- Geboren am
- Verstorben27. Juli 2012 · Studio City, Kalifornien, USA (natürliche Gründe)
- GeburtsnameRobert Golden Armstrong Jr.
- Spitzname
- Bob
- Größe1,91 m
- R.G. Armstrong wurde am 7 April 1917 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA geboren. Er war Schauspieler, bekannt für Predator (1987), Dick Tracy (1990) und El Dorado (1966). Er war mit Mary Craven, Susan M. Guthrie und Ann Neale verheiratet. Er starb am 27 Juli 2012 in Studio City, California, USA.
- EhepartnerMary Craven(19. Juli 1993 - 1. November 2003) (sie verstorben)Susan M. Guthrie(30. Dezember 1973 - Januar 1976) (geschieden)Ann Neale(1952 - März 1972) (geschieden, 4 Kinder)
- VerwandteJake Craven(Niece or Nephew)
- Died 24 days after the death of his best friend, Andy Griffith.
- Armstrong was semi-retired from films, continuing to be active in off-Broadway theater, until retiring because of near-blindness.
- Has a masters' degree in English from the University of North Carolina, and trained at the famed Actors Studio in New York.
- Frequently cast by directors Sam Peckinpah and Warren Beatty.
- Profiled in "Names You Never Remember, With Faces You Never Forget", by Justin Humphreys (BearManor Media).
- I had to learn it the hard way. I studied with Lee Strasberg. Acting is not acting. It's being. If you have the kind of personality makeup where you can transform into being the character in that situation, it brings about authenticity. You get a feel of the situation, the line in a scene and where your hearts goes to in a scene and you always keep that in mind.
- [on why he excelled at playing crazed backwoods preachers and religious zealots] I've always loved Walter Huston in Duell in der Sonne (1946) as a preacher. I've always wanted to play some preachers like that 'cause my mother wanted me to be a preacher so bad, it broke her heart when I didn't. That wasn't my cup of tea. I had repressed a lot of things in me from my father's action and behavior towards his children. I didn't want to be a man like that, I didn't want to be violent, so I repressed it. When they started giving me these villains, I started drawing on that and I saw I had all the fury of hell and violence there, that I was really psychotic inside, because I could go into an instant rage or hostility. It was not acting, it was real. And they just kept giving these parts to me.
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