Robert Douglas | |
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![]() Douglas in Buccaneer's Girl (1950) | |
Born | Robert Douglas Finlayson 9 November 1909 Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England |
Died | 11 January 1999 Encinitas, California, U.S. | (aged 89)
Occupation(s) | Actor, director, producer |
Years active | 1927–1982 |
Spouses | |
Children | 2 [1] |
Robert Douglas Finlayson (9 November 1909 – 11 January 1999), known professionally as Robert Douglas, was an English stage and film actor, a television director and producer.
Douglas was born in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire.[2] He studied at RADA and made his stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Bournemouth in 1927.[3] A year later he made his first London appearance in Many Waters at the Ambassadors Theatre and went into films the following year.[1]
He was married twice, to actresses Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996) and Suzanne Weldon (1921–1995), fathering two children, Lucinda and Robert (Giles).[1] He died from natural causes in Encinitas, California, aged 89.[4]