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Robert Barrat

For those of a similar name, see Robert Barrett (disambiguation).
Robert Barrat
Robert Barrat.jpg
Robert Barrat, 1938
BornRobert Harriot Barrat
July 10, 1889
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 7, 1970 (aged 80)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting placeGreen Hill Cemetery,Martinsburg, West Virginia, U.S.
OccupationStage, film, television actor
Years active1915-64
Spouse(s)Mary Dean
Robert Harriot Barrat (July 10, 1889 – January 7, 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.

Career[edit]

Born in New York City, Barrat made his theatrical debut in a stock company in Springfield, Massachusetts. He later acted onBroadway, where his credits include Lilly Turner (1932), Bulls, Bears and Asses (1931), This Is New York (1930), Judas (1928), The Lady Lies (1928), A Lady for a Night (1927), Marco Millions (1927), Chicago (1926), Kid Boots (1923), The Breaking Point (1923),The Unwritten Chapter (1920), The Crimson Alibi (1919), The Invisible Foe (1918), and Some One in the House (1918).[1]
He appeared in more than 150 films[2] in a Hollywood career that lasted four decades. He appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s. Two of his most noted roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933) and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Academy Award winning film, The Life of Emile Zola. He also appeared with the Marx Brothers in Go West (1940). He played Ingrid Bergman's father in Joan of Arc (1948), though his role was so brief that when an edited version of the film was released in 1950, Barrat's role had actually been eliminated.[3] (The film has since been restored to its full length.)
He played several other historical characters as well, 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 in American Guerrilla in the Philippines. He was also seen as the Native American Chief Chingachgook, in the 1936 film version of The Last of the Mohicans. By 1954, he had turned to television roles. His final acting appearance was in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964.[citation needed]

Death[edit]

He died of heart disease in Hollywood in 1970, aged 80, and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg, West Virginia.[2]

Partial filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ "("Robert Barrat" search results)". Playbill Vault. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. (2 volume set). McFarland. p. 43. ISBN 9781476625997. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  3. Jump up^ IMDB, Crazy credits for Joan of Arc, imdb.com; accessed September 30, 2015.

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