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Robert Lowery (October 17, 1913 – December 26, 1971), born Robert Larkin Hanks, was a motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in over seventy films. He was born in Kansas City, Missouriand grew up on Wayne Avenue near the long-demolished Electric Park.
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Leading man Robert Lowery came to Hollywood on the strength of his talent as a band vocalist. He was signed to a movie contract in 1937 by 20th Century-Fox, a studio that seemed to take a wicked delight in shuttling its male contractees from bits to second leads to bits again. Freelancing from 1942 onward, Lowery starred in a few low-budget films at Universal and Monogram. In 1949, he portrayed the Caped Crusader in the Columbia serial Batman and Robin. On television, Robert Lowery co-starred as Big Tim Champion on the kiddie series Circus Boy (1956-1958), and played smooth-talking villain Buss Courtney on the Anne Sheridan sitcom Pistols and Petticoats (1967). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Robert Lowery stars as Paul Kimberly, a former newspaperman who takes on a particularly noxious form of corruption. The villains are crooked housing administrators who prey upon returning GIs and their families. Just when it appears that one of the administrators is going to tell all to Kimberly, the man is murdered at the behest of "top man" Vincent Arnold (Charles Evans). It helps Kimberly's objectivity not at all when he himself falls in love with Arnold's innocent daughter Anne (Anabel Shaw).
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Tom Durling (Robert Lowery), a handy auto mechanic from Chicago, is haunted by the accidental death of his kid brother and leaves for a new life in California. Having run out of money he tries selling his souped-up car to the fast-talking Betty (Lola Lane), a stranger he meets outside a used-car lot. She tells him that she wants her boyfriend Jack (Edmund MacDonald ) to see it, but it turns out they're not interested in buying the car and instead use him as a patsy to drive the getaway car as they pull off a bank heist with Jack's brother Frank (James Bush). During the robbery of $100,000, the gang kills a police officer in addition to critically wounding a bank guard and a bank clerk named Steve Reynolds (Byron Barr). Tom fails in thwarting the escape and is found unconscious at the wheel of the crashed getaway car with the murder weapon in his hand. The gruff DA (Paul Harvey) arrests him and charges the innocent guy with murder, refusing to believe he was made at gunpoint to participate.
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Comsewogue High School senior, Robert Lowery was named Suffolk County’s top scholar athlete by the National Football Foundation. In addition to his accomplishments on the football field, the senior lineman scored 1,310 on his SAT and carries a 98.4 average. MIT and Rensselaer Polytechnic are two of the several colleges he is choosing from. He said he gets plenty of ribbing from his friends for all of the studying he does, but he knows it will make him a better person. In addition to the award, Lowery ... will receive a $1,000 scholarship toward his education.
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Columbia produced a second and final Batman serial in 1949 entitled Batman and Robin, starring Robert Lowery as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Johnny Duncan as Robin/Dick Grayson. Like Batman, the serial was a black-and-white, 15-chapter film presented in weekly installments. Also like Batman, each of Batman and Robin’s chapters ended with a scene showing its heroes facing seemingly inescapable mortal danger.
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