Robert McKim
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Robert McKim (August 26, 1886 – June 4, 1927) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in 99 films between 1915 and 1927. He is best remembered for playing the arch villain opposite Douglas Fairbanks's Zorro in The Mark of Zorro in 1920. McKim starred with Lon Chaney in the 1923 silent version of All The Brothers Were Valiant. One of his last roles was again as a villain in the unfinished silent The Mysterious Island, starring Lionel Barrymore based on the Jules Verne novel. Though McKim shot its silent sequences in 1927, the film was not released until 1929 and McKim was uncredited. He died in Hollywood, California from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1927 at age 40.
Born: August 26, 1886
Place of Birth: San Jacinto, California, USA
Known For
Greased Lightning
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
The Disciple
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.
The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Don Q Son of Zorro
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
The Bat
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
Maytime
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
The Strong Man
A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.
Monte Cristo
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
Filmography
as Handsome Jack Pressley (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Hal Walker
as Bob Flint
as Edward Hayden
as Ed Powell
as 'Mike' McDevitt
as 'Silver Sam' McGee
as Dr. Wells
as Con Carney
as Don Ramies
as Henri Cocteau
as Capitán Juan Ramon (Archive Footage)
as Dr. Godfrey Luke
as João / Manuel Corrales
as David Kincaid
as 'Gentleman Jim' Slade
as Monte Mitchell
as Ray Williams
as Borolsky
as Struve
as Robert McKim
as Dr. Hillman
as Prince Tetlow
as Captain Gómez
as Mendozza
as Finch
as David Ainsworth
as De Villefort, the king's attorney
as Adam Breed
as 'Hell-Bent' Wade
as Harvey Riggs
as John Barclay
as Prince Dagmar
as Capt. Juan Ramon
as Brent Warren
as Jose Durade
as Hugh Gordon
as Claude Ditmar
as Marsh
as McGuirk
as Henry Neuman
as Dick Turner
as Charlie Stanmore
as William MacDonald
as Michael 'Black Mike' Lafond
as Donald Washburn
as Alden J. Armitage
as Grant Haywood
as Bob Barclay
as J. Wells Stanton
as 'Pug' Hennessy
as Caesar Le Noir
as Hugo Mertons
as Alexander Chapman
as Phil Weil
as Alfred Werner
as 'Flash' Jim Purdy
as Mortimer Appleby
as 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard
as Jack Pressley
as David Slosson
as Van Tyle
as Count Carlos
as Carlos Costa
as Donald Greene
as Raoul Bozen
as Van Dyke Tarleton
as Arizona Joe
as Montezuma
as Richard Sylvester
as Al Beresford
as A Clergyman
as Jerrold Burnes
as Rankin
as Doc Hardy