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  The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Q-R)
Robert Clive was the principal founder of the British Empire in India.
Robert Fabyan was an English historian and sheriff of London from 1493.
Robert I, Duke of Normandy was the father of William the Conqueror and aide to Edward The Confessor.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (R-Rd)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ralph Lynn was an English actor, film director and writer.
He was originally an actor, but then became a director specialising in tough action stories, he made a number of outstanding films, including 'The Thief of Bagdad' in 1924, 'The Roaring Twenties' in 1939, ' Objective Burma' in 1945, ' White Heat' in 1949, and 'The Tall Men' in 1955.
He was born in 1907 at Neath, Glamorgan and died in 1986 of lung cancer.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (Ro-Robert D)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert Adams is a West Indian actor and screen writer.
Robert Butler is an American director, actor and film producer.
Robert Douglas (real name Robert Douglas Finlayson) was an English actor, television series director, film director, television series producer and musician.
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 Stephen Boyd
Even as things turned for the worst, Billy would always write back to his mother that all was well and things were moving along so as not to alarm her in any way or make her worry.
Actor Sir Michael Redgrave discovered Billy one night at the Odeon Theatre and landed him an introduction with the Windsor Repertory Company.
Boyd chose his roles based solely on character development and the value of the story that was told to the public, and never based on monetary compensation or peer pressure.
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 Richard Cromwell (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rounding out the cast, long before their own respective film and television stardom, was Robert Cummings of Dial M for Murder ; and even Gale Gordon, who later became a fixture on The Lucy Show.
Cromwell served admirably during WWII with the United States Coast Guard, alongside fellow actor and enlistee Cesar Romero.
According to Kim King, of Carlsbad, California, whose Coast Guard-enlisted father (and mother) counted Cromwell as a lifelong friend, another Hollywood luminary, actor Gig Young, was also a member of this branch of the Service during the War.
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 Robert Armstrong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the British member of the House of Lords, see Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
For the Nobel House character, see Robert Armstrong (Nobel House)
For the film actor who appeared in King Kong, see Robert Armstrong (actor)
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 The Armstrong Home page
He is a former Marine enlisted man, a former Air Force officer, a former veterinarian, and the former chief of Veterinary Public Health for the city of Houston, Texas.
Bob has this crazy notion that he is related to all the other famous Armstrongs.
Obviously he includes Neil Armstrong - the first man to walk on the moon, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong - the renowned jazz trumpet player, the other Robert E. Armstrong - an obscurely famous Hollywood actor who brought both King Kong and Mighty Joe Young back from the jungle, and Gen.
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 What A Character!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Probably best known for playing movie maker “Carl Denham” in 1933’s King Kong and its sequel The Son of Kong, Robert Armstrong was born in Saginaw, Michigan and got his start as a stage and vaudeville actor.
On television, Armstrong’s guest appearances included Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Broken Arrow.Beginning in the late 1950s, R.G. Armstrong was such a frequent TV western guest star that on any given week you were sure to see him on the likes of Maverick, Gunsmoke, Bonanza or Wagon Train.
Born Robert Golden Armstrong in Birmingham, Alabama, Armstrong’s career has gone on long past the hay day of the TV western and includes roles such as “The Old Man” on Millenium and “Lewis Vendredi” on Friday the 13th.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Robert Armstrong : Biography
The actor's stage training served him well during Hollywood's switchover to sound, and he appeared with frequency in the early talkie years, at one point costarring with Broadway legend Fanny Brice in My Man (1930).
Armstrong enjoyed some of the best dialogue of his career as he coerced erstwhile actress Fay Wray to go with him to Skull Island to seek out "money, adventure, the thrill of a lifetime", and as he egged on his crew to explore the domain of 50-foot ape Kong.
Always in demand as a character actor, Armstrong continued to make films in the 1940s; he had the rare distinction of playing an American military officer in Around the World (1943), a Nazi agent in My Favorite Spy (1942), and a Japanese general in Blood on the Sun (1945)!
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 Amazon.com: Sea of Grass (1947) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The scandal tears the Brewton marriage apart and Lutie leaves, although her illegitimate son, Brock (Robert Walker, who would go from playing Hepburn's son to being her lover in their next film together, "Song of Love") and her daughter Sara Beth (Phyllis Thaxter) stay behind on the ranch.
Despite having two of the most respected actors of all time in the leading roles "The Sea of Grass" was probably doomed as soon as Kazan was hired to direct.
Kazan's introspective, psychological, Actor's Studio approach to acting is personified in cinematic history by Marlon Brando, whose performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is arguably the greatest acting job ever.
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 Turner Classic Movies Print Schedule
Robert Young, Eleanor Powell, George Burns, Gracie Allen.
7:00 AM The Court Jester (1956) A traveling actor is mistaken for a medieval rebel.
Hyde (1932) Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
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 Robert Armstrong (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He and wife Louise became "adopted" parental figures to young actor...
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Find where Robert Armstrong is credited alongside another name
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 USATODAY.com - Jack Black joins cast of 'King Kong'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert Armstrong played Denham in the 1933 original.
Jackson — whose The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards in February, including best picture and director — said he has wanted to work with Black since he saw him as a smart-mouthed record-store clerk in 2000's High Fidelity.
"He's a smart and versatile actor blessed with an abundance of energy and charm," Jackson said.
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 Black Captures "Kong" - Mar 31, 2004 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The comic actor, fresh off a Golden Globe nomination for his hilarious performance in School of Rock, has landed a plum role opposite Naomi Watts in Peter Jackson's 1930s period remake of King Kong, his publicist has confirmed.
Black's role was first played by Robert Armstrong in the 1933 original while Fay Wray starred as Darrow.
In related Kong casting news, Jackson and Universal are also in talks with Oscar winner Adrien Brody about playing the last principle role--that of Jack Driscoll, a former World War I fighter pilot and Darrow's love interest who tries to rescue her from the horny gorilla.
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 Silent Era: People: Actors: Other Actors 'A'
This brief biographical listing of silent era actors is hardly complete.
The information was originally assembled to keep track of actors and their sometimes multiple identities.
There are many omissions of both actors and their biographical facts.
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 Black will use gorilla tactics in 'Kong' redo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Robert Armstrong played the role in the 1933 original.
Black, who was honored last week as Comedy Star of the Year at ShoWest 2004, starred in the fall hit "School of Rock," from Paramount Pictures.
Thumbs up: Actors don critic hats and comment on their favorite performances of the year.
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 King Kong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The quickie sequel, SON OF KONG, was released in 1933 and shared director Ernest B. Schoedsack, special effects man Willis O'Brian and star Robert Armstrong with the first film.
Armstrong joined Helen Mack and Victor Wong on a trip back to Skull Island, where they discover Kong's young son.
O'Brian shared effects duties with Ray Harryhausen this time out and Armstrong was joined in the cast by Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Frank McHugh, and "Mr.
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 Robert Howard Goes To The Movies
Cast: Victor McLaglen (Spike Madden); Robert Armstrong (Salami); Louise Brooks (Marie, the Girl in France); Natalie Joyce (Girl in Panama); Maria Casajuana (Chiquita); Myrna Loy (the Girl in the Orient); Natalie Kingston (the Girl in the South Sea Islands); Sally Rand (the Girl in Bombay); Caryl Lincoln (the Girl in Liverpool); etc. Black and white.
Eagels was nominated for Best Actress (1930) for this film, but she had died of a heroin overdose in late '29.
Ayres was nominated for Best Actor (1949) for his role in Johnny Belinda (1948), and for an Emmy (1975) for an appearance on the TV show Kung Fu.
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 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Also, he, along with the rest of the cast, including female second lead Belinda Blair (Marilu Henner, who seems to fade into the scenery completely), has to keep a close eye on aging character actor Selsdon Mowbray (Denholm Elliott), who likes his liquor and has a tendency to forget his cues.
The film actually opens with Caine in a voiceover prologue on the play's Broadway opening night, explaining what the film is all about.
It's probably a sign of trouble early on in the dress rehearsal, the film's actual first scene, that the play within the play, as artfully terrible as it is, is actually more entertaining and engaging than the main plot and subplots involving the actors and director.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Actor Black 'for King Kong role'
School of Rock actor Jack Black has been reportedly cast alongside Naomi Watts in director Peter Jackson's remake of horror fantasy King Kong.
The director told trade paper Hollywood Reporter Black would play adventurer Carl Denham, as portrayed by Robert Armstrong in the 1933 original.
"He's a smart and versatile actor blessed with an abundance of energy and charm," said the New Zealand director.
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 The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Newsweek on KING KONG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fay Wray gave a pretty good performance (if a bit mannered - was she a silent-movie star at any stage?), but Robert Armstrong was no slouch as Carl Denham either.
To diss every actor other than Wray is a bit unfair.
And I totally agree about Robert Armstrong, I thought he was a fucking hoot; the casting of Jack Black for that role is incredibly inspired, although it's one of those deals where it's either going to work fantastically or not at all--no middle ground with Black (obviously, I'm hoping for the former).
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 Mighty Joe Young DVD | dir.: Ernest B. Schoedsack | cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, ...
A slick nightclub owner ("King Kong" veteran Robert Armstrong) discovers the giant ape frolicking in Africa as the beloved pet of a young girl (Terry Moore).
Highlights such as Armstrong's henchmen trying to lasso Joe cowpoke style, Joe playing tug-of-war with musclemen and plenty of Joe-to-the-rescue action make Mighty Joe Young mighty fine entertainment.
Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Denis Green, Paul Guilfoyle.
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 Bureau 42 | Movie Review: Mighty Joe Young
This character, who resembles Carl Denham so entirely that Robert Armstrong might as well be playing the same man, wants the giant ape brought to America, where he will become the star attraction in an exotically-themed hot spot.
The exploitation which Joe faces finally riles the beast, and he goes on a rampage in the city.
I suppose the filmmakers were reminding us of and further developing Joe’s goofy charm, but he comes off looking like a bored actor between takes.
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 DVD Review: King Kong Collector's Tin
Kong lost lots of footage, with natives being chewed and trampled under foot being deemed too violent and Fay Wray got to keep most of her clothes on.
Back to the story, and that of film director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), seeking to make a new movie that would show the unshowable, something the world has never seen or experienced before.
Robert Armstrong stars as movie producer Carl Denham who travels to a mysterious, uncharted island in search of material for...
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 Tom Neal at Brian's Drive-In Theater
The well-educated Neal attended Northwestern University, where he excelled on the boxing team, and graduated from Harvard Law School at the age of 24.
Neal never intended to practice law, preferring instead to be an actor.
Payton was engaged to actor Franchot Tone but had a roving eye.
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 The Big Bob List Of People, Places, And Things Named Bob ~ The Bob Club ~ A Club For Guys Named Bob And The People Who ...
We have started a list here of the Bobs (and names that can be cut down to "BOB") who have made their names popular through movies, television, sports, music, and many other ways.
Over the years, many Bobs have made the name famous through their music or their contribution to the music industry.
Robert Dopyera - Co-Founder Of The DOBRO Guitar
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 Sky Raiders at The Vintage Library
Former World War flying ace Robert Dayton, head of Sky Raiders Incorporated, has created a revolutionary pursuit plane that is set to be put into production by the United States government.
Ruthless international spy Felix Lynx wants to steal the prototype in order to sell it to a foreign government, and will stop at nothing to carry out his sinister scheme.
Sky Raiders features prolific character actor Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) in the role of Ed Carey.
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 John Payne at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Throughout the early 1940s, Payne starred in a number of big-budget musicals, such as Springtime in the Rockies (1942) and Iceland (1942).
But after completing filming of Hello, Frisco, Hello in late 1942, like many other actors John Payne decided to do his part for the war effort.
Backstage Broadway musical features Betty Grable and John Payne as secretly married actors in the same show and Victor Mature as boxer-turned-thespian who sets his sights on Grable.
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 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005), a new TCM original documentary narrated by Oscar®-nominated actor Alec Baldwin (The Cooler).
Through interviews recorded on audiotape, we hear from Cooper himself and his longtime partner, Ernest B. Schoedsack.
Available for the first time on home video, this landmark 1956 Western marks the beginning of a highly successful collaboration between actor Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher; one of their best efforts.
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 Son of Kong movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack; Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack; DIRECTED BY: Ernest B. Schoedsack; MUSIC BY: Max Steiner.
Review: King Kong's descendant is discovered on an island amid prehistoric creatures in this often humorous sequel to RKO's immensely popular "King Kong." Hoping to capitalize on the enormous success of its predecessor, director Schoedsack quickly threw this together.
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 IMDb Name Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
(Actor, The Streets of San Francisco (1972) (TV))
Robert Armstrong (V) (Actor, Flickers: A Silent Romantic Comedy (1995))
(Actor, Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up (2002) (TV))
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