Movies List
TV Show List
Bye Bye Birdie

as Bob Precht

1963
The Marriage-Go-Round

as Dr. Ross Barnett

1961
Split Second

as Arthur Ashton

1953
Blonde Ice

as Les Burns

1948
The Flame

as Barry MacAllister

1947
The Red Stallion

as Andy McBride

1947
Tangier

as Paul Kenyon

1946
Shady Lady

as Bob Wendell

1945
Can't Help Singing

as Johnny Lawlor

1944
Mister Big

as Johnny Hanley

1943
How's About It

as George Selby

1943
Hi, Buddy

as Johnny Blake

1943
Get Going

as Bob Carlton

1943
Pardon My Sarong

as Tommy Layton

1942
Jail House Blues

as Cliff Bailey

1942
Almost Married

as James Manning,lll

1942
San Antonio Rose

as Con Conway

1941
The Monster and the Girl

as Larry Reed

1941
Melody Lane

as Gabe Morgan

1941
Golden Gloves

as Wally Matson

1940
Dancing on a Dime

as Ted Brooks

1940
Parole Fixer

as Steve Eddson

1940
Emergency Squad

as Chester 'Chesty' Miller

1940
Homicide Bureau

as Thurston

1939
The Last Warning

as Tony Henderson (as Robert Page)

1938
Who Killed Gail Preston?

as 'Swing' Traynor

1938
The Lady Objects

as Ken Harper

1938
Smart Blonde

as Lewis Friel

1937
The Cherokee Strip

as Tom Valley

1937
Robert Paige Robert Paige

Birthday

1910-12-02

Place of Birth

Biography

Robert Paige (born John Arthur Page December 2, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana, died Dec 21,1987) was a TV star and Universal Pictures leading man who made 65 films in his lifetime and was the only actor ever allowed to sing on film with Deanna Durbin (in 1944's Can't Help Singing). He was a graduate of West Point and was related to Admiral David Beatty, hero of the World War I Battle of Jutland. Paige began his screen career in 1934. His handsome features and assured speaking voice earned him prominent roles in motion pictures, such as Cain and Mabel with Clark Gable and Marion Davies. In 1936, to avoid confusion with another rising leading man, John Payne, Paige briefly adopted the screen name "David Carlyle." He worked primarily for Warner Brothers and Republic Pictures during this period. In 1938 he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures, which changed his screen name to Robert Paige. Columbia cast him in "B" features and starred him in one serial, Flying G-Men. When the Columbia contract lapsed, Paige moved to Paramount Pictures and finally found a home in 1941 at Universal Pictures. Robert Paige quickly became one of Universal's reliable stars, playing romantic leads. He is prominent in many of Universal's comedies and musicals, including those of Abbott and Costello, Olsen and Johnson, Gloria Jean, and Hugh Herbert. He had a good singing voice and a flair for comedy, and the studio capitalized on these talents. Beginning in 1943 Universal gave Paige important roles in its biggest productions, but by then he was so established as a B-picture lead that he never quite graduated to mega-stardom. Paige, along with other contract players, left Universal after a corporate shakeup in 1946. He became an independent film producer in 1947 and entered the new field of television. He was the last permanent host of NBC's variety series The Colgate Comedy Hour, and won an Emmy in 1955 for "Best Male Personality" (a category that no longer exists). In the 1960s he became a TV newscaster in Los Angeles. Paige continued to work in occasional films through 1963; his last two films were The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). From 1966 to 1970 Paige was a newscaster and political correspondent for ABC News in Los Angeles. He left the news desk to become Deputy Supervisor of Los Angeles under Baxter Ward, and then moved into the public relations field. He retired in the late 1970s. Robert Paige died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm in 1987.
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