Robert Garrison was an American sculptor (May 30, 1895 – 1943). He was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa.Garrison studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and with Gutzon Borglum. He made his home in Denver, Colorado where he served on the faculty of the University of Denver and some of his work can be found.Garrison worked mainly in stone and bronze. In 1919 he moved to Denver and became a Director of the Denver Academy of Applied Art. During his tenure there he taught modeling, drawing and applied design. While in Denver he became acquainted with George William Eggers, the Director of the Denver Art Museum and president of the Municipal Art Commission of Denver.Garrison received commissions for many of Denver's architectural ornaments in the 1920s, including works for the Ideal Building, Midland Savings Building, National Jewish Hospital’s B'nai B'rith Building, Park Hill Branch Library, Denver University’s football stadium, and South High School.In 1930 Garrison moved to New York City and began completing several projects there. These included the three sculprural panels for the RKO Building at the Sixth Avenue entrance of Rockefeller Center in New York City. He also completed a heroic figure at West Point, and sculptural details for the Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma,a National Historic Landmark.Additional works include architectural sculptures in the style of medieval grotesques at South High School, Denver and the figures of the four evangelists on the bell tower of the former St. Thomas Seminary, Denver.The Denver Botanical Gardens has a terracotta frieze depicting 2 hunters with shotguns shooting at a buffalo. This frieze originally was part of the Midland Savings Bank but was removed when the bank was renovated in 1964 and moved to the botanical gardens.His two monumental molded concrete figures of athletes were integral to the University of Denver's Hilltop Stadium (1926), and were demolished along with the stadium in 1971. A public debate ensued about what should be done with Garrison's 27-foot-high sculpted figures that graced the outside walls. The male and female figures were said to be “The spirit and significance of coeducational college athletics.” As the Hilltop Stadium figures were hollow and considered fragile, they were not saved.Garrison also designed the Civic Center Park's Seal Pool fountains, a pair of bronze mountain lions for the entrance of the State Office Building and the gargoyles at Denver’s South High School. Garrison's work was cited by the National Park Service in the National Register of Historic Places Registration form for Denver's Civic Center and State Capital to be registered as a landmark in 2011.A veteran of World War I, Garrison also enlisted in World War II. He died in 1943 while teaching camouflage painting.
He made his comeback in the 20's and acted again in countless movies.
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The actor Robert Garrison belonged to the pioneers of the German silent film. He already made his film debut in 1910 with "Verkannt", and only one year later he took part in a dozen movies.
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At the age of only 58 he died as a consequence of meat poisoning.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rivalen im Weltrekord
1930
Ein Sternberg
Polizeispionin 77
1930
Kriminalassistent Wilhelm
Die Frau ohne Nerven
1930
Gehetzte Mädchen
1930
Engel im Séparée
1929
Ich hab mein Herz im Autobus verloren
1929
The Ship of Lost Men
1929
Der Vermieter - The Landlord
Der Hund von Baskerville
1929
Falkland
Madame im Strandbad
1929
Jonathan Goldfisch
Hell of a Reporter
1929
Jonas
Ja, ja, die Frauen sind meine schwache Seite
1929
Bunk, Bingens Kompagnon
Meineid - Ein Paragraph, der Menschen tötet
1929
Das närrische Glück
1929
Der Zigeunerprimas
1929
Bankier Rothschild
Der Herzensphotograph
1928
Wendulin
Heut' war ich bei der Frieda
1928
M. Heuser
Volga Volga
1928
G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald
1928
Dr. Bela Maroszy
Ritter der Nacht
1928
Der alte Pascal
Eine Frau von Format
1928
Hotelwirt
Der Unüberwindliche
1928
Farmer
Der Henker
1928
Herr Meister und Frau Meisterin
1928
Das Fräulein aus Argentinien
1928
The Constant Nymph
1928
Trigorin
Moral
1928
Die Heiratsfalle
1928
Das Mädchen aus der Fremde
1927
Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs
1927
Variétébesitzer
Liebesreigen
1927
Sergej Weratschieff
Die Welt ohne Waffen
1927
Mac Welton
Arme kleine Sif
1927
Ich war zu Heidelberg Student
1927
Wie heirate ich meinen Chef?
1927
Durchlaucht Radieschen
1927
Unheimlicher mann
Klettermaxe
1927
Gern hab' ich die Frauen geküßt
1926
Gräfin Plättmamsell
1926
Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion
1926
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
1926
Kammerdiener
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1926
Die dritte Eskadron
1926
Max Freundlich, Finanzier der Eskadron Max Freundlich