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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• Hunter
• 1977The Lincoln Conspiracy — Edwin M. Stanton
• 1974Remember When — Kraus, the butcher
• 1974The Mark of Zorro — Don Luis Quintero
• 1973Even Angels Eat Beans — Angelo
• 1973The Harrad Experiment — Sidney Bower
• 1972Fair Play — Jova Purvis
• Kung Fu — Marshal Ford
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Коломбо — Victor Norris
• 1970Company of Killers — Owen Brady
• McCloud — Elliott Jason
• 1970The Cheyenne Social Club — Barkeeper - Great Plains Saloon
• 1970Which Way to the Front? — Colonico
• Mannix — Jake Coryell
• 1966A Big Hand for the Little Lady — Dennis Wilcox
• Mission: Impossible — Clavering
• The Monroes
• Get Smart — The Whip
• The Adventures of Gallegher — Dutch Mac
• The Big Valley — Judge Tyrone, Sidney Glover
• The Wild Wild West — Emir El Emid
• Daniel Boone — Simon Brasher
• 1964For Those Who Think Young — Burford Sanford Cronin
• Burke's Law — Ezekiel Kindworth aka 'Rocky Mountain', Ragnar Windsor, Jed Hawkes
• 1963Cattle King — Clay Mathews
• Vacation Playhouse — Homer Ferguson
• 1961Gold of the Seven Saints — Amos Gondora
• Target: The Corruptors!
• The Americans
• The Investigators — John DeLuca
• The New Breed — Stanley Mannis
• 1961Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles — Martin Plomb
• 1960Hell Bent for Leather — Ambrose
• 1960The Great Impostor — R.C. Brown
• 1960The Gun of Zangara — Mayor Anton J. Cermak
• The Tall Man — Paul Mason
• Thriller — Ohrback, Monsieur de Paris
• Adventures in Paradise — Howard Bailey
• Bonanza — Sam Bryant, C.J. Shasta, Grizzly Martingale
• 1959Career — Robert Kensington
• 1959Don't Give Up the Ship — Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde
• Rawhide — Josh Green, Matt Harger, Judge John Jefferson Hogan, Duke Aberdeen
• The Detectives — 'Big Jim'
• The Rebel — Arthur Sutro
• The Untouchables — Mayer Wartel, Barney Loomis, Mayor Anton J. Cermak
• Wichita Town
• Bat Masterson — Big Keel Roberts
• 1958Bitter Heritage — Luke Crocker
• 1958Day of the Badman — Charlie Hayes
• 1958Nightmare at Ground Zero — Narrator
• 1958No Place to Land — Buck LaVonne
• 1958The Law and Jake Wade — Ortero
• 1957So Lovely, So Deadly — Eddie Rocco
• Suspicion — Banton
• 1957The Death of Manolete — Perea
• 1957The Lonely Man — Ben Ryerson
• 1957The Tarnished Angels — Matt Ord
• The Walter Winchell File — Aaron Benjamin
• Wagon Train — Nate Burkett
• Перрі Мейсон — Judge Daniel Redmond
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Whit Gaynor
• 1956Love Me Tender — Mr. Siringo
• 1956Red Sundown — Rufus Henshaw
• Telephone Time — Heinrich Schliemann
• 1956The Proud Ones — Honest John Barrett
• 1956Дружнє переконання — Sam Jordan
• MGM Parade
• Matinee Theater
• 1955The Big Combo — Police Capt. Peterson
• 1955The Court Jester — Sir Griswold
• 1955The Desperate Hours — Sam Kobish
• 1955Trial — A.A. "Fats" Sanders
• Альфред Гічкок представляє — Sam Klinker, Louis Koster, Cato Stone
• Дим зі ствола — Jake Worth, Dutch George, Dorf
• Climax! — Sheriff
• Studio 57 — Maggio
• 1954The Silver Chalice — Idbash
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Frank Davis, Dutch Mac
• 1953Confessions of a Nervous Man — The Manager
• General Electric Theater — Lt. Toler, Innkeeper
• Letter to Loretta — Henry Tremaine
• 1953Something For An Empty Briefcase — Sloane
• Cavalcade of America — William Harper
• 1952Duck and Cover — Narrator
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Sheriff Ed Mullen
• Tales of Tomorrow — Dr. John Borrow
• Lux Video Theatre — Titus Semple
• Man Against Crime — Joseph Merko
• Suspense — Bill West

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