ROBERT BLAKE

ACTING

Robert Blake (September 18, 1933 – March 9, 2023) was an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the American television series Baretta in the 1970s. As a child actor he worked with Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, John Wayne, John Garfield, Humphrey Bogart and Gene Autry. In 2005 he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife.

He was later found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death..