Robert Burton
Acting
Biography
Robert Burton was an actor.
Born: August 12, 1895
Place of Birth: Eastman, Georgia, USA
Known For
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
The Big Heat
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Birdman of Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Ransom!
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Reprisal!
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
Compulsion
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
The Rifleman
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
Riot in Cell Block 11
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
The Tall T
An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.
Filmography
as Dale Anderson
as Ron Holden
as Brian Frisbee
as Prof. Galbraith
as Madison
as E.P. Hallett
as Sen. Ham Lewis (uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Judge
as Eavens
as Theodore Walters
as Roy Geiger
as Col. Dowling
as District Attorney Nordeau
as Doctor
as Pike
as Dr. Frederick Wilson
as Gen. Charles E. Hargrave
as First General
as Charles Straus
as Comdr. Tydings
as Burt Burton
as Col. Mead (uncredited)
as Sheriff Hacker
as Dr. Karlton
as Sheriff Travers
as Judge Kincaid
as Nathan Conroy
as Tenvoorde
as Maj. Albert Lambert - Lindbergh Sponsor (uncredited)
as Tom Gipson
as W.L. Dietz
as Jeb Cantrell
as Col. Ira Hansen
as Dr. Grant
as Sheriff Jake Kessing
as Sheriff
as Rev. Marvin
as Pete
as Father Xavier (uncredited)
as Mr. Peyton
as Mac Andrews
as Sheriff
as Guard Ambrose
as General Crook
as Asa Whorten
as Det. Gus Burke
as Sheriff
as Mr. Cumberly
as Police captain
as David Sandring
as Warden Keeley
as John Ashmond
as Dr. Willis Shoop
as Gen. Samuel E. Roberts
as McDill (uncredited)
as Customer
as Wayne Langmuir
as Dr. Charles
as Sheriff
as Owen Gillman