Biography
After his 1948 film debut in Columbia's The Dark Past, American general purpose actor Robert Osterloh was signed to a Warner Bros. contract. During his Warners tenure, Osterloh was spotted in such fleeting roles as the prisoner whose mail is censored into oblivion in the 1949
James Cagney classic
White Heat (1949). He then went into his "officer" period, wearing many uniforms and bearing several ranks over the next decade. Among Robert Osterloh's 1950s film assignments were Major White in
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Colonel Robert E. Lee in
Seven Angry Men (1955) and Lieutenant Claybourn in
I Bury the Living (1958). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide