Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling ( born November 13, 1917 in New Castle, Pennsylvania as William Sterling Hart, † 30 May 2006 in Brentwood, California ) was an American actor and entrepreneur.
Life
The son of a baseball player first attended the University of Pittsburgh and earned his money for a seller. Due to his good looks, he was finally discovered in 1939 for the film. To avoid confusion with the Western star William S. Hart, he changed his name from William Sterling Hart in Robert Sterling.
His first film appearance in the comic book movie Blondie Meets the Boss with Penny Singleton in the lead role. This was followed by medium and smaller movie roles, inter alia, next to Cary Grant on the plane Drama S.O.S. Fire on board and in the Buster Keaton comedy Nothing but Pleasure, as well as leading roles in B-movies. Among his most famous productions, the Comedy heard the woman with two faces ( with Greta Garbo in the title role), the comedy affairs of state ( with Bob Hope and Lilo Pulver ), the thriller The dead man lives with Robert Taylor and Lana Turner, the science fiction film company ring of fire, and George Sidney's theatrical version of Hammerstein / Ferber musical Show Boat.
A wide audience Sterling, however, was only known through his television work. In 1953 he took over and his second wife, Anne Jeffreys, who starred in the comedy series Topper, based on the novel by Thorne Smith. Sterling and Jeffreys embodied in the newly deceased couple " George & Marion Kerby ," which can only be perceived by the philistine banker " Cosmo Topper " and the most abstruse attempts undertakes to educate topper to a extroverted playboy. In the first film adaptation of the substance, on the feature film by Norman Z. McLeod (1937 ) Cary Grant and Constance Bennett had played the ghost couple.
After a few professional failures (eg, with the short-lived television series Love that Jill and Ichabod & Me ) to Sterling drew largely back from the film business and took only sporadic guest appearances on television series such as Hotel, Simon & Simon, and Murder, She Wrote. Instead, he took over the management of a computer company as a successful businessman.
Robert Sterling was married twice. From 1943-1949 enduring marriage to actress Ann Sothern 's daughter Tisha Sterling emerged, which is also active as an actress. 1951 married Sterling and Anne Jeffreys, with whom he had three children. Sterling, who was honored for his services to television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, died on 30 May 2006 at the age of 88 years in his adopted home of California.