Robert Ellenstein - Turner Classic Movies

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Also Known As

Robert Ellin

Birth Place

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Born

June 18, 1923

Died

October 28, 2010

Cause of Death

Natural Causes

Biography

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Robert Ellenstein graduated with honors from the University of Iowa, was a founding member of Theatre West in Hollywood, was co-founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company, was the first artistic director of the Company of Angels, and served as a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II, earning a Purple Heart. These achievements alone are enough to fill an...

Filmography

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Run Till You Fall (1988)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Brewster's Millions (1983)

Love At First Bite (1979)

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Deathwatch (1966)

Photos & Videos

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North By Northwest (1959) -- (Movie Clip) More Polished Than The Others

Illegal (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Am I To Believe You Have Scruples?

Biography

Robert Ellenstein graduated with honors from the University of Iowa, was a founding member of Theatre West in Hollywood, was co-founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company, was the first artistic director of the Company of Angels, and served as a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II, earning a Purple Heart. These achievements alone are enough to fill an average lifetime, but Ellenstein was much greater than average. As an actor, he performed in hundreds of stage productions, appeared on television over 200 times over five decades (including performances during the golden age of live TV), and took on a handful of feature film roles for good measure. Though he directed only one project for television and none for film, he was a well respected theater director, most notably for his staging of a "Hamlet" that featured just six actors and not a single prop.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Run Till You Fall (1988)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Brewster's Millions (1983)

Love At First Bite (1979)

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Deathwatch (1966)

King of the Roaring 20's--The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

Pay or Die (1960)

The Gazebo (1960)

North by Northwest (1959)

The Young Lions (1958)

Rabbi Joseph Silverson

Too Much, Too Soon (1958)

The Garment Jungle (1957)

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Rogue Cop (1954)

Sidney Y. Myers

Music (Feature Film)

Cast (Special)

Limited Partners (1988)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1979)

Life Events

Videos

North By Northwest (1959) -- (Movie Clip) More Polished Than The Others Snatched from a Manhattan restaurant to a Long Island mansion, Thornhill (Cary Grant) is interrogated by James Mason, whom he presumes is Townsend, and who insists he must be Kaplan, with henchman Martin Landau, nothing clear, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959.

Illegal (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Am I To Believe You Have Scruples? High-roller racketeer Garland (Albert Dekker) dismisses Hugh Marlowe, ex-assistant to the D-A turned defense lawyer Scott (Edward G. Robinson), summoned because he swindled $10,000 from an underling, Jayne Mansfield introduced, with paintings from Robinson’s own collection, in Illegal, 1955.

North By Northwest (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Take Me To The United Nations With his mother (Jessie Royce Landis) at the Plaza, Thornhill (Cary Grant), evades the same thugs (Adam Williams, Robert Allenstein) who abducted him, then races to Alfred Hitchcock’s mocked-up U-N, unhappy to learn that Townsend (Philip Ober) isn’t James Mason, in North By Northwest, 1959.

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