About Robert Armstrong (actor)
Robert William Armstrong (November 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) was an American film and television actor noted for playing Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He delivered the film's famous final line: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." Robert William Armstrong (November 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) was an American film and television actor, best known to today's audiences for playing Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong from RKO Pictures. He appeared in 127 films between 1927 and 1964; very prolific in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he made nine movies in 1928 alone. Armstrong's earliest known stage credit came in July 1915, for a one-act play called The Bank's Half Million, written by Paul Armstrong, who was Robert's uncle.
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