Robert Middlemass was an American playwright and stage actor, and later character actor with over 100 film appearances, usually playing detectives or policemen.
Middlemass in The Black Raven (1943)
Robert Middlemass (center) as Captain Seaver of the New York police, grilling a suspect in Small Miracle (1934)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is a
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Sen. Jefferson Smith and his aide Clarissa Saunders in a taxi with the Capitol dome lit up at night in the rear window
Smith pursues his filibuster in the Senate chamber before senators deliberately ignoring him.
Paine and Smith in the Senate, with Smith holding letters and telegrams demanding his resignation in the final scene