Personal Info
Known Credits
60
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1918-06-08 (107 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known For
Robert Preston Meservey
Robert Preston
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 t ...
Known For
Acting
2020 --
Disclosure
| Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)
2015 --
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
| Self (archive footage)
2004 --
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
| Self (archive footage)
2003 --
Broadway's Lost Treasures
| Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")
1986 --
Outrage!
| Dennis Riordan
1985 --
Night of 100 Stars II
| Self
1985 --
Finnegan Begin Again
| Mike Finnegan
1984 --
The Last Starfighter
| Centauri
1984 --
Going Hollywood: The '30s
| Self - Host
1983 --
September Gun
| Ben Sunday
1982 --
Rehearsal for Murder
| Alex Dennison
1982 --
Victor/Victoria
| Carroll "Toddy" Todd
1982 --
Night of 100 Stars
| Self
1981 --
S.O.B.
| Dr. Irving Finegarten
1980 --
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
| Stranger
1977 --
Semi-Tough
| Big Ed Bookman
1975 --
My Father's House
| Tom Lindholm Sr.
1974 --
Mame
| Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
1972 --
Child's Play
| Joseph Dobbs
1972 --
Junior Bonner
| Ace Bonner
1963 --
All the Way Home
| Jay Follet
1963 --
Island of Love
| Steve Blair
1962 --
How the West Was Won
| Roger Morgan
1962 --
The Music Man
| Harold Hill
1960 --
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
| Rubin Flood
1956 --
Sentinels in the Air
| Narrator (voice)
1955 --
The Last Frontier
| Col. Frank Marston
1952 --
Face to Face
| Jack Potter
1951 --
My Outlaw Brother
| Joe Walter
1951 --
Best of the Badmen
| Matthew Fowler
1951 --
Cloudburst
| John Graham
1951 --
When I Grow Up
| Father Reed
1950 --
The Sundowners
| James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')
1949 --
The Lady Gambles
| David Boothe
1949 --
Tulsa
| Brad Brady
1948 --
Whispering Smith
| Murray Sinclair
1948 --
Blood on the Moon
| Tate Riling
1948 --
Big City
| Rev. Philip Y. Andrews
1947 --
Wild Harvest
| Jim Davis
1947 --
Variety Girl
| Robert Preston
1947 --
The Macomber Affair
| Francis Macomber
1943 --
Night Plane from Chungking
| Nick Stanton
1943 --
Wings Up
| Himself
1942 --
Wake Island
| Pvt. Joe Doyle
1942 --
This Gun for Hire
| Det. Michael Crane
1942 --
Reap the Wild Wind
| Dan Cutler
1942 --
Star Spangled Rhythm
| Robert Preston (uncredited)
1941 --
Pacific Blackout
| Robert Draper
1941 --
The Night of January 16th
| Steve Van Ruyle
1941 --
New York Town
| Paul Bryson, Jr.
1941 --
Parachute Battalion
| Donald Morse
1941 --
The Lady from Cheyenne
| Steve Lewis
1940 --
North West Mounted Police
| Ronnie Logan
1940 --
Moon Over Burma
| Chuck Lane
1940 --
Typhoon
| Johnny Potter
1939 --
Beau Geste
| Digby Geste
1939 --
Union Pacific
| Dick Allen
1939 --
Disbarred
| Bradley Kent
1938 --
Illegal Traffic
| Charles Bent Martin
1938 --
King of Alcatraz
| Robert MacArthur