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Robert Harriot Barrat (10 July 1889 – 7 January 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.
Born in New York, Barrat's theatrical debut was in a stock company in Springfield, Massachusetts. He later acted on Broadway and went into films, acting in some one-hundred fifty films over four decades Hollywood career and appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s. Two of his most noted roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933) and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937... MORE
Robert Harriot Barrat (10 July 1889 – 7 January 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.
Born in New York, Barrat's theatrical debut was in a stock company in Springfield, Massachusetts. He later acted on Broadway and went into films, acting in some one-hundred fifty films over four decades Hollywood career and appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s. Two of his most noted roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933) and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Warner Bros. Academy Award winning film, The Life of Emile Zola. He also played Ingrid Bergman's father in Joan of Arc (1948), though his role was so brief that when an edited version of the film was released in 1950, Barrat's role had actually been eliminated. (The film has since been restored to its full length.)
He played several other historical characters as well, among them Davy Crockett in Man of Conquest, Zachary Taylor in Distant Drums, Abraham Lincoln in Trailin' West, Cornelius Van Horne in Canadian Pacific and General Douglas MacArthur in American Guerrilla in the Philippines. He was LESS
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