Robert O. Cornthwaite Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Robert O. Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 — July 20, 2006) was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Cornthwaite was born in Saint Helens, Oregon. He said that his interest in acting began in his early teens, when he was forced to recite one line in a school play. In the late 1930s he enrolled in Long Beach City College and worked at radio stations in Southern California. He earned a degree from the University of Southern California after... MORE

Robert O. Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 — July 20, 2006) was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Cornthwaite was born in Saint Helens, Oregon. He said that his interest in acting began in his early teens, when he was forced to recite one line in a school play. In the late 1930s he enrolled in Long Beach City College and worked at radio stations in Southern California. He earned a degree from the University of Southern California after serving as an intelligence officer in the Army Air Force during World War II. Upon his return to civilian life in 1946, Cornthwaite moved to Hollywood and soon found movie work, typically portraying scientists, lawyers and other "learned types" in a number of studio productions. In 1951, Cornthwaite was cast in Howard Hawks's production of The Thing from Another World. His character, Dr. Carrington, the unofficial leader of an Arctic Polar Expedition (a scientific group dismissed by one Air Force general as a "bunch of eggheads"), observes the nearby crash of an unidentified flying object, and urges his LESS