Robert Easton (November 23, 1930 – December 16, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned more than 60 years. His mastery of English dialect earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices". For decades, he was a leading Hollywood dialogue or accent coach.
Easton was born Robert Easton Burke in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Mary Easton (née Kloes) and John Edward Burke.
Beginning in 1945, he was heard on radio's Quiz Kids. He portrayed Magnus Proudfoot on radio's Gunsmoke and also appeared in other radio programs, including Fibber McGee and Molly, The Fred Allen Show, The Halls of Ivy, Our Miss Brooks, Suspense, William Shakespeare—A Portrait in Sound and The Zero Hour.
On film, one of his earliest appearances was in The Red Badge of Courage. He appeared in the feature film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as "Sparks", Sgt. Jonesie in When Hell Broke Loose with Charles Bronson and was also the character "Handown" a gunner crew-member of a B-17 of World War II in the film The War Lover, which starred Steve McQueen and a very young Michael Crawford. He appeared in the baseball film Long Gone (1987) as Cletis Ramey. One of his more unusual voices and acting roles was that of a Klingon judge in the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He appeared in Gods and Generals (2003) as John Janney, and starred in Spiritual Warriors (2007).
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Plot: Following the end of the American Civil War, Robert, the son of a wealthy Northern general, comes back from abroad, determined to take responsibility for the death of a man he hired to fight for him. However, during a raucous post-war celebration at his family home, he finds it is not as easy as he thought to escape the past and the ghosts that come with it.
Genres: Drama, History, Horror, Short,Robert Easton (November 23, 1930 – December 16, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned more than 60 years. His mastery of English dialect earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices". For decades, he was a leading Hollywood dialogue or accent coach.
Easton was born Robert Easton Burke in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Mary Easton (née Kloes) and John Edward Burke.
Beginning in 1945, he was heard on radio's Quiz Kids. He portrayed Magnus Proudfoot on radio's Gunsmoke and also appeared in other radio programs, including Fibber McGee and Molly, The Fred Allen Show, The Halls of Ivy, Our Miss Brooks, Suspense, William Shakespeare—A Portrait in Sound and The Zero Hour.
On film, one of his earliest appearances was in The Red Badge of Courage. He appeared in the feature film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as "Sparks", Sgt. Jonesie in When Hell Broke Loose with Charles Bronson and was also the character "Handown" a gunner crew-member of a B-17 of World War II in the film The War Lover, which starred Steve McQueen and a very young Michael Crawford. He appeared in the baseball film Long Gone (1987) as Cletis Ramey. One of his more unusual voices and acting roles was that of a Klingon judge in the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He appeared in Gods and Generals (2003) as John Janney, and starred in Spiritual Warriors (2007).
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