Ann Robinson Biography
Ann Robinson is an America Actress and Stunt Horse Rider, perhaps best known for her work in the Science-Fiction Classic. The War of the Worlds and in the 1953 Film Dragnet, in which she starred as a Los Angeles police officer opposite Jack Webb and Ben Alexander. Ann Robinson is the Past President of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and a former editor of Gifted Child Quarterly. She has received the Early Leader, the Early Scholar, the Distinguished Service and Distinguished Scholar Awards from the Association.
Ann Robinson Movies & Show
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The War Of The World 1995
The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American Technicolor science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
The film is a loose adaptation of the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, the first of five film adaptations. It is a modern retelling of the 1897 novel, changing the setting from Victorian era-England to 1953 southern California. Earth is suddenly and unexpectedly invaded by Martians, and American scientist Clayton Forrester searches for any weakness that can stop them.
The War of the Worlds won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and went on to influence other science fiction films. In 2011, it was selected for preservation in the United States’ National Film Registry in the Library of Congress, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Cast
- Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester
- Ann Robinson as Sylvia van Buren
- Les Tremayne as General Mann
- Bob Cornthwaite as Dr. Pryor
- Sandro Giglio as Dr. Bilderbeck
- Lewis Martin as Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins
- Housely Stevenson Jr. as General Mann’s aide
Ann Robinson Acting Career
She doubled for Shelley Winters in Frenchie (1950), starring and riding in several westerns during her careers such as The Cimarron Kid (1951) with Audie Murphy, Gun Brothers (1956), and Gun Duel in Durango (1957). She was later assigned by Paramount Pictures as an actress in the early 1950s. Her first leading role was as “Sylvia Van Buren” in The War of the Worlds (1953) co-starring with Gene Barry, a role she quasi-reprised in two later films, first as Dr. Van Buren in Midnight Movie Massacre (1988).
Robinson worked on several other films, including Imitation of Life(1959), and the Doris Day thriller Julie (1956). She also had a starring role opposite Jack Webb and Ben Alexander in Dragnet(1954), a feature film version of the hit television series. From 1955 to 1959, Robinson was cast in ten episodes of the NBC children’s western television.
Ann Robinson was featured in several commercials for Home Savings of America, Toni home perms, and Chesterfield Cigarettes. She performed a number of film voice-overs also, in English and Spanish. Ann Robinson did the leading actress’ voice in To Begin Again, which won the 1984 Oscar for the best foreign film.
In 1985, she appeared in a documentary about George Pal titled The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (produced and directed by Arnold Leibovit). n 1988 Ann Robinson reprised her role as Sylvia van Buren from the original The War of the Worlds. In the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, War of the Worlds, she played a cameo role as Tom Cruise’s character’s mother-in-law, the grandmother of Dakota Fanning’s character, alongside her long-ago co-star Gene Barry. Upon completing this role, she retired from acting altogether.
Ann Robinson Married| Husband | Relationships
Meets Mexican matador Jaime Bravo at the bullfights in Tijuana, Mexico. He’s 24; she’s 28. marries Bravo in Mexico. Bravo is divorced from actress Francesca De Scaffa, who gains notoriety as a tipster to Confidential magazine the same month. In 1977 Ann will remember: “It was one of those crazy things. She was very young. She met in the afternoon and were married that evening.”
Flies from Mexico to Los Angeles to visit her mother, who’s in the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital for surgery. She tells columnist Harrison Carroll that she and her husband probably will stay in California for the rest of the summer. Her son Jaime is born. He will become a director with ABC Sports. She returns with her sons to Los Angeles permanently and moves into a house in Elysian Park. She and Bravo live part of the year in Los Angeles and “following the bullfight circuit” in Mexico City or Spain or South America.
Divorces Bravo after a ten-year marriage and some scenes and scandals. Bravo will marry Monica Lindkvist the same year and be killed in an auto accident in Mexico in February 1970. She marries real estate broker Joseph Valdez.
Ann Robinson Television Roles
Adam-12, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bachelor Father, Ben Casey, Biff Baker, U.S.A., The Bob Cummings Show, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Days of Our Lives, Four Star Playhouse, General Hospital, Gilligan’s Island, It’s a Great Life, The Millionaire, My Little Margie, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Police Woman, Rawhide, Rocky Jones Space Ranger.
Ann Robinson Age
She was on born May 25, 1929, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her Birth sign not currently known. She is 80 years old.
Ann Robinson Height | Weight
Her height and measurements are not updated but soon they will be added. More information will be updated soon for clear information.
Ann Robinson Education
Ann Robinson completed her junior studies at Hollywood High School and later proceeded for higher levels. Dr. Ann Robinson is a professor in the department of Teacher Education/Education Leadership and the founding director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education.
In 2001, Dr. Robinson founded the Mahony Center–a multi-purpose unit serving teachers and children through graduate and professional development programs for gifted education. For years, the center has also served as a hub for the Arkansas Advanced Placement Summer Institute, an archive for curriculum materials and empirical research.
Ann Robinson also coordinates the Summer Laureate University for Youth, a summer enrichment program for academically talented children taught by education students. Every summer, the three-week program assists in training teachers of gifted and talented students.
She has a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Wyoming, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Purdue University.
Ann Robinson Family | Siblings
Well, concerning her siblings, sources have not provided any further information. They will be updated soon for clear relevant information.
Ann Robinson Association for Gifted Children
She is the Past President of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and a former editor of Gifted Child Quarterly. She has received the Early Leader, the Early Scholar, the Distinguished Service and Distinguished Scholar Awards from the Association.
Ann is currently a Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Before she began working with teachers at the university level, she taught high school English and elementary.
Over the course of her academic career, Ann has secured over $20 million in external funding including three Jacob K. Javits demonstration projects in the curriculum, instruction, and evaluation. She presents and consults internationally and has held visiting appointments at Wolfson College and the Cambridge Institute of Education, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Ann Robinson Association Visions
- If You Build It, They Will Come: Advocating for Exemplary Gifted Services
- Differentiated Curriculum for Advanced Learners and the Evidence to Back it Up!
- Building Differentiated Instruction with Biography: Non-Fiction Reading in the Common Core Spotlight
- What to Do with the Children from Lake Wobegon: Fostering Talent through Innovation
- How Can Innovation Save Gifted Education?
- Evidence-Based Practices for High-Ability Learners: What Educators Want to Know
- Pipelines, Pigs, and Pumping Stations: Creating the Structure for STEM Talents
- Illuminating Lives: Stories and Insights from the Founders of Gifted Education
Ann Robinson Net worth / Salary
She has a net worth of $45 million. Concerning her salary, there is no doubt that she is earning good pay from her career. More information will be updated soon concerning any changes in her salary and also her total net worth.
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