Robert Phalen

Robert Phalen

Birthday: 1937-05-10

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Biography: Robert Anthony Phalen (May 10, 1937 – December 6, 1995) was an American actor. He was born in San Francisco, California, where he attended George Washington High School, was active in the school's drama club, and served as student body president. His early stage work includes his membership in San Francisco's Actor's Workshop, where he played a variety of roles in the early 1960s, including Mick in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. He was in the 1978 hit horror movie Halloween as Dr. Terence Wynn. His character returned in the 1995 sequel Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, but the role was taken over by Mitch Ryan. Robert also appeared in two other John Carpenter movies; namely Someone's Watching Me! (1978) and Starman (1984). His other film credits include Three Days of the Condor (1975), Just You and Me, Kid (1979), Zoot Suit (1981), The Gladiator (1986) and Impulse (1990). Phalen has made guest appearances on many TV shows. Some of those appearances include MASH, Baretta, Centennial, Hill Street Blues, The Facts of Life, and Babylon 5 (as the father of main character Susan Ivanova).

Movies

Halloween
Halloween

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a menta...

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Impulse
Impulse

A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relation...

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Starman
Starman

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

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Zoot Suit
Zoot Suit

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play...

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Enemies
Enemies

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss th...

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A Touch of the Poet
A Touch of the Poet

Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former...

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Someone's Watching Me!
Someone's Watching Me!

A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown ...

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Under the Influence
Under the Influence

Noah Talbot is a long-time alcoholic whose drinking begins to have a devastating effect not only on ...

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Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe

Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to k...

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Hellinger's Law
Hellinger's Law

A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (act...

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Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he h...

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A Killing Affair
A Killing Affair

A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committi...

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The Last Song
The Last Song

An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband...

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The Killing of Randy Webster
The Killing of Randy Webster

When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertak...

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Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons

In John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN, Michael Myers was suddenly able to drive a car after hav...

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