Bradley Kent

1940

Moon Over Burma

as Chuck Lane

1941

Pacific Blackout

as Robert Draper

2020

Disclosure

as Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)

1938

Illegal Traffic

as Charles Bent Martin

1947

Wild Harvest

as Jim Davis

1983

September Gun

as Ben Sunday

1985

Finnegan Begin Again

as Mike Finnegan

1951

When I Grow Up

as Father Reed

1943

2003

Broadway's Lost Treasures

as Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")

1975

My Father's House

as Tom Lindholm Sr.

1943

Wings Up

as Himself

2015

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

as Self (archive footage)

1956

Sentinels in the Air

as Narrator (voice)

1984

1956

Confession

as Self - Host

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