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American leading man of vast charisma, Robert Preston was the son of a garment worker and a record store clerk and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a trained musician, playing several instruments, and in high school became interested in theatre. He joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, taking classes and appearing in scores of plays alongside ...

Full Name	Robert Preston
Net Worth	$3 Million
Date Of Birth	June 8, 1918
Died	March 21, 1987, Montecito, California, United States
Place Of Birth	Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
Height	1.77 m
Profession	Actor
Nationality	American
Spouse	Catherine Craig
Parents	Frank Wesley Meservey, Ruth L. Rea
Siblings	Frank Meservey
IMDB
Awards	Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, Grammy Hall of Fame, Golden Laurel for Top Male Musical Performance
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Movies	The Music Man, Victor/Victoria, The Last Starfighter, Union Pacific, S.O.B., Beau Geste, This Gun for Hire, How the West Was Won, Junior Bonner, Finnegan Begin Again, Reap the Wild Wind, Mame, The Sundowners, North West Mounted Police, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Blood on the Moon, The Macomb...
TV Shows	Finnegan Begin Again, Rehearsal for Murder, The Chisholms, Man Against Crime
Star Sign	Gemini

#	Quote
1	(On DeMille directing him in "Union Pacific") He was no director. For over two weeks of shooting,Stanwyck and I were alone in a boxcar, and because there were no crowd scenes, no special effects, just two people acting, you'd never have known the old man was on the set. He didn't know what to do with it, except just roll and print. He didn't know what to tell us. Also, he was not a nice person, politically or in any other way. I think the only man DeMille ever envied was Hitler. It's no secret how I felt about him. Eventually, by turning things down, I'd insulted him, and so we had no relationship at all in the last years.
2	Everytime I turned down something, or wasn't offered something I really wanted, the very next thing that I did was the thing I should have done all along. It's been a lucky career that way. Nothing that I've ever made really hurt me. I've survived some bad ones just the way I've survived some plays that ran four performances.
3	[on leaving Paramount after twelve years] I no longer needed or wanted the paternalism of a studio, and that's what it was in those days. The studio system had to be paternalistic, but I didn't want Big Daddy anymore. The real reason they let me go was that they'd given me a new contract, so by that time I was making more money than Alan Ladd playing the heavy in his pictures. It was easier for them to let me go and hire me back if they needed me.
4	[on Loretta Young] She worked with a full-length mirror behind the camera. I didn't know which Loretta to play to -- the one in the mirror or the one that was with me.
5	[on working with Julie Andrews on Victor Victoria (1982)] I suppose what I like most about working with Julie is that one has the feeling that the other half of the scene is well taken care of. You can relax and do your own role because you know she's doing hers.
6	[on Gary Cooper] I loved working with Gary Cooper. People refer to Cooperisms and Cooper tricks, but I always found him to be a tremendous actor.
7	I'd get the best role in every B picture and the second best in the A pictures.
8	I've done my best to avoid B pictures. Why should I go into them now and call it television?

#	Fact
1	During the early 1950s Preston and his wife Catherine and sixteen of their friends maintained an informal acting group called 'Eighteen Actors' They were film actors trying to gain theatrical experience with their actress wives. Included were Charles Lzane, Dana Andrews, Moroni Olsen, Addison Richards, Victor Jory, and Don Porter. Their productions ran four consecutive weekends in a small state-donated building near the Rose Bowl.
2	A Paramount talent scout spotted the teenage Preston in a Paadena Playhouse production of Robert E. Sherwood's "Idiot's Delight" and signed him to a contract.
3	Frequently played a "heavy" in his early film roles.
4	Preston served three years in the United States Army Air Corps, also often referred to as the United States Army Air Forces, as an S-2 (Intelligence Officer), 386th Bombardment Group (Medium), a B-26 Marauder bomber unit, assigned to the 8th, and later to the 9th Air Force, based primarily in England, during World War II. By war's end, the 386th had moved forward, in pursuit of its own invading forces, and Captain Robert Meservey (Preston's birth name) and the 386th was re-stationed in Belgium. His job was to receive intelligence reports from 9th Air Force headquarters, in turn briefing 386th bomber crews about what they would most likely encounter, and also to apprise them of HQ expectations.
5	The name of his character in the movie, Mame, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside is taken from the names of four Civil War generals - Pierre Goustave Toutant Beauregard, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, and George Pickett (Confederate), and Ambrose Burnside (Union).
6	Cousin of Emmerson Denney, Producer/Personal Manager.
7	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 708-709. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
8	Before starring in the musical "The Music Man", he had not only never appeared in a musical before, he had never sung a note professionally before.
9	Twice won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical): in 1958, for "The Music Man," a performance he recreated in the film version of the same name, The Music Man (1962); and, in 1967, for "I Do! I Do!". He was also nominated in the same category in 1975 for "Mack and Mabel", in which he played movie pioneer Mack Sennett.

All pictures

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Outrage!	1986	TV Movie	Dennis Riordan
Finnegan Begin Again	1985	TV Movie	Mike Finnegan
The Last Starfighter	1984	Centauri
September Gun	1983	TV Movie	Ben Sunday
Rehearsal for Murder	1982	TV Movie	Alex Dennison
Victor Victoria	1982	Carole "Toddy" Todd
S.O.B.	1981	Dr. Irving Finegarten
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg	1980	TV Short	Stranger
The Chisholms	1979-1980	TV Mini-Series	Hadley Chisholm
Semi-Tough	1977	Big Ed Bookman
My Father's House	1975	TV Movie	Tom Lindholm Sr.
Happy Endings	1975	TV Movie	Harry
Mame	1974	Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
Child's Play	1972	Joseph Dobbs
Junior Bonner	1972	Ace Bonner
All the Way Home	1963	Jay Follett
Island of Love	1963	Steve Blair
How the West Was Won	1962	Roger Morgan
The Music Man	1962	Harold Hill
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs	1960	Rubin Flood
The DuPont Show of the Month	1960	TV Series	Clinton Jones
The Bells of St. Mary's	1959	TV Movie	Father Chuck O'Malley
Climax!	1955-1957	TV Series	Lt. Hogue / Cleve Gordon / William Struthers
Kraft Theatre	1957	TV Series
The Alcoa Hour	1955-1957	TV Series	Tom Collier / Tom Waycroff / Doug Hallock
Playhouse 90	1956	TV Series	Zachary Meredith
Goodyear Playhouse	1956	TV Series	Thomas Howard / Jesse James
The 20th Century-Fox Hour	1956	TV Series	Capt. Bob Wainer
The Last Frontier	1955	Col. Frank Marston
Robert Montgomery Presents	1953-1955	TV Series	Jeff Frazer
General Electric Theater	1955	TV Series	Jim Tweedy
Lux Video Theatre	1951-1955	TV Series	Phil Baxter / Tom / Isaac Eaton / ...
The Elgin Hour	1955	TV Series	Ben Wagner
The United States Steel Hour	1953-1955	TV Series	Jack Roberts / Dr. Abbott
Campbell Summer Soundstage	1954	TV Series
Danger	1953	TV Series
Medallion Theatre	1953	TV Series
The Plymouth Playhouse	1953	TV Series
Face to Face	1952	Sheriff Jack Potter ('The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky')
Curtain Call	1952	TV Series
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse	1952	TV Series
Schlitz Playhouse	1951	TV Series
My Outlaw Brother	1951	Joe Waldner
Best of the Badmen	1951	Matthew Fowler
Cloudburst	1951	John Graham
When I Grow Up	1951	Father Reed
Studio One in Hollywood	1950	TV Series
The Sundowners	1950	James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')
Man Against Crime	1949	TV Series	Pat Barnett (1951)
The Lady Gambles	1949	David Boothe
Tulsa	1949	Brad Brady
Whispering Smith	1948	Murray Sinclair
Blood on the Moon	1948	Tate Riling
Big City	1948	Rev. Philip Y. Andrews
Wild Harvest	1947	Jim Davis
Variety Girl	1947	Robert Preston
The Macomber Affair	1947	Francis Macomber
Night Plane from Chungking	1943	Capt. Nick Stanton
Wake Island	1942	Pvt. Joe Doyle
This Gun for Hire	1942	Michael Crane
Reap the Wild Wind	1942	Dan Cutler
Star Spangled Rhythm	1942	Robert Preston (uncredited)
Pacific Blackout	1941	Robert Draper
The Night of January 16th	1941	Steve Van Ruyle
New York Town	1941	Paul Bryson, Jr.
Parachute Battalion	1941	Donald Morse
The Lady from Cheyenne	1941	Steve Lewis
Moon Over Burma	1940	Chuck Lane
North West Mounted Police	1940	Ronnie Logan
Typhoon	1940	Johnny Potter
Beau Geste	1939	Digby Geste
Union Pacific	1939	Dick Allen
Disbarred	1939	Bradley Kent
Illegal Traffic	1938	Charles Bent Martin
King of Alcatraz	1938	Robert MacArthur

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
Great Performances	2003	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 38th Annual Tony Awards	1984	TV Special performer: "Comedy Tonight", "Hello, Dolly!", "Mame", "I Won't Send Roses"
The 36th Annual Tony Awards	1982	TV Special performer: "The Girl That I Marry", "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk", "You're Just in Love", "Anything You Can Do"
Victor Victoria	1982	performer: "Gay Paree", "You And Me", "Finale/Shady Dame From Seville Reprise" - uncredited
The Chisholms	1979	TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode
Mame	1974	performer: "Mame", "Loving You"
The 21st Annual Tony Awards	1967	TV Special performer: "Nobody's Perfect"
The Music Man	1962	"Minuet in G" 1795?, uncredited / performer: "Main Title" 1957 uncredited, "Ya Got Trouble" 1957 uncredited, "76 Trombones" 1957 uncredited, "Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me" 1957 uncredited, "Marian The Librarian" 1957 uncredited, "Gary, Indiana" 1957 uncredited, "Goodnight, Ladies", "Till There Was You" 1957 uncredited, "Goodnight My Someone" 1957 uncredited
Union Pacific	1939	performer: " Oh My Darling Clementine" 1884 - uncredited

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Night of 100 Stars II	1985	TV Movie	Himself
Going Hollywood: The '30s	1984	Documentary	Himself - Host
The 38th Annual Tony Awards	1984	TV Special	Himself - Host & Presenter: Best Actress in a Play & Best Actress in a Musical
The Laurence Olivier Awards	1984	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
Circus of the Stars #8	1983	TV Special documentary	Himself - Ringmaster
The 55th Annual Academy Awards	1983	TV Special	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards	1983	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Favourite All Around Female Entertainer
The 40th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1983	TV Special	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy / Musical
Bob Hope's Pink Panther Thanksgiving Gala	1982	TV Movie	Himself
The 36th Annual Tony Awards	1982	TV Special	Himself - Performer & Presenter: Best Actor in a Musical
Night of 100 Stars	1982	TV Special	Himself
The 39th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1982	TV Special documentary	Himself - Co-Host
Looks Familiar	1981	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show	1978	TV Series	Himself - Actor
The 31st Annual Tony Awards	1977	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Lawrence Langner Award
Dinah!	1975	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The 29th Annual Tony Awards	1975	TV Special	Himself
The 28th Annual Tony Awards	1974	TV Special	Himself - Co-Host
The 25th Annual Tony Awards	1971	TV Special	Himself - Performer
The 23rd Annual Tony Awards	1969	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Best Performance by Lead Actress in a Musical
The 21st Annual Tony Awards	1967	TV Special	Himself - Host & Winner: Best Actor in a Musical
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1964-1966	TV Series	Himself - Guest
What's My Line?	1957-1966	TV Series	Himself - Guest Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest
This Proud Land	1965	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself - Host
The Merv Griffin Show	1965	TV Series	Himself
The Bell Telephone Hour	1960-1965	TV Series	Himself - Singer / Himself - Host
The Ed Sullivan Show	1964	TV Series	Himself - Singer
Freedom Spectacular	1964	TV Movie	Himself
The 18th Annual Tony Awards	1964	TV Special	Himself - Host
Password All-Stars	1964	TV Series	Himself
An Evening with Carol Burnett	1963	TV Movie	Himself
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	1962	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself
The 16th Annual Tony Awards	1962	TV Special	Himself - Host
The 15th Annual Tony Awards	1961	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
The 13th Annual Tony Awards	1959	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
You Asked for It	1959	TV Series	Himself
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall	1958	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Playhouse 90	1956	TV Series	Himself - Announcing Next Week's Show
Sentinels in the Air	1956	Documentary short	Narrator (voice)
The Martha Raye Show	1954	TV Series	Himself
Your Show of Shows	1951-1953	TV Series	Himself - Guest Performer
Anywhere, U.S.A.	1952	TV Series	Doctor
Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood	1948	Short	Himself
Wings Up	1943	Documentary short

Archive Footage

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1984	Bronze Wrangler	Western Heritage Awards	Fictional Television Drama	September Gun (1983)
1983	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Performance in a Foreign Film (Mejor Interpretación en Película Extranjera)	Victor Victoria (1982)
1982	Career Achievement Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1982	NBR Award	National Board of Review, USA	Best Supporting Actor	Victor Victoria (1982)
1982	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Supporting Actor	S.O.B. (1981)
1963	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Male Musical Performance	The Music Man (1962)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1985	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Supporting Actor	The Last Starfighter (1984)
1985	ACE	CableACE Awards	Actor in a Movie or Miniseries	Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
1983	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Victor Victoria (1982)
1983	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical	Victor Victoria (1982)
1963	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Actor - Comedy or Musical	The Music Man (1962)