ROBERT WILCOX

Robert Wilcox was a character actor from the 1930s to the 1940s. He left Hollywood at the start of World War II to serve in the Army, first as a private and eventually as a captain. In 1950 he married Diana Barrymore, but passed away in 1955 at the age of 45 from a heart attack. Barrymore chronicled their stormy relationship in her 1957 autobiography Too Much, Too Soon (she dedicated the book to him), and Ed Kemmer portrayed Wilcox in the 1958 movie based on the book. Some of his movies include: Mysterious Doctor Satan, The Man They Could Not Hang, and Little Tough Guy