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Robert O. Cornthwaite is a Actor American born on 28 april 1917 at Oregon (USA)

Robert O. Cornthwaite

Robert O. Cornthwaite
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Nationality USA
Birth 28 april 1917 at Oregon (USA)
Death 20 july 2006 (at 89 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Robert O. Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 – July 20, 2006) was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Cornthwaite was born in Saint Helens, Oregon. He said that his interest in acting began in his early teens, when he was forced to recite one line in a school play.

Best films

The War of the Worlds (1953)
(Actor)

Usually with

Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
(2 films)
Ted Newsom
Ted Newsom
(1 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(4 films)
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Filmography of Robert O. Cornthwaite (30 films)

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Actor

The Naked Monster, 1h26
Directed by Ted Newsom
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Kenneth Tobey, Brinke Stevens, Forrest J Ackerman, John Agar, Jeanne Carmen, Robert Clarke
Roles Dr. Carrington
Rating52% 2.6114952.6114952.6114952.6114952.611495
A colossal series of disasters releases something monstrous from a glacier. Strange disappearances in a small California town attract the attention of a thick-headed sheriff (R.G. Wilson), his transparently uninterested scientist girlfriend (Brinke Stevens) and a visiting government agent (John Goodwin). They discover that a giant green monster is at large, the Creaturesaurus Erectus, ("He wrecked us? He nearly KILLED us!") They turn to experienced monster fighter Colonel Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), who has been locked in a government asylum for decades. With the help of other monster experts, lots of stock footage and incredibly bad special effects, humanity fights back against the "Thing from Another Time Zone".
White Dwarf, 1h30
Directed by Peter Markle
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Paul Winfield, Neal McDonough, CCH Pounder, Beverley Mitchell, David St. James, James Morrison
Roles King Joist of the Dark Side
Rating62% 3.1476653.1476653.1476653.1476653.147665
In the year 3040, New York medical student Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) is completing his internship on Rusta, a rural planet which due to it being tidally locked to its primary, is divided into contrasting halves of day and night with the halves separated by a wall. The two sides are involved in a civil war: The day side containing a Victorian-styled colony is at odds with the night containing a medieval kingdom. The differences between the two cultures leaves Rampart in a state of wonder. Rampart arrives from Earth for a six-month stint at the Light Side clinic run by Dr. Akada (Paul Winfield). Rampart's ambition is to eventually set up a private practice in Manhattan on Park Avenue.
Matinee
Matinee (1993)
, 1h39
Directed by Joe Dante
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Political films
Actors John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, Lisa Jakub, Simon Fenton
Roles Dr. Flankon
Rating68% 3.446913.446913.446913.446913.44691
In Key West, Florida in 1962, boys Gene Loomis (Fenton) and his brother Dennis (Lee) live on a military base (N.A.S. Key West); their father is away on a nearby submarine. After hearing the announcement of an exclusive engagement of Lawrence Woolsey's (Goodman) new sensational horror film Mant! ("Half man! Half ant!" "in Atomo-Vision and Rumble-Rama!"), including Woolsey's appearance in-person, they arrive home to President Kennedy's television interruption, stating the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Woolsey finds this atmosphere of fear to be the perfect environment in which to open his atomic-radiation-themed film.
Deal of the Century, 1h39
Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, Sigourney Weaver, Vince Edwards, Wallace Shawn, Richard Libertini
Rating46% 2.3031652.3031652.3031652.3031652.303165
Eddie Muntz (Chase) is a small-time American arms dealer who talks his way into a job with a large defense corporation selling high-tech military unmanned aerial vehicles to a South American dictator (William Marquez). Muntz arrives in war-torn and impoverished "San Miguel" to sell weapons to both its leader and the rebels seeking his ouster.
Doctor Detroit, 1h30
Directed by Michael Pressman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Parley Baer, Howard Hesseman, Fran Drescher, Blackie Dammett, Donna Dixon
Roles Professor Blount
Rating52% 2.6009552.6009552.6009552.6009552.600955
A introverted geek, Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd), is a professor of comparative literature at the financially strapped (fictional) Monroe College in Chicago.
Love's Savage Fury, 1h40
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors Jennifer O'Neill, Perry King, Jennifer O'Dell, Raymond Burr, Robert Reed, Debbi Morgan
Roles Dr. Tighe
Rating56% 2.845542.845542.845542.845542.84554
Pendant la Guerre de Sécession, une jeune femme sudiste essaie de tenir son foyer quand les Nordistes envahissent la région.
Futureworld, 1h44
Directed by Richard T. Heffron
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films set in the future, Dystopian films, Robot films
Actors Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner, John P. Ryan, John P. Ryan
Roles Mr. Reed
Rating57% 2.8526552.8526552.8526552.8526552.852655
Two years after the Westworld tragedy (the date June 20, 1985, is seen on the check presented to the game show winner in the opening scene), the Delos corporation owners have reopened the park following $1.5 billion in safety improvements. For publicity purposes, newspaper reporter Chuck Browning (Peter Fonda) and TV reporter Tracy Ballard (Blythe Danner) are invited to review the park. Just before the junket is announced, Browning arranges to meet with a Delos employee who promises he has dirt on the corporation. During the meeting, the tipster is shot in the back and dies after giving Browning an envelope.
The Devil's Daughter
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, Jonathan Frid, Martha Scott, Joseph Cotten
Roles Pastor Dixon
Rating58% 2.908322.908322.908322.908322.90832
Away from her mother for a time, Diane returns to learn a marriage has been arranged for her. Before long, she comes to learn there may be sinister conditions for that marriage, and learns who is behind them.
Colossus: The Forbin Project, 1h40
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about computing, Films about mathematics, Politique, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Georg Stanford Brown, Marion Ross
Roles First Scientist
Rating70% 3.547173.547173.547173.547173.54717
Dr. Charles A. Forbin (Eric Braeden) is the chief designer of a secret government project that has built "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapons systems. Being encased within a mountain, it is impervious to attack, powered by its own nuclear reactor. When Colossus is activated, the President of the United States (Gordon Pinsent) announces its existence, proudly proclaiming it a perfect defense system.
Waterhole #3, 1h31
Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Claude Akins, Margaret Blye, Timothy Carey, Bruce Dern
Roles George - Hotel Clerk
Rating61% 3.050513.050513.050513.050513.05051
A shipment of gold bullion is stolen by three men in Arizona and buried near Waterhole No. 3. One of them is killed by Lewton Cole, who discovers a map to the buried treasure scrawled on a $20 bill.
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken, 1h30
Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Don Knotts, Liam Redmond, Joan Staley, Sandra Gould, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier
Roles Springer
Rating71% 3.595453.595453.595453.595453.59545
Luther Heggs is a typesetter at the newspaper in Rachel, Kansas, but aspires to be a reporter. One night, observing what he believes to be a murder outside of an old, supposedly haunted house known as the Simmons Mansion, Heggs rushes to the police station with his scoop. Unfortunately, as he relates the details of his story to the Chief of Police, the murder "victim" walks into the room, a local drunk who had merely been whacked unconscious by his irate wife, who had brought him in to be locked up. The next morning, Heggs walks downstairs to the dining room at the Natalie Miller boarding house and overhears Ollie Weaver (Homeier), a full-time reporter at the newspaper, mocking his mistakes of the night before; Ollie is also dating Heggs' love interest, Alma Parker (Joan Staley). According to local lore, the Simmons Mansion was a "murder house" (murder and suicide) 20 years earlier, when Mr. Simmons murdered his wife (with some unknown sharp instrument that was never located - ultimately revealed to be a pair of gardener's pruning shears), and then jumped to his death from the organ loft. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Simmons can still occasionally be heard playing the organ at midnight.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 2h8
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Vieillesse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Gina Gillespie, Wesley Addy, Maidie Norman
Roles Dr. Shelby
Rating79% 3.999133.999133.999133.999133.99913
In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a vaudevillian child star while her sister Blanche Hudson is not famous and overlooked by their father. By 1935, both sisters are movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters (implied to be Blanche) gets out of the car to open the garage door, while the driver (implied to be Jane) attempts to run her over, misses, and crashes into the garage. The accident leaves Blanche paralyzed.