Robert Preston

Actor

Born: June 8, 1918
Died: March 21, 1987 (age 68)
From: Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA

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,…

Filmography (62)

Disclosure (2020)
Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do (2015)
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures (2003)
Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")
Outrage! (1986)
Dennis Riordan
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
Self
Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
Mike Finnegan
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Centauri
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Self - Host
September Gun (1983)
Ben Sunday
Rehearsal for Murder (1982)
Alex Dennison
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Carroll "Toddy" Todd
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
Self
S.O.B. (1981)
Dr. Irving Finegarten
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)
Stranger
Semi-Tough (1977)
Big Ed Bookman
My Father's House (1975)
Tom Lindholm Sr.
Mame (1974)
Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
Child's Play (1972)
Joseph Dobbs
Junior Bonner (1972)
Ace Bonner
All the Way Home (1963)
Jay Follet
Island of Love (1963)
Steve Blair
How the West Was Won (1962)
Roger Morgan
The Music Man (1962)
Harold Hill
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
Rubin Flood
Made in Heaven (1956)
Zachary Meredith
Confession (1956)
Self - Host
Sentinels in the Air (1956)
Narrator (voice)
The Last Frontier (1955)
Col. Frank Marston
Face to Face (1952)
Jack Potter