1. Rex Reason was the elder brother of actor Rhodes Reason.
10 Facts About Rex Reason
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Rex Reason attended Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California and enlisted in the United States Army at the age of seventeen, serving from 1946 to 1948.
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Rex Reason began his stage career in 1948 at the Pasadena Playhouse, performing there for three years before coming to the notice of Hollywood.
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Rex Reason made two pictures at Universal Studios under the name "Bart Roberts" before demanding to be able to use his own name.
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Rex Reason is perhaps best known for his role as stalwart, heroic scientist Dr Cal Meacham in the science fiction movie This Island Earth.
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Rex Reason appeared opposite Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in Band of Angels for Warner Bros.
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Rex Reason appeared as a guest on an NBC interview program, Here's Hollywood in 1961, and guest-starred on a number of other television series.
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Rex Reason was featured in episodes of Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Alaskans.
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Rex Reason walked out on his film contract with Warner Bros.
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Rex Reason died in Walnut, California, from bladder cancer on November 19,2015.