1. Robert Louis Colbert was born in Long Beach, California, on July 26,1931, the son of Helena and Clarence Colbert.
18 Facts About Robert Colbert
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Robert Colbert began acting when he was a soldier based on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
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Robert Colbert was a clerk typist with a Military Police unit and worked as a disc jockey for radio station KSBK in the evenings.
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Robert Colbert gained acting experience with the Portland Repertory Theater.
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Robert Colbert was signed to a contract with Warner Bros.
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Robert Colbert wore a black hat on the back of his head during the episode, the way James Garner's character had in earlier seasons.
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Later that same season, in 1961, Robert Colbert was forced by Warner Bros.
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Robert Colbert was cast as Andy Carter, a pioneer who retrieves for sale cast-off items from wagon trains in the 1964 episode "A Bargain Is for Keeping" of the syndicated television anthology series Death Valley Days.
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Robert Colbert made an unsuccessful 1964 television pilot for MGM Television playing the title role of the Mayor.
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That same year, Robert Colbert guest-starred in an episode of Bonanza, "The Meredith Smith", in which he appeared dressed almost exactly as he had as Brent Maverick only in full color with a bright blue hatband.
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Robert Colbert later starred in an unsuccessful 1970 television pilot for Allen entitled City Beneath the Sea that was shown as a made-for-TV movie.
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In 1968, Robert Colbert appeared in the final episode of the first season of Hawaii Five-O.
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Robert Colbert was a guest star in another episode of Mannix, "Duet for Three", playing Vic Stanley, whose friend Mart commits suicide in Hong Kong.
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Also in 1969, Robert Colbert appeared in an episode of That Girl, "Fly Me To The Moon", as Air Force Reserve Major Brian James.
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Robert Colbert appeared as the character Stuart Brooks on the television soap opera The Young and the Restless from March 1973 to March 1983, being honored at the show's tenth anniversary.
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In 1971, Robert Colbert guest-starred again on Mannix in the episode "A Choice of Evils" as spy John Phillips.
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Robert Colbert made another guest appearance on Mannix in 1972, in the episode "A Walk in the Shadows" as scheming businessman Carl Blake.
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Robert Colbert is retired, though he still makes occasional cameo appearances, takes part in science fiction conventions and Western conventions all across America, and participates in celebrity golf tournaments for fundraising events.