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Robert Rockwell (October 15, 1920 – January 25, 2003) was an American actor best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television situation comedy Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden. A native of Chicago, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Playhouse where he received a masters degree. Dramatic roles often eluded him, however, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared, over his almost fifty year acting career, in over 350 television shows and, on stage, opposite José Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway... MORE

Robert Rockwell (October 15, 1920 – January 25, 2003) was an American actor best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television situation comedy Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden. A native of Chicago, Rockwell studied at the Pasadena Playhouse where he received a masters degree. Dramatic roles often eluded him, however, after beginning his career as a contract player for Republic Studios he appeared, over his almost fifty year acting career, in over 350 television shows and, on stage, opposite José Ferrer in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and with Ginger Rogers during the 1960s in a San Diego production of Whitfield Cook's play A More Perfect Union. Rockwell was a founding member of the California Artists Radio Theatre. He played standard leads in a couple of anti-Communist-era features, including Republic's The Red Menace (1949) wherein he played a war veteran who is duped by Communists. In the very first episode of The Adventures of Superman, he played Superman's father Jor-El. He was also seen a number of times on the television anthology series The Loretta Young Show (1958), playing Loretta Young's LESS