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Robert Morse

Robert Morse
Robert Morse
Born: May 18, 1931 in Newton, Massachusetts
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
Career Highlights: The Loved One, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Guide for the Married Man
First Major Screen Credit: The Matchmaker (1958)
Filmography
LOVED ONE, THE 1965
5 Videos for Robert Morse
Mad Men: Season 02 (2008) Wild Palms (1993) The Loved One (1965)
Mad Men: Season 01 (2007) Faerie Tale Theatre: The Emperor's New Clothes (1984)
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Biography:

Puckish comic actor Robert Morse had studied with Lee Strasberg before his film debut in 1956's Proud and the Profane. This bit role led to a Paramount contract, though this early attempt to make Morse a movie star went no further than his re-creation of his stage role in The Matchmaker (1958).

He went on to show up on TV in a variety of roles (he was a juvenile delinquent on Hitchcock), but was more successful on Broadway, co-starring in the musicals {+Say Darling} and {+Take Me Along}. In Frank Loesser's 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical {+How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying}, Morse, as the ambitious J.

Pierpont Finch, entered Broadway Valhalla when he sang the show's big romantic song I Believe in You -- while looking at himself in a mirror. Morse won a Tony award for this performance, and in 1967 reprised the role for the film version. One year later, he co-starred with E.J. Peaker in the experimental weekly TV musical-comedy series That's Life.

His best post-{+How to Succeed} film role was the philandering best friend of Walter Matthau in A Guide for the Married Man (1967). In the early '70s, Morse starred in another long-running Broadway effort, {+Sugar}, a musical version of Some Like It Hot. Morse had some difficulty maintaining a starring career into the 1980s, but in 1990 made a triumphant return to Broadway (and won another Tony in the bargain) for his one-man Truman Capote-show {+Tru}.

In later years, Robert Morse starred on Broadway and the road as Captain Andy in Harold Prince's glittering revival of {+Show Boat}, and was seen as Grandpa Munster on the 1995 retro TV movie Here Come the Munsters. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.