
Robert Middleton
Oyuncu · 1911 – 1977 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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.
Filmler24
Film6.6DramSavaş1956 yapımı yönetmen William Wyler'in savaşı sorgulayan filmi. Quakerlar'ın yaşadığı kasabadaki kiliseye gelen subay, dini inançları nedeniyle savaşa gitmeyi reddeden erkeklerle konuşur ve onları savaşa katılmaya çağırır.Bütün ülkeye yayılan savaş yakında kasabalarını da etkileyecektir. Jessamyn West'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan filmde Cooper ve Dorothy McGuire anne baba rolünde çok başarılı.6 dalda Oscar'a aday olan Cannes Film Festivali'nde En iyi Film Ödülü almıştır. Film kan dökmeyeceksin, beraber yaşayalım isimleriyle de bilinir.
Friendly Persuasion
1956 · 145 votes
Film7.3MüzikMaceraŞanssız bir karnaval sanatçısı, haklı Kralı deviren kötü bir hükümdarın komplosunun parçası olarak saray soytarısı kılığına girer.
Film7.0SuçGerilimHapisten kaçan üç azılı katil, polisten saklanmak için orta sınıf bir Amerikan ailesinin evini seçer. Tüm kurtulma çabaları sonuçsuz kalan Hiliard Ailesi için kabus dolu saatler bir türlü bitmez. Bu arada polis her yerde Griffin kardeşleri aramaktadır.
The Desperate Hours
1955 · 188 votes
Film7.1WesternA naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · 86 votes
Film6.3WesternKomediİki yaşlı kovboy, John O'Hanlan (James Stewart) ve Harley Sullivan (Henry Fonda), John'a miras kalan Şayen Sosyal Kulübü adlı bir mülkü görmek için Wyoming'e gider. Buranın saygın bir sosyal kulüp olduğunu sanırlar, ancak gerçekte burası bir genelevdir! John, mülkün sahibi olarak kulübü işletmek zorunda kalır, ancak ahlaki ikilemler yaşar. Harley ise durumdan keyif alır. Kulübün rakipleri ve kasabanın ahlakçıları sorun çıkarınca, iki kafadar kendilerini beklenmedik bir çatışmanın içinde bulur.
Film4.7KomediSavaşBrendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler.
Which Way to the Front?
1970 · 35 votes
Film6.4SuçAksiyonTwo mismatched buddies are mistaken for mob enforcers in Depression-era America.
Film6.5WesternRobert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
The Proud Ones
1956 · 38 votes
Film6.4KomediThe Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.
Don't Give Up the Ship
1959 · 23 votes
Film6.8DramIn the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
The Tarnished Angels
1957 · 101 votes
Film6.1WesternAging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
The Lonely Man
1957 · 20 votes
Film6.3WesternWhen Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
Hell Bent for Leather
1960 · 37 votes
Film6.1RomantikMüzikAfter the Civil War, Confederate soldiers Clint and Vance Reno steal a Union payroll, leading to conflict when the younger marries the woman his older brother loves.
Love Me Tender
1956 · 96 votes
Film7.0DramSuçPolice Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
The Big Combo
1955 · 180 votes
Film5.7KomediRomantikA wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
For Those Who Think Young
1964 · 11 votes
Film6.9WesternJudge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
Day of the Badman
1958 · 16 votes
Film7.0DramTV MovieAn uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.
Remember When
1974 · 1 votes
Film6.7WesternMareşal Jake Wade, kanun kaçağı Clint Hollister'ın hapisten kaçmasına yardım eder ancak Clint, Wade'in aynı çetede kanun kaçağı olan iki adamdan aldığı eski bir soygun ganimetini nereye sakladığını bilmek ister.
Film6.2WesternAksiyonThe swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
The Mark of Zorro
1974 · 19 votes
Film6.3WesternA rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Cattle King
1963 · 14 votes
Film6.9DramA Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Trial
1955 · 17 votes
Film7.2MaceraWesternFur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory.
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961 · 15 votes
Film4.4DramRomantikA Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
The Silver Chalice
1954 · 40 votes
Film6.9KomediDramFictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
The Great Impostor
1960 · 24 votes
Diziler24
Dizi8.1SuçDramKomiser Kolombo'da sherlokyan teğmen-dedektif rolünde Peter Falk var. Kirli pardesüsü, eski arabası, sempatik tavrıyla cinayet davalarını çözüyor. Katile yapışıyor, kızdırıcı sorularla köşeye sıkıştırıyor, ipuçlarını zekice buluyor, birleştiriyor. 70'lerin favori dizisiydi. 2 Golden Globes ödülü. 20 farklı ödül ve 45 adaylık.
Columbo
1971 · 857 votes
Dizi7.7GizemDramThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
1957 · 139 votes
Dizi7.5WesternAksiyon ve MaceraThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Bonanza
1959 · 500 votes
Dizi6.8Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçMannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
Mannix
1967 · 56 votes
Dizi7.6Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçMission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
Mission: Impossible
1966 · 320 votes
Dizi6.6WesternDramThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Wagon Train
1957 · 31 votes
Dizi8.0KomediBilim Kurgu ve FantastikMaxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.
Get Smart
1965 · 448 votes
Dizi7.0Aksiyon ve MaceraWesternDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
Daniel Boone
1964 · 34 votes
Dizi5.3DramMatinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Matinee Theater
1955 · 7 votes
Dizi7.8GizemDramFarklı geçmişlerden cinayetler, intiharlar, hırsızlıklar ve algılanan veya algılanamayan belirli motivasyonların neden olduğu diğer suç türlerine ilişkin suç, korku, drama ve komedi unsurlarını kapsayan ilgisiz kısa öyküler dizisi.
Dizi3.8DramGizemClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
Climax!
1954 · 12 votes
Dizi6.2WesternDramThe Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
The Big Valley
1965 · 59 votes
Dizi6.3DramBurke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Burke's Law
1963 · 12 votes
Dizi8.0DramSuçSpecial Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
The Untouchables
1959 · 139 votes
Dizi7.2WesternDramThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Rawhide
1959 · 49 votes
Dizi6.2WesternDramDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · 10 votes
Dizi7.6Aksiyon ve MaceraKomediDuring the administration of President Ulysses Grant, Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon solve crimes, protect the President, and foil the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States.
The Wild Wild West
1965 · 86 votes
Dizi6.7WesternAksiyon ve MaceraGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Gunsmoke
1955 · 119 votes
Dizi6.4WesternDramBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
Bat Masterson
1958 · 16 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramDeputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.
McCloud
1970 · 53 votes
Dizi6.1Aksiyon ve MaceraDramAdventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · 7 votes
Dizi6.7SuçThriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
Thriller
1960 · 20 votes
Dizi7.0WesternSuçAlias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · 33 votes
Dizi6.5DramTelephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
Telephone Time
1956 · 4 votes