Robert Rockwell was an American stage, film, radio and television actor. He is best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television sitcom Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden. A native of Lake Bluff, Illinois, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Pl ... ayhouse, from which he obtained a master's degree. During World War II he enlisted in the US Navy for four years serving in Washington D.C. Dramatic roles often eluded him, however, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared, over his almost 50-year acting career, in more than 350 television episodes and, on stage, opposite José Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and with Ginger Rogers during the 1960s in a San Diego production of Whitfield Cook's play A More Perfect Union. He appeared in the first Superman television show episode as Clark Kent's father, Jor-El in 1952. He appeared in a 1959 Perry Mason episode "The case of the Deadly Toy" as love interest to the defendant Claire Allison as Dick Benedict. He starred in the 1961 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Misguided Missile" as an Air Force officer court-martialled on a murder charge. He later starred in the 1962 Perry Mason episodes "The Case of the Lurid Letter" as Everett Rixby, a high school principal, and the murderer Cole B. Troy in "The Case of the Shapely Shadow". He also appeared as Ed Purvis in the 1965 episode Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Candy Queen". Rockwell starred in his own ABC western-themed television series, The Man from Blackhawk in the 1959-1960 season. Rockwell was cast as the Blackhawk Insurance Company's key investigator, Sam Logan, who is assigned to weed out fraud in the payment of claims. He also played Sam Thompson in Thompson's Ghost, Tom Bennett in The Bill Cosby Show[4]:106 and Officer Russo in Adam-12. In 1967 he played a littering tourist in the Lassie episode "Lassie's Litter Bit", an iconic episode which earned a trip for Lassie to the White House to shake hands with then First Lady "Ladybird" Johnson who had used the famous collie in her Keep America Beautiful Campaign. Rockwell was a founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre. He played standard leads in a couple of anti-Communist-era features, including Republic's The Red Menace, in which he is cast as a returning veteran of World War II, who is duped by communists. Later in his career, he appeared on episodes of Petticoat Junction, Growing Pains, and Beverly Hills, 90210. His appearances in commercials and voiceovers totaled more than 200, most notably as the armchair grandfather treating his grandson to a piece of candy in the 1995 version of the Werthers Original candy spot.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
|---|
Our Miss Brooks
as Philip Boynton
Episodes: 130
First Aired: Oct 03, 1952
Growing Pains
as Wally Overmier
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Sep 24, 1985
Falcon Crest
as Giles Taylor
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 04, 1981
Here's Lucy
as Jack Scott
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
The Lucy Show
as Tom Bennett
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
Charlie's Angels
as Harrison
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 1976
Knots Landing
as Doctor
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 27, 1979
The Bill Cosby Show
as Tom Bennett
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 14, 1969
The Golden Palace
as Mr. Cochran
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1992
Gunsmoke
as Mr. Philips
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Perry Mason
as Dick Benedict
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Dallas
as Mitchell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 02, 1978
Hunter
as Ralph Flagg
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1984
The Millionaire
as Prof. Amberson Adams
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 19, 1955
E/R
as John Harrison
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1984
Yancy Derringer
as Phillip Hampton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1958
Adventures of Superman
as Jor-El (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1952
Letter to Loretta
as Jeb Stewart
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1953
The Millionaire
as Dolph Randolph
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 19, 1955
Perry Mason
as Maj. Jerry Reynolds
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Cole B. Troy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Everett Rixby
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Ed Purvis
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
The Man from Blackhawk
Episodes: 37
First Aired: Oct 09, 1959
Lassie
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Sep 12, 1954
Diff'rent Strokes
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Nov 03, 1978
Newhart
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 02, 1982
Navy Log
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 20, 1955
Racket Squad
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 07, 1951
Green Acres
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Beverly Hills, 90210
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1990
Benson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1979
Dynasty
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 12, 1981
Petticoat Junction
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1963
Surfside 6
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 1960
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 20, 1948
Eight Is Enough
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 15, 1977
The Waltons
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 14, 1972
Bus Stop
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1961
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 1958
Bronco
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1958
Cavalcade of America
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
Summer Fun
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 22, 1966
State Trooper
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1956
The Roaring 20's
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 15, 1960
Maverick
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 1957
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