1. Jay Robinson was an American actor specializing in character roles.
15 Facts About Jay Robinson
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Jay Robinson achieved his greatest fame playing Emperor Caligula in the film The Robe and its sequel Demetrius and the Gladiators, and years later portraying the boss of the character played by Warren Beatty in Shampoo.
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Jay Robinson's mother was a dancer; his father was a director of the Van Heusen Shirt Company.
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Jay Robinson became interested in acting after discovering a scrapbook of his mother's dance career.
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Jay Robinson was featured on two Folkways albums of Shakespeare: Othello: William Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: King Richard III, both released in 1964.
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Jay Robinson appeared in two episodes of the situation comedy Bewitched, as Julius Caesar and as Tabitha's tutor, Professor Poindexter Phipps.
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Jay Robinson appeared as different characters on five episodes of Mannix between 1968 and 1974, in three episodes of The Waltons, and two episodes of Barney Miller, "The Sniper" and "The Tontine".
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Jay Robinson guest-starred as Cassius Thorne in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Planet of the Amazon Women", and on an episode of Tales of the Gold Monkey as the governor in "Last Chance Louie".
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Jay Robinson appeared in two episodes of Murder, She Wrote, and on Cheers in 1989.
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Jay Robinson appeared in Born Again, the film adaptation of the book of the same title, about Watergate figure, Charles W Colson.
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Jay Robinson played Colson's attorney and Dean Jones starred as Colson.
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Jay Robinson was arrested and booked in 1958 for possession of narcotics.
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Jay Robinson credited letters of encouragement from friend Bette Davis with helping him find the strength to overcome his problems.
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Jay Robinson helped him get his first film role in 13 years in 1971's Bunny O'Hare.
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Jay Robinson was married twice: to Pauline Flowers from 1960 until her death in 2002 and to Gloria Casas from 2004 until his death.