Robert Arevalo
While working at a bar in Beverly Hills he received advice from veteran movie star Sylvester Stallone, "Create your own opportunities". That stuck with him, while working as an assistant on the 20th Century Fox lot, Arevalo met director Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) who he struck up a friendship with, then was offered the unforgettable role of the Opponent, the guy with the broken leg in the 1995 blockbuster film Desperado. Chad Stahelski the director of the John Wick series was one of Arevalo's martial arts instructors of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do martial art under Guro Dan Inosanto at Inosanto Academy. Arevalo is a 1st Degree Black Belt in Machado Brazilian Jiujitsu. Arevalo has been writing and directing his own projects including performing with his comedy rap group The Baking Soda Mob. While growing up on both sides of the border Arevalo experienced the best of both worlds and developed a knowledge that would serve to target his own culture in the years to come. This being telenovelas, (Mexican Soap Operas), Classic Films, Mariachi's, Palenque's, music, food and Mexican wrestling. As a filmmaker, Arevalo established in 2002 his own Latino distribution company. The focus was to make an impact in the domestic home video market targeting Latinos and Mexican immigrants. Arevalo was responsible for acquiring the rights to valuable pop culture icons such as "Cantinflas" and "El Santo". Most of these films were just collecting dust. until they finally saw the light of day.
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong is familiar to old-movie buffs for his case-hardened, rapid-fire delivery in such roles as fast-talking promoters, managers, FBI agents, street cops, detectives and other such characters in scores of films--over 160--many of them at Warner Brothers, where he was part of the so-called "Warner Brothers Stock Company" that consisted of such players as James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale and Humphrey Bogart, among others. Although he could easily be taken for having grown up in a tough area of Brooklyn or the Bronx, he was actually from the Midwest. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1890, and his father owned a small and profitable flotilla of boats for use on Lake Michigan. Hearing the Siren call of the gold fields in late 19th-century Alaska, however, he packed up the family and headed west. A typical staging place to start north was in Washington state, and the family settled in Seattle. Robert spent a short hitch in the infantry during World War I. Afterwards he decided to go into law and started to study at the University of Washington. However, it wasn't long before that he decided he had a gift for acting and--perhaps influenced by his uncle, playwright and producer Paul Armstrong--decided to follow that path. He hooked up with future Hollywood character actor James Gleason, known to everyone as "Jimmy", who worked for a variety of playhouses in California and Oregon and who was heir to his parents' stock company, which toured across the US. Armstrong joined Gleason's company and returned with them to New York. He started from the bottom up, learning the craft of acting. After moving on to leading roles, he received the prime part in Gleason's own play "Is Zat So?" (1925-1926), a particularly successful play among several he had written (he also directed and produced plays on Broadway into 1928). Hollywood scouts were watching, and Armstrong found himself with a film contract. He appeared in approximately 10 films in 1928 alone, and after the first five he was able, with the advent of sound, to give voice to the take-charge, mile-a-minute, clenched-teeth delivery that would make him one of the busiest character men in Hollywood--and right alongside him in several of his early 1930s features was his old friend and boss Jimmy Gleason. It was in 1932 that Armstrong became acquainted with an ambitious and adventurous pair of Hollywood filmmakers. Both were World War I fliers, big-game hunters and animal trappers, and partners in high adventure documentaries, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack had found a friend in rising producer David O. Selznick, who brought them on board at RKO, with Cooper as production idea man. Schoedsack was the technical side of the pair, knowledgeable about the actual physical and technical side of filmmaking, , and became the actual director of their projects, with Cooper as an associate producer and sometime co-director. They turned out what would be the first of a string of horror-tinged adventure movies, The Most Dangerous Game (1932), with Armstrong having a part in it. He got in his usual wisecrack lines but from a less dimensioned character who had an early demise--the film centered on Joel McCrea and still young silent screen veteran Fay Wray. Cooper saw much of himself in Armstrong's general personality and wanted him for a film that he had been wanting to make for quite a few years, an adventure yarn dealing with the stories he had heard during his years making films in jungles all over the world of giant, vicious apes. The resulting film, King Kong (1933), would put Armstrong at stage center as big-time promoter Carl Denham (very much Cooper himself). The film also began co-star Fay Wray on the road to stardom. With Copper and Schoedsack co-directing and the legendary Willis H. O'Brien heading up a visual effects team supporting his for-the-time astounding animated miniature sequences, the film was a treasure trove for RKO, bringing newfound respect for a studio known mostly for its "B" action films and westerns. It was Armstrong's defining moment and set the stage for the plethora of leading man and second lead roles he would play through the 1930s. A sequel, The Son of Kong (1933), followed almost immediately with the same production team and, though not achieving the critical or box-office acclaim as its predecessor, showcased another Armstrong strength--a great sense of comedic timing that had been evident, but not really traded upon, in previous films. The Cooper/Schoedsack team got in one more for 1933, with Armstrong as an uncommon--for him--romantic lead in Blind Adventure (1933), a fast-paced but but often uneven adventure yarn. All the studios wanted him, and what followed was a flood of usually good, crowd-pleasing roles, although still in "B" pictures. Among the better ones were Palooka (1934) and 'G' Men (1935), with Armstrong playing a hard-nosed FBI agent who is mentor and partner to a young James Cagney. With a full menu of adventure yarns and colorful cop and military roles, at the end of the decade Armstrong even played one of America's great folk heroes - Jim Bowie - in Man of Conquest (1939), this time at Republic Pictures. Armstrong got more of the same in the decade of World War II--although with age he started to slip down the cast list--with some variety, playing a Nazi agent in the spoof My Favorite Spy (1942) and--in somewhat ridiculous "Japanese" makeup--as a Japanese secret-police colonel (named Tojo) with former co-star James Cagney in the escapist romp Blood on the Sun (1945). Finally, Cooper--gorillas still on his mind--came calling for Armstrong again for his Mighty Joe Young (1949), which he made about midway in his association with partner John Ford in their Argosy Pictures venture under the wing of RKO. Armstrong was again a reincarnation of Carl Denham as Max O'Hara, a fast-talking promoter looking for a sensation in "Darkest Africa". The Ford touch is perhaps seen in the cowboys who go along with young Ben Johnson as romantic lead to enthusiastic--to say the least--Terry Moore with her pet gorilla Joe (about half as big as King Kong but definitely no ordinary gorilla). It is a great little movie, with more light-hearted tone than "Kong" and a red-tinted fire scene recalling the silents. It was a Saturday matinée favorite for at least a decade afterward (this writer enjoyed it as his first movie theater adventure as a small child). Armstrong increasingly went to the small screen through the 1950s. He was a familiar face on most of the TV playhouse programs of the period and did many of the series oaters and crime shows of the period. He received a great send-up as a guest on Red Skelton's variety show when the oft giggling host asked him, "Say, did you ever get that monkey off that building?" Armstrong liked keeping busy and helping friends. One of the latter was Cooper--still promoting as his alter ego Carl Denham in his old age. The two passed away within 24 hours of one another in April of 1973.
Robert Aronowitz
Robert Aronowitz is a New York City based SAG-AFTRA Stunt Performer, Fight/Intimacy Coordinator, Actor, and Certified Combat Instructor. Robert is the Co-Founder of Neutral Chaos a company that offers choreographic solutions, private combat instruction, and masterclass training opportunities in the greater New York City area. Robert is also the founding coordinator of a 3-day stage and screen stunt workshop, "The Tourist Trap" held annually at The University of Central Florida.
Robert Artz
Robert Artz is known for A Simple Request (2017), Help, What's Killing Me? (2015) and The Council (2020).
Robert Asencio
Robert Asencio is a proud artist from New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in Theatre from Kean University. The greatest lesson acting has taught him is the importance of self-reflecting on one's own experiences in order to bring characters to life with truthfulness and empathy. Robert is grateful to have honed his skills performing on New York City and New Jersey stages throughout his career. Most recently, Robert appeared on Max Original limited series "Full Circle" from Academy Award-Winning Director Steven Soderbergh. He has also worked on the Original television drama "Dear Edward," from Emmy Award-winning creator Jason Katims on Apple TV+ and the feature film "These Days" which recently won awards at the Hamptons International Film Festival and Chelsea Film Festival. In addition to being an actor, Robert is a dedicated musician, visual artist, photographer, poet, and filmmaker whose award-winning film "KNIGHT" received many festival selections in the tri-state area including an official selection at the Garden State Film Festival and the "New Jersey Honorary Achievement Award in the Art of Filmmaking" at The Brightside Tavern Film Festival in Jersey City. His continued study of the arts has fed his artistic life with an everlasting joy that he is very grateful to have found. Ultimately, he believes that all artists must strive to build a deep personal relationship with their art forms.
Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley is known for Last Three Days (2020).
Robert Assolen
Robert Assolen is known for Chez Gino (2011), Hyperconnexion (2016) and Marseille (2016).
Robert Atzorn
Robert Atzorn was born on February 2, 1945 in Bad Polzin, Pomerania, Germany [now Polczyn-Zdrój, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Oh Gott, Herr Pfarrer (1988), Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht (1992) and Aus dem Leben der Marionetten (1980). He has been married to Angelika Hartung since 1976. They have two children.
Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod was born on May 29, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Blob (1988), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993). He died on September 7, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Robert B Bruce
Robert B Bruce is an actor, known for Crowman (2016), Schemers (2019) and The Things We Leave Behind (2019).
