Robert Young actor
- All known tv series 21
- Total known movies 112
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952. After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and, in spite of having a tier B status, he co-starred with some of the studios most illustrious actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Hedy Lamarr, and Helen Twelvetrees. Yet, most of his assignments consisted of B movies, also known as programmers, which required two to three weeks of shooting (considered very brief shooting periods at the time). Actors who were relegated to such a hectic schedule appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year.As an MGM contract player, Young was resigned to the fate of most of his colleagues—to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension—and many actors on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all (even those unrelated to the film industry). In 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British for two films; the first was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the other co-starring Jessie Matthews. While there he surmised that his employers intended to terminate his contract, but he was mistaken.He unexpectedly received one of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in H.M. Pulham, Esq., featuring one of Hedy Lamarrs most effective performances. He once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which Robert Montgomery and other A-list actors had rejected.After his contract ended at MGM, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures. From 1943, Young assayed more challenging roles in films like Claudia, The Enchanted Cottage, They Wont Believe Me, The Second Woman, and Crossfire. His portrayal of unsympathetic characters in several of these later films—which was seldom the case in his MGM pictures—was applauded by numerous reviewers.Youngs career began an incremental and imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as a freelance actor without the nurturing of a major studio. He continued starring as a leading man in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but only in mediocre films, then he subsequently disappeared from the silver screen - only to reappear several years later on a much smaller one.Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Young (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Larry Ballentine
Movie 1947
Homer Smith, aka Juniper Jones
Movie 1942
Oliver Bradford
Movie 1945
John Davis
Movie 1942
Edward 'Eddie' Crane
Movie 1941
Jeff Cohalan
Movie 1950
Brooks Mason / George Smith
Movie 1939
Jimmy Bradshaw
Movie 1931
Charles 'Slim' Martin
Movie 1939
Harry Moulton Pulham
Movie 1941
Douglas Lamont
Movie 1940
Peter Carlton
Movie 1936
Larry Kelly
Movie 1934
Little Mike Stone
Movie 1935
Gordon Evans as a young man
Movie 1932
Doctor James Merrill
Movie 1951
Kip Tarleton
Movie 1932
Tom Wakefield
Movie 1937
Andre Vallaire
Movie 1938
Geoffrey Aiken
Movie 1933
Vernon 'Vern' Walsh
Movie 1949
Nick Buckley
Movie 1948
Charley Phelps
Movie 1936
Bob Stuart
Movie 1943
William 'Bill' Drexel
Movie 1934
Lieut. (JG) 'Brick' Walters
Movie 1933
Henry 'Hank' Sherman
Movie 1936
Anton Erban
Movie 1940
Judge Charles Raleigh
Movie 1973
David Naughton
Movie 1946
Michael Morgan
Movie 1939
Alex Hazen
Movie 1946
Ralph Thomas
Movie 1932
Dick Ogden
Movie 1932
Jack Bristow
Movie 1935
Randolph Haven
Movie 1941
Self (uncredited)
Movie 1939
Tony Ferrera
Movie 1934
Preston Patton
Movie 1935
Narrator
Movie 1954
Neil McGill
Movie 1939
Stephen Tracy Adams
Movie 1949
Marcus Welby
Movie 1969
Pat
Movie 1934
Pierre Brassard
Movie 1938
Tony Spear
Movie 1935
Hank
Movie 1937
Student at Dance / at Beach (uncredited)
Movie 1928
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1974
Lt. Hurley 'Hank' Travers
Movie 1945
Joe Woldarski
Movie 1987
Samuel Magee
Movie 1943
Himself
Movie 1940
Himself
Movie 1963
Jimmy Blake
Movie 1941
James Anderson
Movie 1977
David Naughton
Movie 1943
Jack Forrester
Movie 1934
Joe Hatcher
Movie 1936
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Movie 1934
Self
Movie 1940
Graham - Pilot Reporting Missing Airplanes (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Self
Movie 1940
Self
Movie 1938
(archive footage)
Movie 1994
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1937
(archive footage)
Movie 1944
(archive footage)
Movie 1990
Roswell Gilbert
Movie 1987
Self
Movie 1990
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1982
Dr. Marcus Welby
Movie 1984
Self
Tv 1976
Self
Tv 1962
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1952
Self - Host
Tv 1966
Self - Guest
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1969
Self
Tv 1948
Herman Allison
Tv 1968
Self - Recipient
Tv 1956
Self - Guest
Tv 1968
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Nick Holloway
Tv 1963
Self - Panelist
Tv 1950
