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Middlemass graduated from Harvard University in 1909 and initially went into the insurance business, but soon went on the stage, joining the Castle Square Theatre stock company in Boston.
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Robert Middlemass
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Usually playing detectives or policemen. He debuted on Broadway in September 1914 in The Bludgeon at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. His best known play was a one-act melodrama written with Holworthy Hall (real name H East Porter, a college roommate) titled The Valiant, which was also made into a film of the same name in 1929, and as The Manitoba Who Wouldn"t Talk in 1940.
The play became a favorite for amateur and local theater groups, and is still performed today.
Middlemass moved to Los Angeles around 1935, and began appearing in films. He died there in 1949.
