Robert Lowery (actor)
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Publicity photograph of Robert Lowery for Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
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| Born |
Robert Lowery Hanks October 17, 1913 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | December 26, 1971 (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | heart failure |
| Resting place | Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Other names | Bob Lowery Bob Lowry |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1936–1967 |
| Spouse(s) |
Jean Parker (1951- death) 1 son Vivan Wilcox (1941-1944) (divorced) Rusty Farrell (1947-1948) (divorced) |
Robert Lowery (October 17, 1913 – December 26, 1971) was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in over seventy films.
Born Robert Lowery Hanks in Kansas City, Missouri, Lowery grew up on Wayne Avenue near the long-demolished Electric Park. Lowery's father was a local attorney and oil investor who worked several years for the Pullman Corporation as a railroad agent; his mother, Leah Thompson Hanks, was a concert pianist.
He graduated from Paseo High School in Kansas City, and soon was invited to sing with the Slats Randall Orchestra in the early 1930s. Lowery played on the Kansas City Blues minor league baseball team and was overall considered a versatile athlete; his physique and strength were gained from a stint working in a paper factory as a teenager. After the death of his father in 1935, he traveled to Hollywood with his mother and their housekeeper, and enrolled in the Lila Bliss acting school before being signed by Twentieth Century Fox in 1937.
During his career, Lowery was primarily known for roles in action movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), and Dangerous Passage (1944). He became the second actor to play DC Comics' Batman (succeeding Lewis Wilson), starring in a 1949's Batman and Robin serial. Lowery also had roles in a number of Western films including The Homesteaders (1953), The Parson and the Outlaw (1957), Young Guns of Texas (1962), and Johnny Reno (1966). He was also an accomplished stage actor and appeared in Born Yesterday, The Caine Mutiny, and in several other productions.
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