Robert Cornthwaite
- Birthday
- Apr 28, 1917
- Birthplace
- St. Helens, Oregon, USA
Bio: Already a character player in his 30s, American actor Robert Cornwaithe was frequently called upon to play scientific and learned types in such films as War of the Worlds (1953) and The Forbin Project (1971). He was also busy on TV, portraying lawyers, officials and the like on such series as The Andy Griffith Show, Batman (in the "Archer" episode with Art Carney),… More Bio: Already a character player in his 30s, American actor Robert Cornwaithe was frequently called upon to play scientific and learned types in such films as War of the Worlds (1953) and The Forbin Project (1971). He was also busy on TV, portraying lawyers, officials and the like on such series as The Andy Griffith Show, Batman (in the "Archer" episode with Art Carney), Gidget, Laverne and Shirley and The Munsters. Cornwaithe earned his niche in the Science Fiction Film Hall of Fame for his performance in The Thing (1951); grayed up, bearded, and looking suspiciously Russian, the actor played the foolhardy Professor Carrington, whose insipidly idealistic efforts to communicate with the extraterrestrial "Thing" nearly gets him killed. In honor of this performance, Robert Cornwaithe was cast as a similar well-meaning scientist in "Mant," the giant-insect film within a film in Joe Dante's Matinee (1993), wherein Cornwaithe shared screen time with two equally uncredited horror-film icons, William Schallert and Kevin McCarthy. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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White Dwarf (1995)
- King Joist
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Matinee (1993)
- Scientist
- 92%
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Dead Man's Revenge (1993)
- Storekeeper
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Frame Up (1991)
- Earl Cort
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The Time Trackers (1988)
- Actor
- See all 29 films
Robert Cornthwaite Videos
Who's That Girl?
1 minutes 2 seconds
Monkey Business
3 minutes 44 seconds
Matinee
30 seconds
The Time Trackers
2 minutes 57 seconds
Journey Through Rosebud
1 minutes 40 seconds
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