Robert Foulk


Robert C. Foulk was an American television and film character actor who portrayed Sheriff H. Miller in the CBS series Lassie from 1958 to 1962.

Early years

Foulk attended the University of Pennsylvania, studying to be an architectural draftsman.

Stage

Acting

Foulk's Broadway credits include What a Life, Brother Rat, Boy Meets Girl, and two productions of As Husbands Go in 1930 and in 1932.

Directing

Foulk was an aide to producer-director George Abbott, and he went on to direct productions in places such as Palos Verdes.

Television

Between 1953 and 1959, Foulk was in thirteen episodes of the NBC anthology series, The Loretta Young Show. From 1954 to 1957, he was in five episodes as Ed Davis in the sitcom Father Knows Best with Robert Young, when the series aired on NBC. In 1956, he played Jackley in the Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Club serial "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure".
In 1957 and 1958, Foulk played the outlaw Curly Bill Brocius in three episodes, "Gunslinger from Galeville", "Ride Out at Noon", and "Skeleton Canyon Massacre", of the western television series Tombstone Territory. In 1958, Foulk portrayed Sheriff Brady in the film, The Left Handed Gun. From 1959 to 1960, he had the recurring role of bartender Joe Kingston in the NBC western series Wichita Town. Foulk appeared in five episodes of The Rifleman. He played the blacksmith in "The Second Witness", "Three Legged Terror" and "Outlaw's Inheritance". He played Johannson in "The Raid" and Herbert Newman in "The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town".
Foulk made four appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, all of them as a law-enforcement officer including the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He appeared as the sheriff of Cloverville, California in the two-part episode of The Untouchables, "The Big Train," which dealt with the attempt to free Al Capone from the train transporting him to Alcatraz. He made thirteen appearances on NBC's Bonanza, mostly as a sheriff or deputy sheriff. He also had recurring roles as Mr. Wheeler and Roy Trendall, former Hooterville phone company president, in sixteen episodes of CBS's Green Acres. In 1960, he guest starred in the TV Western Bat Masterson, playing Judge Pete Perkins, the town's crooked judge in S2E30's "Welcome To Paradise". In the early 1970s, Foulk made four guest appearances on CBS's Here's Lucy in various roles.

Architecture

In addition to acting, Foulk worked as an architectural draftsman. An article in the Chicago Tribune reported, "... he keeps his finger in architecture because he finds it good therapy for the tensions that build up while performing."

Personal life and death

In the 1930s, Foulk was married to actress Alice Frost. In 1947, he married Barbara Slater, an actress who appeared in two Three Stooges short features. She left Hollywood in the same year. They remained married until his death in 1989.

Filmography

Film

Road House as Policeman at Road House That Wonderful Urge as Workman Come to the Stable as Policeman – New York City White Heat as Oil Refinery Payroll Guard Thieves' Highway as Taller Cop at Roadside Bar Johnny Stool Pigeon as Pete Whirlpool as Andy – Policeman Love That Brute as Delivery Man Where the Sidewalk Ends as Fenney Mystery Street as Detective O'Hara A Lady Without Passport as Vice Consul Between Midnight and Dawn as Fred – Jailer Mister 880 as Policeman Dial 1119 as Barnes' Co-Worker The Killer That Stalked New York as Cop Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone as Tim Charlie's Haunt as JoelThe Lemon Drop Kid as Victim Stop That Cab as Park Manor Doorman Follow the Sun as Highway Patrolman Jennings Home Town Story as Electric Company Worker Night into Morning as Policeman at Fire The Strip as Deputy The Guy Who Came Back as Wrestling Manager Chain of Circumstance as Policeman The Mob as Thug Beating Mary Saturday's Hero as McCabe's Butler The Whip Hand as Guard The Unknown Man as Sam Elopement as Bert – Trucker Just This Once as Busy Line Cafe Owner Deadline - U.S.A. as Rienzi Associate Singin' in the Rain as Matt – Policeman Carbine Williams as Chain-Gang Guard Without Warning! as Wilson, Motel ManagerThe Sniper as Officer Rivers The San Francisco Story as ThompsonThe Girl in White as 2nd Mover The Sellout as Prisoner Glory Alley as Bouncer Carrie as Sven Don't Bother to Knock as Doorman O. Henry's Full House as Cop My Pal Gus as Mr. Evans Androcles and the Lion as Soldier Stars and Stripes Forever as Joe – Plainclothesman All Ashore as Ship's Purser I Love Melvin as Policeman Code Two as Police Sergeant at Roll Call The 49th Man as Commander JacksonRemains to Be Seen as Officer MillerA Slight Case of Larceny as Mr. Logan Powder River as Deputy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Passport Official Valley of Head Hunters as Arco Overland Pacific as Railroad Worker The Far Country as Constable Kingman Gunsmoke as Edward HintonEast of Eden as Man at Boxcar Blackboard Jungle as George Katz Wyoming Renegades as Smithy Strange Lady in Town as Joe Apache Ambush as Red Jennings Headline Hunters as Editor of Daily Star Rebel Without a Cause as GeneThe Spoilers as Charlie, BartenderCarousel as Second Policeman Hot Blood as Police Sergeant Tim McGrossin Backlash as Sheriff John F. OlsonIndestructible Man as Harry – Bar OwnerThe Rawhide Years as MateThe Great Locomotive Chase as Confederate General Ledbetter A Cry in the Night as Jack – a Jailer The Great Man as Mike Jackson, radio engineerLast of the Badmen as TaylorHold That Hypnotist as Dr. Simon NobleSierra Stranger as Tom SimmonsUntamed Youth as Sheriff Mitch BowersJohnny Tremain as Mr. Larkin Raintree County as Pantomimist My Man Godfrey as Motor CopThe Tall Stranger as PagonesDay of the Bad Man as Silas Mordigan, Store KeeperHell's Five Hours as Jack FifeQuantrill's Raiders as HagerThe Left Handed Gun as Sheriff BradyAsk Any Girl as Lieutenant O'Shea Go, Johnny Go! as PolicemanBorn to Be Loved as Drunk Cast a Long Shadow as Hugh RigdonOcean's 11 as Sheriff WimmerWhere The Boys Are as "Elbow Room Bar" Manager Swingin' Along as Piano Mover All Hands on Deck as Naval Inspector State Fair as Mincemeat JudgeThe Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The Hunter The Man from the Diners' Club as Policeman Tammy and the Doctor as SurgeonA Ticklish Affair as PolicemanRobin and the 7 Hoods as Sheriff GlickSex and the Single Girl as Arresting Police Detective Once a Thief as George Harlow as Marvin Silver – Producer Lord Love a Duck as Uniformed Police Sergeant The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin as Tall Cowboy Thoroughly Modern Millie as Taxi Driver Eight on the Lam as Detective Hell on Wheels as SuttonThe Impossible Years as Police Captain The Split as Police Desk Sergeant The Love Bug as BiceMore Dead Than Alive as BrillThe Computer Wore Tennis Shoes as Police Desk Sergeant Flap as Railroad Yard Foreman Vanishing Point as Colorado Communications Officer Skin Game as SheriffBunny O'Hare as Commissioner DingleEmperor of the North as ConductorWin, Place or Steal as BoardmemberPete's Dragon as Old Sea Captain

Television

The Lone Ranger, 4 episodes Fireside Theater, 5 episodes I Married Joan, 3 episodes The Loretta Young Show, 13 episodes Stories of the Century, as Sheriff Peter Grimes in "The Dalton Gang" City Detective, as Pearson General Electric Theater, as Bank Guard in "The Face Is Familiar" The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, 4 episodes as Policeman Gunsmoke, 2 episodes as Fields and Mr. Hinton The Great Gildersleeve, 2 episodes as Charlie Anderson Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Police Detective Sergeant James MonroneyAdventures of Superman, as Big Tom Rufus December Bride, 2 episodes, including as Jack Schuyler in "Lily the Matchmaker" The 20th Century Fox Hour, 4 episodes Cheyenne, 4 episodes Circus Boy as Ben Farmer in "The Good Samaritans" The Adventures of Jim Bowie, 2 episodes as Yancey Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, as Gunther The Millionaire, 2 episodes Fury, 2 episodes Whirlybirds, 2 episodes The Silent Service, as Carroll in "Cargo for Cravelle" Trackdown, as Dan Cutler in "Easton, Texas" The Gray Ghost, as Jeb in "Charity" Broken Arrow, as Hank Woodley in "The Doctor" Tombstone Territory in Season 1 Episode 1 "Gunslinger from Galeyville" Telephone Time, as Orrin Henry in "The Man Who Discovered O. Henry" Tombstone Territory Episode "Ride Out at Noon" Maverick, 3 episodes Man Without a Gun in "Decoy" Sheriff of Cochise as Hank in "The Relatives" and under the revised title, U.S. Marshal as Bob Stryker in "Deer Hunt" Tales of Wells Fargo, 2 episodes How to Marry a Millionaire in "Hit and Run" Perry Mason, 4 episodes State Trooper as Jim Granite in "Key to a Killer" Mike Hammer, as Gus Peters in "So That's Who It Was" Union Pacific "Indian Treaty" Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Sal Prince in "Arson" Jefferson Drum, 2 episodes Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, 2 episodes Wanted: Dead or Alive, as Harkrader in "Eight Cent Reward" 26 Men, 4 episodes The Texan, 3 episodes Colt.45, 3 episodes Lassie, 18 episodes, as Sheriff H. Miller The Restless Gun, as Henry Merser in "The Pawn" The Rebel, as a Sheriff in "The Vagrants" Walt Disney Presents: Texas John Slaughter and The Swamp Fox The Real McCoys, as Vance Ambruster in "Grandpa's Private War" The Rifleman, 5 episodes Bonanza, 13 episodes as Deputy The Man from Blackhawk, as Hoag Lafitte in "The Ghost of Lafitte" Overland Trail, as Mining Camp Leader in "The O'Mara's Ladies" Guestward, Ho!, as a Farmer in "The Hootens Fire Lonesome" Hennesey, as Moose Miller in "The Underfed Fullback" Riverboat, as Captain Smiley in "Trunk Full of Dreams" Bat Masterson, as Judge Pete Perkins in "Welcome to Paradise" The Deputy, 2 episodes Outlaws, as Sonny's Lawyer in "The Daltons Must Die, Part 1" The Tall Man, as Gimp in "Time of Foreshadowing" Adventures in Paradise, as Harris in "Show Me a Hero" Coronado 9 77 Sunset Strip, as Emil Seley in "The Legend of Leckonby" Hawaiian Eye, as Captain Walker The Untouchables, as a Sheriff Stagecoach West, as Sam Jason in "The Guardian Angels"