Robert Preston
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday8 June 1918
Died21 March 1987 (age 68)
Place of birthNewton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
Known credits75
Biography
Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awar…
Disclosure
2020 · Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003 · Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")
The World of Hammer
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Outrage!
1986 · Dennis Riordan
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Self
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · Mike Finnegan
The Last Starfighter
1984 · Centauri
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Self - Host
September Gun
1983 · Ben Sunday
Rehearsal for Murder
1982 · Alex Dennison
Victor/Victoria
1982 · Carroll 'Toddy' Todd
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Self
S.O.B.
1981 · Dr. Irving Finegarten
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980 · Stranger
The Chisholms
1979 · Hadley Chisholm
Semi-Tough
1977 · Big Ed Bookman
My Father's House
1975 · Tom Lindholm Sr.
Mame
1974 · Beauregard
Child's Play
1972 · Joseph Dobbs
Junior Bonner
1972 · Ace Bonner
All the Way Home
1963 · Jay Follet
Island of Love
1963 · Steve Blair
How the West Was Won
1962 · Roger Morgan
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Music Man
1962 · Harold Hill
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · Rubin Flood
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959 · Self
Made in Heaven
1956 · Zachary Meredith
Confession
1956 · Self - Host
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host / Nominee/ Performer
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Performer
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter / Performer
Sentinels in the Air
1956 · Narrator (voice)
The Last Frontier
1955 · Col. Frank Marston
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Climax!
1954 · William Struthers
Climax!
1954 · Cleve Gordon
Climax!
1954 · Lt. Hogue
General Electric Theater
1953 · Jim Tweedy
Face to Face
1952 · Jack Potter
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
My Outlaw Brother
1951 · Joe Walter
Best of the Badmen
1951 · Matthew Fowler
Cloudburst
1951 · John Graham
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