Biography
Starting his Hollywood career in or around 1951, American actor Robert Foulk was alternately passive and authoritative in such westerns as
Last of the Badmen (1957),
The Tall Stranger (1957),
The Left-Handed Gun (1958) and
Cast a Long Shadow (1958). He remained a frontiersmen for his year-long stint as bartender Joe Kingston on the
Joel McCrea TV shoot-em-up Wichita Town (1959) (though he reverted to modern garb as the Anderson family's next-door neighbor in the '50s sitcom
Father Knows Best). In non-westerns, Foulk usually played professional men, often uniformed. Some of his parts were fleeting enough not to have any designation but "character bit" (vide
The Love Bug [1968]), but otherwise there was no question Foulk was in charge: as a doctor in
Tammy and the Doctor (1963), a police official in
Bunny O'Hare (1971) or a railroad conductor in
Emperor of the North (1973). Robert Foulk was given extensive screen time in the Bowery Boys'
Hold That Hypnotist (1957), as the title character; and in
Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964), playing straight as Sheriff Glick opposite such "Merrie Men" as
Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr. and
Bing Crosby. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide