Robert Blake

Robert Blake

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Birthday: 
18 September 1933, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
Birth Name: 
Michael James Gubitosi
Height: 
163 cm
American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Born in New Jersey, the young Mickey Gubitosi won a role in MGM's Our Gang series at the age of 5. As one of the more prominent children in the Gang, he gained attention for his cute good looks and his lovable, ... Show more »
American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Born in New Jersey, the young Mickey Gubitosi won a role in MGM's Our Gang series at the age of 5. As one of the more prominent children in the Gang, he gained attention for his cute good looks and his lovable, if somewhat melancholy, personality.In 1940 he took on the stage name Bobby Blake (though he continued to use the name Mickey Gubitosi in the Our Gang series for another three years) and began playing child roles in a wide range of films. He gained a good deal of fame as the Indian sidekick Little Beaver in the Red Ryder series of Westerns. Though roles were sporadic as he grew to manhood, he was never long off the screen (except for a period of military service, 1954-56). But despite some fine work in films like Pork Chop Hill (1959) and Town Without Pity (1961), his career did not take off until his stunning portrayal of killer Perry Smith in In Cold Blood (1967). A number of telling performances in films of the next decade, stardom in a popular television series (Baretta (1975), and several ruefully comic appearances as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) made him a popular figure even as his personal difficulties increased.Consumed with anger over his treatment by his family and the studio as a child, he denigrated his early work, suffered bouts of difficulty with drugs, and became known as a difficult, perfectionist person to work with. He quit his successful TV series Hell Town (1985) when his personal demons became overwhelming. After a self-imposed exile of nearly eight years, during which he struggled to right his life, he successfully returned to films and television work, appearing renewed and more confident in himself and his work.In 2001, though, the murder of his wife, Bonnie Bakley, thrust Blake into the limelight in a different way. Admittedly having married Bakley through the coercion of her pregnancy, a routine Bakley had apparently tried with various other celebrities, Blake made no denial of his distaste for the woman, but was by all accounts thrilled with the daughter born to them. Blake was arrested for his wife's murder, but the presumption of innocence trumped what jurors believed to be flimsy evidence, and Blake was acquitted in a trial that made worldwide headlines. Reportedly broke from legal costs, Blake indicated hopefulness that he might be allowed to return to acting work. Show less «

Robert Blake's FILMOGRAPHY

20/20 - Season 47

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20 20 - Season 46

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20/20 - Season 44

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Saturday Night Live - Season 44

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Saturday Night Live - Season 43

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Saturday Night Live - Season 42

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Saturday Night Live - Season 41

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Paul Williams: Still Alive

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Saturday Night Live - Season 33

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Saturday Night Live - Season 28

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Saturday Night Live - Season 27

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Saturday Night Live - Season 26

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Saturday Night Live - Season 24

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Saturday Night Live - Season 23

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Lost Highway

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Money Train

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Saturday Night Live - Season 14

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Saturday Night Live - Season 5

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Saturday Night Live - Season 4

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Baretta - Season 1

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Busting

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The F.B.I. - Season 9

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Electra Glide in Blue

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Robert Blake'S roles

Mystery Man
Mystery Man
John Wintergreen
John Wintergreen
Perry Smith
Perry Smith
Donald Patterson
Donald Patterson