Born 1918 in Newton, Massachusetts, American actor and singer Robert Preston was best known for his role Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role in the 1962 film adaptation, for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination.
Preston made his Broadway debut in The Male Animal in 1952. He won two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for The Music Man (1957) and I Do! I Do! (1967) and was Tony-nominated for Mack and Mabel (1975). In 1972, Preston co-starred alongside Steve McQueen as Ace Bonner in the Sam Peckinpah film, Junior Bonner. He collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982), the latter earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Preston died of lung cancer in 1987, aged 68. Take a look at these vintage photos to see portraits of a young and handsome Robert Preston in the 1930s and 1940s.
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