Robert "Bob" Harland (born Robert Yurgatis) is a retired American actor whose principal work was done on television in the late 1950s and 1960s. He appeared as a regular in the role of undercover agent Jack Flood on ABC's Target: The Corruptors! (1961–1962), co-starring Stephen McNally (1913–1994).[1]
Harland had previously appeared in a recurring role as Deputy Billy Lordan on NBC's Law of the Plainsman with Michael Ansara and Gina Gillespie. Among the episodes in which Harland appeared were "Trojan Horse", "Amnesty", "Rabbit's Fang", "A Question of Courage", "The Comet", "The Rawhiders", and "Common Ground".[1]
Harland began acting in 1958 as Hank Moore in As Young As We Were, in which Pippa Scott played a new high school teacher who falls in love with Harland, who turns out to be a student.[2] He also starred in one of the last episodes of CBS's The Millionaire fantasy drama series with Marvin Miller.[1]
His other early work was mostly on westerns, including appearances as Andy Forrest in the episode "A Case of Slow" on ABC's Black Saddle with Peter Breck and on ABC's Stagecoach West with Wayne Rogers and Robert Bray. He appeared once in 1960 on NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane and Don Collier. He starred in three episodes, all in 1960, on CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater as Jack Hoyt in "Knife of Hate", Lee Phelps in "Killer Instinct", and Les in "The Reckoning". He appeared too in 1961 as Corporal Clay Taylor in an episode of NBC's Wagon Train, and as Phil Davies in "The Convict's Revenge" episode of ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp with Hugh O'Brian.[1]
After Target: The Corruptors!, Harland's work was mostly in dramas, such as ABC's Ben Casey with Vince Edwards and three times on CBS's Perry Mason (1963–1964) with Raymond Burr. Those episodes included the role of Kenneth L. "Ken" Judson in "The Case of the Greek Goddess" (1963) ,[1] as Todd in "The Case of the Badgered Brother" (also 1963), and as Bill Jarvis in "The Case of the Bullied Bowler" (1964).[3]
In 1961, he guest starred with Gloria Talbott in the episode "Terror in the Afternoon" of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. In 1973-1974, after a seven-year absence from the screen, Harland appeared four times as Sergeant Older in ABC's The Rookies in episodes entitled "Walk a Tightrope", "Rolling Thunder", "Eyewitness", and "A Matter of Justice". Harland also wrote two 1973 The Rookies episodes, "Margin for Error" and "Easy Money".[1]
In 1988, after a 14-year absence from the screen, Harland made his last four television appearances, three times as James Rayford in the ABC night-time soap opera Dynasty. In 1997, Harland's last film role was as Bob Potter in The Rest of My Life.[1]