Robert Rounseville

b. Robert Field Rounseville, 25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 6 August 1974, New York City, New York, USA. After training as an operatic tenor, Rounseville sang in the chorus or played small roles in a succession of Broadway productions, several of which were hits: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Babes In Arms (1937), Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), and Rodgers and Hart's Higher And Higher (1940). In the early 50s he appeared as Hoffman in the British film production of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales Of Hoffman (1951), in which ...