Robert Middlemass
Actor
Biography
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Robert Middlemass (3 September 1883, New Britain, Connecticut – 10 September 1949, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and stage actor, and later character actor with over 100 film appearances. usually playing detectives or policemen.
Middlemass graduated from Harvard University in 1909 and initially went into the insurance business, but soon went on the stage, joining the Castle Square Theatre stock company in Boston. He debuted on Broadway in September 1914 in The Bludgeon at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.
His best known play was a one-act melodrama written with Holworthy Hall (real name H. E. Porter, a college roommate) titled The Valiant, which was also made into a film of the same name in 1929, and as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk in 1940. The play became a favorite for amateur and local theater groups, and is still performed today.
Middlemass moved to Los Angeles around 1935, and began appearing in films. He died there in 1949.
Filmography
A Day at the Races
as Sheriff 1937
The Black Room
as The Prosecutor 1935
The Mad Miss Manton
as District Attorney (uncredited) 1938
Road to Zanzibar
as Police Inspector 1941
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Newspaper Chief (uncredited) 1938
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Minor Role (uncredited) 1940
Stanley and Livingstone
as Carmichael 1939
Bombardier
as Officer 1943
The Black Raven
as Tim Winfield 1943
If You Could Only Cook
as Chief Inspector (uncredited) 1935
Idiot's Delight
as Hospital Commandant 1939
Cain and Mabel
as Cafe Proprietor 1936
Lady in the Death House
as State's Attorney 1944
The Saint Takes Over
as Captain Wade 1940
Kentucky
as Track Official 1938
Lady Scarface
as Police Captain Lovell 1941