1. Robert Sterling was best known for starring in the television series Topper.
27 Facts About Robert Sterling
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In 1960, Sterling was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry.
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Robert Sterling was born William Robert Sterling Hart in New Castle, Pennsylvania, 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
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Robert Sterling's name was legally changed while he was a second lieutenant attending flight training in Marfa in West Texas in 1943.
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Robert Sterling appeared in small parts for Columbia movies, often uncredited: Blondie Meets the Boss, Romance of the Redwoods, First Offenders, Outside These Walls, The Chump Takes a Bump, That Girl from College, and a serial Mandrake the Magician.
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Robert Sterling was in Only Angels Have Wings, Missing Daughters, and a short with Buster Keaton, Pest from the West.
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Robert Sterling was in Nothing But Pleasure a Buster Keaton short, and The Heckler a short with Charley Chase,.
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Robert Sterling appeared in The Penalty and had the lead in I'll Wait for You, The Getaway, and Ringside Maisie with Ann Sothern, whom he would later marry.
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Robert Sterling had a good support role in Two-Faced Woman with Greta Garbo and Johnny Eager with Robert Taylor.
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Robert Sterling could be seen in Dr Kildare's Victory and This Time for Keeps.
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Robert Sterling was billed third in Somewhere I'll Find You, after Clark Gable and Lana Turner - one of MGM's biggest films of the year.
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Robert Sterling served in World War II as a United States Army Air Corps flight instructor.
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Robert Sterling got out of the army in October 1945 and MGM announced him for The Last Time I Saw Paris but the film would not be made for several years, and not with Sterling.
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Robert Sterling appeared in The Secret Heart at MGM.
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Robert Sterling made an independent Western, The Sundowners with Robert Preston and John Drew Barrymore, and did Bunco Squad at RKO.
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On television, Robert Sterling starred in "The Man Who Had Influence", the May 29,1950, episode of Studio One.
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Robert Sterling had an excellent part as Steve Baker, opposite Ava Gardner as Julie, in the hit MGM 1951 film version of Show Boat.
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Robert Sterling is perhaps most well known for starring with Jeffreys as the spirited George Kerby, to Jeffreys' Marion Kerby in the television program Topper, based on the 1937 original film Topper; Robert Sterling played Cary Grant's role in the TV series, which aired on the CBS network from 1953 to 1955.
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Robert Sterling continued to guest star on such shows as The Loretta Young Show, Lux Video Theatre, Star Stage, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, The Ford Television Theatre, Cavalcade of America, and Telephone Time.
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Robert Sterling appeared on The United States Steel Hour, then returned to features at Fox.
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Robert Sterling had good roles in Return to Peyton Place, as Mike Rossi, husband of Eleanor Parker, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea for Irwin Allen.
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In 1963, Robert Sterling starred in The Twilight Zone episode "Printer's Devil" alongside Burgess Meredith.
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Robert Sterling was in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Naked City, plus A Global Affair with Bob Hope.
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Robert Sterling met actress-singer Anne Jeffreys soon after his Broadway debut, and they wed in 1951 and remained married for 55 years until his death.
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Robert Sterling was a Republican who campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.
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Robert Sterling died Tuesday, May 30,2006, aged 88, at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.
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Robert Sterling was cremated and his ashes were returned to his family.