Robert Barrat (actor)

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Robert Harriot Barrat (born July 10, 1889 in New York City , New York , † January 7, 1970 in Hollywood , California ) was an American actor .

Life

The New York Barrat was active on Broadway from 1918 , where he starred in plays such as The Breaking Point , Marco Millions and Lilli Turner . Although he had made a few appearances in silent films as early as 1915 , it was not until the beginning of the 1930s that he began to appear regularly in front of the camera. Barrat made up to 20 films a year and was a busy supporting actor even before the introduction of the Hays Code , including mostly for Warner Bros. in films such as the drama Baby Face or the star-studded musical Wonder Bar . Barrat was also regularly seen in adventure films, such as Unter Piratenflagge and Der Verrat des Surat Khan, alongside the screen couple Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland . In Henry Hathaway's drama Battle in the Mountains , he led one of the two warring family clans. Barrat also played with James Cagney in a total of seven films in the 1930s, so that they became good friends in private. From 1936 onwards Barrat reduced his workload and made fewer films, which lasted until around 1940.

During the Second World War , Barrat, who often embodied law and order personalities, played many commanders and generals in war films such as A Man of Action , The Hero of Mindanao and The Devil's Brigade . Occasionally, however, the directors used Barrat in criminal roles, for example as a crook in The Road to Utopia alongside Bob Hope . With increasing age, he played increasingly demanding roles as a character, such as in 1948 as the father of the title role played by Ingrid Bergman in the lavish historical drama Johanna von Orleans . From the mid-1950s, Barrat could only be seen on television and increasingly withdrew from the acting business. The last time Barrat was in front of the camera was in 1964 for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents . In total, he worked in more than 150 film and television productions in his career.

After the death of his first wife Ethel Mueller (1891-1965), he married Mary Dean (1909-2001) in 1966. He died in 1970 at the age of 80 years and was at the cemetery in Martinsburg in West Virginia buried.

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SURNAME Barrat, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrat, Robert Harriot (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1970
Place of death Hollywood , California