Robert Young

Robert Young

Acting 1907-02-22 Chicago, Illinois, USA

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

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1994 (archive footage)
1990 (archive footage)
1988 Dr. Marcus Welby
1987 Joe Woldarski
1987 Roswell Gilbert
1984 Dr. Marcus Welby
1982 Self (archive footage)
1978 Mr. Laurence
1977 James Anderson
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1976 (archive footage)
1976 Self
1974 (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974 Self
1973 Judge Charles Raleigh
1972 Judge Charles Raleigh
1971 Sen. Earl Gannon
1971 Dr. Marcus Welby
1969 Dr. Marcus Welby
1968 Herman Allison
1968 Self - Guest
1966 Self - Host
1963 Himself
1961 Dr. Gilbert Winfield
1956 Self - Guest
1956 Self - Recipient
1954 Stanley Moorehead
1954 Narrator
1954 Jim Anderson
1954 Lieutenant Commander Knowles
1952 Dan Craig
1952 Self
1951 Doctor James Merrill
1950 Jeff Cohalan
1950 Self - Mystery Guest
1950 Self - Panelist
1949 Philip Bosinney
1949 Vernon 'Vern' Walsh
1949 Dr. Andrew Sheldon
1949 Steve Adams
1948 Harry King
1948 Nick Buckley
1948 Self
1947 Larry Ballentine
1947 Finlay
1946 David Naughton
1946 Larry Scott
1946 Alex Hazen
1945 Oliver Bradford
1945 Lt. Hurley 'Hank' Travers
1944 Cuffy Williams
1944 (archive footage)
1944 Self - Nominee
1943 Bob Stuart
1943 Samuel Magee
1943 David Naughton
1942 Homer Smith, aka Juniper Jones
1942 John Davis
1942 Joe Smith
1941 Edward 'Eddie' Crane
1941 Richard Blake
1941 Harry Moulton Pulham
1941 Randolph Haven
1941 Jimmy Blake
1940 Fritz Marberg
1940 Langdon Towne
1940 Douglas Lamont
1940 Anton Erban
1940 Myles Vanders
1940 Himself
1939 Brooks Mason / George Smith
1939 Charles 'Slim' Martin
1939 Michael Morgan
1939 Self (uncredited)
1939 Neil McGill
1938 Gottfried Lenz
1938 David Linden
1938 Andre Vallaire
1938 Bill Harrison
1938 Fritz Hagedorn
1938 Pierre Brassard
1938 Self
1937 Grand Duke Peter
1937 Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal
1937 Gene Anders
1937 Roger 'Rog' Ash
1937 Tom Wakefield
1937 Hank
1937 Self (archive footage)
1936 Robert Marvin
1936 Tommy Randall
1936 Peter Carlton
1936 Hugh McKenzie
1936 Charley Phelps
1936 Henry 'Hank' Sherman
1936 Joe Hatcher
1935 Tony Milburn
1935 Little Mike Stone
1935 Jeff
1935 Jack Bristow
1935 Preston Patton
1935 Tony Spear
1934 John Stafford
1934 Larry Kelly
1934 William 'Bill' Drexel
1934 Capt. Fitzroy
1934 Will Connelly
1934 Tony Ferrera
1934 Pat
1934 Jack Forrester
1934 Radio Announcer (uncredited)
1933 Alec (Son)
1933 Claude William Hope
1933 Geoffrey Aiken
1933 Bobby Preble
1933 Lieut. (JG) 'Brick' Walters
1933 Jim Fowler
1932 Ricardo
1932 Gordon Evans as a young man
1932 Kip Tarleton
1932 Ralph Thomas
1932 Dick Ogden
1932 Graham - Pilot Reporting Missing Airplanes (uncredited)
1931 Jimmy Bradshaw
1931 Marco Ricca, also known as Marco Smith
1931 Dr.Claudet
1929 Party Guest (uncredited)
1928 Student at Dance / at Beach (uncredited)