Robert Wilcox

Biography

Robert Wilcox was a U.S. movie actor of the 1930s and 40s, discovered in 1936 through a summer-stock production of The Petrified Forest. He is perhaps best known for playing Bob Wayne and his alter ego, The Copperhead, in the 1940 movie serial Mysterious Doctor Satan. Wilcox's career spanned 18 Hollywood films before World War II, including roles in "Island of Doomed Men" (1940) and "The Man They Could Not Hang" (1939).