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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 when jurors didn't believe what they thought was 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.- Robert Blake is known for Fear Thy Neighbor (2014), The Most Famous Celebrity of All Time! (2010) and Murder U (2016).
- Robert Blake is known for Home by Now (2016).
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Robert Blake Whitehill was born into a Quaker family in Mardela Springs, just outside Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore peninsula. The family home lay next to the pond that powered a colonial-era relic, the Barren Creek Mill, near the birthplace of Frederick Douglass, and along Harriet Tubman's route for the Underground Railroad. He grew up sailing the Chesapeake Bay, and one of her most beautiful tributaries, the Chester River. After graduating from Westtown School, Whitehill stayed in Pennsylvania to earn his B.A. in creative writing at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. Later he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. As with David Mamet, exhaustive studies of the best English language drama for the stage and screen transformed an aspiring actor into a passionate writer. An early focus on feature screenwriting earned Whitehill film festival wins at the Hudson Valley Film Festival, and the Hamptons International Film Festival where he also received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship for his script, U.X.O. (Unexploded Ordnance). His feature script, Blue Rinse, co-written with Andrea Shane, was a Hudson Valley Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Winner, and a Finalist at the Telluride IndieFest. His feature script, Defiant, was a Semi-Finalist in the Black Screenplays Matter: An African American Screenwriting Competition (it was then entitled, Captain Smalls.) While writing many highly rated episodes of Discovery/Times Channel's The New Detectives, Daring Capers, and The Bureau, he served as the Vice President of Independent Film Acquisitions for the groundbreaking Centerseat.com, developing and managing their Independent Film Channel. He is also the author of the award-winning, critically acclaimed, international bestselling Ben Blackshaw series of thrillers. Whitehill lives in New Jersey with his wife and son. When not sailing, or knocking around the sky in a Cessna 152, Whitehill published several articles about his home waters in Chesapeake Bay Magazine. He is also the managing partner of Calaveras Media LLC, a feature film and television development company. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA, International Thriller Writers, GPA Aviation Club, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and served for a number of years as an EMT-B with the Montclair Ambulance Unit.- Robert Blake was born on 23 December 1916 in Brundall, Norfolk, England, UK. He was married to Patricia Mary Waters. He died on 20 September 2003 in Brundall, Norfolk, England, UK.
- Robert Blake is known for Mangalsutra (2009).
- Robert Blake is known for Fentress (2010).
- Blake Robert Swenson is known for Kill Me to Death (2019).
- Robert Theodore Blake is known for Little Big Man (2018).
- Robert Major Blake is known for Boss Moves (2021).
- Robert Blake is known for Friends and Romans (2014).
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Robert Blake is known for Blue Caprice (2013).- Robert Blake is known for Slowly Framed (2010).
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Robert Blake is known for My Teacher's Wife (1999), More Dogs Than Bones (2000) and The Visit (2000).- Robert Blake is known for The Naggers: Spreading Sunshine (1932).
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Robert Blake Jr. is known for In the Flesh (1995), The Visit (2000) and Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995).- Robert Blake is known for Easy Listening (2002).
- Robert Blake is known for Gene (2016).
- Robert Blake is known for Deòir Shona (2012).
- Robert Blake is known for A Crime to Remember (2013).
- Robert Blake is known for Bad Goods (2013).
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Robert J. Blake is known for When Will We Learn Who to Trust? (1988).