---
name: "Robert Light"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-light"
fi1m_id: "robert-light"
imdb_id: "nm0509941"
tmdb_id: 125843
wikidata_id: "Q134873258"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 June 1911"
died: "21 March 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:21:51.894021+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 Light

## Identity

Robert Light

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-light
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-light
- **IMDb ID:** nm0509941
- **TMDB ID:** 125843
- **Wikidata ID:** Q134873258
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134873258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509941/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125843

Actor. Born 23 June 1911 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Died 21 March 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 June 1911, Denver, Colorado, USA
- **Died:** 21 March 1997
- **Also known as:** Robert Merwin Light
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134873258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509941/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125843

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*My Man Godfrey*](https://film.one/film/my-man-godfrey.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Robert Light, also credited as Robert Merwin Light, was an American actor and broadcaster. Born in Denver, Colorado, he made his Broadway debut in 1928 at the age of 17. His film roles in the 1930s included Paul Mercer in *Reckless* (1935), Ted Sterling in *Shipmates Forever* (1935), and Faithful George in *My Man Godfrey* (1936).

After his acting career, Light worked in radio. He was one of the first US Armed Forces Network broadcasters, signing the network on the air in France and Germany after D-Day during the Second World War. He later served as president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association from 1959 to 1989 and taught advertising and radio broadcasting in the Los Angeles community college system for twenty years. He died in Los Angeles in 1997.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Man Godfrey* (1936), Fi1m 82, as Faithful George — [page](https://film.one/film/my-man-godfrey.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Autumn Born* (1979), as Disco Patron
- *My Man Godfrey* (1936), as Faithful George — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/my-man-godfrey.md)
- *Doughnuts and Society* (1936), as Bill
- *Ceiling Zero* (1936), as Les Bogan
- *Shipmates Forever* (1935), as Ted Sterling
- *Mary Jane's Pa* (1935), as Fred
- *Reckless* (1935), as Paul Mercer
- *Women Must Dress* (1935), as Brand Whitney
- *Murder in the Clouds* (1934), as Tom
- *Gentlemen Are Born* (1934), as Fred Harper

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