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Robert Wilcox (May 19, 1910 – June 11, 1955) was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s. His career began in earnest in 1936 after being discovered doing a summer-stock production of The Petrified Forest. Wilcox worked in eighteen Hollywood movies before World War II, starting with the role of the Intern in Let Them Live. He was a contract player with Universal Studios, unhappy with his type-cast in "cops and robbers" roles. He is perhaps best known for playing Bob Wayne and his alter ego, The Copperhead in the 1940 movie serial Mysterious Doctor Satan. He served thirty eight... MORE

Robert Wilcox (May 19, 1910 – June 11, 1955) was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s. His career began in earnest in 1936 after being discovered doing a summer-stock production of The Petrified Forest. Wilcox worked in eighteen Hollywood movies before World War II, starting with the role of the Intern in Let Them Live. He was a contract player with Universal Studios, unhappy with his type-cast in "cops and robbers" roles. He is perhaps best known for playing Bob Wayne and his alter ego, The Copperhead in the 1940 movie serial Mysterious Doctor Satan. He served thirty eight months in the United States Army during World War II, rising from private to the rank of captain, and seeing action in Belgium, France and Germany. Following the war, he returned to Rochester, and appeared in an amateur production of Soldier's Wife, a quiet comedy by Rose Franklin about a veteran returning from the Pacific, presented in January 1946 by the Rochester Community Players. Wilcox, according to a contemporary news report, was considering whether go back to Hollywood or to work in professional theater. Only four of the twenty five film credits on IMDb are dated after January 1946; his post-war LESS