Robert Middlemass

Known for ActingBorn 1883-09-03Died 1949-09-10New Britain, Connecticut, USA

Robert Middlemass (3 September 1883, New Britain, Connecticut – 10 September 1949, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and stage actor, and later character actor with over 100 film appearances. usually playing detectives or policemen. Middlemass graduated from Harvard University in 1909 and initially went into the insurance business, but soon went on the stage, joining the Castle Square Theatre stock company in Boston. He debuted on Broadway in September 1914 in The Bludgeon at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. His best known play was a one-act melodrama written with Holworthy Hall (real name H. E. Porter, a college roommate) titled The Valiant, which was also made into a film of the same name in 1929, and as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk in 1940. The play became a favorite for amateur and local theater groups, and is still performed today. Middlemass moved to Los Angeles around 1935, and began appearing in films. He died there in 1949. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Read more

Movies & web series

A Sporting Chance

The Magnificent Fraud

I Stand Accused

Highway Patrol

Trapped

The Awakening of Jim Burke

Party Wire

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Torpedo Boat

If You Could Only Cook

Too Tough to Kill

The Studio Murder Mystery

The Case of the Velvet Claws

I Am the Law

A Day at the Races

Pop Always Pays

Blondie Brings Up Baby

Hotel Imperial

While New York Sleeps

Hideaway Girl

F-Man

Super Speed

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Guns of the Pecos

Gold Rush Maisie

Blackmail

The Saint Takes Over

Grand Exit

The Black Room

Love Is a Headache

Frankie and Johnnie

After the Dance

Unknown Woman

Road to Zanzibar

The Mad Miss Manton

Blondes at Work

Cain and Mabel

Stanley and Livingstone

Arsène Lupin Returns

Espionage Agent

The Cowboy and the Lady

Hold That Blonde!

Two Against the World

Air Hawks

The Arizona Kid

Muss 'em Up

Idiot's Delight

Madame X