1. Robert Winthrop Ginty was an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director.
21 Facts About Robert Ginty
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Robert Ginty worked in theatre until he moved to Hollywood in the mid-1970s.
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Robert Ginty started to play supporting roles on television and films, most notably a recurring role on the series The Paper Chase and two Hal Ashby films: Bound for Glory and Coming Home.
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Robert Ginty became an action film lead with his breakthrough role in James Glickenhaus's vigilante film The Exterminator, which became a box-office success.
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Up to the early 1990s Robert Ginty acted in action oriented films such as The Act, White Fire, Mission Kill, Programmed to Kill, Out On Bail.
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Robert Ginty directed and starred in The Bounty Hunter, Vietnam, Texas and Lady Dragon.
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Robert Ginty was involved with music from an early age, playing drums with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana and John Lee Hooker.
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Robert Ginty studied at Yale and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio.
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Robert Ginty worked in the regional theater circuit, and New York theatre on Broadway.
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Robert Ginty moved to California in the 1970s, where he found frequent work in various series in the mid-1970s.
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In 1976, Robert Ginty acted in Larry Peerce's Two-Minute Warning, and Hal Ashby's Bound for Glory.
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Robert Ginty attained some popularity after finding a steady role starring with Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep, a successful television series about the experiences of United States Marine Corps aviator Pappy Boyington and his squadron of misfits during World War II.
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In 1978, Robert Ginty worked again with director Ashby, in a supporting role in Coming Home starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern.
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In 1980, Robert Ginty starred in James Glickenhaus's vigilante film The Exterminator.
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In 1991, Robert Ginty acted in Simon Wincer's Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
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Robert Ginty continued in the late 1990s, performing, producing, and directing on such shows as China Beach, Xena: Warrior Princess, Nash Bridges, Charmed and Tracker.
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Robert Ginty died of cancer in 2009 in Los Angeles, aged 60.
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Robert Ginty resided, variously, in Los Angeles, Dublin, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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Robert Ginty was married to actress and former co-star Francine Tacker; they had a son, actor James Francis Ginty.
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Robert Ginty married Michelle Craske in 2003, they remained together until Robert Ginty's death in 2009.
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Robert Ginty began working with Narconon, a Scientology organization which provides drug rehabilitation, drug education and drug prevention programs, in 1979.