Robert Preston

Actor Jun 8 (died age 68) Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA 1938–2020 (82 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

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, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in t…

Known For

Film

Victor/Victoria

Carroll "Toddy" Todd

Film

The Last Starfighter

Centauri

Film

How the West Was Won

Roger Morgan

Film

Disclosure

Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)

Film

The Music Man

Harold Hill

Film

This Gun for Hire

Det. Michael Crane

Film

Beau Geste

Digby Geste

Film

Junior Bonner

Ace Bonner

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (62)

Disclosure

2020

as Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)

7.8

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

2015

as Self (archive footage)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Broadway's Lost Treasures

2003

as Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")

6.1

Outrage!

1986

as Dennis Riordan

5.0

Night of 100 Stars II

as Self

Finnegan Begin Again

as Mike Finnegan

The Last Starfighter

as Centauri

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as Self - Host

September Gun

as Ben Sunday

Victor/Victoria

as Carroll "Toddy" Todd

Rehearsal for Murder

as Alex Dennison

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

S.O.B.

as Dr. Irving Finegarten

5.9

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

as Stranger

Semi-Tough

as Big Ed Bookman

My Father's House

as Tom Lindholm Sr.

Mame

1974

as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside

Junior Bonner

as Ace Bonner

Child's Play

as Joseph Dobbs

All the Way Home

as Jay Follet

Island of Love

as Steve Blair

The Music Man

as Harold Hill

How the West Was Won

as Roger Morgan

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960

as Rubin Flood

6.4

Sentinels in the Air

1956

as Narrator (voice)

Confession

1956

as Self - Host

Made in Heaven

1956

as Zachary Meredith

The Last Frontier

1955

as Col. Frank Marston

Face to Face

as Jack Potter

Best of the Badmen

as Matthew Fowler

Cloudburst

as John Graham

My Outlaw Brother

as Joe Walter

When I Grow Up

as Father Reed

The Sundowners

as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')

Tulsa

as Brad Brady

The Lady Gambles

as David Boothe

Whispering Smith

as Murray Sinclair

Blood on the Moon

as Tate Riling

Big City

as Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

Variety Girl

as Robert Preston

The Macomber Affair

as Francis Macomber

Wild Harvest

as Jim Davis

Wings Up

1943

as Himself

5.2

Night Plane from Chungking

1943

as Nick Stanton

6.0

This Gun for Hire

1942

as Det. Michael Crane

Reap the Wild Wind

as Dan Cutler

Wake Island

as Pvt. Joe Doyle

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Robert Preston (uncredited)

Pacific Blackout

as Robert Draper

Parachute Battalion

as Donald Morse

The Night of January 16th

as Steve Van Ruyle

New York Town

as Paul Bryson, Jr.

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Steve Lewis

Typhoon

as Johnny Potter

North West Mounted Police

as Ronnie Logan

Moon Over Burma

as Chuck Lane

Beau Geste

as Digby Geste

Union Pacific

as Dick Allen

Disbarred

as Bradley Kent

King of Alcatraz

as Robert MacArthur

Illegal Traffic

as Charles Bent Martin

6.5

Television (14)

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

The Chisholms

1979

as Hadley Chisholm

6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The Bell Telephone Hour

1959

as Self

7.3

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host / Nominee/ Performer

5.9

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host / Winner

5.9

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Climax!

as William Struthers

General Electric Theater

1953

as Jim Tweedy

6.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Jeff Frazer

What's My Line?

as Self

Your Show of Shows

Lux Video Theatre

as Dowey