Robert Barrat
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Robert Barrat (10 July 1889 - 7 January 1970), was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.
[edit] Career
New York-born, Robert Harriot Barrat, acted in some one-hundred fifty films over four decades Hollywood career; and appeared in several pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s. His most noted role was as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Warner Bros., Academy Award winning, The Life of Emile Zola. By 1954 he turned to TV playhouse roles, off and on until 1964.