Willard Robertson

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Nationality USA
Birth 31 december 1885
Death 5 april 1948 (at 62 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Willard Robertson (January 1, 1886 – April 5, 1948) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in 147 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California.

Willard Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting. He appeared on Broadway in 16 plays between 1907 and 1930. Robertson played supporting roles in many Hollywood films from 1930 until the year he died, typically portraying men of authority such as doctors, elected officials, military officers and also lawyers. He played Jackie Cooper's stern but loving father in the oscar-winning drama Skippy (1931) and its sequel Sooky (1931). Robertson also portrayed a flamboyant lawyer in Remember the Night (1940) and the straight sheriff in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).

Willard Robertson was also a notable writer of numerous plays, two of them were adapted into films. He also wrote the novel Moontide which was turned into Archie Mayo's drama thriller Moontide (1942) starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino.

Biography

Au théâtre, Willard Robertson joue à Broadway (New York) entre 1907 et 1930, dans quinze pièces, dont The Warrens of Virginia de William C. de Mille en 1907-1908, aux côtés de Cecil B. DeMille (qu'il retrouvera à l'écran, notamment sur Pacific Express en 1939) et de Mary Pickford (faisant ses débuts à Broadway). Il est lui-même l'auteur de quatre pièces représentées sur les planches new-yorkaises (dont la dernière qu'il y interprète, en 1930), l'une qu'il met également en scène, et deux qui seront ensuite portées à l'écran.

Au cinéma, excepté un film muet en 1924, sa carrière d'acteur (comme second rôle de caractère) se déroule durant la période du parlant, avec cent-quarante-quatre films américains (dont des westerns) de 1930 à 1948, année de sa mort. Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Je suis un évadé de Mervyn LeRoy (1932, avec Paul Muni et Glenda Farrell), L'Odyssée des Mormons d'Henry King (1940, avec Dean Jagger et Tyrone Power), ou encore La Brune de mes rêves d'Elliott Nugent (1947, avec Bob Hope et Dorothy Lamour).

On doit aussi à Willard Robertson trois romans, dont Moontide (publié en 1940), adapté au cinéma sous le même titre original (titre français : La Péniche de l'amour ; film d'Archie Mayo sorti en 1942, avec Jean Gabin et Ida Lupino).

Best films

Moontide

(1942)
(Novel)

Skippy

(1931)
(Actor)

Usually with

Orry-Kelly
(15 films)

Leo F. Forbstein
(15 films)

Hal B. Wallis
(15 films)

James Flavin
(14 films)

Hans Dreier
(13 films)

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Willard Robertson (118 films)

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Year	Name	Job	Roles
1948	Fury at Furnace Creek	Actor	Gen. Leads
1948	Sitting Pretty	Actor	Mr. Ashcroft
1947	My Favorite Brunette	Actor	Prison Warden
1947	Deep Valley	Actor	Sheriff Akers
1946	To Each His Own	Actor	Dr. Hunt
1946	Gallant Journey	Actor	Zachary Montgomery
1946	The Virginian	Actor
1946	Renegades	Actor	Nathan Brockway
1946	Perilous Holiday	Actor	Graeme
1945	Along Came Jones	Actor	Luke Packard
1944	Nine Girls	Actor	Capt. Brooks
1943	The Ox-Bow Incident	Actor	Sheriff Risley
1943	No Time for Love	Actor	Construction Company President
1943	Air Force	Actor	Colonel at Hickam Field
1943	Background to Danger	Actor	'Mac' McNamara
1942	Moontide	Novel
1942	Wake Island	Actor	Col. Cameron
1942	Juke Girl	Actor	Mister Just
1941	Sullivan's Travels	Actor
1941	I Wanted Wings	Actor	Judge Advocate
1941	The Monster and the Girl	Actor	Lieutenant Strickland
1941	Texas	Actor	Rancher Wilson
1941	The Night of January 16th	Actor	Inspector Donegan
1940	Remember the Night	Actor	Francis X. O'Leary
1940	Brigham Young	Actor	Heber Kimball
1940	North West Mounted Police	Actor	Supt. Harrington
1940	Castle on the Hudson	Actor	Ragan
1940	Lucky Cisco Kid	Actor	Judge McQuade
1940	My Little Chickadee	Actor	Uncle John
1939	Jesse James	Actor	Clarke
1939	Union Pacific	Actor	Oakes Ames
1939	Each Dawn I Die	Actor	Lang
1939	Range War	Actor	Buck Collins
1939	Heritage of the Desert	Actor	Henchman Nebraska
1939	My Son Is a Criminal	Actor	Tom Halloran Sr.
1939	Main Street Lawyer	Actor	John Ralston
1938	You and Me	Actor	Dayton
1938	Gangs of New York	Actor	Inspector Sullivan
1938	Island in the Sky	Actor	Walter Rhodes
1938	Kentucky	Actor	Bob Slocum
1938	Men with Wings	Actor	Col. Hadley
1938	Torchy Gets Her Man	Actor	Charles Gilbert
1938	Gangs of New York	Actor	Inspector Sullivan
1937	Larceny on the Air	Actor	Inspector 'Mac' McDonald
1937	Park Avenue Logger	Actor	Ben Morton
1937	This Is My Affair	Actor	George Andrews
1937	The Go-Getter	Actor	Matt Peasely
1937	Hot Water	Actor	Dr. Enfield
1937	Exclusive	Actor	Mr. Franklin
1937	John Meade's Woman	Actor	Man
1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Actor	Secretary Ingham
1936	The Last of the Mohicans	Actor	Captain Winthrop
1936	That Girl from Paris	Actor	Immigration Officer (uncredited)
1936	Three Godfathers	Actor	Reverend McLane
1936	Winterset	Actor	Policeman in the Square
1936	Wanted: Jane Turner	Actor	Walter Davies
1936	I Married a Doctor	Actor	Guy Pollock
1935	Black Fury	Actor
1935	Dante's Inferno	Actor	Inspector Harris
1935	O'Shaughnessy's Boy	Actor	Dan Hastings
1935	Oil for the Lamps of China	Actor	Speaker
1935	The Old Homestead	Actor	Uncle Jed
1935	Laddie	Actor	Mr. John Stanton
1934	Housewife	Actor	Judge Edwin A. Matthews
1934	Gambling Lady	Actor	District Attorney
1934	Death on the Diamond	Actor	Cato
1934	He Was Her Man	Actor	Police Captain
1934	Heat Lightning	Actor	Everett Marshall
1934	Here Comes the Navy	Actor	Executive Officer
1934	Murder in the Private Car	Actor	Hanks
1934	Operator 13	Actor	Captain Channing
1934	Upperworld	Actor	Police Captain Reynolds
1934	Whirlpool	Actor	Judge Jim Morrison
1934	Two Alone	Actor	George Marshall
1934	The Secret Bride	Actor	Representative Grosvenor
1934	The Secret Bride	Actor	Representative Grosvenor
1934	Dark Hazard	Actor	Bill 'Billy' Fallen
1934	Let's Talk It Over	Actor	Dr. Preston
1934	Elinor Norton	Actor	Ranch Foreman
1933	Tugboat Annie	Actor	Red Severn
1933	Frisco Jenny	Actor	Police Capt. Tom
1933	Central Airport	Actor	Havana Airport Manager
1933	Ever in My Heart	Actor	Kennel Caretaker
1933	Another Language	Actor	Harry Hallam
1933	Female	Actor	Department Head (Uncredited)
1933	Lady Killer	Actor	Detective Conroy
1933	Roman Scandals	Actor	Warren Finley Cooper
1933	Supernatural	Actor	Prison Warden
1933	Destination Unknown	Actor	Joe Shano
1933	Wild Boys of the Road	Actor	Captain of Detectives
1933	Trick for Trick	Actor	Dr. Frank Fitzgerald
1932	Doctor X	Actor	Detective O'Halloran
1932	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Actor	Prison Board Chairman
1932	Behind the Mask	Actor	Capt. E.J. Hawkes
1932	Call Her Savage	Actor	Pete Springer
1932	If I Had a Million	Actor	Fred - Glidden Associate (uncredited)
1932	Okay, America!	Actor	Bit Role
1932	Virtue	Actor	Detective MacKenzie
1932	Wild Girl	Actor	Red Pete
1932	The Gay Caballero	Actor	Major Lawrence Blount
1932	Tom Brown of Culver	Actor	Capt. White
1932	The Broken Wing	Actor	Sylvester Cross
1932	Guilty as Hell	Actor	Police Sgt. Alcock
1932	The Gay Caballero	Actor	Major Lawrence Blount
1932	The Famous Ferguson Case	Actor	Sheriff
1931	City Streets	Actor
1931	Graft	Actor	E. T. Scudder
1931	Shanghaied Love	Actor	Newman
1931	Skippy	Actor	Herbert Skinner
1931	Fair Warning	Actor	Tex Calder
1931	Sooky	Actor	Herbert Skinner
1931	The Cisco Kid	Actor	Enos Hankins
1931	Silence	Actor	Phil Powers
1931	The Ruling Voice	Actor	Ed Bailey
1931	Fair Warning	Actor	Tex Calder
1930	The Last of the Duanes	Actor	Texas Ranger Captain
1925	Why Women Love	Theatre Play
1924	Daughters of the Night	Actor, Scriptwriter	Professor Woodbury