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Robert Easton

 
Actor: Robert Easton
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  • Born: Nov 23, 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Occupation: Actor, Writer
  • Active: '50s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Neverending Story, Mr. Sycamore, The Nun and the Sergeant
  • First Major Screen Credit: When Hell Broke Loose (1958)

Biography

Though born in Milwaukee, actor Robert Easton has earned much of his cinematic bread and butter playing Southerners. Easton first gained national attention as one of the "Quiz Kids" on the radio series of the same name. In films from 1949, the gangling Easton was often seen as a blank-faced, slow-talking hayseed. Actually, Easton's Southern cadence is but one tiny aspect of his talent; for the past three decades, he has been acknowledged and celebrated as Hollywood's leading dialectician and vocal coach. Stars ranging from Gregory Peck to Sir Laurence Olivier have sought out Easton's services to instruct them in the intricacies of specific regional and ethnic dialects. Robert Easton continues to appear in rustic codger roles in such films as The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and Needful Things (1993); recently, Easton was forced to bypass his vast repertoire of existing dialects and come up with a wholly original speech pattern for his role as a Klingon judge in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1994). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Robert Easton
Born November 23, 1930 (1930-11-23) (age 78)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Robert Easton (born November 23, 1930) is an American actor whose career in film and television spans more than 60 years. His mastery of English dialect has earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices", For decades he has been a leading Hollywood dialogue or accent coach.

Easton was born Robert Easton Burke in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Mary Easton (née Kloes) and John Edward Burke.[1]

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Radio

Beginning in 1945, he was heard on radio's Quiz Kids. He portrayed Magnus Proudfoot on radio's Gunsmoke and also appeared in other radio programs, including Fibber McGee and Molly, The Fred Allen Show, The Halls of Ivy, Our Miss Brooks, Suspense, William Shakespeare--A Portrait in Sound and The Zero Hour.

Films

On film, one of his earliest appearances was in The Red Badge of Courage. He appeared in the feature film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Sparks (a variation on Stingray's "Phones"). One of his more unusual voices was that of a Klingon judge for the movie, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country. He appeared in Gods and Generals (2003) as John Janney, and he recently starred in Spiritual Warriors (2007).

Television

On television, he made many guest appearances and also provided the voices of "Phones" and "X-2-0" in Gerry Anderson's Stingray.

During the late 1940s through the 1960s, he was mostly known for his portrayal of a slow-talking, blankfaced hicks (as in The Munsters episode, "All-Star Munster" as Moose Mallory).

In the Get Smart episode "The Little Black Book", he displayed a crisp German accent as the Maestro. Chuck Connors played Sylvester J. Superman on The Adventures of Superman in the 1955 episode "Flight to the North," and Easton was Marvin in the 1953 episode, "Runaway Robot."

On "The Beverly Hillbillies" he played one of the hill people in the episode titled"Luke's Boy."

References

  1. ^ Robert Easton Biography (1930-)

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