Robert Horton (actor)
| Robert Horton | |
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Horton in 1976 as a guest on Police Woman
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| Born |
Meade Howard Horton, Jr. July 29, 1924 Los Angeles |
| Died | March 9, 2016 (aged 91) Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | UCLA |
| Occupation | Television, film, stage actor, singer |
| Years active | 1952–1989 |
| Political party | Republican Party |
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| Website | www |
Meade Howard Horton, Jr. (July 29, 1924 – March 9, 2016), known as Robert Horton, was an American television, stage actor and singer.
One of two sons, Horton was born as Meade Howard Horton, Jr. on July 29, 1924, in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Meade Howard Horton and Chetta McMurrin.
Horton said that he never felt he fit into the appropriate Mormon household, for being the hotheaded child that he was. As a little boy, he also survived many surgeries such as: hernia and an enlarged kidney. Horton attended California Military Institute in Perris, where he played football.
After graduation from the military school, in 1943, at age 19, he was enlisted in the Coast Guard, but was medically discharged, because of his kidney. (The accuracy of the preceding graduation information might be questioned. The page linked to the citation does not name the school, and a document on the California Military Institute's website indicates that it began operation in 2003.
In contrast, the book From Small Screen to Vinyl: A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records, 1950-2000 by Bob Leszczak says of Horton, "He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1942").
In 1945, a chance encounter with the talent scout led to an uncredited part in Lewis Milestone’s World War II film A Walk in the Sun (1945). He first studied dramatics at the University of Miami but later changed schools and graduated cum laude from UCLA. He relocated from California to New York City, where he worked as an unfamiliar struggling actor, before returning to California. At age 28, Horton signed a contract with MGM, appearing in films. It was there where he met unfamiliar younger actors, Robert Fuller and James Drury, who both became Horton's lifelong friends, for 62 years, from 1954 until his passing in 2016.
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