Robert Preston
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 Awards.…
Filmography
My Father's House
1975 · 9.0
New York Town
1941 · 8.5
Disbarred
1939 · 8.0
Disclosure
2020 · 7.8
Big City
1948 · 7.8
The Chisholms
1979 · 7.5
When I Grow Up
1951 · 7.3
Victor/Victoria
1982 · 7.3
Your Show of Shows
1950 · 7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · 7.2
The Music Man
1962 · 7.1
This Gun for Hire
1942 · 7.0
Beau Geste
1939 · 7.0
Sentinels in the Air
1956 · 7.0
Wild Harvest
1947 · 7.0
How the West Was Won
1962 · 7.0
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8
The Macomber Affair
1947 · 6.8
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 6.7
Union Pacific
1939 · 6.7
Whispering Smith
1948 · 6.7
Typhoon
1940 · 6.7
The Last Starfighter
1984 · 6.6
Illegal Traffic
1938 · 6.6
Pacific Blackout
1941 · 6.6
Best of the Badmen
1951 · 6.5
All the Way Home
1963 · 6.5
Variety Girl
1947 · 6.5
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · 6.5
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003 · 6.5
Night Plane from Chungking
1943 · 6.5
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · 6.5
North West Mounted Police
1940 · 6.4
Cloudburst
1951 · 6.4
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · 6.3
Tulsa
1949 · 6.3
Parachute Battalion
1941 · 6.3
Blood on the Moon
1948 · 6.2
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · 6.2
The Last Frontier
1955 · 6.1
Junior Bonner
1972 · 6.1
The Lady Gambles
1949 · 6.1
Child's Play
1972 · 6.1
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · 6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · 6.0
S.O.B.
1981 · 6.0
Rehearsal for Murder
1982 · 6.0
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980 · 6.0
King of Alcatraz
1938 · 6.0
Face to Face
1952 · 6.0
Mame
1974 · 5.9
Wake Island
1942 · 5.8
The Night of January 16th
1941 · 5.8
Island of Love
1963 · 5.8
Moon Over Burma
1940 · 5.8
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · 5.7
My Outlaw Brother
1951 · 5.6
September Gun
1983 · 5.5
Semi-Tough
1977 · 5.4
Outrage!
1986 · 5.3
The Sundowners
1950 · 5.2
Climax!
1954 · 3.8
Made in Heaven
1956 · 0.0