From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC). Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952. After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and, in spite of having a "tier B" status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Hedy Lamarr, and Helen Twelvetrees. Yet, most of his assignments consisted of B movies, also known as "programmers," which required two to three weeks of shooting (considered very brief shooting periods at the time). Actors who were relegated to such a hectic schedule appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year. As an MGM contract player, Young was resigned to the fate of most of his colleagues—to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension—and many actors on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all (even those unrelated to the film industry). In 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British for two films; the first was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the other co-starring Jessie Matthews. While there he surmised that his employers intended to terminate his contract, but he was mistaken. He unexpectedly received one of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in H.M. Pulham, Esq., featuring one of Hedy Lamarr's most effective performances. He once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which Robert Montgomery and other A-list actors had rejected. After his contract ended at MGM, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures. From 1943, Young assayed more challenging roles in films like Claudia, The Enchanted Cottage, They Won't Believe Me, The Second Woman, and Crossfire. His portrayal of unsympathetic characters in several of these later films—which was seldom the case in his MGM pictures—was applauded by numerous reviewers. Young's career began an incremental and imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as a freelance actor without the nurturing of a major studio. He continued starring as a leading man in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but only in mediocre films, then he subsequently disappeared from the silver screen - only to reappear several years later on a much smaller one. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Young (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movie | American Sharia | Officer Shepard | 2015-02-01 |
Movie | The Wicked | Deputy Mahoney | 2013-03-20 |
Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Uruk-hai (uncredited) | 2002-12-18 |
Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Goblin (uncredited) | 2001-12-18 |
Movie | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Homeboy on subway | 1998-02-01 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
Movie | Legion of Iron | Flat Nose | 1990-08-08 |
Movie | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
Movie | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic | Self | 1990-02-20 |
Movie | A Conspiracy of Love | Joe Woldarski | 1987-10-18 |
Movie | Mercy or Murder? | Roswell Gilbert | 1987-01-11 |
Series | Little Women | Grandpa James Lawrence | 1978-10-02 |
Movie | Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas | Unknown | 1977-12-18 |
Movie | The Father Knows Best Reunion | James Anderson | 1977-05-15 |
Series | Donny & Marie | Unknown | 1976-01-23 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-06-21 |
Movie | My Darling Daughters' Anniversary | Judge Charles Raleigh | 1973-11-08 |
Movie | All My Darling Daughters | Judge Charles Raleigh | 1972-11-22 |
Series | Vanished | Sen. Earl Gannon | 1971-03-08 |
Series | Marcus Welby, M.D. | 1969-09-23 | |
Series | The Dick Cavett Show | Himself - Guest | 1968-06-06 |
Series | ABC Stage 67 | Unknown | 1966-09-14 |
Movie | Highball Highway | Himself | 1963-08-04 |
Series | Window on Main Street | 1961-10-02 | |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Series | The Steve Allen Show | Unknown | 1956-06-24 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | Father Knows Best | Jim Anderson | 1954-10-03 |
Movie | Secret of the Incas | Stanley Moorehead | 1954-06-06 |
Movie | The Big Moment | Narrator | 1954-03-07 |
Movie | The Half-Breed | Dan Craig | 1952-05-03 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | Goodbye, My Fancy | Doctor James Merrill | 1951-05-19 |
Movie | The Second Woman | Jeff Cohalan | 1950-07-07 |
Series | What's My Line? | Himself - Mystery Guest | 1950-02-02 |
Movie | And Baby Makes Three | Vernon 'Vern' Walsh | 1949-12-02 |
Movie | Bride for Sale | Stephen Tracy Adams | 1949-11-12 |
Movie | That Forsyte Woman | Philip Bosinney | 1949-11-03 |
Movie | Adventure in Baltimore | Dr. Andrew Sheldon | 1949-04-19 |
Movie | Relentless | Nick Buckley | 1948-06-15 |
Movie | Sitting Pretty | Harry King | 1948-03-10 |
Movie | Crossfire | Finlay | 1947-08-15 |
Movie | They Won't Believe Me | Larry Ballentine | 1947-07-16 |
Movie | Lady Luck | Larry Scott | 1946-10-30 |
Movie | The Searching Wind | Alex Hazen | 1946-08-09 |
Movie | Claudia and David | David Naughton | 1946-02-25 |
Movie | The Enchanted Cottage | Oliver Bradford | 1945-04-28 |
Movie | Those Endearing Young Charms | Lt. Hurley 'Hank' Travers | 1945-06-19 |
Movie | The Canterville Ghost | Cuffy Williams | 1944-07-20 |
Movie | Twenty Years After | 1944-01-01 | |
Movie | Claudia | David Naughton | 1943-11-04 |
Movie | Sweet Rosie O'Grady | Samuel Magee | 1943-10-01 |
Movie | Slightly Dangerous | Bob Stuart | 1943-04-01 |
Movie | Journey for Margaret | John Davis | 1942-12-17 |
Movie | Cairo | Homer Smith, aka Juniper Jones | 1942-08-17 |
Movie | Joe Smith, American | Joe Smith | 1942-02-01 |
Movie | H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Harry Moulton Pulham | 1941-12-04 |
Movie | Married Bachelor | Randolph Haven | 1941-10-16 |
Movie | Lady Be Good | Edward 'Eddie' Crane | 1941-09-18 |
Movie | Western Union | Richard Blake | 1941-02-21 |
Movie | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Jimmy Blake | 1941-02-14 |
Movie | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Himself | 1940-05-29 |
Movie | Northward, Ho! | Himself | 1940-02-10 |
Movie | Northwest Passage | Langdon Towne | 1940-02-23 |
Movie | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Himself | 1940-10-24 |
Movie | Florian | Anton Erban | 1940-06-05 |
Movie | Dr. Kildare's Crisis | Douglas Lamont | 1940-11-29 |
Movie | The Mortal Storm | Fritz Marberg | 1940-06-20 |
Movie | Sporting Blood | Myles Vanders | 1940-07-11 |
Movie | Maisie | Charles 'Slim' Martin | 1939-06-22 |
Movie | Bridal Suite | Neil McGill | 1939-05-26 |
Movie | Hollywood Hobbies | Himself | 1939-05-03 |
Movie | Honolulu | Brooks Mason / George Smith | 1939-02-03 |
Movie | Miracles for Sale | Michael Morgan | 1939-08-10 |
Movie | Paradise for Three | Fritz Hagedorn | 1938-06-04 |
Movie | Josette | Pierre Brassard | 1938-06-03 |
Movie | Three Comrades | Gottfried Lenz | 1938-06-02 |
Movie | The Toy Wife | Andre Vallaire | 1938-06-10 |
Movie | Rich Man, Poor Girl | Bill Harrison | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | Hollywood Goes to Town | Himself | 1938-07-07 |
Movie | The Shining Hour | David Linden | 1938-11-18 |
Movie | Married Before Breakfast | Tom Wakefield | 1937-06-18 |
Movie | Dangerous Number | Hank | 1937-01-22 |
Movie | I Met Him in Paris | Gene Anders | 1937-05-28 |
Movie | The Emperor's Candlesticks | Grand Duke Peter | 1937-07-02 |
Movie | The Romance of Celluloid | 1937-08-27 | |
Movie | Navy Blue and Gold | Roger 'Rog' Ash | 1937-11-19 |
Movie | The Bride Wore Red | Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal | 1937-10-08 |
Movie | Stowaway | Tommy Randall | 1936-12-25 |
Movie | The Longest Night | Charley Phelps | 1936-10-02 |
Movie | Sworn Enemy | Henry 'Hank' Sherman | 1936-09-11 |
Movie | The Bride Walks Out | Hugh McKenzie | 1936-07-10 |
Movie | Secret Agent | Robert Marvin | 1936-05-31 |
Movie | It's Love Again | Peter Carlton | 1936-05-06 |
Movie | Vagabond Lady | Tony Spear | 1935-05-03 |
Movie | West Point of the Air | Little Mike Stone | 1935-03-23 |
Movie | Remember Last Night? | Tony Milburn | 1935-10-28 |
Movie | Calm Yourself | Preston Patton | 1935-06-28 |
Movie | Red Salute | Jeff | 1935-09-12 |
Movie | The Bride Comes Home | Jack Bristow | 1935-12-25 |
Movie | The Bands Plays On | Tony Ferrera | 1934-12-21 |
Movie | Death on the Diamond | Larry Kelly | 1934-09-14 |
Movie | Paris Interlude | Pat | 1934-07-27 |
Movie | Whom the Gods Destroy | Jack Forrester | 1934-07-12 |
Movie | Hollywood Party | Himself as Radio Announcer (uncredited) | 1934-05-24 |
Movie | The House of Rothschild | Capt. Fitzroy | 1934-04-07 |
Movie | Lazy River | William 'Bill' Drexel | 1934-03-16 |
Movie | Spitfire | John Stafford | 1934-03-08 |
Movie | Carolina | Will Connelly | 1934-02-02 |
Movie | Men Must Fight | Geoffrey Aiken | 1933-02-17 |
Movie | Today We Live | Claude William Hope | 1933-03-03 |
Movie | Tugboat Annie | Alec (Son) | 1933-08-04 |
Movie | Hell Below | Lieut. (JG) 'Brick' Walters | 1933-06-08 |
Movie | Saturday's Millions | Jim Fowler | 1933-09-30 |
Movie | The Right To Romance | Bobby Preble | 1933-11-17 |
Movie | Strange Interlude | Gordon Evans as a Young Man | 1932-12-30 |
Movie | The Kid from Spain | Ricardo | 1932-11-17 |
Movie | Unashamed | Dick Ogden | 1932-07-02 |
Movie | New Morals for Old | Ralph Thomas | 1932-06-04 |
Movie | The Wet Parade | Kip Tarleton | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Hell Divers | Graham - Pilot Reporting Missing Airplanes (uncredited) | 1932-01-16 |
Movie | The Guilty Generation | Marco Ricca, also known as Marco Smith | 1931-11-19 |
Movie | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Dr.Claudet | 1931-10-23 |
Movie | The Black Camel | Jimmy | 1931-06-21 |
Movie | The Campus Vamp | Student at Dance / at Beach (uncredited) | 1928-11-25 |