Robert Phalen

Robert Phalen was born on May 10, 1937 in USA. Robert Phalen's big-screen debut came with A Touch of the Poet directed by Kirk Browning in 1974, strarring Mickey Maloy. Robert Phalen is known for Halloween directed by John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence stars as Loomis and Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie. The upcoming new tvshow Robert Phalen plays is FBI: The Untold Stories - Season 2 which will be released on Sep 26, 1991.

American supporting player, active in films and on television for two decades from the mid-70s. Phalen began acting in his school's drama club and later on stage in California after joining the San Francisco Actor's Workshop. A frequent performer on Broadway from 1965, he appeared in major plays, including Twelfth Night, The Crucible, Saint Joan, King Lear and A Streetcar Named Desire. Phalen debuted on screen in 1974 and was subsequently featured in guest roles on M.A.S.H. (1972) (as an outspoken sergeant), Racines (1977) (Rufus Jackson) and Babylon 5 (1993) (as Susan Ivanova's estranged father). His best known motion picture appearance was in La Nuit des masques (1978), as the sinister Dr. Terence Wynn (instrumental in setting the homicidal Michael Myers on his path). He also played the stern Major Bell, relentless in his pursuit of the alien Starman (1984). Most of Phalen's screen personae turned out to be tough authority figures, from judges and attorneys to senators and middle-echelon army officers. Phalen died from complications of AIDS in Los Angeles on December 6 1995 at the age of 58.