1. Robert Harriot Barrat was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.
11 Facts About Robert Barrat
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Robert Barrat left college and home during his sophomore year, traveling on a tramp steamer to Central America, England, France, and South America.
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Early in his career, Robert Barrat traveled around the United States, sometimes acting with stock theater companies and sometimes performing in vaudeville on the Keith and Orpheum circuits.
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Robert Barrat acted on Broadway, where his credits include Lilly Turner, Bulls, Bears and Asses, This Is New York, Judas, The Lady Lies, A Lady for a Night, Marco Millions, Chicago, Kid Boots, The Breaking Point, The Unwritten Chapter, The Crimson Alibi, The Invisible Foe, and Some One in the House.
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Robert Barrat appeared in around 150 films, uncredited in some of them, in a Hollywood career that lasted four decades.
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Robert Barrat appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s.
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Three of Robert Barrat's best known roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case, as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Academy Award-winning film The Life of Emile Zola and the crooked saloon owner "Red" Baxter in the Marx Brothers western comedy Go West.
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Robert Barrat portrayed several historical characters, among them Davy Crockett in Man of Conquest, Zachary Taylor in Distant Drums, Abraham Lincoln in Trailin' West, Cornelius Van Horne in Canadian Pacific and General Douglas MacArthur twice, in They Were Expendable and American Guerrilla in the Philippines.
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Robert Barrat's final acting appearance was in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964.
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Robert Barrat died of a heart ailment in Hollywood in 1970, aged 78.
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Robert Barrat was buried at Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg, West Virginia.