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.
Film 1981
Kip Armitage III
Film 1950
Detective Lt. James 'Jim' Webster
Film 1950
Agent (uncredited)
Film 1964
Bill Jones
Film 1949
Pastor
Film 1965
Phillip 'Phil' Boynton
Film 1956
Police Lt. Bill Peters
Film 1950
Dr. Ross Carrington
Film 1950
Dr. Walter Phillips
Film 1950
Chief Danvers
Film 1968
Dist. Atty. Devron
Film 1949
Film 1995
Dean Chalmers
Film 1968
Film 1987
Film 1983
Will Thorne
Film 1970
Ron Peterson
Film 1949
John Ransome
Film 1952
Gates
Film 1950
Dean Chalmers (archive footage)
Film 1969
Ben Hanson
Film 1958
Forest Ranger at Crash Site (uncredited)
Film 1953
Mr. Stewart
Film 1991
(uncredited)
Film 1951
Mark Hampton
Film 1950
Wally Overmier
Tv 1985
Giles Taylor
Tv 1981
Tv 1965
Jack Scott
Tv 1968
Tv 1990
Tv 1979
Tom Bennett
Tv 1962
Tv 1978
Tv 1981
Tv 1963
Harrison
Tv 1976
Doctor
Tv 1979
Tv 1960
Tom Bennett
Tv 1969
Tv 1982
Mr. Cochran
Tv 1992
Mr. Philips
Tv 1955
Dick Benedict
Tv 1957
Mitchell
Tv 1978
Self
Tv 1948
Tv 1954
Tv 1977
Ralph Flagg
Tv 1984
Tv 1972
Tv 1961
Tv 1958
Prof. Amberson Adams
Tv 1955
John Harrison
Tv 1984
Phillip Hampton
Tv 1958
Jor-El (uncredited)
Tv 1952
Tv 1958
Tv 1955
Tv 1951
Tv 1959
Tv 1966
Tv 1952
Tv 1956
Tv 1960
Jeb Stewart
Tv 1953
Tv 1957
Philip Boynton
Tv 1952
Dolph Randolph
Tv 1955
Maj. Jerry Reynolds
Tv 1957
Cole B. Troy
Tv 1957
Everett Rixby
Tv 1957
Ed Purvis
Tv 1957