Robert Douglas
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Robert Douglas (9 November 1909 - 11 January 1999) was born as Robert Douglas Finlayson in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire. He was a successful stage and film actor, a television director and producer.
He studied at RADA and made his screen debut at Bournemouth in 1927. A year later he made his first appearance on stage in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year. He was gently mannered with a well modulated speaking voice, who delivered his lines in clipped fashion. He could portray the sinister, conniving rogue as easily as the forthright military officer.
He was married twice, including the actress Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996) and Suzanne Weldon (1921–1995), fathering two children, Lucinda and Robert (Giles). He died from natural causes in Leucadia, Encinitas, California, aged 89. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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Known for
Columbo
Frank Pierce
Maverick
Medical Center
77 Sunset Strip
Thriller
Antony Hugh Swinburne
Adventures in Paradise
Albert Othery
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Inspector Charles Tarrant
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Inspector Ben Liebenberg
Fair Wind to Java
Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar
Kim
Colonel Creighton
One Step Beyond
Harrison Ackroyd
One Step Beyond
Gen. George Washington
One Step Beyond
Paul McCord
Lux Video Theatre
Frank Hunter
Ivanhoe
Sir Hugh De Bracy
London Melody
Nigel Taplow
The Fountainhead
Elsworth Toohey
The Lawbreakers
Allen Bardeman
The Challenge
Edward Whymper
Target Unknown
Col. von Broeck
Helen of Troy
Agamemnon
Saskatchewan
Benton
Mystery Submarine
Commander Von Molter
Secret Ceremony
Sir Alex Gordon (uncredited)
Spy Hunt
Stephen Paradou
Panic!
The Invisible Man
Dr. Theophilus
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Col. James Parker
The Young Philadelphians
Uncle Morton Stearnes
The Desert Rats
General
The Chinese Bungalow
Richard Marquess
Adventures of Don Juan
Duque de Lorca
The Scarlet Coat
Gen. Benedict Arnold
The Wonderful World of Disney
Gen. Cornwallis
King Richard and the Crusaders
Sir Giles Amaury
The Virgin Queen
Sir Christopher Hatton
The Flame and the Arrow
Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
The Asphalt Jungle
The Prisoner of Zenda
Michael, Duke of Strelsau
Buccaneer's Girl
Alexander Narbonne
Over the Moon
John Flight
Flight to Tangier
Danzer
This Side of the Law
Philip Cagle
The Woman I Love
Stanley Baldwin
The Lady Takes a Sailor
John Tyson
Good Morning, Miss Dove
John Porter
The End of the River
Jones
The Hasty Heart
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Death Drives Through
Kit Woods
Thunder on the Hill
Dr. Edward Jeffreys
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Ken Blake
The Questor Tapes
Dr. Michaels
Barricade
Aubrey Milburn
General Electric Theater
Roger Howard
P.C. Josser
Dick Summers
The Blarney Stone
Lord Breethorpe
Homicide
Lt. Michael Landers
The Lion Has Wings
Briefing Officer
Our Fighting Navy
Capt. Markham
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Self
And One Was Loyal
Roger Howard
Many Waters
Godfrey Marvin