Robert Douglas
Actor
Biography
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Robert Douglas (9 November 1909 - 11 January 1999) 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 (1914–1996) and Suzanne Weldon (1921–1995), fathering two children, Lucinda and Robert (Giles). He died from natural causes in Leucadia, Encinitas, California, aged 89. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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As Director
Filmography
Ivanhoe
as Sir Hugh De Bracy 1952
The Fountainhead
as Elsworth Toohey 1949
The Desert Rats
as General 1953
The Flame and the Arrow
as Marchese Alessandro de Granazia 1950
Secret Ceremony
as Sir Alex Gordon (uncredited) 1968
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Michael, Duke of Strelsau 1952
Helen of Troy
as Agamemnon 1956
The Young Philadelphians
as Uncle Morton Stearnes 1959
Adventures of Don Juan
as Duque de Lorca 1948
Thunder on the Hill
as Dr. Edward Jeffreys 1951
The Virgin Queen
as Sir Christopher Hatton 1955
Kim
as Colonel Creighton 1950
Saskatchewan
as Benton 1954
The Questor Tapes
as Dr. Michaels 1974
Good Morning, Miss Dove
as John Porter 1955
This Side of the Law
as Philip Cagle 1950
The Hasty Heart
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 1949