Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is the protagonist of the 1964 science fiction/horror film The Last Man on Earth, an adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. He is the apparent sole survivor of a worldwide plague that turned its victims into vampires. 
He is the film's version of Robert Neville, the main character of Matheson's novel.
He was portrayed by the late Vincent Price.
== Role in the story ==
Morgan is a scientist who specializes in viruses and infectious diseases. When a mysterious, deadly viral plague appears in Europe, he and his colleague and friend Ben Cortman begin studying it in hopes of finding a cure, but it remains stubbornly resistant to medicine. The disease reaches the United States, killing millions of people; rumors circulate about the disease's victims coming back from the dead, but Morgan dismisses them as hysteria. He and his wife Virginia try to take their minds off the disease by throwing a birthday party for their young daughter Kathy, but even then they are reminded of the plague when Cortman arrives with a news story speculating that it is borne on the wind. Morgan speculates that he is immune to the disease because he was bitten by an infected bat while stationed in South America.
Shortly after the party, both Virginia and Kathy catch the disease, exhibiting the same symptoms - crippling fatigue and sudden, inexplicable blindness. Morgan comes home from work one day to find a hysterical Virginia saying that Kathy has died, and government workers hauled her body away. Horrified, Morgan runs down a truck filled with corpses, and the driver explains that bodies of the plague's victims are to be put in a mass grave and burned. Morgan goes home, to find that Virginia has also died. Heartbroken, he buries her in their backyard - only for her dead body to reanimate, crawl out of the grave, and attempt to kill him. He is forced to kill her again by putting a stake through her heart.
For the next three years, Morgan lives a miserable, solitary existence as the apparent sole survivor of the plague. Every day, he sends out a radio message in a futile search for other survivors, scavenges for supplies, and destroys any stray vampires he finds, staking them through the heart and burning their bodies in the same pit where Kathy's body was burned. He then barricades himself in his house before nightfall, when vampires, led by Cortman, surround his property and taunt him that they are going to kill him sooner or later. The vampires retreat when the sun rises, and Morgan's grisly day of destroying them starts all over again.
One day, Morgan, overcome with loneliness and exhaustion, goes to visit Virginia's grave. He falls asleep in the crypt, and wakes up to find that the sun has set and that he is surrounded by vampires. He fights them off and drives back home, where he repels them with a mirror long enough to lock up the house and keep them from getting in. He tries to cheer himself up by watching a home movie of him, Virginia, and Kathy at the circus, only to burst into tears as he is reminded of what he has lost.
Soon afterward, he sees a dog while doing his rounds, and chases after it, desperate for the company of another living creature. The dog runs away, but later shows up at Morgan's doorstep. Morgan gives the dog a bath and notices puncture wounds in its side. He takes blood from the dog and examines it in a microscope, confirming his fears that the the dog has been bitten by a vampire. His hopes for companionship dashed, he puts the dog down by running it through with a stake, and buries it in his yard.
The following day, Morgan encounters a woman named Ruth, the first living human being he has seen in three years. He tries to approach her, but is confused to find that she is terrified of him. He promises that he will not hurt her, and offers her shelter and protection from the vampires, which she accepts. She tells him that she belongs to a colony of plague survivors who, while, still infected, have managed to keep the disease at bay with a combination of human blood and vaccine. She then tells Morgan that her people fear him as much as he does them, and that many of the vampires he has killed were technically still alive.
Acting on a hunch, Morgan draws blood from Ruth and mixes it with his own to create an antidote to the plague. He uses it to cure Ruth, who then confesses that her people sent her to lead them to his house so they can kill him. Morgan and Ruth flee as her people invade Morgan's house, killing Cortman's vampire coven in the process. He trades gunfire with them as he runs, and ducks into a church after he is wounded. Ignoring Ruth's pleas for mercy, one of her people impales Morgan with a spear. As he dies in Ruth's arms, Morgan denounces his killers as "freaks", and declares himself the last true man on Earth.
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