Robert Blake Overview:

Actor, Robert Blake, was born Michael James Vincenzo Gubitosi on Sep 18, 1933 in Nutley, NJ. Blake died at the age of 89 on Mar 9, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA .

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New From Warner Archive: 8-year-old Robert Blake in Mokey (1942)

By KC on Nov 19, 2014 From Classic Movies

Robert Blake is one of those actors who has experienced so much drama in real life, that it tends to cast a shadow on his film and television work. We know too much about the real man to separate him from the roles he plays. I suppose that's why I had an uneasy feeling watching him play Mokey, a boy... Read full article


Videos of the Week: “Revolt in the Big House” and Robert Blake

By Marisa on Nov 6, 2014 From The Timothy Carey Experience

D’OH! I was so busy yesterday I never got around to posting our regular Wednesday video. My apologies! So, to attempt to make up for my negligence, today you’re getting not one but two videos! Let’s start off with the one I should have posted last week but it hadn’t quite bee... Read full article


Videos of the Week: “Rumble on the Docks” and Robert Blake

By Marisa on Nov 6, 2014 From The Timothy Carey Experience

D’OH! I was so busy yesterday I never got around to posting our regular Wednesday video. My apologies! So, to attempt to make up for my negligence, today you’re getting not one but two videos! Let’s start off with the one I should have posted last week but it hadn’t quite bee... Read full article


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Robert Blake Quotes:

Willie Boy: Whatcha got, Meathead? Death Valley Juice?
Meathead: Hell, no - white man's whiskey. I got real confidence in it. I didn't make it - I stole it. Buyin'?
Willie Boy: I'm waitin'. See how long it takes to kill.


Tom: Mr. Calvert said you been a foreman on a ranch in Victorville for a while.
Willie Boy: Yep.
Tom: I hear a white woman owned it.
Willie Boy: You heard right.
Tom: And you left?
Willie Boy: Husband come home.


Willie Boy: I didn't think they'd want me that bad. Maybe they're like me. Maybe it's you they want.


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Robert Blake Facts
Appears in the film Lost Highway (1997), about a man who murders his wife. It was inspired, according to David Lynch, by the O.J. Simpson case. Blake later became the centre of another high-profile wife-killing case in real life.

Brother of Joan Blake and James Gubitosi.

To prepare for the role of Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins had watched Blake's performance in In Cold Blood (1967) several times (Hopkins said this having visited Blake, whom he didn't know personally, in prison after being accused of murdering his wife).

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