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tivto jV DOB (CUHMIlMiQUIj EVISION RADIO THEATERS ARTS DINING OUT Charlotte Saturday Aug 27 Thru Saturday Sept 3 1966 He Prowled A Tough Beat Film Stair? Noll- Bob agency when he met a movie producer at a health ctub The producer told him he should become an actor nothing said Phillips I met him about a year iater He told me the same thing and this time gave me a role in a film he was For a time Phillips was a fulltime policeman and a part-time actor But in 1963 he gave up his detective agency and enrolled in an acting school he done? Well acting made him rich He was in a movie (unidenti- See ACTOR on Page 4 before World War II He was a member of the Illinois State Police and for a time served as the bodyguard for the late Adlai Stevenson when the latter was governor of Illi-fwis Early in the war he joined the Marine Corps took basic training at Parris Island and was stationed for a time at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were the most miserable months I ever put he said A fellow Marine and buddy was Robert Ryan who plays a tough general in Dirty Phillips joined the Los An geles police department after the war and was assigned to undercover work A tough cop? You bet he was was up on brutality charges eight he said indicating that a policeman could not use kid gloves in combatting knife and gun-toting criminals INJURIES took him out of action more than once A knee injury required an operation His jaw was brokon and had to remain wired for 10 months He was put on pension and during this time operated his own detective agency by telephone He was still running his ROBERT first PHILLIPS On a By EMERY WISTER Nm Entertainment Writer LONDON No one could ever call Robert Phillips a pretty boy But the reason an actor now and not still chasing crooks for the Los Angeles Police Department hear they want me for a TV show" said Phillips who plays an Army corporal in the World War II thriller Dirty now being filmed here said they wanted a guy not too pretty and me I guess say the Philip Marlowe Phillips could say that again For he WAS a Marlowe type in real life He was in police work for years and for a time operated his own detective agency A MOVIE STAR? Not Bob Phillips If you were to say that you knew the name or had seen him on screen be the most surprised man in the world But you knew who he was long before he turned in his badge and pistol for the equally precarious life of an actor Bob Phillips was the man on whose career the TV series on a was based He was the undercover policeman who wormed into crime syndicates to learn what made them tick and to get evidence on the kingpins Mike Conners played the role on TV and the series which ran for only a season was one of the best of its kind ever produced As a matter of fact Phillips tested for the role but was rejected by the advertising geniuses in New York Ave turned me he said said I was too much of a hood and not the General Foods type So Conners got the Not that that worried Phil- lips too much He had already decided to become an actor £Md was fully prepared for the turndowns he knew get PHILLIPS is dark-haired muscular and hard-eyed a little older than he looks and was in law enforcement i Patient Dale Hopes For A Hit By EMERY WISTER Ntw Entertainment Writer HOLLYWOOD If one thing Dale Robertson has learned in his 15-year career in motion pictures and television patience I hope people will have a little patience with he said in the steamy heat of' a stable-like sound stage think this can be a pretty good show if the public will stick with its and the network get too jumpy in the early Robertson is the star of Iron a railroading drama in the early West which makes its debut on WSOC-TV Sept 12 II takes its name from a motion picture filmed in the early and its story from a special TV movie shown this summer Robertson is more than just the star He owns the railroad Won it in a poker game THIS IS first TV series since his highly successful of Wells And well had its troubles had a few story problems in the first shows we he said it looks like finally found -the right direction had a few wardrobe problems too How was I supposed to dress? a lot of action in this show and I have to dress for it But after all own the railroad not exactly a slumblebum I hpve to look the HOLLYWOOD The call sheet said that a blowsy and baggy Shelley Winters could be found walking the streets of Gotham City in the heart of Warner Bros busy lot near this smogbound city see if we can tte her down for a few said an ABC network publicity man usually The trouble with Shel is too easy a pickup Before we could get within hailing distance Forrest Tucker wheels by in his golf cart lifts the lady off the asphalt and goes humming off into the distance And all we saw ot her on that near 100-degree day We grumbled to Tuck about it the next day and he in the earthy prose he uses so well said only that the lady wanted him to take her some place TELL YOU about this guy Tucker taken up where Bette Davis left off as the ruling monarch of the Warner lot At any and all times when not before the cameras on his series roaming the studio driving his cart almost to the very heart of sets where other TV shows and feature motion pictures are being shot I wish you could see this fancy contraption complete with radio TV set and a portable bar from which he helps himself all during the long shooting day His house is only two or three blocks from the studio and he drives the cart to work every morning He wheeled onto a sound stage just as a bevy of scantily-clad cuties was about to besiege Roddy MacDowall in a scene of a movie now called Cool DALE ROBERTSON If public will stick with Well they worked that out As Dale says I have to do is change my shirt and I look halfway western and ready for action They gave me a whole bunch of outfits to wear 10 or 11 of ROBERTSON has a few tough hombres helping him build and run the railroad Guys like Gary Collins Fob Random and Roger Torrey Guys whose faces mean irure than their names Guys who(i fight Indians and men alike as the ribbon of steej moves ever westward pretty familiar country to Dale who helped keep the stagecoaches running in of Wells He could only wish his motion picture ventures had done as well a his TV projects His ell-cartoon Western Man From Button went down the box office drain last year did pretty he admitted at all what we had expected It was a good PATIENT on Page 16 ff came aver here to look I- See SHOW at some pretty girls for a On Page 3.