Robert Blake
Actor
Biography
Robert Blake (born Michael James Gubitosi; September 18, 1933 – March 9, 2023), billed early in his career as Mickey Gubitosi and Bobby Blake, was an American actor. He was best known for starring in the 1967 film In Cold Blood, playing the title role in the late 1970s television series Baretta, and playing the Mystery Man in the 1997 film Lost Highway. He began his career in the 1930s performing as a child alongside his family in song and as a dancer but became famous as a child actor, with his lead role in the final years of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-era of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short film series from 1939 to 1944. He also appeared as a child actor in 22 entries of the Red Ryder film franchise. As a child actor he worked with Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, John Wayne, John Garfield, Humphrey Bogart and Gene Autry.
After a stint in the U.S. Army, Blake returned to acting in both television and movie roles. He continued acting until 1997's Lost Highway.
He was arrested in 2002 for the 2001 murder of his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake was acquitted of the murder in criminal court in 2005, though he was found liable in a civil court for her wrongful death.
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Filmography
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Mexican Boy Selling Lottery Tickets (uncredited) 1948
Money Train
as Donald Patterson 1995
In Cold Blood
as Perry Smith 1967
The Woman in the Window
as Dickie Wanley 1944
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon the Zealot 1965
Electra Glide in Blue
as John Wintergreen 1973
This Property Is Condemned
as Sidney 1966
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
as Willie 1969
Pork Chop Hill
as Pvt. Velie 1959
Humoresque
as Paul Boray as a Child 1947
I Love You Again
as Edward Littlejohn Jr. (uncredited) 1940
Busting
as Vice Detective Patrick Farrel 1974
The Big Noise
as Egbert Hartley 1944
The Seventh Cross
as Small Boy (uncredited) 1944
Three Violent People
as Rafael Ortega 1956
Dakota
as Little Boy 1945