Actor Robert Blake dies at the age of 89
American actor Robert Blake died today, Friday, at the age of 89, after a long career in the art world, as he began his career since the 1930s and continued in the field until the 1990s, and he made leading names, including John Huston to David Lynch, throughout his career.
Born in New Jersey in 1933, Robert Blake, a former Emmy Award-winning film and television star who has been involved in more than half a century of Hollywood history, was born in New Jersey and got his start in film as a child actor in the late 1930s.
His first screen role came in the form of an uncredited appearance in Wilhelm Thiele's 1939 film Bridal Suite. He continued to work steadily through the 1940s and 1950s, making a memorable appearance as a kid selling lottery tickets in 1948 in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Blake was one of the first child stars to successfully transition into adult roles. To star in 1967's In Cold Blood, which remains one of his most popular film roles.
Blake quickly built on that success, and the 1970s catapulted him to television stardom, playing Detective Tony Baretta on Baretta beginning in 1975, earning two Emmy Award nominations and one win for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
