Robert Middlemass
Actor
- Born
- September 3, 1883 · New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Died
- September 10, 1949 (age 66)
Robert Middlemass (3 September 1883, New Britain, Connecticut – 10 September 1949, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and stage actor, and later character actor with over 100 film appearances. usually playing detectives or policemen.
Middlemass graduated from Harvard University in 1909 and initially went into the insurance business, but soon went on the stage, joining the Castle Square Theatre stock company in Boston. He debuted on Broadway in September 1914 in The Bludgeon at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.
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His best known play was a one-act melodrama written with Holworthy Hall (real name H. E. Porter, a college roommate) titled The Valiant, which was also made into a film of the same name in 1929, and as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk in 1940. The play became a favorite for amateur and local theater groups, and is still performed today.
Middlemass moved to Los Angeles around 1935, and began appearing in films. He died there in 1949.
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Known for
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
October 19, 1939
A Day at the Races
June 11, 1937
The Black Room
July 15, 1935
The Mad Miss Manton
October 21, 1938
Road to Zanzibar
April 11, 1941
The Cowboy and the Lady
November 17, 1938
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
February 22, 1940
Stanley and Livingstone
August 18, 1939
If You Could Only Cook
December 30, 1935
Bombardier
May 14, 1943
The Black Raven
May 31, 1943
Idiot's Delight
January 27, 1939
Acting83
- 1945Hold That Blonde! as Police Captain (uncredited)
- 1945A Sporting Chance as William Reardon
- 1945Main Street After Dark as Detective (uncredited)
- 1944Lady in the Death House as State's Attorney
- 1943The Black Raven as Tim Winfield
- 1943Bombardier as Officer
- 1942Johnny Doughboy as V.J.
- 1942The Payoff as Lester Norris
- 1942Klondike Fury as Sam Armstrong
- 1942Torpedo Boat