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Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez (born 1968, San Antonio) is the American filmmaker behind El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City, and Alita: Battle Angel; he made El Mariachi for $7,000 funded by a medical trial, won Sundance's Audience Award, and co-founded Troublemaker Studios in Austin.
Robert Romano (ER)
Robert "Rocket" Romano is a fictional surgeon on the NBC medical drama ER, played by Paul McCrane, who becomes chief of surgery and chief of staff at County General.
Robert Romanus
Robert Romanus (Bob Romanus, born 1956) is an American actor and musician known for Mike Damone in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Snake on The Facts of Life; brother of actor Richard Romanus, band Poppa's Kitchen.
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (1908–1966), American screenwriter-director of Body and Soul, All the King's Men, and The Hustler; Communist Party member, HUAC friendly witness in 1953 who named over fifty people, blacklisted, died at 57. Distinct from Robert Rosen, UCLA dean.
Robert Rusler
Robert Rusler, American actor born 1965 in Fort Wayne, Indiana; known for Weird Science, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Thrashin', Vamp, Shag, and Lieutenant Warren Keffer on Babylon 5.
Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (1909-1973), American actor of film noir and Westerns; Oscar-nominated for Crossfire (1947); Dartmouth boxer, Marine drill instructor, civil rights and SANE nuclear-policy activist; starred in The Set-Up, The Naked Spur, The Wild Bunch, The Iceman Cometh.
Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan (born 1953) is an American playwright and screenwriter, Pulitzer winner for The Kentucky Cycle and Tony winner for All the Way; also wrote Hacksaw Ridge and The Pacific.
Robert Schwartzman
Robert Schwartzman (Robert Coppola Schwartzman, Robert Carmine), born 1982, American filmmaker, actor, and Rooney frontman of the Coppola family; directed Dreamland, The Unicorn, The Argument, and The Good Half.
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard (born 1969), American actor; Tony winner for The Invention of Love; Neil Perry in Dead Poets Society; Dr. James Wilson on House (2004-12); also The Gilded Age.
Robert Shaw (actor)
Robert Shaw, also known as Robert Archibald Shaw, was an English actor and novelist known for Quint in Jaws, Red Grant in From Russia with Love, and Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting.
Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye, known as Bob Shaye, is an American film executive and producer who founded New Line Cinema in 1967 and backed The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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 Sugden
Robert Sugden is a fictional character in ITV soap opera Emmerdale, born on screen 1986, son of Jack and Pat Sugden, played by four actors including Ryan Hawley since 2014, ex-partner of Aaron Dingle, now tenant farmer at Emmerdale Farm.
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 the Bruce (film)
Robert the Bruce (2019) is a historical drama directed by Richard Gray, written with Eric Belgau, starring Angus Macfadyen reprising his Braveheart role; released on VOD April 24, 2020 after its theatrical run was canceled; 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Robert the Doll (film series)
Robert the Doll film series: five British supernatural B-horror films (Robert, The Curse of Robert the Doll, The Toymaker, The Legend of Robert the Doll, Robert Reborn) made 2015-2019 by Andrew Jones for North Bank Entertainment; unauthorized fan fiction, reboot due 2027.
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (1934–2024) was an American screenwriter and director, Oscar winner for Chinatown, also known for The Last Detail, Shampoo, script-doctoring Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather, and directing Personal Best.
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.