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Quiet, soft-spoken Robert grew up in California and had some stage experience with the Pasadena Playhouse before entering films in 1931. His movie career consisted of playing characters who were charming, good-looking--and bland. In fact, his screen image was such that he usually never got the girl. Louis B. Mayer would say, "He has no sex appeal," but he had a work ethic that prepared him for every role that he played. And he did play in as many as eleven films per year for a decade starting with The Black Camel (1931). He was notable as the spy in Alfred Hitchcock`s Secret Agent (1936), but the `40s was the decade in which he was to have most of his best roles. These included `Northwest Passage` (Book I -- Rogers` Rangers) (1940); Western Union (1941); and H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941). Good roles followed, from the husband of Dorothy McGuirein Claudia (1943) to the detective in Crossfire (1947), but they were becoming scarce. In 1949, Robert started a radio show called "Father Knows Best" wherein he played Jim Anderson, an average father with average situations--a role which was tailor-made for him. Basically retiring from films, he starred in this program for five years on radio before it went to television in 1954. After a slight falter in the ratings and a switch from CBS to NBC, it became a mainstay of television until it was canceled in 1960. He continued making guest appearances on various television shows and working in television movies. In 1969, he starred as Dr. Marcus Welby in the TV movie Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (TV). The Marcus Welby series that followed ran from 1969 through 1976 and featured James Brolin as his assistant, Dr. Steven Kiley--the doc with the bike. After the series ended, Robert, now in his seventies, finally licked his 30-year battle with alcohol and occasionally appeared in television movies through the 1980s.
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Quotes The real question becomes: How long do we stay at $70 oil? I really owe my first big opportunity to Irving Thalberg`s technique of remaking pictures to his satisfaction. I was hired for a bit part as Helen Hayes` son in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and, after shooting was completed, Thalberg kept adding scenes and reshooting so that, by accident my bit part became a significant role. I see it as money in my pocket, I`m a quiet person. I don`t really believe in demonstrations, but I wanted to come here to support my son. As we go out to to do our farm meetings ... (energy is) probably the No. 1 issue that comes up right now, The only inadvertent sort of thing is it sets us up as an either/or, ... You`re either with Microsoft or you`re against them. The market doesn`t want to hear that. The market wants suppliers who have customers` interests in mind. The perception is somehow that we want Microsoft users to fail. We want Microsoft users to succeed better than before. It`s not good or bad news except in as much as it`s going to create more opportunities for competitors such as ourselves to negotiate contracts with Dell and IBM, ... We`re successfully creating a lot of interest in the marketplace, but unless our bigger competitor is restrained from doing some of the things it has been doing in the marketplace, it`s going to be difficult for us to deliver to the customer. [Red Hat President Robert Young said the Intel/Netscape investment wasn`t needed to support the company`s retail effort but to gain credibility with corporate customers.] The key thing for growth of Linux in the commercial space is working with winners like Netscape, ... If we can prove ourselves with Netscape, other application vendors who haven`t ported their software to Linux yet will join in. All those years at MGM I hid a black terror behind a cheerful face. I was an introvert in an extrovert profession. People are terrified about a lot of things that will never happen to them, Films were already changing into what they are today when I became `available` in 1962. The kind of role I was supposedly best suited for -- light romantic comedy leads -- no longer existed. There wasn`t a place for me. Feature films, you might say, passed me by. RY, when asked why he returned to TV in the late 1960s. These arrests are the result of the continued great cooperation we get working with the Maine Warden Service. I`m a quiet person,Trivia Was employed as a bank clerk and a reporter during his fledgling actor days and even found extra work in Keystone Cops movies. Was the fourth of five children born to Thomas and Margaret (Fyfe) Young. His family moved from his native Chicago to Seattle, Washington, when he was less than a year old. Suicide attempt due to alcoholism and depression. [1991] Jim Anderson, Young's character on "Father Knows Best" (1954), was ranked #6 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue]. Originating his "Father Knows Best" (1954) role on radio, he was the only member of the radio cast to transfer his role to TV. MGM talent agents spotted him in a 1931 touring stage production of "The Ship" and signed him up. Did not renew his MGM contact after filming The Canterville Ghost (1944) and chose to free-lance instead. After a great start in post-war pictures, his film career declined rapidly and he wisely moved to radio in 1949 and eventually TV. Took a seven year sabbatical from TV in 1962 following the failure of his second TV series "Window on Main Street" (1961). Triumphantly returned in 1969 as "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969). He has four daughters: Betty Lou Gleason, Carol Proffitt, Barbara Beebe, and Kathy Young. He has six grandchildren. Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Graceland section, lot #5905. Had a nervous breakdown in 1966 and it took him nearly 4 years to recover. Living in Los Angeles by the age of 10, he attended Lincoln High School in Santa Monica, where he met his future wife Elizabeth. It was she who prodded the shy guy into trying acting at the Pasadena Community Playhouse after graduation. His Irish Protestant carpenter father abandoned the family when Robert was 10 years old. He was a newspaper boy during this time in order to help the family income. Was a favorite co-star among Tinseltown's biggest female stars, including Margaret Sullavan, Joan Crawford, Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Norma Shearer Katharine Hepburn and Claudette Colbert, primarily because his acting was always reliable, complimentary and professional...plus the fact that he never tried to steal the spotlight. His patented shyness and painful insecurity turned his social drinking into a chronic alcohol problem during his MGM years that lasted nearly three decades. He recovered with the aid and encouragement of his wife Elizabeth and through spiritual metaphysics (Science of Mind), not to mention Alcoholics Anonymous. He often held AA meetings in his home. In later years, Robert and Elizabeth lived in a house in Westlake Village, California called "The Enchanted Cottage," named after the 1945 film in which he starred with Dorothy McGuire. Following his sobriety, he was once chosen Honorary Chairman of National Health Week. Had 4 daughters with Betty Henderson. He was 17 and she was 14 when they met in high school. Sold Sanka coffee on TV for 5 years. Older brother of actor Roger Moore (no relation to the popular British actor who is a former James Bond). Attempted suicide in 1991 as a result of a chemical imbalance and while battling Alzheimer's disease and heart problems. | ||
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