Robert Barrat

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Robert Barrat
Born July 10, 1889(1889-07-10)
New York City, New York
Died January 17, 1970 (aged 80)
Hollywood, California
Occupation Stage, film, television actor

Robert Barrat (10 July 18897 January 1970), was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.

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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 roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Warner Bros. Academy Award winning film, The Life of Emile Zola. By 1954 he turned to TV playhouse roles, off and on until 1964.

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