by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
Despite hailing from San Francisco, dark-haired Robert A'Dair (sometimes given as Robert Adair) spent his screen career playing English military personnel, bobbies, butlers, footmen, and so on. A'Dair played the cockroach racing Captain Hardy in the 1930 Hollywood screen version of the anti-war play Journey's End (1930), the highlight of a long screen career spent mostly in small supporting roles.
