---
name: "Robert Lewis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-lewis"
fi1m_id: "robert-lewis"
imdb_id: "nm0507673"
tmdb_id: 60063
wikidata_id: "Q1489956"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 March 1909"
died: "23 November 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:07:26.790112+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."
---

# Robert Lewis

## Identity

Robert Lewis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-lewis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-lewis
- **IMDb ID:** nm0507673
- **TMDB ID:** 60063
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1489956
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lewis_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1489956, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507673/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60063

Actor. Born 16 March 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 23 November 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 March 1909, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 23 November 1997
- **Also known as:** Robert "Bobby" Lewis
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lewis_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1489956, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507673/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60063

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Monsieur Verdoux*](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md) (82)

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## Biography

Robert Lewis (1909–1997) was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He appeared as Maurice Bottello in Charles Chaplin's *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947) and had roles in *Ziegfeld Follies* (1945) and other films of the 1940s. He also directed the 1956 film version of *Anything Goes*.

A founding member of the Group Theatre in the 1930s, Lewis co-founded the Actors Studio in New York in 1947 with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford. He later served as head of the acting and directing departments at the Yale School of Drama and directed Broadway productions including *Brigadoon* (1947).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), Fi1m 82, as Maurice Bottello — [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Secrets of Midland Heights* (1980), series, Director
- *Anything Goes* (1956), Director
- *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), as Maurice Bottello — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md)
- *The Hidden Eye* (1945), as Stormvig
- *Ziegfeld Follies* (1945), as Gentleman ("Limehouse Blues") / Man (voice) ("Number Please") · Director
- *The Last Installment* (1945), as Kovak
- *Son of Lassie* (1945), as Sergeant Schmidt
- *Dragon Seed* (1944), as Captain Sato
- *Paris After Dark* (1943), as Col. Pirosh

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