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BIRTHDAY

December 04, 1913

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

DIED

June 20, 1978

RECENT CREDITS

Vertical Limit (FILM) Dec. 8, 2000

Earthquake (FILM) Jan. 1, 1974

Happy Birthday, Wanda June (FILM) Jan. 1, 1971

Valley of the Dolls (FILM) Dec. 15, 1967

Lost Command (FILM) Jan. 1, 1966

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BIOGRAPHY

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Respected craftsman who began his career as a prop man at Fox in 1932 and became an editor at RKO three years later, assisting Robert Wise on the cutting of two Orson Welles projects ("Citizen Kane" 1941 and "The Magnificent Ambersons" 1942). Robson moved into the director's chair at the behest of horror producer Val Lewton, for whom he engineered two powerful Boris Karloff vehicles, "Isle of the Dead" (1945) and "Bedlam" (1946). Robson's subsequent output as a director included two fine boxing films ("Champion" 1949, "The Harder They Fall" 1956), a probing drama on race relations ("Home of the Brave" 1949) and a brace of hyperactive blockbusters, including "Earthquake" (1974).

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Headlines

ROLE CALL: George Clooney's 'Fail Safe' Plan

Jan. 5, 2000

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 4, 2000 -- Maybe it was that live broadcast of "E.R." Or perhaps the save-the-world-from-nuclear-holocaust heroics in "The Peacemaker." Whichever, big-screen George Clooney is set to produce a live small-screen staging of the Cold War drama "Fail Safe" on CBS on April 9. Based on the 1962 novel (released at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis), the...

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