Robert F. Simon

Robert F. Simon was born on Dec 02, 1908 in USA. Robert F. Simon's big-screen debut came with Where the Sidewalk Ends directed by Otto Preminger in 1950, strarring Insp. Nicholas Foley (uncredited). Robert F. Simon is known for Nancy directed by Jerome Courtland, Renne Jarrett stars as Nancy Smith Hudson and Robert F. Simon as Uncle Everett McPherson. The upcoming new movie Robert F. Simon plays is The Girl in the Empty Grave which will be released on Sep 20, 1977.

A prolific character actor of imposing presence, Robert F. Simon drifted into acting via the Cleveland Playhouse, hoping that this would cure his natural propensity for shyness. After training at the Actor's Studio in New York he had a ten year run on Broadway (1942-52) in which he cut his teeth -- both as actor and as stage manager -- on anything from drama to musical comedy. In a roundabout way, he was even able to fulfill his original career goal of becoming a traveling salesman: as understudy to the great Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".Robert started in films in 1950, but over the years came often to be typecast in stereotypical roles of benevolent authoritarianism or grouchy executive stress. At times he drew unkind reviews from the critics. He was considerably better served by the small screen, where, for some 35 years, he became a familiar face as generals, police captains, doctors, journalists and attorneys. We may remember him most fondly as George Armstrong Custer's disapproving superior, General Alfred Terry, in Custer (1967); as the sympathetic, long-suffering father of Darren Stephens in Ma sorcière bien aimée (1964); or as Maynard M. Mitchell, one of the wackiest of generals ever to have served in the Korean War (or any other war, for that matter), in M.A.S.H. (1972).