Rex Reason(1928-2015)
- Actor
Rex Reason was born in Germany, while his family was in Europe on a
business trip. Although he grew up in Los Angeles, his acting
aspirations were nil; his mother, however, hoped that both Rex and his
lookalike brother Rhodes Reason would get
into the acting profession. He played the lead in "Seventh Heaven" at
Glendale's Hoover High School, then enlisted in the army at 17. After
his discharge, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse and then became
involved in little theater. Reason was top-billed in his very first
movie, Storm Over Tibet (1952),
then played smaller parts in pictures at Columbia and MGM. A contract
player at Universal-International, he allowed the studio to bill him as
"Bart Roberts" in two features before he balked and insisted on going
back to his own name. When his TV series
The Roaring 20's (1960)
wrapped up, Reason--who once told an interviewer, "If I couldn't act, I
wouldn't know what to do with my life"--turned his back on Hollywood.
In recent years he has begun appearing at autograph shows.