Background
Robert Ellis was born in Chicago, Illinois to Fern Bloomfield.
Robert Ellis was born in Chicago, Illinois to Fern Bloomfield.
He was educated in professional children"s schools in New York City and Hollywood and later studied theater arts at Columbia University.
He died of kidney failure at the age of 40 in Los Los Angeles At the time of his death, he was a producer of educational films. The Aldrich Family (1952-1953) as Henry Aldrich
Meet Corliss Archer (1951) as Dexter Franklin
I Love Lucy (1952) as Tommy the Office Boy
Fireside Theatre (1951-1952)
Big Town (1952)
Peter Pan (1953) as Lost Boy (voice, uncredited)
Where"s Raymond? (1954)
Schlitz Playhouse (1954)
The Loretta Young Show (1954) as Tom
Public Defender (1954) as Johnny Wagner
The Lone Ranger (1955) as Jack "Kid" Hall
Cavalcade of America (1955)
Meet Corliss Archer (1954-1955) as Dexter Franklin
The Bob Cummings Show (1956) as Joe Depew
Telephone Time (1956)
Lux Video Theatre (1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956) as Pat Jordan
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956) as George Barnett
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957) as Private
Crenshaw
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1957)
Navy Log (1957) as Kupper
The Sheriff of Cochise (1957) as Jaekel
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957) as Reporter / Tommy Kopeck
Code 3 (1957) as Dewey Cushmnan / Fred Bacon
General Electric Theater (1957)
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1956-1958) series regular
Flight (1958)
77 Sunset Strip (1958) as Harry Warren
Death Valley Days (1959) as Ben (in “Wheelbarrow Johnny”)
The Real McCoys (1959) as Gas Station Customer
The Donna Reed Show (1959) as Young Manitoba (in “The Punishment”)
M Squad (1960)as Tom Herrick (in “Dead Parrots Don"t Talk”)
Tallahassee 7000 (1961)
The Jackie Gleason Special (1973).
He made his acting debut at age 5 and appeared in some 50 movies and television shows, sometimes billed as "Bobby Ellis." In 1948, the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences awarded him a special certificate for his acting and dancing role as Buster Tyme in the movie "April Showers," which starred Ann Sothern and Jack Carson.
