Robert Warwick

Robert Warwick ( born October 9, 1878 in Sacramento, California, † June 6, 1964 in West Los Angeles, California, Robert Taylor Bien actually ) was an American film, television, and theater actor.

Career

Born Robert Taylor Bien, 1878 in Sacramento, California. He originally wanted to be a singer since he was in his youth in church choirs around. In 1903, he was under the name of Robert Warwick his debut as an actor on Broadway, where he remained active until the late 1920s and one of the most sought after and well known performer was. Warwick won a large female following. One his most famous roles was as the of Vronsky in Anna Karenina. In 1915 he made ​​his film debut in the film Alias ​​Jimmy Valentine and was quickly in numerous films to a performer of the main roles and also had great fans. Many of his films are now lost.

In the late 1920s, the silent film era was coming to an end, gave the 50 -year-old Warwick his work in the film business is not on and played in a large mass of films of the "Golden Era" as a character actor with, which he always held supporting roles, ranging in size from bearing supporting role to the extras like appearance varied. He was about in Romeo and Juliet (1936 ) as Lord Montague, The Private Lives of Queen (1939 ) as Montjoy, in a total of six films of Preston Sturges - including Sullivan's Travels (1941 ) as the producer and Lebrand My wife, the Witch (1942 ) as JB Masterson, The Love Adventures of Don Juan ( 1947) as Don Jose and A Lonely Place ( 1950) as Charlie Waterman to see. In many of his films he played strict or conservative authority figures. Warwick brought it to 1962 to almost 250 film and television appearances.

Robert Warwick was married three times, his first two marriages with Arlene Peck and Josephine Whithall were divorced. His last wife Stella Lattimore, who was 27 years younger than him, he survived by four years. From one of these marriages he had the daughter Betsey, the poet was, and is buried next to Warwick since 2007 at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.

Filmography (selection)

1915-1940

1941-1960

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