Robert Fitz Randolph Patten (October 11, 1925 – December 29, 2001) was an American film and television actor. He was best known for playing Lieutenant Jesse Bishop in the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High.
Personal life and death Patten married Marjorie Lloyd Ross on March 3, 1956, in Las Vegas. In 1962, he was named in the divorce case of Glynis Johns. Divorce Court in London granted a divorce to Johns's husband as a result of her adultery with Patten.
Patten died on December 29, 2001 of cancer at his home in Malibu, California, at the age of 76.
Partial filmography Black Gold (1947) - Jockey (uncredited) The Street with No Name (1948) - Robert Danker (uncredited) Apartment for Peggy (1948) - Student (uncredited) When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) - Sailor (uncredited) Mother Is a Freshman (1949) - Young Man (uncredited) Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) - Joe Fisher It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Cab Driver (uncredited) Sand (1949) - Boyd Slattery's Hurricane (1949) - Lieutenant at Desk (uncredited) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) - Interne (uncredited) Father Was a Fullback (1949) - Manager (uncredited) Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Lieutenant Jesse Bishop When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) - Corporal Heckling Bill (uncredited) Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Medical Examiner (uncredited) American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) - Lovejoy The Frogmen (1951) - Lieutenant Klinger (uncredited) The Dennis Day Show (1954) (Season 3, Episode 29: "Ann Blyth/Johnny Carson") - Dr. Jim McNulty (uncredited) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) - Frank Return from the Sea (1954) - Welch Unchained (1955) - Johnny Swanson (uncredited) Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 1 Episode 14: "A Bullet for Baldwin") - Detective Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 1 Episode 16: "You Got to Have Luck") - Willis the Co-Pilot D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) - Petty Officer (uncredited) Bells Are Ringing (1960) - Party Guest (uncredited) Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961) - Lieutenant J. G. Marchon Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Party Guest (uncredited) A Guide for the Married Man (1967) - Party Guest Airport (1970) - Captain Benson Zig Zag (1970) - John Raymond The Love Machine (1971) - Reporter (uncredited) Westworld (1973) - Technician Black Sunday (1977) - Vickers FM (1978) - Jack Rapp Personal Best (1982) - Colin Sales
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