Robert Douglas (actor)
Robert Douglas Finlayson, known professionally as Robert Douglas, was an English stage and film actor, a television director and producer.
Early life
Douglas was born in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire. He studied at RADA and made his stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Bournemouth in 1927. A year later he made his first London appearance in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year.Career
As an actor
Theatre
- 1927: The Best People
- 1928: Crime
- 1928: Many Waters
- 1928: Mrs.Moonlight
- 1929: Black St. Anthony
- 1929: A Bill of Divorcement
- 1929: Barbara's Wedding
- 1929: Many Waters
- 1930: The Last Enemy
- 1930: Suspense
- 1930: Badger's Green
- 1930: The Last Enemy
- 1931: After All
- 1931: The Arch-Duchess
- 1931: Vile Bodies
- 1931: Brief Moment
- 1932: Vile Bodies
- 1932: As it was in the Beginning
- 1933: Ten Minute Alibi
- 1933: These Two
- 1934: Men in White
- 1934: Overture 1920
- 1934: Inside the Room
- 1935: Theatre Royal / The Royal Family
- 1935: Most of the Game
- 1936: No Exit
- 1936: Stubble before Swords
- 1936: Kind Lady
- 1938: Official Secret
- 1938: Night Arrival
- 1939: The Spring Time of Others
- 1946: Lighten our Darkness
- 1946: He Lived in Two Worlds
- 1946: ''But for the Grace of God''
Film
- 1930: P. C. Josser - Dick Summers
- 1931: Many Waters - Godfrey Marvin
- 1933: The Blarney Stone / : The Blarney Kiss - Lord Breethorpe
- 1935: Death Drives Through - Kit Woods
- 1937: London Melody / : Girl in the Street - Nigel Taplow
- 1937: Our Fighting Navy / : Torpedoed - Captain Markham
- 1938: The Challenge - Edward Whymper
- 1939: Over the Moon - The Unknown Man
- 1939: The Lion Has Wings - Briefing Officer
- 1940: The Chinese Bungalow / : Chinese Den - Richard Marquess
- 1947: The End of the River - Jones
- 1948: The Adventures of Don Juan / : The New Adventures of Don Juan - Duke de Lorca
- 1948: The Decision of Christopher Blake - Ken Blake
- 1949: Homicide - Police Lieutenant Michael Landers
- 1949: The Fountainhead - Ellsworth M. Toohey
- 1949: The Hasty Heart - Off-Screen Narrator
- 1949: The Lady Takes a Sailor - John Tyson
- 1950: Buccaneer's Girl - Narbonne
- 1950: Barricade - Aubrey Milburn
- 1950: Spy Hunt / : Panther's Moon - Stephen Paradou
- 1950: This Side of the Law - Philip Cagle
- 1950: The Flame and the Arrow - Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
- 1950: Kim - Colonel Creighton
- 1950: Mystery Submarine - Commander Eric von Molter
- 1951: Target Unknown - Colonel von Broeck
- 1951: Thunder on the Hill / : Bonaventure - Dr. Edward Jeffreys
- 1952: At Sword's Point / : Sons of the Musketeers - Duc de Lavalle
- 1952: Ivanhoe - Sir Hugh De Bracy
- 1952: The Prisoner of Zenda - Michael, Duke of Strelsau
- 1953: Fair Wind to Java - Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar
- 1953: The Desert Rats - General
- 1953: Flight to Tangier - Danzer
- 1954: Saskatchewan / : O'Rourke of the Royal Mounted - Benton
- 1954: King Richard and the Crusaders - Sir Giles Amaury
- 1955: The Virgin Queen - Sir Christopher Hatton
- 1955: The Scarlet Coat - General Benedict Arnold
- 1955: Good Morning Miss Dove - John Porter
- 1956: Helen of Troy - Agamemnon
- 1959: The Young Philadelphians / : The City Jungle - Uncle Morton Stearnes
- 1959: Tarzan, the Ape Man - Colonel James Parker
- 1961: The Lawbreakers - Allen Bardeman
Television
- 1939: The Royal Family of Broadway - Tony Cavendish
- 1953: Chevron Theatre
- 1955: Lux Video Theatre - Frank Hunter
- 1955: Front Row Center - Robert Browning
- 1957: Panic! - Thomas Burdue / James Stuart
- 1958-1959: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- * - Inspector Charles Tarrant
- * - Inspector Ben Liebenberg
- 1959: General Electric Theatre - Roger Howard
- 1959-1961: 77 Sunset Strip
- * - Dr. Emory Williams
- * - Walter Van Nuys
- 1959-1961: One Step Beyond
- * - Harrison Ackroyd
- * - Paul McCord
- * - General George Washington
- 1960: Adventures in Paradise
- * - Albert Otherly
- * - Albert Othery
- 1960: Walt Disney presents The Swamp Fox
- * - General [Charles Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Cornwallis]
- * - General Cornwallis
- 1960: Maverick - Herbert
- 1961: The Asphalt Jungle - Allen Bardeman
- 1962: Thriller - Antony Hugh Swinburne
- 1968: Secret Ceremony - Sir Alex Gordon
- 1972: Portrait: The Woman I Love - Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
- 1974: The Questor Tapes - Dr. Michaels
- 1974: Cannon - Sir Arnold Masters
- 1975: Columbo - Dr. Frank Pierce
- 1975: Medical Center - Miles Halloran
- 1975: The Invisible Man - Dr. Theophilus
- 1978: Centennial - Claude Richards
As a director
Theatre
- 1933: Ten Minute Alibi
- 1934: Overture 1920
- 1946: Lighten Our Darkness
- 1956: The Ponder Heart
- 1956: Affair of Honor
- 1956: The Loud Red Patrick
- 1956: Uncle Willie
- 1957: ''One Foot in the Door''
Film
- 1964: ''Night Train to Paris''
Television
- 1960-1962: Surfside 6
- 1960: Maverick
- 1960-1962: 77 Sunset Strip
- 1961: The Roaring Twenties
- 1961-1962: Hawaiian Eye
- 1962-1963: Fair Exchange
- 1963-1964: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- 1962: The Virginian = The Final Hour
- 1965: Kraft Suspense Theatre
- 1964-1965: Court Martial
- 1965-1967: 12 O'Clock High
- 1966: The Fugitive
- 1966: Daniel Boone
- 1967: Lost in Space
- 1967: Mission: Impossible
- 1967: The Monroes
- 1967-1974: The FBI
- 1967-1968: The Invaders
- 1969-1970: Adam-12
- 1970: The Immortal
- 1970: Dan August
- 1972-1975: The Streets of San Francisco
- 1972-1973: Cannon
- 1974: Barnaby Jones
- 1974: Shazam!
- 1974-1975: Medical Center
- 1975: Swiss Family Robinson
- 1975-1978: Baretta
- 1976: City of Angels
- 1976: Columbo
- 1976-1977: Big Hawaii
- 1977: Future Cop
- 1977: Hunter
- 1977: The Man from Atlantis
- 1978: Quincy, M.E.
- 1979-1981: Trapper John, M.D.
- 1979: Nobody's Perfect
- 1982: House Calls
- 1982: ''Fame''
As a producer
- 1963-1964: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- 1964-1965: ''Court Martial''