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Acting

Robert Preston

Career: Active from 1938 to 1986, busiest in 1941 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 43
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: This Gun for Hire
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 33 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Robert Preston Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.1, average 5.4
Uncanny
1.2, average 2.5
Scare
1.3, average 2.6
Dark Humor
1.6, average 2.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 5
Historical Setting 5
Family Drama 3
Classic Hollywood 2
Female Protagonist 2
Social Commentary 2
Coming-of-Age 2
Character-Driven 2
Dramatic Showdown 2
Moral Dilemmas 2
Fast-Paced Narrative 2
Classic Musical 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

63

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title · average score 82

Disclosure

82

as Carole 'Toddy' Todd (archive footage)

2000s

1 title

Broadway's Lost Treasures

as Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")

1980s

8 titles · average score 68

Outrage!

63

as Dennis Riordan

Finnegan Begin Again

72

as Mike Finnegan

The Last Starfighter

69

as Centauri

September Gun

as Ben Sunday

Victor/Victoria

80

as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd

Rehearsal for Murder

65

as Alex Dennison

S.O.B.

59

as Dr. Irving Finegarten

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

as Stranger

1970s

6 titles · average score 59

The Chisholms

TV show · as Hadley Chisholm

Semi-Tough

56

as Big Ed Bookman

My Father's House

as Tom Lindholm Sr.

Mame

46

as Beauregard

Junior Bonner

77

as Ace Bonner

Child's Play

58

as Joseph Dobbs

1960s

5 titles · average score 68

All the Way Home

68

as Jay Follet

Island of Love

54

as Steve Blair

The Music Man

71

as Harold Hill

How the West Was Won

70

as Roger Morgan

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

77

as Rubin Flood

1950s

16 titles · average score 59

Sentinels in the Air

as Narrator (voice)

The Last Frontier

62

as Col. Frank Marston

The 20th Century Fox Hour

65

TV show

Climax!

51

TV show · as Lt. Hogue / Cleve Gordon

Face to Face

as Jack Potter

Cloudburst

56

as John Graham

When I Grow Up

as Father Reed

Best of the Badmen

52

as Matthew Fowler

My Outlaw Brother

43

as Joe Walter

The Sundowners

44

as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV show · as Professor Richard Wanley / Jeff Frazer

Your Show of Shows

79

TV show

1940s

21 titles · average score 65

The Lady Gambles

52

as David Boothe

Tulsa

56

as Brad Brady

Blood on the Moon

74

as Tate Riling

Whispering Smith

73

as Murray Sinclair

Big City

71

as Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

The Macomber Affair

65

as Francis Macomber

Wild Harvest

as Jim Davis

This Gun for Hire

84

as Det. Michael Crane

Wake Island

72

as Pvt. Joe Doyle

Reap the Wild Wind

70

as Dan Cutler

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Steve Lewis

Parachute Battalion

60

as Donald Morse

1930s

5 titles · average score 75

Beau Geste

75

as Digby Geste

Union Pacific

74

as Dick Allen

Disbarred

as Bradley Kent

Illegal Traffic

as Charles Bent Martin

King of Alcatraz

as Robert MacArthur