Robert Rockwell was an American stage, film, radio and television actor. He 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.A native of Lake Bluff, Illinois, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, from which he obtained a masters degree. During World War II he enlisted in the US Navy for four years serving in Washington D.C. Dramatic roles often eluded him, however, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared, over his almost 50-year acting career, in more than 350 television episodes and, on stage, opposite José Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and with Ginger Rogers during the 1960s in a San Diego production of Whitfield Cooks play A More Perfect Union. He appeared in the first Superman television show episode as Clark Kents father, Jor-El in 1952. He appeared in a 1959 Perry Mason episode The case of the Deadly Toy as love interest to the defendant Claire Allison as Dick Benedict. He starred in the 1961 Perry Mason episode The Case of the Misguided Missile as an Air Force officer court-martialled on a murder charge. He later starred in the 1962 Perry Mason episodes The Case of the Lurid Letter as Everett Rixby, a high school principal, and the murderer Cole B. Troy in The Case of the Shapely Shadow. He also appeared as Ed Purvis in the 1965 episode Perry Mason episode The Case of the Candy Queen.Rockwell starred in his own ABC western-themed television series, The Man from Blackhawk in the 1959-1960 season. Rockwell was cast as the Blackhawk Insurance Companys key investigator, Sam Logan, who is assigned to weed out fraud in the payment of claims. He also played Sam Thompson in Thompsons Ghost, Tom Bennett in The Bill Cosby Show[4]106 and Officer Russo in Adam-12.In 1967 he played a littering tourist in the Lassie episode Lassies Litter Bit, an iconic episode which earned a trip for Lassie to the White House to shake hands with then First Lady Ladybird Johnson who had used the famous collie in her Keep America Beautiful Campaign.Rockwell was a founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre. He played standard leads in a couple of anti-Communist-era features, including Republics The Red Menace, in which he is cast as a returning veteran of World War II, who is duped by communists.Later in his career, he appeared on episodes of Petticoat Junction, Growing Pains, and Beverly Hills, 90210. His appearances in commercials and voiceovers totaled more than 200, most notably as the armchair grandfather treating his grandson to a piece of candy in the 1995 version of the Werthers Original candy spot.

Kino niedostępny od Robert Rockwell

Golden Gate

Film 1981

Belle of Old Mexico

Kip Armitage III

Film 1950

Unmasked

Detective Lt. James 'Jim' Webster

Film 1950

Espionage Target: You

Agent (uncredited)

Film 1964

The Red Menace

Bill Jones

Film 1949

A Letter to Nancy

Pastor

Film 1965

Our Miss Brooks

Phillip 'Phil' Boynton

Film 1956

Trial Without Jury

Police Lt. Bill Peters

Film 1950

Federal Agent at Large

Dr. Ross Carrington

Film 1950

Destination Big House

Dr. Walter Phillips

Film 1950

Sol Madrid

Chief Danvers

Film 1968

The Blonde Bandit

Dist. Atty. Devron

Film 1949

Perfect Alibi

Film 1995

Lassies Abenteuer in Alaska

Dean Chalmers

Film 1968

Destination: America

Film 1987

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.

Film 1983

Lassie: The miracle

Will Thorne

Film 1970

Alias the Champ

Ron Peterson

Film 1949

Just for You

John Ransome

Film 1952

Women from Headquarters

Gates

Film 1950

Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka

Dean Chalmers (archive footage)

Film 1969

Turn the Other Cheek

Ben Hanson

Film 1958

The War of the Worlds

Forest Ranger at Crash Site (uncredited)

Film 1953

Hell Hath No Fury

Mr. Stewart

Film 1991

The Prince Who Was a Thief

(uncredited)

Film 1951

Prisoners in Petticoats

Mark Hampton

Film 1950

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Robert Rockwell

Growing Pains

Wally Overmier

Tv 1985

Falcon Crest

Giles Taylor

Tv 1981

Green Acres

Tv 1965

Here's Lucy

Jack Scott

Tv 1968

Beverly Hills, 90210

Tv 1990

Benson

Tv 1979

The Lucy Show

Tom Bennett

Tv 1962

Diff'rent Strokes

Tv 1978

Dynasty

Tv 1981

Petticoat Junction

Tv 1963

Charlie's Angels

Harrison

Tv 1976

Knots Landing

Doctor

Tv 1979

Surfside 6

Tv 1960

The Bill Cosby Show

Tom Bennett

Tv 1969

Newhart

Tv 1982

The Golden Palace

Mr. Cochran

Tv 1992

Gunsmoke

Mr. Philips

Tv 1955

Perry Mason

Dick Benedict

Tv 1957

Dallas

Mitchell

Tv 1978

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Tv 1948

Lassie

Tv 1954

Eight Is Enough

Tv 1977

Hunter

Ralph Flagg

Tv 1984

The Waltons

Tv 1972

Bus Stop

Tv 1961

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Tv 1958

The Millionaire

Prof. Amberson Adams

Tv 1955

E/R

John Harrison

Tv 1984

Yancy Derringer

Phillip Hampton

Tv 1958

Adventures of Superman

Jor-El (uncredited)

Tv 1952

Bronco

Tv 1958

Navy Log

Tv 1955

Racket Squad

Tv 1951

The Man from Blackhawk

Tv 1959

Summer Fun

Tv 1966

Cavalcade of America

Tv 1952

State Trooper

Tv 1956

The Roaring 20's

Tv 1960

Letter to Loretta

Jeb Stewart

Tv 1953

Maverick

Tv 1957

Our Miss Brooks

Philip Boynton

Tv 1952

The Millionaire

Dolph Randolph

Tv 1955

Perry Mason

Maj. Jerry Reynolds

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Cole B. Troy

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Everett Rixby

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Ed Purvis

Tv 1957