Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of
Father Knows BestFather Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...
(
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and then
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) and
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Marcus Welby in
Marcus Welby, M.D.Marcus Welby, M.D. is a medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...
(
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
).
Born in
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
,
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, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father (Thomas E. Young) and an American mother (Margaret Fife). When Young was a child, the family moved to Seattle and then to
Los AngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...
where he
attended Abraham Lincoln High School.
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of
Father Knows BestFather Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...
(
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
and then
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
) and
physicianA physician — also known as medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, medical doctor, or simply doctor — practices the ancient profession of medicine, which is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease or injury...
Marcus Welby in
Marcus Welby, M.D.Marcus Welby, M.D. is a medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...
(
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
).
Early life
Born in
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
,
IllinoisIllinois , the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation...
, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father (Thomas E. Young) and an American mother (Margaret Fife). When Young was a child, the family moved to Seattle and then to
Los AngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...
where he
attended Abraham Lincoln High School. After graduation, he studied and performed at the
Pasadena PlayhouseThe Pasadena Playhouse is a historic theatre located in Pasadena, California.-History:The Playhouse's history began in 1917 when actor/director Gilmor Brown began producing a season of plays at an old burlesque house he called the Savoy...
while working odd jobs and appearing in bit parts in silent films. While touring with a stock company production of
The Ship, Young was discovered by an MGM talent scout and signed to a contract. He made his
sound filmA sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially...
debut for MGM in the 1931
Charlie ChanCharlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1923 for a novel published in 1925. Biggers conceived of the character as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes; unlike such villains as Fu Manchu, Chan is portrayed as non-threatening and benevolent...
film
Black Camel.
Film career
In spite of having a "tier B" status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses such as
Margaret SullavanMargaret Brooke Sullavan . Margaret Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. Sullavan started her career on the stage in 1929. She was especially known for her effortless acting and her distinctive throaty voice. In 1933 she caught the attention of movie director John M...
,
Norma ShearerEdith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the mid-1920s until her retirement in 1942...
,
Joan CrawfordJoan Crawford was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925...
,
Helen HayesHelen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of only ten people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award...
,
Luise RainerLuise Rainer is a German film actress. Of living Academy Awards winners, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscar. At 99, she is also the oldest living recipient of a non-honorary Academy Award.-Early life and career:...
, and
Helen TwelvetreesHelen Twelvetrees was an American stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of sound films.- Early life and career :...
, among many others. Yet most of his assignments comprised B-movies, also known as programmers, which required a mere two to three weeks of shooting. Actors who were relegated to such a hectic schedule appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year.
As an MGM contract player, Young was resigned to the fate of most of his colleagues—to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension—and many actors on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all (even those unrelated to the film industry). In 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont-British for two films; the first was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the other co-starring
Jessie MatthewsJessie Matthews, OBE was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period.-Early life:...
, and while there he surmised that his employers intended to terminate his contract. But he was mistaken.
He unexpectedly received one of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in
H.M. Pulham, Esq., featuring one of
Hedy LamarrHedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and scientist. Though known primarily for her acting , she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum communications technology, a key to modern wireless communication.-Early life and career in Europe:Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler...
's rarely lauded performances, and once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which
Robert MontgomeryRobert Montgomery was an Scottish/American actor and director.-Early life:Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr. His early childhood was one of privilege, since his father was president of the...
and other
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actors had rejected.
After his contract at MGM ended, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as
20th Century FoxTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox, is one of the six major American film studios...
,
United ArtistsUnited Artists Entertainment LLC is an American film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company...
, and RKO. From 1943, Young assayed more challenging roles in the films,
Claudia,
The Enchanted CottageThe Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 romantic film fantasy starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero.-Plot summary:...
,
They Won't Believe MeThey Won't Believe Me is a 1947 drama film starring Susan Hayward. The black-and-white film noir was directed by Irving Pichel. The film was produced by Alfred Hitchcock's longtime assistant and collaborator, Joan Harrison.-Plot:...
,
The Second WomanThe Second Woman is a black-and-white film noir melodrama directed by James V. Kern-Plot:This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan . He's a successful architect who is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding...
, and
CrossfireCrossfire is a film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the novel The Brick Foxhole by...
, among many others. His portrayal of unsympathetic characters in several of these latter films — which seldom occurred in his MGM pictures — was applauded by numerous reviewers.
In spite of a propitious beginning as a freelance actor without the nurturing of a major studio, Young's career began an incremental and imperceptible decline. Still starring as a leading man in the late 1940s and early 1950s but in mediocre films, he subsequently disappeared from the silver screen, only to reappear several years later on a much smaller one. Young appeared in 100 movies in a film career that spanned from 1931 to 1952.
Television
Young is best known for his role in
Father Knows BestFather Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...
(1949-1954 on radio, 1954-1960 on television), for which he and his co-star,
Jane WyattJane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television series Father Knows Best and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television show, Star Trek...
, won several
Emmy AwardThe Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...
s. Young then created, produced, and starred with
Ford RaineyFord Rainey was an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Rainey was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, the son of Vyrna , a teacher, and Archie Coleman Rainey. Rainey graduated from Centralia Junior College in Washington state and the Cornish Drama School in Seattle. He first acted on...
and
Constance MooreConstance Moore was a singer and actress. Her most noted work was in wartime musicals such as Show Business and Atlantic City and the classic 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers, in which she played Wilma Deering, the only female character in the serial.Moore was born in Sioux City, Iowa but spent most...
in the
nostalgiaThe term nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form.The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of , nóstos, "returning home", a Homeric word, and , álgos, "pain" or "ache"...
CBS comedy series
Window on Main StreetWindow on Main Street is an American comedy-drama series starring Robert Young, which aired on CBS during the 1961-1962 season. The series was created by Roswell Rogers and produced by series star Robert Young.-Synopsis:...
(1961–1962) which only lasted six months.
Young later became famous for
Marcus Welby, M.D.Marcus Welby, M.D. is a medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...
(1969–1976), which co-starred a young
James BrolinJames Brolin is an American television, film, character actor, producer, and director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television....
, for which he won an Emmy for best leading actor in a drama series. Young became so well identified with his wise doctor persona that he became famous as the commercial spokesman for an aspirin product, saying, "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV", while wearing a lab coat. He continued making television commercials until the late 1980s.
Personal life
Young was married to Betty Henderson from 1933 until her death in 1994. They had four daughters.
Despite the fact that he portrayed happy, well-adjusted characters, Young suffered from depression and
alcoholismAlcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions. In common and historic usage, alcoholism is any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, despite health problems and negative social consequences...
, which contributed to his
suicideSuicide is the intentional killing of one's self. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"...
attempt in 1991. Afterwards he spoke candidly about his problems in an effort to encourage people to seek help with their own. The Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health,
an affiliate of Trinity Regional Health System, located in Rock Island, Illinois, is a comprehensive community mental health center. It is named after Young for his work with passage of the 708 Illinois Tax Referendum.
Young died at his home in
Westlake Village, CaliforniaWestlake Village is an incorporated city located on the western edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city, located in the region known as the Conejo Valley, encompasses half of the area surrounding Westlake Lake, and small neighborhoods primarily south of U.S. Route 101 and...
at 91 from
respiratory failureThe term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood oxygenation is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial...
. He was interred at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park CemeteryForest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, in the United States. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California...
, in
Glendale, CaliforniaGlendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
. Young has two stars on the
Hollywood Walk of FameThe Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment museum...
, one for film at 6933 Hollywood Blvd and one for television at 6358.
Selected filmography
| Film |
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes |
| 1931 |
The Sin of Madelon ClaudetThe Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 American drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock...
|
Dr. Lawrence Claudet |
Alternative title: The Lullaby |
| The Guilty Generation The Guilty Generation is a 1931 drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Leo Carrillo and featuring Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Leo Carrillo - Mike Palmiero* Constance Cummings - Maria Palmiero* Robert Young - Marco Ricca - aka John Smith...
|
Marco Ricca - aka John Smith |
| 1932 |
Strange Interlude Strange Interlude is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill.-Plot:...
|
Gordon Evans as a Young Man |
Alternative title: Strange Interval |
| 1933 |
Today We Live Today We Live is a 1933 film starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, and Franchot Tone. The film is based on Turnabout by William Faulkner...
|
Claude |
| Hell Below Hell Below is a MGM film set in the Adriatic during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats, starring Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Robert Young, Madge Evans, and Jimmy Durante....
|
Lieutenant (JG) Ed "Brick" Walters |
| Tugboat Annie Tugboat Annie is a 1933 movie starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat...
|
Alexander "Alec" Brennan |
| 1934 |
The House of Rothschild |
Captain Fitzroy |
| 1935 |
West Point of the Air West Point of the Air is a 1935 film starring Wallace Beery, about pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 1930's. The supporting cast includes Robert Young, Lewis Stone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Taylor. The movie was directed by Richard Rosson...
|
Little Mike Stone |
| 1936 |
Secret Agent |
Robert Marvin |
| Stowaway Stowaway is a 1936 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay by William M. Conselman, Nat Perrin, and Arthur Sheekman is based on a story by Samuel Engel. The film is about a young orphan called 'Ching Ching' who stows away on a ship and is adopted by Tommy Randall and...
|
Tommy Randall |
| 1937 |
I Met Him in Paris I Met Him in Paris is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young.-Cast:*Claudette Colbert as Kay Denham*Melvyn Douglas as George Potter...
|
Gene Anders |
| The Emperor's Candlesticks The Emperor's Candlesticks is a 1937 film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer based on the novel by Baroness Orczy. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice....
|
Grand Duke Peter |
| The Bride Wore Red The Bride Wore Red is a 1937 motion picture, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young and Billie Burke. In this "rags to riches" tale, Crawford plays a cabaret singer who poses as an aristocrat...
|
Rudi Pal |
| Navy Blue and Gold Navy Blue and Gold is a 1937 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film starring Robert Young, James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore.-Cast:*Robert Young ... Roger Ash*James Stewart ... "Truck" Cross*Lionel Barrymore ... Captain "Skinny" Dawes...
|
Roger "Rog" Ash |
| 1938 |
Paradise for Three Paradise for Three, titled Romance for Three in the United Kingdom, is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Frank Morgan as a wealthy industrialist who decides to find out about his German workers by temporarily living among them incognito...
|
Fritz Hagedorn |
Alternative title: Romance for Three |
| Three Comrades Three Comrades 1938 is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque...
|
Gottfried Lenz |
| The Toy Wife The Toy Wife is a 1938 drama film directed by Richard Thorpe. The period film was produced by Merian C. Cooper, written by Zoe Akins and had Luise Rainer and Melvyn Douglas in the leading roles.-Plot:...
|
Andre Vallaire |
| The Shining Hour The Shining Hour is a 1938 MGM film, based on a 1934 play by Keith Winter. The film starred Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Fay Bainter, and Margaret Sullavan.-Plot Summary:...
|
David Linden |
| 1939 |
Honolulu Honolulu is an American musical film that was released by MGM in 1939. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, and was directed by Edward Buzzell....
|
Brooks Mason/George Smith |
| Maisie Maisie is a 1939 comedy film starring Robert Young and Ann Sothern, based on the novel Dark Dame by Wilson Collison. It was the first of ten films starring Sothern as Maisie Ravier. In Mary C. McCall, Jr.'s screenplay, Maisie is stranded penniless in a small Wyoming town, takes a job as a ranch...
|
Charles "Slim" Martin |
| Miracles for Sale Miracles for Sale is a mystery film directed by Tod Browning and starring Robert Young and Florence Rice. It was Browning's final film as a director. The film is based on a locked-room mystery novel by well-known mystery writer Clayton Rawson, Death from a Top Hat, which was the first to feature...
|
Michael "Mike" Morgan |
| 1940 |
Northwest Passage |
Langdon Towne |
| The Mortal Storm The Mortal Storm is a 1940 film that was one of the most direct anti-Nazi Hollywood films released before the American entry into the Second World War. It stars James Stewart as a German who refuses to join the rest of his small Bavarian town in supporting Nazism...
|
Fritz Marberg |
| 1941 |
Western Union Western Union is a 1941 western feature film directed by Fritz Lang. Filmed in Technicolor on location in Arizona and Utah, Western Union tells the story of a reformed outlaw named Vance Shaw who tries to make good by joining the team wiring the Great Plains for telegraph service in 1861...
|
Douglas "Doug" Lamont |
Lady Be GoodLady Be Good is the title of an MGM musical film which was released in 1941.The film starred dancer Eleanor Powell along with Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Arthur Freed...
|
Edward "Eddie" Crane |
| Journey for Margaret Journey for Margaret is a 1942 drama film set in London in World War II. It stars Robert Young and Laraine Day as a couple who have to deal with the loss of their unborn child due to a bombing raid. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by William Lindsay White.-Plot:John Davis is a...
|
John Davis |
| 1943 |
Slightly Dangerous Slightly Dangerous is a romantic comedy film starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. A bored young woman in a dead-end job runs away to New York City and ends up impersonating the long-lost daughter of a millionaire...
|
Bob Stuart |
| Sweet Rosie O'Grady Sweet Rosie O'Grady is a 1943 musical film about an American singer who attempts to better herself by marrying an English duke, but is harassed by a reporter...
|
Sam MacKeever |
| 1944 |
The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost is a 1944 fantasy/comedy film directed by Jules Dassin. It starred Charles Laughton as a ghost doomed to haunt a castle.It was remade as a TV movie in 1986 and again in 1996.-Plot:...
|
Cuffy Williams |
| 1946 |
Lady Luck Lady Luck is a Hollywood comedy film released in 1946, starring Robert Young and Barbara Hale. It tells the story of a professional gambler who falls in love with a woman who hates gambling.-External links:*...
|
Larry Scott |
| 1947 |
Crossfire |
Finlay |
| 1948 |
Sitting Pretty |
Harry King |
| 1949 |
That Forsyte WomanThat Forsyte Woman is a 1949 romance film starring Greer Garson, Errol Flynn, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young and Janet Leigh...
|
Philip Bosinney |
Alternative title: The Forsyte Saga |
| Bride for Sale Bride for Sale is a 1949 film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by William D. Russell, and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Young and George Brent. The music score is by Frederick Hollander. Trite comedy.-Plot:...
|
Steve Adams |
| 1951 |
Goodbye, My Fancy Goodbye, My Fancy is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young, and Frank Lovejoy in a light tale about a woman and her old flame. The screenplay by Ivan Goff was based upon a 1948 play by Kay Fanin. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke...
|
Doctor James Merrill |
| 1954 |
Secret of the IncasSecret of the Incas is an adventure film starring Charlton Heston as adventurer Harry Steele, on the trail of an ancient Incan artifact.-Cast:*Charlton Heston as Harry Steele, adventurer*Robert Young as Stanley Moorhead...
|
Stanley Moorehead |
| Television |
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 1954 |
The Ford Television Theatre Ford Theatre is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times, the television was to appear on all of the then-three major U.S television networks, while the radio version also was broadcast on two separate networks and on two...
|
Tom Warren |
1 episode |
| 1954-1960 |
Father Knows Best Father Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...
|
Jim Anderson |
203 episodes |
| 1955 |
Climax! |
Lieutenant Commander Knowles |
1 episode |
| 1965 |
Dr. Kildare |
Dr. Gilbert Winfield |
1 episode |
| 1968 |
The Name of the Game The Name of the Game is an American television series that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. The series rotated between three characters working at a large magazine company: a crusading reporter with People magazine — before there was a real-life People...
|
Herman Allison |
1 episode |
| 1969-1976 |
Marcus Welby, M.D.Marcus Welby, M.D. is a medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...
|
Dr. Marcus Welby |
170 episodes |
| 1977 |
Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas |
Jim Anderson |
Television movie |
| 1978 |
Little Women Little Women is a 1978 romantic family drama television film directed by David Lowell Rich and based upon Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Suzanne Clauser...
|
Grandpa James Lawrence |
Television movie |
| 1984 |
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. |
Dr. Marcus Welby |
Television movie |
| 1987 |
American Masters American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on what it considers are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States. It is produced by WNET in New York City...
|
Edward "Eddie" Crane |
1 episode |
| Mercy or Murder? |
Roswell Gilbert |
Television movie |
| A Conspiracy of Love |
Joe Woldarski |
Television movie |
| 1988 |
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair |
Dr. Marcus Welby |
Television movie |
Awards and nominations
| Year |
Award |
Result |
Category |
Film or series |
| 1979 |
BAFTA AwardThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation...
|
Won |
Best Specialised Film |
Twenty Times More Likely |
| 1956 |
Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming...
|
Nominated |
Best Actor - Continuing Performance |
Father Knows Best |
| 1957 |
Won |
Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series |
Father Knows Best |
| 1958 |
Won |
Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic or Comedy Series |
Father Knows Best |
| 1959 |
Nominated |
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Comedy Series |
Father Knows Best |
| 1970 |
Won |
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1971 |
Nominated |
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama |
Vanished |
| Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1972 |
Nominated |
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1970 |
Golden Globe AwardThe Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television...
|
Nominated |
Best TV Actor - Drama |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1971 |
Best TV Actor - Drama |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1972 |
Won |
Best TV Actor - Drama |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1973 |
Nominated |
Best TV Actor - Drama |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 1974 |
Best TV Actor - Drama |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
| 2003 |
TV Land Award |
Nominated |
Classic TV Doctor of the Year |
Marcus Welby, M.D. |
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