Born Robert Cochran, this lanky, handsome actor began his stage career in Detroit, moved into stock, and reached Broadway in 1944. He made his film debut the following year in Wonder Man (1945). He often played heels, nice-looking heavies, and insensitive loners, usually in low-quality films. Cochran co-starred on Broadway with Mae West in 1948's Diamond Lil and formed his own film company, Robert Alexander Productions, in 1953. He wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the film Tell Me in the Sunlight, which was released two years after his premature death in 1965.