Robert Warwick

actor, producer

Robert Warwick was born on Oct 09, 1878 in USA. Robert Warwick's big-screen debut came with The Dollar Mark directed by O.A.C. Lund in 1914, strarring James 'Jim' Gresham. Robert Warwick is known for The Law and Mr. Jones directed by David Alexander, James Whitmore stars as Abraham Lincoln Jones and Janet De Gore as Marsha Spear. The upcoming new tvshow Robert Warwick plays is The Law and Mr. Jones - Season 2 which will be released on Oct 07, 1960.

A prominent matinée stage and silent-film star with handsome features offset only slightly by a prominent proboscis, Robert Warwick was born and raised in Sacramento, California, as Robert Taylor Bien. The gift of music was instilled at an early age (he sang in his church choir) and he initially prepared for an operatic career. Studying vocally in Paris, he abandoned legit singing for acting after being hired in 1903 to understudy in the Broadway play "Glad of It". He grew quickly in stature in such popular stage roles as "Vronsky" in "Anna Karenina" (1907), and was a strong presence in the musical operettas "The Kiss Waltz" (1911) and "The Princess" (1912), the latter featuring his first wife, actress Josephine Whittell.With effortless charm, Warwick segued into romantic film roles, playing dashing leads in Jimmy le mystérieux (1915), The Face in the Moonlight (1915), The Heart of a Hero (1916)--in which he portrayed Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale--Folie d'amour (1917) and A Girl's Folly (1917). At one point he even formed his own production company, Robert Warwick Film Corp. The company produced four films before Warwick temporarily left Hollywood in 1917 to serve in WWI as an infantry captain.In the 1920s he shifted between Broadway and film leads. His well-modulated voice proved ideal for sound pictures, and he subsequently enjoyed a long career (over 200 films) in grand, authoritative character parts. Among his plethora of movie roles were "Neptune" in Night Life of the Gods (1935), "Col. Gray" in Shirley Temple's Le petit colonel (1935), "Sir Francis Knolly" in Marie Stuart (1936) and "Lord Montague" in the Norma Shearer/Leslie Howard starrer Roméo et Juliette (1936). He also was seen to fine advantage in several of Errol Flynn's rousing costumers such as Le prince et le pauvre (1937), Les aventures de Robin des Bois (1938), La vie privée d'Elisabeth d'Angleterre (1939), and L'aigle des mers (1940). A grand, stately gent, he was often seen impersonating high-ranking military officers, dapper businessmen or stern but benevolent father figure types. The legendary Preston Sturges utilized his services, giving him small roles in Gouverneur malgré lui (1940), Le gros lot (1940) and Un coeur pris au piège (1941) before handing him a standout part as an avuncular studio mogul in Les voyages de Sullivan (1941).For the most part, however, Warwick was humbled into playing smaller, serviceable roles in adventures and crime dramas, with many of these characters embracing unyielding traditionalist values. Other exceptions to this rule were his hammy, downtrodden Hollywood actor "Charlie Waterman" in Le violent (1950) and his dying tycoon in La cinquième victime (1956). Warwick continued performing well into his 80s. Primarily on TV in his twilight years, he could be spotted frequently on such programs as La quatrième dimension (1959), Maverick (1957) and Le Jeune Docteur Kildare (1961). Divorced from his first wife, he survived his second, actress Stella Lattimore (1905-1960), before dying in 1964 following an extended illness. He had one daughter by his first wife; Rosalind, who bore him two grandchildren, and with his second wife another daughter, Betsey, who was a prominent published poet in Los Angeles and was buried next to her father at Holy Cross Cemetary in Los Angeles in 2007.