Celebrity Biographies
Robert Morse
Robert Morse has managed to carve out a solid acting career on stage, although he has also had a memorable presence in film and television, in recent times as the founder of an advertising agency in “Mad Men.”
Robert Morse was born in 1931 in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Like his brother Richard, he studied acting at Neighborhood House, and also took classes from Lee Strasberg .
Probably his best film role is The Loved Ones (1965), a black humor funeral film based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh , directed by Tony Richardson . But he had made his debut a decade earlier with Men Also Cry (1956). Some of the roles that he represented on stage, later he did them in the cinema, is the case of The matchmaker (1958) and How to succeed without hitting (1967). His comic vision and his nerve were manifested in A Guide for the Married Man , of the same year, which he did with Walter Matthau . He was also in the Otto Preminger classic The Cardinal (1963).
On television, he has always been a highly sought-after professional, whether in TV movies or in series, including That’s Life , All My Children , City of Angels , Mad Men , and American Crime Story . He has remained active until 2019. He has been married twice, to Carole D’Andrea and Elizabeth Cosby, and has five children, who have followed in his footsteps into show business.