Robert Young

Robert Young

Birthday: 1907-02-22

Deathday: 1998-07-21

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as: Robert George Young

imdb_id: nm0001870

Biography:

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

Played in movies:

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Score: 9.0

The Band Plays On

Score: 8.5

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

Score: 8.3

The Enchanted Cottage

Score: 7.4

Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas

Score: 7.3

That's Entertainment!

Score: 7.3

Three Comrades

Score: 7.2

Vagabond Lady

Score: 7.2

The Mortal Storm

Score: 7.2

Sitting Pretty

Score: 7.2

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Score: 7.1

The Romance of Celluloid

Score: 7.0

That's Entertainment! III

Score: 7.0

Hollywood Goes to Town

Score: 7.0

Death on the Diamond

Score: 7.0

Tugboat Annie

Score: 7.0

That's Entertainment, Part II

Score: 6.9

Paradise for Three

Score: 6.8

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Score: 6.7

The Bride Wore Red

Score: 6.7

The Canterville Ghost

Score: 6.7

Stowaway

Score: 6.7

Crossfire

Score: 6.6

The Kid from Spain

Score: 6.6

The Shining Hour

Score: 6.6

Journey for Margaret

Score: 6.6

They Won't Believe Me

Score: 6.6

Claudia

Score: 6.5

Josette

Score: 6.5

Northwest Passage

Score: 6.5

Hell Divers

Score: 6.4

Miracles for Sale

Score: 6.4

Unashamed

Score: 6.3

Hell Below

Score: 6.3

The House of Rothschild

Score: 6.2

Relentless

Score: 6.2

Today We Live

Score: 6.2

Slightly Dangerous

Score: 6.1

The Guilty Generation

Score: 6.1

Honolulu

Score: 6.1

That Forsyte Woman

Score: 6.1

Secret Agent

Score: 6.1

Twenty Years After

Score: 6.0

All My Darling Daughters

Score: 6.0

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Score: 6.0

Bride for Sale

Score: 6.0

Carolina

Score: 6.0

Claudia and David

Score: 6.0

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

Score: 6.0

Lazy River

Score: 6.0

Married Before Breakfast

Score: 6.0

West Point of the Air

Score: 6.0

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Score: 6.0

The Black Camel

Score: 6.0

Western Union

Score: 6.0

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Score: 5.9

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Score: 5.9

Navy Blue and Gold

Score: 5.9

Goodbye, My Fancy

Score: 5.9

It's Love Again

Score: 5.9

Hollywood Party

Score: 5.8

Joe Smith, American

Score: 5.8

Married Bachelor

Score: 5.8

The Wet Parade

Score: 5.8

Cairo

Score: 5.8

Secret of the Incas

Score: 5.8

The Father Knows Best Reunion

Score: 5.7

The Longest Night

Score: 5.7

Men Must Fight

Score: 5.7

Strange Interlude

Score: 5.7

Red Salute

Score: 5.6

The Second Woman

Score: 5.6

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Score: 5.5

Whom the Gods Destroy

Score: 5.5

Lady Luck

Score: 5.4

Spitfire

Score: 5.4

Lady Be Good

Score: 5.4

Hollywood Hobbies

Score: 5.3

Sworn Enemy

Score: 5.3

I Met Him in Paris

Score: 5.3

The Bride Walks Out

Score: 5.3

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Score: 5.2

Bridal Suite

Score: 5.1

Saturday's Millions

Score: 5.0

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Score: 5.0

Northward, Ho!

Score: 5.0

The Campus Vamp

Score: 5.0

Dangerous Number

Score: 5.0

The Half-Breed

Score: 5.0

Adventure in Baltimore

Score: 4.9

And Baby Makes Three

Score: 4.9

Maisie

Score: 4.9

The Bride Comes Home

Score: 4.8

The Toy Wife

Score: 4.8

Highball Highway

Score: 4.7

The Right To Romance

Score: 4.6

Remember Last Night?

Score: 4.6

Calm Yourself

Score: 4.5

Sporting Blood

Score: 4.3

New Morals for Old

Score: 4.2

Paris Interlude

Score: 3.5

Florian

Score: 1.0

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 0.0

Hollywood’s Children

Score: 0.0

Mercy or Murder?

Score: 0.0

The Three Wise Guys

Score: 0.0

A Conspiracy of Love

Score: 0.0

Those Endearing Young Charms

Score: 0.0

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair

Score: 0.0

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities

Score: 0.0

The Big Moment

Score: 0.0

The Searching Wind

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8

The Name of the Game

Score: 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

Dinah!

Score: 6.7

Donny & Marie

Score: 6.7

Father Knows Best

Score: 6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

This Is Your Life

Score: 6.4

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Score: 6.3

ABC Stage 67

Score: 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Window on Main Street

Score: 6.0

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Score: 5.8

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

The Steve Allen Show

Score: 5.6

The Steve Allen Show

Score: 5.6

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Little Women

Score: 5.2

Vanished

Score: 5.0

Climax!

Score: 3.3