1. Robert Rockwell was an American stage, film, radio and television actor.
12 Facts About Robert Rockwell
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Robert Rockwell 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.
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Robert Rockwell appeared in the first Superman television show episode as Clark Kent's father, Jor-El in 1952.
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Robert Rockwell appeared in The Millionaire in the 1958 episode "Millionaire Lee Randolph" as the title character.
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Robert Rockwell starred in the 1961 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Misguided Missile" as an Air Force officer court-martialled on a murder charge.
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Robert Rockwell later starred in the 1962 Perry Mason episodes "The Case of the Lurid Letter" as murderer Everett Rixby, a high school principal, and the murderer Cole B Troy in "The Case of the Shapely Shadow".
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Robert Rockwell appeared as Ed Purvis in the 1965 episode Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Candy Queen".
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Robert 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.
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Robert Rockwell played Sam Thompson in Thompson's Ghost, Tom Bennett in The Bill Cosby Show and Officer Russo in Adam-12.
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Robert Rockwell was a founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre.
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Robert Rockwell played standard leads in a couple of anti-Communist-era features, including Republic's The Red Menace in which he was cast as a returning veteran of World War II who is duped by communists.
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On January 25,2003, Robert Rockwell died of cancer at his home in Malibu at the age of 82.