1. Robert Middleton trained for a musical career at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
14 Facts About Robert Middleton
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Robert Middleton worked steadily as a radio announcer and actor.
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Robert Middleton appeared in many television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure.
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Robert Middleton played a dishonest candidate for the United States House of Representatives in an episode of ABC's The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna.
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Robert Middleton was cast as "The Tichborne Claimant" in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show.
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Robert Middleton starred as Lucius Crane in 1959 in an unaired pilot episode for a detective series called The Fat Man based on a successful radio series of the same name.
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Robert Middleton was cast in ten episodes of the ABC family Western drama The Monroes, which costarred Michael Anderson, Jr.
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Robert Middleton appeared in three episodes of Bonanza from 1960 to 1967.
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In 1960, Robert Middleton guest-starred on the episode "Death at Dawn," portraying the ruthless Sam Bryant.
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Robert Middleton performed as a defendant, Judge Daniel Redmond, in the 1963 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Witless Witness".
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On television series, Robert Middleton was most often cast in dramas as brutish mountain men, corrupt town bosses and leaders of lynch mobs.
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On July 14,1951, Middleton married in Cincinnati; he and his wife, Roberta, separated on September 5,1955.
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Robert Middleton sought custody in the divorce suit, charging that she had a romantic relationship with his cousin.
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Robert Middleton died on June 14,1977, in Encino, California, at the age of 66.