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Robert Emhardt

 
Actor: Robert Emhardt
  • Born: Jul 24, 1914 in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Died: Dec 26, 1994 in Ojai, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'70s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Western
  • Career Highlights: Underworld U.S.A., The Intruder, Aunt Mary
  • First Major Screen Credit: Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

Biography

American actor Robert Emhardt began his Broadway career in the late '30s as an understudy for corpulent character star Sidney Greenstreet whom he closely resembled. In films from 1952, the paunchy, phlegmatic Emhardt carved a niche in characterizations calling for gross, obnoxious villainy. His best and most typical screen role was the "respectable" crime boss in Sam Fuller's Underworld U.S.A. (1961). A television fixture well into the 1980s, Robert Emhardt showed up in several Alfred Hitchcock Presents installments, was seen on a regular basis as Mackenzie Cory on the daytime soap opera Another World, and won an Emmy for his wonderful performance as an ulcerated businessman stranded in Mayberry, NC, in "Man in a Hurry," a 1963 episode of The Andy Griffith Show. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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