Robert Wilcox(1910-1955)
- Actor
His father was a physician in Rochester, New York, who died when Wilcox
was 16. He attended the University of Southern California but soon
dropped out. A talent scout spotted him in a summer-stock production of
"The Petrified Forest" and a series of "B" movies followed. In 1937 he
married Florence Rice, daughter of sportswriter Grantland Rice. They
divorced two years later. Wilcox left Hollywood at the start of World
War II to serve in the Army, first as a private and eventually as a
captain. In 1950 he married the twice-divorced Diana Barrymore who chronicled
their bouts with alcoholism in her 1957 autobiography, "Too Much, Too
Soon." (She dedicated the book to him.) Wilcox was making a train trip
back to his hometown of Rochester when he was found dead in his
berth.
