Spoiler : Clarke, Robert (Robert I Clarke) Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 6/1/1920; died 6/11/2005 from complications of diabetes at his home in Valley Village, California. Married to vocalist Alyce King (1956-1996 her death). Clarke attended Kemper Military College, planning a career in the military, but after asthma precluded his service during WWII, he switched to the University of Oklahoma where he acted on radio and in plays, then attended the University of Wisconsin. After moving to Hollywood in 1942, he signed a contract with RKO Studios. Screen debut playing Perc Saunders in The Falcon in Hollywood (1944). Last movie was playing Major Allison in The Naked Monster (2005).

Spoiler : Television actor from 1950 to 2004. Ray Lansing on the ABC-TV soap, General Hospital (1963). On tour, and appeared on TV with wife (Alyce King) on The King Family Show for ABC-TV (1965- 1966), again in 1969.

Spoiler : Clarke penned his memoirs in his 1996 autobiography titled, "To B or Not to B," which refered to his many years work in B pictures.