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Biography
Lowery in They Made Me a Killer (1946)
Robery Lowery (October 17, 1913 - December 26, 1971), born Robert Larkin Hanks, was a motion picture, television, stage actor who appeared in over seventy films. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His father was a local attourney and oil investor; his mother was a concert pianist. He graduated from Paseo High School and went to sing with the Slats Randall Orchestra in the early 1930s. After the death of his father, he traveled to Hollywood and enrolled in the Lila Bliss acting school before being signed by Twentieth Century Fox in 1937.
During his career, Mr. Lowery was primarily known for roles in action movies such as The Mark of Zorro, Big Town, The Mummy's Ghost, Dangerous Passage. He also became just the second actor to play DC Comics' Batman, starring in a 1949's Batman and Robin serial. He was also an accomplished stage actor and appeared in "Born Yesterday," "Caine Mutiny," and in several other productions. On television, he was best known for his work on the series Circus Boy, but also appeared in Wagon Train, Pistols and Petticoats and Hazel (among others).
He was married three times, to three different actresses: to Jean Parker, to Vivan Wilcox and to Rusty Farrell. He had one child.
