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Known For

Michael Rennie is known for:

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
    An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
  • The Robe
    Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.
  • The Lost World
    Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Rennie (25 August 1909 – 10 June 1971) was an English film, television, and stage actor, perhaps best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Michael Rennie  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.