Robert Cornthwaite: Robert Cornthwaite. Actor: The Thing from Another World. Robert Cornthwaite first got hooked on acting at age 13, when he was forced to play a one-line part in an eighth grade play. He did his first work with professionals five years later, in a 1935 production of "Twelfth Night" on the Reed College campus in Portland. He worked in radio in Southern California before he was inducted into the Air...
Known For: The Thing from Another World (Dr. Carrington), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Dr. Shelby), The War of the Worlds (Dr. Pryor(as Bob Cornthwaite)), Picket Fences (Howard Buss)