Robert Foulk
Acting
- Born:
- 1908-05-05
- Died:
- 1989-02-25
- Place of birth:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert C. Foulk (May 5, 1908 – February 25, 1989) was an American television and film character actor who portrayed Sheriff H. Miller in the CBS series Lassie from 1958 to 1962. Television Between 1953 and 1959, Foulk was in thirteen episodes of the NBC anthology series, The Loretta Young Show. From 1954 to 1957, he was in five episodes as Ed Davis in the sitcom Father Knows Best with Robert Young, when the series aired on NBC. In 1956, he played Jackley in the Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Club serial "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure". In 1957 and 1958, Foulk played the outlaw Curly Bill Brocius in three episodes, "Gunslinger from Galeville", "Ride Out at Noon", and "Skeleton Canyon Massacre", of the western television series Tombstone Territory. In 1958, Foulk portrayed Sheriff Brady in the film, The Left Handed Gun. From 1959 to 1960, he had the recurring role of bartender Joe Kingston in the NBC western series Wichita Town. Foulk appeared in five episodes of The Rifleman. He played the blacksmith Toomey in "The Second Witness" (episode 23), "Three Legged Terror" (episode 30) and "Outlaw's Inheritance" (episode 38). He played Johannson in "The Raid" (episode 37) and Herbert Newman in "The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town" (episode 99). Foulk made four appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, all of them as a law-enforcement officer including the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He appeared as the sheriff of Cloverville, California in the two-part episode of The Untouchables, "The Big Train," which dealt with the attempt to free Al Capone from the train transporting him to Alcatraz. He made thirteen appearances on NBC's Bonanza, mostly as a sheriff or deputy sheriff. He also had recurring roles as Mr. Wheeler and Roy Trendall, former Hooterville phone company president, in sixteen episodes of CBS's Green Acres. In 1960, he guest starred in the TV Western Bat Masterson, playing Judge Pete Perkins, the town's crooked judge in S2E30's "Welcome To Paradise". In the early 1970s, Foulk made four guest appearances on CBS's Here's Lucy in various roles. Personal life and death In the 1930s, Foulk was married to actress Alice Frost. In 1947, he married Barbara Slater, an actress who appeared in two Three Stooges short features. She left Hollywood in the same year. They remained married until his death in 1989. CLR
Known For
Filmography
Lassie: The Miracle
Barbary Coast
Emperor of the North
Kung Fu
Skin Game
Vanishing Point
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Love, American Style
More Dead than Alive
My Friend Tony
The Love Bug
The Split
The Mod Squad
Here's Lucy
Adam-12
The Name of the Game
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Cimarron Strip
Hell on Wheels
Ironside
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Green Acres
Lost in Space
Once a Thief
Sex and the Single Girl
Daniel Boone
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Temple Houston
Channing
A Ticklish Affair
Tammy and the Doctor
The Lucy Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Virginian
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
State Fair
Mister Ed
Stagecoach West
My Three Sons
The Tall Man
Coronado 9
Ocean's Eleven
The Detectives
The Untouchables
Hawaiian Eye
Adventures in Paradise
The Rebel
Dennis the Menace
The Twilight Zone
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Bonanza
The Deputy
Cast a Long Shadow
Ask Any Girl
Go, Johnny, Go!
Gundown at Sandoval
77 Sunset Strip
The Rifleman
The Texan
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Left Handed Gun
Quantrill's Raiders
Jefferson Drum
Hell's Five Hours
Day of the Badman
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Raintree County
The Tall Stranger
Tombstone Territory
My Man Godfrey
The Real McCoys
The Restless Gun
Maverick
Perry Mason
Sierra Stranger
Untamed Youth
Hold That Hypnotist
Last of the Badmen
The Great Man
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
State Trooper
Broken Arrow
The Hardy Boys
The Rawhide Years
Indestructible Man
Backlash
High Tor
Hot Blood
The Spoilers
Rebel Without a Cause
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
Apache Ambush
Strange Lady in Town
East of Eden
Blackboard Jungle
The Bob Cummings Show
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
The Wonderful World of Disney
December Bride
Father Knows Best
Lassie
Public Defender
The Far Country
The Pride of the Family
The Danny Thomas Show
Letter to Loretta
Valley of Head Hunters
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The 49th Man
Remains to Be Seen
A Tale of Two Cities
General Electric Theater
You Are There
The Abbott and Costello Show
The Ford Television Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
Adventures of Superman
O. Henry's Full House
Don't Bother to Knock
Glory Alley
Deadline - U.S.A.
The San Francisco Story
The Sniper
Without Warning!
Singin' in the Rain
Chevron Theatre
The Unknown Man
I Love Lucy
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Whip Hand
The Red Skelton Show
Follow the Sun
Home Town Story
The Lemon Drop Kid
Dial 1119
The Jack Benny Program
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
The Killer That Stalked New York
Mister 880
A Lady Without Passport
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Mystery Street
The Bob Hope Show
Whirlpool
Thieves' Highway
The Lone Ranger
White Heat
Come to the Stable
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Road House
Land and Live in the Desert