Robert Carson (June 8, 1909 – June 2, 1979), a native of Carman, Manitoba in Canada, was an actor noted for dozens of supporting roles in films and television series during a career that spanned decades.
Carson played the ringmaster in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) with Charlton Heston.
Carson was cast in five episodes of the religion anthology series, Crossroads: as a police lieutenant in "The Unholy Trio" (1955) and in "The Two-Fisted Saint" and "False Prophet" (both 1956), as a coach in "The Comeback" (1956), and as Senator Crocker in "In God We Trust" (1957).
In 1957, he played Kittredge the card dealer in the third segment of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Maverick, in the episode entitled "According to Hoyle", opposite James Garner. Between 1957-1962 he appeared in five episodes of Perry Mason. Among his roles he played the Prison Warden in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Wandering Widow," and Commodore Galen Holmes in the 1962 episode, "The Case of the Weary Watchdog."
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