High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The youngest of three brothers,Robert Kerr Fulton was born into a non-theatrical family at 46 Appin Road,Dennistoun, Glasgow.Fulton's mother, who was forty at the time of his birth, fell into a deep depression after his birth. Due to this, Fulton grew up a "solitary child" and developed a "voracious reading habit" throughout his childhood.His father was a master locksmith who changed professions, purchasing a newsagent and stationery shop at 28 Roebank Street, Dennistoun.At the age of three, Fulton and his family moved to Riddrie, another district of Glasgow.There he attended the local primary school, but later returned to Dennistoun, for his secondary education, at Whitehill Secondary school.Fulton completed his education in 1939 deciding to enter the world of acting, after a backstage visit at the Glasgow Pavilion Theatre.In 1941, aged seventeen, Fulton joined the Royal Navy. The following year, he was posted to HMS Ibis but that November, the sloop was sunk in the Bay of Algiers. Fulton spent five hours in the water before being rescued.