Robert Symonds

Robert Symonds was an American actor who was an associate director of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater from 1965 to 1972, and he acted there in Twelfth Night, The Miser, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and A Streetcar Named Desire. His film work included the part of Dr. Taney in The Exorcist (1973) and appearances in Superstition (1982), The Ice Pirates (1984), Rumpelstiltskin (1987), Mandroid (1993), Inferno (1999) and Catch Me If You Can (2002). For television he took the part of Benjamin Franklin in The Adams Chronicles, a 1976 PBS miniseries, and he played Robert E. Lee in The Blue and the Grey while also appearing as Dr. Jonas Edwards on Dynasty between 1982 and 1987. He created the role of Will Watts, a psycho stalker, on Where the Heart Is, the CBS soap opera, in the early 1970s, and later made guest appearances on many series. He died in 2007.