From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Middleton, born Samuel G. Messer (May 13, 1911 – June 14, 1977), was an American film and television actor known for his large size and beetle-like brow. With a deep, booming voice, Middleton trained for a musical career at the Cincinnati Conservatory of ... Music and Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked steadily as a radio announcer and actor. One of his early works was as the narrator of the educational film "Duck and Cover". After appearing on the Broadway stage and live television, Middleton began appearing in films in 1954. He's also remembered on television as the boss Mr. Marshall on The Jackie Gleason Show and in film opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours (1955), Gary Cooper in Friendly Persuasion (1956), Richard Egan and Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender (1956), Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack in The Tarnished Angels (1958), and Dean Martin in Career (1959). A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Middleton appeared in many television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure. He was cast as "The Tichborne Claimant" in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show. He appeared in ten episodes of ABC's family Western The Monroes, with costars Michael Anderson, Jr., and Barbara Hershey. Among his several appearances in the long-running Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he portrayed a gangster in high places, Mr. Koster, in the 1956 episode "The Better Bargain". In 1958, he played the villain in the first episode of Bat Masterson. In 1961, he appeared in the episode "Accidental Tourist" on the James Whitmore ABC legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones. That same year, he portrayed the highly sympathetic but fiercely dedicated state executioner in an episode of Thriller (U.S. TV series) entitled "Guillotine". He also appeared in at least one episode of Bonanza (1964). In the early 1950s, Middleton appeared on Broadway in Ondine. Other significant film roles include The Court Jester (1956) as a grim and determined knight who jousts with Danny Kaye in the famous "pellet with the poison" sequence, and as a sinister politician in The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977). Betwixt and between were an array of brutish mountain daddies, corrupt, cigar-chomping town bosses and lynch mob leaders. Occasionally he showed a bit of levity, as in his recurring role as Jackie Gleason's boss on The Honeymooners (1955) sketches. Middleton died of congestive heart failure in Hollywood at the age of sixty-six. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Middleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tales of Tomorrow
as Dr. John Borrow
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Aug 03, 1951
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Frank Davis
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 27, 1954
The Untouchables
as Mayor Anton J. Cermak
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 15, 1959
General Electric Theater
as Innkeeper
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
Burke's Law
as Jed Hawkes
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 20, 1963
Columbo
as Victor Norris
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1971
Burke's Law
as Ezekiel Kindworth aka 'Rocky Mountain'
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1963
Kung Fu
as Marshal Ford
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 14, 1972
Mannix
as Jake Coryell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1967
Gunsmoke
as Jake Worth
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Perry Mason
as Judge Daniel Redmond
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
General Electric Theater
as Lt. Toler
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
Mission: Impossible
as Clavering
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 05, 1968
Get Smart
as The Whip
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1965
The Tall Man
as Paul Mason
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Klinker
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
The Wild Wild West
as Emir El Emid
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1965
Rawhide
as Josh Green
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Daniel Boone
as Simon Brasher
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Thriller
as Ohrback
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1960
Lux Video Theatre
as Titus Semple
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Sheriff Ed Mullen
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
Climax!
as Sheriff
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1954
The Big Valley
as Judge Tyrone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Adventures in Paradise
as Howard Bailey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1959
The Rebel
as Arthur Sutro
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1959
Bat Masterson
as Big Keel Roberts
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 08, 1958
The New Breed
as Stanley Mannis
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1961
The Detectives
as 'Big Jim'
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 16, 1959
Suspense
as Bill West
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 06, 1949
Cavalcade of America
as William Harper
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Whitney 'Whit' Gaynor
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
Vacation Playhouse
as Homer Ferguson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 22, 1963
The Walter Winchell File
as Aaron Benjamin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1957
Letter to Loretta
as Henry Tremaine
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1953
The Untouchables
as Mayer Wartel
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 15, 1959
The Untouchables
as Barney Loomis
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 15, 1959
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Dutch Mac
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 27, 1954
Man Against Crime
as Joseph Merko
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1949
Bonanza
as Sam Bryant
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1959
Bonanza
as C.J. Shasta
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1959
Rawhide
as Matt Harger
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Rawhide
as Judge John Jefferson Hogan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Rawhide
as Duke Aberdeen
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
The Big Valley
as Sidney Glover
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Gunsmoke
as Dutch George
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Gunsmoke
as Dorf
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Burke's Law
as Ragnar Windsor
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1963
Bonanza
as Grizzly Martingale
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1959
Thriller
as Monsieur de Paris
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Louis Koster
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Cato Stone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
Studio 57
as Maggio
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1954
The Monroes
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 07, 1966
Alias Smith and Jones
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 05, 1971
Target: The Corruptors!
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 29, 1961
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
McCloud
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 17, 1970
Matinee Theater
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 31, 1955
Wichita Town
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1959
Telephone Time
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 08, 1956
Hunter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 18, 1977
The Americans
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 23, 1961
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