Robby the Robot: Damned through typecasting

Does it not pain you to see a marvelous actor restricted in work to certain archetypes. The cop, good or bad, the cowboy, the soldier all have their go to character actors, and the same goes for robots.

Robby the Robot was by far the most successful robot actors of the 20th century, but he could never break out of his typecast prison. Robby burst onto the scene in 1956 space colonial adventure Forbidden Planet. While his first roll was Shakespearean, he was never able to crack into mainstream parts. Robby continued to flounder around Hollywood doing TV shows ranging from "The Twilight Zone" to "Lost in Space" and "Columbo."
Frustrated with his stereotyped existence, Robby became reclusive in the 1990s. After nearly 35 years of acting work Robby could no longer be found on TV or Film. In his place were small models and toy versions that appeared in the background of SciFi films for film nerds to geek out over.
While Robby never was able to break into dancing like he dreamed, he will always have a place in the American heart.

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