Mark Roberts (actor)

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Mark Roberts (born June 9, 1921 in Denver , Colorado , † January 5, 2006 in Los Angeles ; actually Robert Ellis Scott ) was an American theater and film actor .

Life

Roberts said he was already on a stage in kindergarten at the age of four. During his childhood he and his family moved first to Lakewood , Ohio and later to Kansas City , Missouri , where he attended Southwest High School with his older brother. He then studied English and acting at the University of Arizona in Tucson . After graduation, he was in front of the film camera in Hollywood from 1938 , where he received a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944 and was mostly seen in small supporting roles. He often appeared under his real name Robert Scott. Perhaps his best-known screen role was in Charles Vidor's film noir Gilda in 1946 , where he was allowed to flirt with Rita Hayworth and was subsequently beaten up by Glenn Ford .

In the early 1950s he appeared on New York's Broadway at Stalag 17 under the direction of José Ferrer and was featured in a variety of American television series in the following years, such as Smoking Colts (1957), 77 Sunset Strip ( 1959), Perry Mason (1957–1966), The Boss (1968), Detective Rockford - Just Call (1978), General Hospital (1982), The Denver Clan (1987), and Murder Is Her Hobby (1991/1992). In 2003 he stood for the last time in front of the camera for the television film The Death Book .

Roberts had three children with his wife Audrey von Clemm, with whom he was married from 1953 to 1967. He died in Los Angeles in 2006 at the age of 84, where he was buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bother Brannigan Recalls: 'I Always Wanted to Act' . In: The Daily Herald , November 14, 1960, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Robert Ellis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2006
Place of death los Angeles