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Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson (born 1986, London) is an English actor known as Edward Cullen in Twilight ($3.3 billion gross), star of Good Time, The Lighthouse, Tenet, The Batman, Mickey 17, and 2026's The Odyssey and Primetime.

Robert Picardo

Robert Picardo (born 1953) is an American character actor known as the holographic Doctor (EMH) on Star Trek: Voyager, Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years, Dr. Richard on China Beach, and Richard Woolsey in the Stargate franchise.

Robert Pine

Robert Pine (Granville Whitelaw Pine, born 1941) is an American character actor, best known as Sgt. Getraer on CHiPs (1977-83), a five-decade TV guest-star veteran, and father of actor Chris Pine.

Robert Powell

Robert Powell (born 1944, Salford) is an English actor known for Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Mahler, Tommy, Richard Hannay, Doomwatch, The Detectives, and extensive narration work.

Robert Preston (actor)

Robert Preston (Robert Preston Meservey, 1918-1987), American stage and screen actor; two-time Tony winner as Harold Hill in The Music Man (1957 Broadway, 1962 film) and Oscar nominee for Toddy in Victor/Victoria (1982).

Robert Prosky

Robert Prosky (Robert Joseph Porzuczek, 1930–2008), American character actor; Arena Stage resident for 23 seasons, Sgt. Jablonski on Hill Street Blues, films Thief, Broadcast News, Mrs. Doubtfire; two Tony nominations.

Robert Pugh

Robert Pugh, also credited as Bob Pugh, is a Welsh actor and writer whose screen career has run since 1976, best known internationally as Craster in HBO's Game of Thrones.

Robert Redford

Robert Redford (1936–2025), American actor, director, and environmentalist; star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Oscar-winning director of Ordinary People, and founder of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival.

Robert Redford filmography

Robert Redford filmography: screen credits of the American actor-director (1936–2025), from War Hunt (1962) and Butch Cassidy to Ordinary People, his Best Director Oscar, and The Old Man & the Gun (2018); 94 AFI catalog titles.

Robert Reed

Robert Reed (John Robert Rietz Jr., 1932-1992), American actor, Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969-74) and Kenneth Preston on The Defenders; three Emmy nominations; died of cancer at 59.

Robert Rhodes (actor)

Robert Rhodes (born 1993, London) is an English actor known as Jimmy Jimmy in 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple, Silver Denys in House of the Dragon, and Sonic in The Rapture; Changing Faces UK ambassador.

Robert Ri'chard

Robert Ri'chard (Robert Andrew Richard, born 1983, Los Angeles) is an American actor and producer known for Cousin Skeeter, One on One, Coach Carter, House of Wax, Chocolate City, and Bolden, and a 1998 Daytime Emmy winner.

Robert Richardson (cinematographer)

Robert Richardson, American cinematographer, three-time Oscar winner for JFK, The Aviator, and Hugo; longtime DP for Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino, known for bold top-light style and Ultra Panavision 70 work on The Hateful Eight.

Robert Ridgely

Robert Ridgely (Robert Ritterbusch, 1931-1997), American character actor and booming-voiced voice artist from Teaneck, New Jersey; voiced Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Thundarr; appeared in Mel Brooks and Jonathan Demme films; final role was Colonel James in Boogie Nights.

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 Schimmel

Robert Schimmel (1950-2010), American X-rated stand-up comedian, Howard Stern and HBO regular, Comedy Central's No. 76 greatest stand-up, author of the 2008 cancer memoir Cancer on $5 a Day.

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 Smigel

Robert Smigel (born 1960), also known as Rob Smigel, is an American comedy writer and puppeteer, creator and voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, SNL's TV Funhouse cartoons, and co-writer of Hotel Transylvania.

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!.