Mark Roberts (actor)

Mark Roberts
Born	June 9, 1921(1921-06-09) Denver, Colorado
Died	January 5, 2006(2006-01-05) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Bob Scott Robert E. Scott Robert Scott
Years active	1938 - 1994

Mark Roberts (June 9, 1921 - January 5, 2006) was an American stage, film and television support actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1938 and 1994, according to the Internet Movie Database. Sometimes he was credited as Bob Scott, Robert E. Scott, or Robert Scott. He is survived by his three children.

Career

A native of Denver, Colorado, Roberts made his cinematographical debut in Brother Rat, a 1938 film directed by William Keighley and starred by Ronald Reagan, in which he played an uncredited bit role as Tripod Andrews. After that, he was billed as Robert Scott in three films before obtaining his first and only leading role in the 1944 Columbia serial Black Arrow. He also served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. Following discharge, he acted under the name of Mark Roberts.

Roberts appeared (uncredited) in It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1946 classic Frank Capra film, in which he and Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer played Mickey and Freddie Othello, respectively, the two guys who unlocked the gym floor at the high school dance scene, exposing the pool below, when George Bailey (James Stewart) and Mary Hatch (Donna Reed) ended up taking a bath.

Roberts later became a familiar face in selected drama and action television series. He starred as reporter Hildy Johnson in the 1949-1950 syndicated television series The Front Page. In the 1960-1961 season, he joined Stephen Dunne (1918–1977) as fictitious brothers playing private detectives in the syndicated television series, The Brothers Brannagan.

Roberts made his last screen appearance in the short-lived 1994 sitcom Monty.

Roberts died at the age of eighty-four in Los Angeles.

Selected appearances

Films

Roberts (to the right of Rita Hayworth) in a trailer for Gilda

• Brother Rat (1938)
• The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
• A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)
• The Unknown (1946)
• Life with Blondie (1945)
• The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)
• Gilda (1946)
• Shadowed (1946)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Dead Reckoning (1947)
• The Unknown Man (1951)
• The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
• The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
• Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

Serials

• Black Arrow (1944)

TV shows

• Kraft Television Theatre (1949–1958)
• Miss Susan (1951)
• Three Steps to Heaven (1953)
• The Philco Television Playhouse (1954)
• Studio One (1954)
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1955)
• The Alcoa Hour (1955)
• Letter to Loretta (1956–1960)
• Cheyenne (1957)
• Gunsmoke (1957)
• Perry Mason (1957–1965)
• The Millionaire (1958)
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1958)
• M Squad (1959)
• 77 Sunset Strip (1959)
• Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1960)
• Surfside 6 (1961)
• Adventures in Paradise (1961)
• Follow the Sun (1962)
• The Outer Limits (1963)
• General Hospital (1963)
• 12 O'Clock High (1966)
• The F.B.I. (1966–1969)
• The Invaders (1967)
• Ironside (1968)
• Dan August (1970–1971)
• Barnaby Jones (1973–1975)
• Doctors' Hospital (1976)
• The Rockford Files (1978)
• Dynasty (1987) 
• Dark Justice (1993)

References

• IMDb entry

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Name	Roberts, Mark
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Date of birth	June 9, 1921
Place of birth	Denver, Colorado
Date of death	January 5, 2006
Place of death	Los Angeles, California