Personal Info
Birth date
1908-12-02 (116 Years)
Day of death
1992-11-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Mansfield, Ohio, USA
Also known as
Robert Simon
Robert L. Simon
Роберт Саймон
Роберт Ф. Саймон
Bob Simon
Robert Frank Simon
Robert F. Simon
Biography
Robert F. Simon (December 2, 1908 – November 29, 1992) was an American character actor, often portraying military or authority figure roles. Though his face was recognized by audiences, he was mostly unknown by name. A life member of The Actors Studio,[2]Simon appeared in films and on television between 1950 and 1985, having mastered the genre of westerns, drama, and comedy.
Filmography
Columbo
8.094
Overview:
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.Perry Mason
7.719
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Bonanza
7.512
Overview:
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.Quincy, M.E.
7.509
Overview:
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.The Andy Griffith Show
7.633
Overview:
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.Bewitched
7.9
Overview:
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.The Virginian
6.344
Overview:
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.The Fugitive
7.207
Overview:
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.M*A*S*H
7.925
Overview:
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.427
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.The Untouchables
7.839
Overview:
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.Hawaii Five-O
7.122
Overview:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
Overview:
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.Wagon Train
6.3
Overview:
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.The Lucy Show
7
Overview:
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.Daniel Boone
6.867
Overview:
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.Hawaiian Eye
5.2
Overview:
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.The Six Million Dollar Man
7.257
Overview:
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.Police Woman
6.3
Overview:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.Cheyenne
5.8
Overview:
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.Rawhide
7.13
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.The Twilight Zone
8.452
Overview:
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.Airwolf
7.563
Overview:
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.Gunsmoke
6.558
Overview:
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.Love, American Style
6.056
Overview:
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.Get Smart
7.945
Overview:
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Lawman
5.6
Overview:
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.Acting
2003Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films as Rellik (archive footage)
1990As Aventuras do General Custer as Gen. Terry
1984Airwolf (1 Episode) as The Admiral
1981Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge as J. Jonah Jameson
1978Spider-Man Strikes Back as J. Jonah Jameson
1978The Amazing Spider-Man (13 Episodes) as J. Jonah Jameson
1977The Girl in the Empty Grave as Jedediah Partridge
1977Tail Gunner Joe as Drew Pearson
1976Quincy, M.E. (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Mr. Brady, Colonel Wilcox, Dr. Fry, State Sen. Howard Morganthal
1975Ellery Queen (1 Episode) as Eben Wright
1974Police Woman (1 Episode) as Dr. Foreman
1974Winter Kill as Harvey
1974The Six Million Dollar Man (1 Episode) as The Sheriff
1973The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War as Capt. Walker
1973Barnaby Jones (1 Episode) as Mr. Strand
1972Journey Through the Past as The General
1972The Streets of San Francisco (1, 1 Episode) as Capt. Rudy Olsen, Police Commissioner
1972M*A*S*H (3 Episodes) as Gen. Maynard M. Mitchell
1972Temperatures Rising (1 Episode) as Lowell
1971McMillan & Wife (1 Episode) as Military Judge
1971Nichols (1 Episode) as Slade
1971Columbo (1 Episode) as Dr. Westrum
1971Private Duty Nurses as Dr. Sutton
1970Wild Women as Col. Donahue
1970The Partridge Family (1 Episode) as Mr. Gordon
1970Nancy (17 Episodes) as Uncle Everett McPherson
1969Love, American Style (1 Episode) as Paul Grayson
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. (1, 1 Episode) as Dr.Byron V. Anders, Dr. Graham
1968The Mod Squad (1, 1 Episode) as Dean McIntyre, Fred Styles
1968Hawaii Five-O (1 Episode) as Hugh Tilles
1968It Takes a Thief (1 Episode) as Vogel
1968The Legend of Custer as General Alfred Terry
1967The Guns of Will Sonnett (1 Episode) as Sheriff Devon
1967Custer (17 Episodes) as Alfred H. Terry
1967The Reluctant Astronaut as Cervantes
1966The Third Killer as Mr. Rellik
1966The Silencers as Big O associate (uncredited)
1965Get Smart (1 Episode) as Stueben
1965Run for Your Life (1 Episode) as The Judge
1965Across the River as Policeman
1964Fate Is the Hunter as Proctor
1964Daniel Boone (1 Episode) as Blackfish
1964Bewitched (6 Episodes) as Frank Stephens
1964Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 Episode) as President
1963Captain Newman, M.D. as Lt. Col. M.B. Larrabee
1963A New Kind of Love as Bertram Chalmers
1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) as Murphy
1963The Greatest Show on Earth (1 Episode) as Greenwalt
1963The Outer Limits (1 Episode) as Gen. Maximillian R. Hart
1963Arrest and Trial (2 Episodes) as Judge James Shaw
1963Wall of Noise as Dave McRaab
1962McHale's Navy (1, 1 Episode) as John Burton, Capt. Shepard
1962The Lucy Show (1 Episode) as Dr. Robert F. Simon
1962The Virginian (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Ben Wainwright, Eric Larsen, Rafe Potter, Sam Burmeister
1962Saints and Sinners (1 Episode) as Dave Tabak
1962Sam Benedict (1 Episode) as Bill Gottlieb
1962The Lloyd Bridges Show (1 Episode) as Chief Petty Officer
1962The Spiral Road as Dr. Martens
1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Handy Strong
1961Ricochet as Colonel
1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as Dr. Ernest Montgomery
1961The Wizard of Baghdad as shamadin
1960Tess of the Storm Country as Mr. Graves
1960The Facts of Life as Motel Clerk
1960Route 66 (1, 1 Episode) as Mr. Pepperell, Jed Wharton
1960Stagecoach West (1 Episode) as Tom Osgood, Sr.
1960The Andy Griffith Show (1 Episode) as Mr. Crawford
1960Pay or Die! as Police Commissioner
1959Operation Petticoat as Captain J.B. Henderson
1959The Last Angry Man as Lyman Gattling
1959The Untouchables (1, 1 Episode) as Cummings, Police Chief Towers
1959Hawaiian Eye (1 Episode) as Roland Davidson
1959Adventures in Paradise (1 Episode) as Ned Hogue
1959The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as Harvey
1959Johnny Ringo (1 Episode) as Sam
1959Law of the Plainsman (1 Episode) as Frank Keller
1959Lock-Up (1 Episode) as Martin Reeves
1959Bonanza (1, 1 Episode) as George Thurston, Len Keith
1959Face of Fire as The Judge
1959Compulsion as Police Lt. Johnson
1959Black Saddle (1 Episode) as Judge McKinney
1959Rawhide (1, 1 Episode) as Mackie, Asa Junkin
1958The Buccaneer as Capt. Brown
195877 Sunset Strip (1 Episode) as Frank Harrison
1958Bat Masterson (1 Episode) as Harrison Whitney
1958Lawman (1, 1 Episode) as Pa Beason, Mr. Harmon
1958The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca as Deputy Sherrif
1958The Texan (1, 1 Episode) as Vance, Sheriff Will Crandall
1958Steve Canyon (1 Episode) as Col. Hampton
1958Gunman's Walk as Sheriff Harry Brill
1958Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1 Episode) as Eugene T. Oland
1958Sea Hunt (1, 1 Episode) as Prof. Aaron Halliday, Dr.Tomaso Ricou
1957Tombstone Territory (1, 1 Episode) as Governor Armstrong, Gov. Armstrong
1957Perry Mason (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Edward Bannister, Anthony Beldon, Philip Hillman
1957Wagon Train (1, 1 Episode) as Jay Thorton, Samuel Schofield
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Samuel Keel, Morgan Gibbs, Colonel Lathrop, Frank Wellman
1957The Last Tycoon as Brady
1957Spring Reunion as Harry Brewster
1957Edge of the City as George Nordmann
1956Bigger Than Life as Dr. Norton
1956The Rack as Law Officer
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Sheriff John Hanley
1956State Trooper (1 Episode) as Colonel Greenlee
1956Broken Arrow (1 Episode) as Gen. Everitt
1956The First Traveling Saleslady as Cal
1956The Catered Affair as Mr. Joe Halloran
1956Never Say Goodbye as Dr. Kenneth Evans
1956The Benny Goodman Story as Papa Dave Goodman
1955The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell as Admiral Gage
1955The Alcoa Hour (1 Episode) as Mr. Price
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (1 Episode) as Ben Slade
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Sgt. Halloran
1955The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing as Stage Manager (as Robert Simon)
1955Cheyenne (1, 1 Episode) as Chad Wilcox, Hub Lassiter
1955Gunsmoke (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Ben Stancil, Jesse, Pa Grilk, Shell Tucker, Colonel Amos Jessup, Jonah, Will Lukens
1955Foxfire as Ernest Tyson
19555 Against the House as Old Guard (uncredited)
1955Chief Crazy Horse as Jeff Mantz
1954The Wonderful World of Disney (1, 1 Episode) as Ed Morgan, Deputy Marshal Ed Morgan
1954Studio 57 (1 Episode) as Gen. Elijah Carruthers
1954Rogue Cop as Ackerman
1954The Black Dakotas as U.S. Marshal Whit Collins (as Robert Simon)
1954Roogie's Bump as Boxey
1953A Long Time Till Dawn as Lt. Case
1953Topper (1 Episode) as F.K. Marsten
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1, 1 Episode) as Harry Lewis, Captain Gideon
1951Bright Victory as Psychiatrist
1950Lux Video Theatre (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Peterson, Jeff, Joey
1950Danger (1 Episode) as Unknown
1950Where the Sidewalk Ends as Insp. Nicholas Foley (uncredited)
1949Man Against Crime (1 Episode) as Barney (
1949Hands of Murder (1 Episode) as Unknown
1949Suspense (1 Episode) as Unknown
1948Studio One (1, 1 Episode) as Tom, William Rutch
1947Kraft Television Theatre (2, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Lt. Case, Harold