---
name: "Robert Broyles"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-broyles"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 January 1933"
died: "12 February 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T06:13:20.086225+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Robert Broyles

Actor. Born 20 January 1933 in Sparta, Tennessee, USA. Died 12 February 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 January 1933, Sparta, Tennessee, USA
- **Died:** 12 February 2011
- **Active:** 1977–1982
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 84 (2), 1980s 84 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Horror 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $451m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Broyles, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28794000, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115311/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/160483

## Biography

Robert Houston Broyles (20 January 1933 – 12 February 2011) was an American character actor, drama teacher, theatre director and writer. Born in Sparta, Tennessee, he served in the US Navy from 1952 to 1956 and graduated from Ohio State University in 1960. He worked as a drama coach in Hollywood from 1963 to 1967 before making his first television appearance in 1964 on an episode of Bonanza.

Broyles appeared in numerous television series in the 1960s and 1970s, including multiple episodes of My Three Sons, The Mod Squad and Family Affair. His film roles included Dirty Tricks #3 in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Sam Bolen in Norma Rae (1979), Willis in Raise the Titanic (1980) and a pool worker in Poltergeist (1982). He continued working in television and film into the 1990s, with his final role in the series Bette in 2000. He died in Los Angeles aged 78.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Poltergeist* (1982), Fi1m 84, as Pool Worker — [page](https://film.one/film/poltergeist.md)
- *Norma Rae* (1979), Fi1m 82, as Sam Bolen — [page](https://film.one/film/norma-rae.md)
- *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (1977), Fi1m 85, as Dirty Tricks #3 — [page](https://film.one/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is* (1994), as Fred
- *Fall From Grace* (1990), as Construction Foreman
- *Sonny Boy* (1989), as Mayor
- *The Karen Carpenter Story* (1989), as Bowl Emcee
- *Inherit the Wind* (1988), as Man on Platform
- *Return to Mayberry* (1986), as Wilson
- *Matlock* (1986), series, as Mark
- *Acceptable Risks* (1986), as Second Councilman
- *Copacabana* (1985), as Bar Patron
- *California Girls* (1985), as Limo Driver
- *Poltergeist* (1982), as Pool Worker — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/poltergeist.md)
- *Friendly Fire* (1980), Actor
- *Raise the Titanic* (1980), as Willis
- *Norma Rae* (1979), as Sam Bolen — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/norma-rae.md)
- *Born Again* (1978), as John Erlichman
- *Record City* (1978), as Workman
- *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (1977), as Dirty Tricks #3 — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind.md)

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