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Robert Rockwell
Age: 82 (passed away Jan. 25th, 2003)
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Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born: Oct. 15th, 1920
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BIOGRAPHY: As heartthrob "Mr. Boynton" on "Our Miss Brooks", Robert Rockwell was so identified with the role that other, dramatic roles were often denied him. Still, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared in over 350 television shows over fifty years, and on stage opposite Jose Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway production of "Cyrano de Bergerac", and with Ginger Rogers during the 1960s in a San Diego production of "A More Perfect Union".
TRIVIA:
- Appeared in more than 200 commercials and voiceovers, most notably as the grandfather treating his grandson to a piece of candy in the Werthers Original Candy" spot.
- Studied at the Pasadena Playhouse where he received a masters degree.
- He took his most identifiable role of the handsomely awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton from "Our Miss Brooks" from radio to TV.
- Grandfather of 'Taylor W. Rockwell' (qv).
- Played a few standard leads in a couple of 'Cold War' era "B" propaganda films, including the cult film The Red Menace (1949) wherein he played a war vet who is duped by the Reds.
- Played Loretta Young's husband a few times on her anthology program "The Loretta Young Show" in the 60s.
- Children: daughters Susan and Alison; sons Robert Jr., Jeffrey and Gregory.
- Founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre.
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