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Robert Barrat

 
Actor: Robert H. Barrat
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  • Born: Jul 10, 1891 in New York City, New York
  • Died: Jan 07, 1970 in Hollywood, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'40s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Western
  • Career Highlights: Black Legion, Joan of Arc, Heroes for Sale
  • First Major Screen Credit: Heroes for Sale (1933)

Biography

When actor Robert H. Barrat moved from stage to films in the early 1930s, he found himself twice blessed: He was dignified-looking enough to portray business and society types, but also athletic enough to get down and dirty in barroom-brawl scenes. An ardent physical-fitness advocate in real life, Barrat was once described by his friend and frequent co-worker James Cagney as having "a solid forearm the size of the average man's thigh"; as a result, the usually cautious Cagney was extra careful during his fight scenes with the formidable Barrat. The actor's size and menacing demeanor served him well when pitted against such comparatively pint-sized comedians as the Marx Bros. (in Go West). When not intimidating one and all with his muscle power, the actor was fond of playing roles that called for quaint, colorful accents, notably his Lionel Barrymore-ish turn as a suicidal baron in the 1934 Grand Hotel derivation Wonder Bar. Robert H. Barrat's last film appearance was in the rugged western Tall Man Riding (55). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Robert Barrat
Born July 10, 1889(1889-07-10)
New York City, New York
Died January 17, 1970 (aged 80)
Hollywood, California
Occupation Stage, film, television actor
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Robert Harriot Barrat (10 July 1889 – 7 January 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.

Career

Born in New York, Barrat acted in some one-hundred fifty films over four decades Hollywood career and appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s.[1] Two of his most noted roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933) and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Warner Bros. Academy Award winning film, The Life of Emile Zola. He also played Ingrid Bergman's father in Joan of Arc (1948), though his role was so brief that when an edited version of the film was released in 1950, Barrat's role had actually been eliminated.[2] (The film has since been restored to its full length.)

He played several other historical characters as well, among them Davy Crockett in Man of Conquest, Zachary Taylor in Distant Drums, Abraham Lincoln in Trailin' West, and General Douglas MacArthur in American Guerrilla in the Philippines. He was also seen as the Native American Chief Chingachgook, in the 1936 film version of The Last of the Mohicans. By 1954, he turned to TV playhouse roles, off and on until 1964.

He was buried at Green Hill Cemetery in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

References

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/JointVentures
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040491/crazycredits

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