Robert Douglas
Actor, Film actor
1909 – 1999
Who was Robert Douglas?
Robert Douglas 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 easily as the forthright military officer.
He was married twice, including the actress Dorothy Hyson and Suzanne Weldon, fathering two children, Lucinda and Robert. He died from natural causes in Leucadia, Encinitas, California, aged 89. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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- Born
- Nov 9, 1909
Fenny Stratford - Also known as
- Robert Douglas Finlayson
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Dorothy Hyson
(1935/05/21 - 1945) - Suzanne Weldon
(1946/08/23 - 1995/01/31)
- Dorothy Hyson
- Children
- Religion
- Church of England
- Ethnicity
- English people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Bickley Hall, Kent (School)
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
(1926 - 1928)
- Employment
- 20th Century Fox
(1953 - 1955) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(1951 - 1959) - Universal Studios
(1950 - 1954) - Warner Bros. Pictures
(1948 - 1959) - WWII Pilot/Lieut Comm., Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy
(1939 - 1946)
(1928 - 1939)
- 20th Century Fox
- Lived in
- Pacific Palisades
(1948 - ) - Coldwater Canyon Beverly Hills
(1951 - ) - Leucadia, Encinitas, California
- Pacific Palisades
- Died
- Jan 11, 1999
Leucadia, Encinitas, California - Resting place
- Pacific Ocean
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on July 23, 2013
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