Film and television actor Robert Blake won an Emmy in 1975 for playing an undercover New York City detective in the crime drama Baretta. However, Blake’s legal troubles offscreen would dominate headlines later in his life when he stood trial for the murder of his 44-year-old wife Bonny ...
Actor Robert Downey Jr. is the star of movies like 'Iron Man,' 'The Avengers,' 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'Oppenheimer.' Learn about his career and family.
Blake, Performer ("Snake"), Writer ("Snake") $1MM $649K $2.1MM $2.1MM One Night Stand (1997) Charlie $24MM $979K $2.6MM $2.6MM Danger Zone (1996) Jim Scott $8.5MM Restoration (1995) Merivel $19MM $76K $4MM $4MM Home for the Holidays (1995) ...
Fred Blake / Giovanni Manzoni Fred Blake / Giovanni Manzoni See fewer $30MM $14MM $37MM $78MM Killing Season (2013) Benjamin Ford Benjamin Ford See fewer $28K $40K $1.1MM The Big Wedding (2013) Don Don See fewer $35MM $7.6MM $22MM $47MM Silver Linings Playbook...
Catherine the Great! Leonhard Euler! William Blake! J.S. Bach! Who is surprised when Napoleon Bonaparte shows up? Everybody who is anybody is in here! If you don’t appear in this story, it’s a true snub. For me, the biography of the author is at least a smidge interesting. We ...
Robert was very close to his step-dad and considered him as a dad rather than a step-dad, so for the remainder of this biography I will refer to him as Robert's dad or father.Eventually, Betty convinced Robert Simpson to quit the navy. She taught him to dance, and this led to ...
In 1940, he was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for Juarez (1939) for playing the Emperor Maximillian. Brian Aherne published his autobiography in 1969, and 10 years later, he published a biography of his friend George Sanders, entitled "A Dreadful Man". He died at...
Unlike previous one man Dickens shows, this is not a performance anthology. It’s a scripted biography illustrated with excerpts of the fiction. And it has a case to argue. As he actually explains during his act, this genre, performed biography, was invented by his idol, the Irish actor,...
Once asked in an interview why he decided to take up the profession, De Niro responded, “Acting is a cheap way to do things that you would never dare to do yourself,” according to Untouchable: A Biography of Robert De Niro by Andy Dougan. He enrolled at the Stella Adler Conservatory ...
Jefferson Blake Fighter Squadron (1948) Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton $1.6MM Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) Nickey Van Alen A Date with Judy (1948) Stephen I. Andrews, Performer ("It's A Most Unusual Day (Finale)") $1.4MM Keeping Fit (1942) (Short) - Bob - Factory Work...