Bob Ames (naval Architect)
Robert Ames may refer to: * Robert Ames (actor) (1889–1931), American stage and film actor *Robert Ames (CIA official) (1934–1983), American CIA analyst, a/k/a Bob Ames *Robert Ames (conductor) Robert Ames (born 8 October 1985) is a British conductor and violist, who holds the positions of co-artistic director and co-principal conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra Career Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, he studied at the ...

Robert Ames (actor)
Robert Downing Ames (March 23, 1889 – November 27, 1931) was an American actor. Early life Ames was born in Hartford, Connecticut, where his father, Louis Mason Ames, was employed as an accountant for an insurance company and his mother, Mary Elma (née Downing) Ames, worked as a voice coach. Career Non-acting Ames's first association with the theater came when he worked as a clerk in the box office of Parsons's Theater. In 1907, he left that job to become treasurer of the Academy of Music at Fall River He returned to Parsons's Theater in 1908, once more selling tickets. Stage career Ames's first big acting break came when a friend brought him to the attention of the actor Henry Miller, which led to a role in Miller's production of ''The Great Divide'' by William Vaughn Moody. Ames spent eleven seasons with Miller's company before moving on to Jessie Bonstelle's stock company for eight seasons and the Municipal Stock Company for three. His first Broadway success came ...
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Robert Ames (CIA Official)
Robert Clayton Ames (March 6, 1934 – April 18, 1983) was an American spy, the Central Intelligence Agency's Near East Director. He was killed in the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut. Early life Raised in Philadelphia he was a 1956 graduate of La Salle University. While at La Salle, he was a member of the La Salle basketball team which won the NCAA championship in 1954 and was runner-up in 1955. Career In 1956, he joined the US Army from which he switched to the CIA, specializing in the Middle East. He rose to become the CIA's chief analyst for the area. Working for the CIA's Middle East Directorate of Operations, Ames is reputed to have made the first high-level penetration of the PLO. It is claimed one of two senior contacts he made was the high-ranking PLO commander Ali Hassan Salameh. Ames was killed on April 18, 1983 when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the United States embassy in Beirut. A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion including Am ...
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