Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/9/1909
Place of Birth
Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. [now Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK]
Also Known As
Robert Douglas Finlayson
Robert Douglas
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Douglas (9 November 1909 - 11 January 1999) was born as Robert Douglas Finlayson in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire. He was a successful stage and film actor, a television director and producer.
He studied at RADA and made his screen debut at Bournemouth in 1927. A year later he made his first appearance on stage in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year. He was gently mannered with a well modulated speaking voice, who delivered his lines in clipped fashion. He could portray the sinister, conniving rogue as ...
Known For
The Fountainhead
as Elsworth Toohey
Mystery Submarine
as Commander Von Molter
Secret Ceremony
as Sir Alex Gordon (uncredited)
Barricade
as Aubrey Milburn
Kim
as Colonel Creighton
Tarzan, the Ape Man
as Col. James Parker
Helen of Troy
as Agamemnon
Ivanhoe
as Sir Hugh De Bracy
The Challenge
as Edward Whymper
Spy Hunt
as Stephen Paradou
The Scarlet Coat
as Gen. Benedict Arnold
Over the Moon
as John Flight
The Young Philadelphians
as Uncle Morton Stearnes
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Michael, Duke of Strelsau
The Flame and the Arrow
as Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
The Virgin Queen
as Sir Christopher Hatton
Fair Wind to Java
as Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar
The End of the River
as Jones
Buccaneer's Girl
as Alexander Narbonne
The Desert Rats
as General
Career Timeline
1959
1955
1954
1953
1950
Kim
as Colonel Creighton
Mystery Submarine
as Commander Von Molter
Lux Video Theatre
as Frank Hunter
The Flame and the Arrow
as Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
This Side of the Law
as Philip Cagle
Spy Hunt
as Stephen Paradou
Barricade
as Aubrey Milburn
Buccaneer's Girl
as Alexander Narbonne