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Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment , often in supporting roles. [1]
Robert Morley (1908-1992) Robert Morley. Bushy-browed, triple-chinned and plummy-voiced English actor and raconteur of wide girth and larger-than-life personality. The son of a career army officer, Morley was expected to join the diplomatic corps. As a 'compromise', he tried his hand as a beer salesman. However, bitten by the acting bug since ...
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- Semley, Wiltshire, England, UK
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Robert Morley. Actor: The African Queen. Bushy-browed, triple-chinned and plummy-voiced English actor and raconteur of wide girth and larger-than-life personality. The son of a career army officer, Morley was expected to join the diplomatic corps. As a 'compromise', he tried his hand as a beer salesman. However, bitten by the acting bug since first performing in a kindergarten play, he ...
- May 26, 1908
- June 3, 1992
May 30, 2024 · Robert Morley was a prolific English actor, director, and playwright whose forte was comedy and comedy-drama. Morley was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and made his professional debut in Margate in 1928. His distinctive physical appearance, a rotund body and fleshy jowls,
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Jun 3, 1992 · Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a ...
Roger Ebert May 21, 1967. Tweet. Robert Morley opened the door and stood inside, beaming and nodding and making desperate gestures with his right hand, which held a large pocket-handkerchief. Although his mouth opened and closed, no words came out. At last he raised a finger dramatically into the air and we stood in silence until a thunderous ...
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Jun 4, 1992 · June 4, 1992 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Robert Morley, the handy British actor who was equally at ease as a lighthearted spokesman for a British airline or the tragic genius that was Oscar ...
