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name: "Robert Roark"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-roark"
roles: []
born: "19 October 1926"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:54:11.341333+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 Roark

Actor. Born 19 October 1926 in Helen, West Virginia, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 19 October 1926, Helen, West Virginia, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118302

## Biography

Robert Roark is an American actor and producer. He was born on 19 October 1926 in Helen, West Virginia. He served in the South Pacific during the Second World War as a combat paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division.

Roark is known for his role as Insigna in the 1955 film *Mister Roberts*. His other screen credits include appearances in *Killers from Space* (1954), *Target Earth* (1954), *The Long Gray Line* (1955) and *The Girl in Lovers Lane* (1960), on which he also worked as producer. He appeared in numerous television series in the 1950s and 1960s, including episodes of *Highway Patrol*, *M Squad*, *Wagon Train* and *Lock Up*.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mister Roberts* (1955), Fi1m 76, as Insigna — [page](https://film.one/film/mister-roberts.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Girl in Lovers Lane* (1960), Producer
- *Screaming Eagles* (1956), as Pvt. Torren
- *Blackjack Ketchum Desperado* (1956), as Ben Tetlow
- *Mister Roberts* (1955), as Insigna — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/mister-roberts.md)
- *Target Earth* (1954), as Davis
- *Princess of the Nile* (1954), as Capt. Hussein (uncredited)

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