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NAME:
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Robert Blake |
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Name: Robert Blake
Birth Name: Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi
Height: 5'4''
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Birth Date: September 18, 1933
Birth Place: Nutley, New Jersey, USA
Profession: Actor, Producer, Writer, Director
Husband/Wife: Bonny Lee Bakley (married on November 19, 2000; died on May 4, 2001), Sondra Kerry (actress; married in 1964; divorced in 1983)
Father: James Gubitosi (blacksmith)
Mother: Elizabeth Gubitosi
Son: Noah Blake (actor; born in 1964; mother: Sondra Kerry)
Daughter: Rose Lenore Sophia Blake (born in June 2000; mother: Bonny Lee Bakley), Delinah Blake (psychologist; mother: Sondra Kerry)
Claim to fame: As Det. Tony Baretta on TV Series Baretta (1975)
Contact: Click here
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- Is refusing to pay his murdered wife's family a $30 million civil court award because, according to his lawyers, he did not get a fair trial. (January 16, 2008)
- Filed for bankruptcy, two 2 months after a civil court jury found he intentionally caused his wife's death and awarded her children $30 million in damages. (February 3, 2006)
- Was found liable in a civil suit in the death of his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley, ordering the actor to pay her two children $30 million. (November 21, 2005)
- Her first wife, Sondra Kerr, testified in court that the actor shot a gun at her, beat her severely and threatened to kill her. (May 31, 2005)
- Claims he once offered $250,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the children of his murdered wife - a sum he no longer can afford. (May 9, 2005)
- A juror who helped acquit Blake of killing his wife is promoting a six-song recording he produced during Blake's trial. (March 21, 2005)
- Has been found not guilty of murdering his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley by a Los Angeles jury. Bakley was gunned down in the couple's car outside a restaurant in 2001. (March 17, 2005)
- Blake's personal assistant Cody Blackwell told cops the actor hated Bakley and wouldn't marry her if she was the last person on earth. (March 7, 2003)
- When Tony Musante decided to quit the series TOMA (1973), the producers wanted to continue on with Robert Blake in the lead role, but Blake didn't want to appear on the series feeling like he was an understudy to Musante and suggested a name change. The producers changed the name, and also agreed to rewrite the role to better fit Blake's true character, and renamed the show Baretta.
- Blake and Scott Wilson were not the first choices to play the cold-blooded murderers in IN COLD BLOOD. Studio heads at Columbia Pictures originally wanted Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the lead roles.
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special at Emmy Awards for JUDGEMENT DAY: THE JOHN LIST SORY (1993)
- Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV at Golden Globe Awards for BLOOD FEUD (1984)
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at Emmy Awards for Baretta (1977)
- Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama at Golden Globe Awards for ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1974)
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