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Robert Sheehan
Robert Michael Sheehan, Irish actor born 1988 in Portlaoise, County Laois; known as Nathan in Misfits, Darren in Love/Hate, and Klaus Hargreeves in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (1900-1973), Dresden-born German-American film director, exile in Paris and Hollywood, master of film noir (Phantom Lady, The Killers, Criss Cross), Golden Bear for Die Ratten 1955.
Robert Stack
Robert Stack (1919–2003), born Charles Langford Modini Stack, American actor who played Eliot Ness on The Untouchables (1959–63, Emmy 1960), hosted Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002), earned an Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind, and starred comedically in Airplane!.
Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (1931-1995), English stage and screen actor, founder member of the National Theatre, Maggie Smith's husband 1967-1975, and Olivier Award-winning Falstaff and King Lear for the RSC.
Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling (1917-2006), born William Sterling Hart, American film and TV actor, MGM star of Two-Faced Woman and Show Boat, best known as ghost George Kerby with wife Anne Jeffreys in the 1953-1956 sitcom Topper; later a bar-coding software executive.
Robert Taylor (American actor)
Robert Taylor (Spangler Arlington Brugh, 1911–1969), American MGM leading man of Magnificent Obsession, Camille, Quo Vadis, and Ivanhoe; distinct from the Australian actor Robert Taylor (born 1963) of Longmire.
Robert Taylor (Australian actor)
Robert John Taylor (born 1963, Melbourne) is an Australian actor known as Sheriff Walt Longmire in Longmire (2012–2017) and Agent Jones in The Matrix (1999); distinct from the American actor Robert Taylor and from Rod Taylor.
Robert Townsend (actor)
Robert Townsend (born 1957, Chicago) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer who self-financed the 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle with savings and credit cards, then directed The Five Heartbeats, The Meteor Man, Holiday Heart, and numerous TV episodes.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich (1946–2002), American TV actor from Toronto, Ohio; starred in Vega$, Spenser: For Hire, S.W.A.T., and Soap; diagnosed with synovial cell sarcoma in 1996.
Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn (1932–2016), American actor known as Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–68) and Lee in The Magnificent Seven; Oscar-nominated for The Young Philadelphians, Emmy winner, anti-Vietnam War activist, and author of Only Victims.
Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner (born 1930, Detroit) is an American actor of 1950s Fox films and TV hits It Takes a Thief, Switch, and Hart to Hart, later Number Two in Austin Powers and Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on NCIS; widower of Natalie Wood, husband of Jill St. John.
Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)
Robert Hudson Walker (1918–1951), American MGM actor and first husband of Jennifer Jones; best known as Bruno Antony in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951); died at 32 from alcohol-sedative interaction.
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)
Robert Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor, son of Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones; known for The Ceremony, Ensign Pulver, Easy Rider, and Star Trek's 'Charlie X'.
Robert Wall
Robert Alan "Bob" Wall (1939–2022), American martial artist and actor, played O'Hara in Enter the Dragon (1973) and appeared in The Way of the Dragon and Game of Death; ninth-degree Tang Soo Do black belt under Chuck Norris.
Robert Webb
Robert Webb (born 1972, Boston, Lincolnshire) is an English actor, comedian, and writer, half of Mitchell and Webb; Jeremy in Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Back, and How Not To Be a Boy.
Robert Woolsey
Robert Woolsey (1888-1938), American comedian born in Oakland, California; half of the Wheeler and Woolsey comedy team, a former jockey who starred in RKO musical comedies from Rio Rita (1929) to On Again-Off Again (1937).
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl (born 1951, Union Township, New Jersey) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, creator and star of HBO's Arli$$ (1996-2002) and two-time Emmy winner for Billy Crystal's Oscar telecasts, known for Bull Durham and Batman.
Robert Young (actor)
Robert Young (1907-1998), American film, radio, and television actor and producer, known as Jim Anderson in Father Knows Best and as Dr. Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.; three Emmy Awards.
Roberta Colindrez
Roberta Colindrez (born 1986, Monterrey, Mexico) is a Mexican-American actress and writer, Fun Home original Broadway cast (Joan), known for I Love Dick, Vida, A League of Their Own (Lupe García), Cassandro, and Cult of Love.
Roberta Leighton (actress)
Roberta Leighton (birth name Roberta Leighton Weimar), American actress born 1953 in Minneapolis; known for Anita in Stripes (1981), Liza Williams in Barracuda, and soap roles Dr. Casey Reed on The Young and the Restless and Ginger Dawson on Days of Our Lives; married to actor Corey Young.
Roberta Shore
Roberta Shore (Roberta Jymme Schourup, born 1943) is an American actress and singer, Betsy Garth on The Virginian, Franceska in Disney's The Shaggy Dog, and Annette's rival Laura; she left Hollywood in 1964 for Utah.
Roberta Wallach
Roberta Wallach (born 1955, New York) is an American stage and screen actress, daughter of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Drama Desk nominee for The Model Apartment, with film credits from 1973 to 2018.
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni (born 1952) is an Italian comic actor-director, star of Down by Law and creator of La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful), which won the 1998 Cannes Grand Prix and three 1999 Oscars including Best Actor.
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977), Italian film director, father of Italian neorealism with Rome, Open City (1945), Paisà (1946), Germany Year Zero; later Ingrid Bergman films and didactic television history projects; distinct from his composer brother Renzo Rossellini.
Robin Askwith
Robin Askwith (born 1950, Southport) is an English actor famous as Timothy Lea in the 1970s Confessions of a... sex comedies; later TV work includes The Madame Blanc Mysteries, Strike and Inside No. 9, plus live one-man shows.
Robin Atkin Downes
Robin Atkin Downes (born 1976) is an English actor and prolific voice actor, MFA from Temple University, known as The Master on The Strain and for voicing the Medic in Team Fortress 2, Kazuhira Miller in Metal Gear, and Travis Touchdown in No More Heroes.
Robin Bhatt
Robin Bhatt (रोबिन भट्ट), born 1946, Indian Hindi-cinema screenwriter, son of Nanabhai Bhatt and half-brother of Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt; writing debut Aashiqui (1990), Filmfare-winning screenplay for Baazigar (1993), around 66 films, Screenwriters' Association president.
Robin de Jesús
Robin de Jesús (born 1984, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American actor and singer, a three-time Tony nominee for In the Heights, La Cage aux Folles, and The Boys in the Band, and screen actor in Camp and tick, tick... Boom!.
Robin Dearden
Robin Gale Dearden (born 1953, Los Angeles) is an American actress of Magic Mongo, Magnum, P.I., Generations and Breaking Bad, and wife of Bryan Cranston since 1989.
Robin Duke
Robin Duke, Canadian actress, comedian, and writer born 1954 in St. Catharines, Ontario; Second City Toronto mainstage, SCTV Series 3, SNL cast 1981-1984 (Wendy Whiner), later film and voice roles.