Robert Preston
Acting
Born June 8, 1918 · Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
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 the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awar…
Known For · 40 titles
Tony Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
Robert Montgomery Presents
What's My Line?
Climax!
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour
Your Show of Shows
Lux Video Theatre
The World of Hammer
How the West Was Won
The Last Starfighter
General Electric Theater
The Chisholms
Victor/Victoria
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Disclosure
The Music Man
Night of 100 Stars II
The Last Frontier
This Gun for Hire
Semi-Tough
Night of 100 Stars
North West Mounted Police
S.O.B.
Union Pacific
Blood on the Moon
Mame
Reap the Wild Wind
All the Way Home
The Lady Gambles
Best of the Badmen
Wake Island
The Macomber Affair
Broadway's Lost Treasures
The Sundowners
Rehearsal for Murder
Beau Geste
Star Spangled Rhythm
Tulsa