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One of his early works was as the narrator of the educational film "Duck and Cover". After appearing on the Broadway stage and live television, Middleton began appearing in films in 1954, and in film opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Desperate Hours" (1955), Danny Kaye in "The Court Jester" (1955), Gary Cooper in "Friendly Persuasion" (1956), Richard Egan and Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" (1956), Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack in "The Tarnished Angels" (1958), Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark in "The Law and Jake Wade" (1958), and Dean Martin in "Career" (1959).