Robert Preston

Robert Preston

June 8, 1918 · 108 years old

Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his fi…

Known For

17 titles
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The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter

1984 · 1h 40m · Movie

High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best starfighters to defend their world from the ...

6.7
2
Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria

1982 · 2h 14m · Movie

A struggling female soprano in 1934 Paris finally finds work after posing as a female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life when a visiting Chicago gangster finds himself inexplicably attracted to the seemingly male p...

7.6
3
How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

1962 · 2h 44m · Movie

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

7.1
4
The Music Man

The Music Man

1962 · 2h 31m · Movie

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

7.7
5
This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire

1942 · 1h 21m · Movie

When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.

7.4
6
Junior Bonner

Junior Bonner

1972 · 1h 40m · Movie

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.

6.7
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S.O.B.

S.O.B.

1981 · 2h 2m · Movie

A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

6.4
8
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1939 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.

7.5
9
Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · 2h 3m · Movie

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

6.6
10
Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough

1977 · 1h 48m · Movie

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

5.9
11
Union Pacific

Union Pacific

1939 · 2h 15m · Movie

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.

7.0
12
Mame

Mame

1974 · 2h 12m · Movie

Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt.

5.9
13
Wake Island

Wake Island

1942 · 1h 28m · Movie

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

6.7
14
North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

1940 · 2h 6m · Movie

In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.

6.3
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The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

1955 · 1h 38m · Movie

A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.

6.3
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Child's Play

Child's Play

1972 · 1h 40m · Movie

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

6.2
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Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith

1948 · 1h 28m · Movie

Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.

6.6