Robert Blake

Acting • Born 1933-09-18 – Died 2023-03-09

Acting2Nutley, New Jersey, USA

Biography

Robert Blake (born Michael James Gubitosi; September 18, 1933 – March 9, 2023), billed early in his career as Mickey Gubitosi and Bobby Blake, was an American actor. He was best known for starring in the 1967 film In Cold Blood, playing the title role in the late 1970s television series Baretta, and playing the Mystery Man in the 1997 film Lost Highway. He began his career in the 1930s performing as a child alongside his family in song and as a dancer but became famous as a child actor, with his lead role in the final years of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-era of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short film series from 1939 to 1944. He also appeared as a child actor in 22 entries of the Red Ryder film franchise. As a child actor he worked with Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, John Wayne, John Garfield, Humphrey Bogart and Gene Autry. After a stint in the U.S. Army, Blake returned to acting in both television and movie roles. He continued acting until 1997's Lost Highway. He was arrested in 2002 for the 2001 murder of his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake was acquitted of the murder in criminal court in 2005, though he was found liable in a civil court for her wrongful death. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Filmography

173 credits

Lost Highway

Movie • 1997

Mystery Man

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Movie • 1948

Mexican Boy Selling Lottery Tickets (uncredited)

Robot Wrecks

Movie • 1941

Mickey

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Movie • 1965

Simon the Zealot

Mighty Lak a Goat

Movie • 1942

Mickey

Money Train

Movie • 1995

Donald Patterson

Electra Glide in Blue

Movie • 1973

John Wintergreen

Humoresque

Movie • 1947

Paul Boray as a Child

PT 109

Movie • 1963

Charles 'Bucky' Harris

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Movie • 1969

Willie

Pork Chop Hill

Movie • 1959

Pvt. Velie

Radio Bugs

Movie • 1944

Mickey

Calling All Kids

Movie • 1943

Mickey

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Movie • 1997

Self

The Horn Blows at Midnight

Movie • 1945

Junior Pulplinsky

This Property Is Condemned

Movie • 1966

Sidney

Kid Glove Killer

Movie • 1942

Boy in Car (uncredited)

Stagecoach to Denver

Movie • 1946

Little Beaver

In Cold Blood

Movie • 1967

Perry Smith

Revolt in the Big House

Movie • 1958

Rudy Hernandez

The Big Noise

Movie • 1944

Egbert Hartley

Busting

Movie • 1974

Vice Detective Patrick Farrel

Screaming Eagles

Movie • 1956

Pvt. Hernandez

Town Without Pity

Movie • 1961

Corporal Jim Larkin

Coast to Coast

Movie • 1980

Charles Callahan

Rumble on the Docks

Movie • 1956

Chuck

Apache War Smoke

Movie • 1952

Luis Herrera

Marshal of Cripple Creek

Movie • 1947

Little Beaver

The Return of Rin Tin Tin

Movie • 1947

Paul the Refugee Lad

The Last Round-up

Movie • 1947

Mike Henry

Corky

Movie • 1972

Corky Curtis

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Movie • 2003

Mexican Boy Selling Lottery Tickets (archive footage)

Lost Angel

Movie • 1943

Jerry

Judgment Day: The John List Story

Movie • 1993

John List

Second-Hand Hearts

Movie • 1981

Loyal Muke

Marshal of Reno

Movie • 1944

Little Beaver

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

Movie • 1946

Little Beaver

Out California Way

Movie • 1946

Danny McCoy

San Antonio Kid

Movie • 1944

Little Beaver

Blood Feud

Movie • 1983

Jimmy Hoffa

The Tijuana Story

Movie • 1957

Enrique Acosta Mesa

The Boxer

Movie • 1972

Teddy 'Cherokee' Wilcox / Teddy Wilson

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Movie • 1976

(archive footage)

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Movie • 1953

Stable Boy (uncredited)

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Movie • 1942

Tooky Stedman

The Seventh Cross

Movie • 1944

Small Boy (uncredited)

Phantom of the Plains

Movie • 1945

Little Beaver

A Guy Could Change

Movie • 1946

Alan Schroeder

The Purple Gang

Movie • 1959

Willard

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

Movie • 1985

Lenny Mancini

The Beast of Budapest

Movie • 1958

Karolyi

Lone Texas Ranger

Movie • 1945

Little Beaver

Rustlers of Devil's Canyon

Movie • 1947

Little Beaver

I Love You Again

Movie • 1940

Edward Littlejohn Jr. (uncredited)

The Woman in the Window

Movie • 1944

Dickie Wanley

Santa Fe Uprising

Movie • 1946

Little Beaver

Vigilantes of Boomtown

Movie • 1947

Little Beaver

Homesteaders of Paradise Valley

Movie • 1947

Little Beaver

Oregon Trail Scouts

Movie • 1947

Little Beaver

Father of Hell Town

Movie • 1985

Father Noah 'Hardstep' Rivers

Joy Scouts

Movie • 1939

Mickey

Mokey

Movie • 1942

Mokey Delano

Come Back, Miss Pipps

Movie • 1941

Mickey

Alfalfa's Double

Movie • 1940

Mickey

Melodies Old and New

Movie • 1942

Mickey

Family Troubles

Movie • 1943

Mickey

Of Mice and Men

Movie • 1981

George Milton

Vigilantes of Dodge City

Movie • 1944

Little Beaver

Don't Lie

Movie • 1942

Mickey

Sheriff of Las Vegas

Movie • 1944

Little Beaver

The Big Premiere

Movie • 1940

Mickey

Waldo's Last Stand

Movie • 1940

Mickey

Bridal Suite

Movie • 1939

Toto Pujol

Dad for a Day

Movie • 1939

Mickey Baker

Dakota

Movie • 1945

Little Boy

Unexpected Riches

Movie • 1942

Mickey

Trouble on the Trail

Movie • 1954

Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

Movie • 1981

Joe Dancer

Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade

Movie • 1983

Joe Dancer

Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission

Movie • 1981

Joe Dancer

In Old Sacramento

Movie • 1946

Newsboy

The Black Rose

Movie • 1950

Mahmoud

Fightin' Fools

Movie • 1941

Mickey

The Veils of Bagdad

Movie • 1953

Beggar boy

Election Daze

Mickey

Goin' Fishin'

Movie • 1940

Baby Blues

Movie • 1941

Mickey

Ye Olde Minstrels

Movie • 1941

Time Out for Lessons

Movie • 1939

Mickey

All About Hash

Movie • 1940

Mickey

Movie • 1944

Mickey

Bubbling Troubles

Movie • 1940

Mickey

Slightly Dangerous

Movie • 1943

Boy on porch (uncredited)

Tale of a Dog

Movie • 1944

Movie • 1943

Mickey

Wedding Worries

Movie • 1941

Mickey

China Girl

Movie • 1942

Chandu

Going to Press

Movie • 1942

Mickey

Joe Smith, American

Movie • 1942

Johnny Smith (age 5)

Tucson Raiders

Movie • 1944

Little Beaver

Auto Antics

Movie • 1939

Mickey

The Rack

Movie • 1956

Italian Soldier

Captain Spanky's Show Boat

Movie • 1939

(Mickey)

Farm Hands

Movie • 1943

Mickey

Spots Before Your Eyes

Movie • 1940

Kid

The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There

Movie • 1985

Cain's Hundred

TV • 1961

Rick Carter

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Pete Cloud

Baretta

TV • 1975

Det. Tony Baretta

Naked City

TV • 1958

Knox Maquon

E! True Hollywood Story

TV • 1996

Straightaway

TV • 1961

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Hap Johnson

One Step Beyond

TV • 1959

Tom

The Rebel

TV • 1959

Virgil Moss

Bat Masterson

TV • 1958

Bill-Bill MacWilliams

Ben Casey

TV • 1961

The New Breed

TV • 1961

Bobby Madero

The Richard Boone Show

TV • 1963

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

CSA Cpl. Michael Bers

Hell Town

TV • 1985

Father Noah 'Hardstep' Rivers

26 Men

TV • 1957

The Emmy Awards

TV • 1949

Self

Saturday Night Live

TV • 1975

Self - Host

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Junior

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Max Gufler

Blood Feud

TV • 1983

Jimmy Hoffa

The Mike Douglas Show

TV • 1961

Self - Guest

Broken Arrow

TV • 1956

Machogee

Broken Arrow

TV • 1956

Young Apache Warrior (uncredited)

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Lauro - Mexican Man

12 O'Clock High

TV • 1964

Lt. Johnny Eagle

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Jessie May Turnbow

Broken Arrow

TV • 1956

Viklai

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Smollet - Bully

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

TV • 1951

Rain Cloud

Wagon Train

TV • 1957

Johnny Kamen

The Restless Gun

TV • 1957

Lupe Sandoval

Dinah!

TV • 1974

Self

The Cisco Kid

TV • 1950

Davy

The Cisco Kid

TV • 1950

Alfredo

The Mike Douglas Show

TV • 1961

Self - Co-Host

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

TV • 1962

Self

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

Wayne Robinson

Death Valley Days

TV • 1952

William Bonney - Billy the Kid

Golden Globe Awards

TV • 1944

Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards

TV • 1944

Self - Nominee / Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

TV • 1944

Self

Forensic Justice

TV • 2016

Self (archive footage)