Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor
Preston as The Music Man c.1958
Advertisement for Typhoon (1940) featuring Preston and Dorothy Lamour
Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett and Preston in The Macomber Affair (1947)
Preston and Mary Martin in the Broadway play I Do! I Do! (1966)
The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan, a teenager who, after winning the high score in an arcade game that's secretly
Robert Preston (actor)
…Edwards' Victor/Victoria (1982), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actor. His last role in a theatrical film was in The Last Starfighter (1984) as an interstellar military recruiter called "Centauri". Preston said that he based his approach to the character of Centauri on that which he…
Theatrical release poster
Rio Groceries in 2014, filming location of The Last Starfighter
Shelley Lake at Digital Productions in 1983 choreographing a scene from The Last Starfighter. Pictured at the IMI-500 workstation is a simulation of the Starcar.