Robert Preston
Known for: Acting
Born: June 8, 1918
Died: March 21, 1987
Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in t…
Known for
The Music Man
1962
Cloudburst
1951
The Sundowners
1950
Rehearsal for Murder
1982
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980
The Night of January 16th
1941
Island of Love
1963
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
Parachute Battalion
1941
Outrage!
1986
Pacific Blackout
1941
September Gun
1983
Night Plane from Chungking
1943
Sentinels in the Air
1956
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Made in Heaven
1956
Junior Bonner
1972
The Last Starfighter
1984
The Lady Gambles
1949
Whispering Smith
1948
Child's Play
1972
Tulsa
1949
All the Way Home
1963
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
Typhoon
1940
Big City
1948
Disbarred
1939
Moon Over Burma
1940
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
When I Grow Up
1951
My Father's House
1975
The Last Frontier
1955
My Outlaw Brother
1951
Victor/Victoria
1982
The Macomber Affair
1947
Mame
1974
Blood on the Moon
1948
Beau Geste
1939
Wake Island
1942
This Gun for Hire
1942
New York Town
1941
Illegal Traffic
1938
Wild Harvest
1947
Semi-Tough
1977
Union Pacific
1939
Best of the Badmen
1951
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
North West Mounted Police
1940
King of Alcatraz
1938
Face to Face
1952
Wings Up
1943
How the West Was Won
1962
S.O.B.
1981
Confession
1956
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
Variety Girl
1947
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
2015
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Disclosure
2020
General Electric Theater
1953
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Your Show of Shows
1950
Climax!
1954
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Chisholms
1979
What's My Line?
1950
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
The World of Hammer
1994
Tony Awards
1956
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Night of 100 Stars II
1985