ROBERT EMHARDT BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Robert Emhardt was born on July 24th, 1914 in Indianapolis, Indiana with the birth name Robert Christian Emhardt. He learned all about acting in London and later became a well known American character actor.
His training began at Butler University and then he relocated to London where he studied at the London Academy of Dramatic Art from 1937 through 1938. He gained some experience as a stage actor in London and then worked as an understudy for Sydney Greenstreet.
By 1942 he debuted on Broadway in the production, "The Pirate" followed by a role in, "Life with Mother" (1948-1949) and "The Seven Year Itch" (1952). After appearing in eleven more stage productions he was given the chance for his film debut in, "The Iron Mistress" (1952) starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo.
Soon he began adding more film credits to his resume with some of the more successful ones in, "3:10 to Yuma" (1957) starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Richard Jaeckel and Felicia Farr, "Underworld, USA" (1961) starring Cliff Robertson, "Kid Galahad" (1962) starring Elvis Presley, Charles Bronson, Lola Albright, Edward Asner, Red West, Joan Blackman and Gig Young, "The Group" (1966) starring Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Larry Hagman and Hal Holbrook, "Change of Habit" (1969) starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair and Edward Asner, "The Stone Killer" (1973) starring Charles Bronson, Norman Fell, John Ritter and Martin Balsam and his final film role in 1982 in, "Forced Vengeance" starring Chuck Norris.
In addition to working on films, he still kept up his stage acting appearing in over 125 plays and also appeared on a variety of television series such as, "Perry Mason", "The Untouchables", "Bonanza", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Another World", "The Kids From C.A.P.E.R.", "The Twilight Zone", "Quincy, M.E." and "Wagon Train"..
Robert Emhardt married Silvia Sedeli and they had four children together and remained married until he passed away from heart failure on December 26th, 1994 in Ojai, California.
Filmography
1982 Forced Vengeance
1981 Quincy, M.E.
1980 CBS Afternoon Playhouse
1979 Aunt Mary
1979 Institute for Revenge
1979 Pleasure Cove
1978 Greatest Heroes of the Bible
1978 The Seniors
1978 Police Story
1977 It Happened One Christmas
1976-1977 The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
1977 Fraternity Row
1977 The Chopped Liver Brothers
1977 Starsky and Hutch
1976 Alex & the Gypsy
1975 Wide World Mystery
1975 The Rookies
1975 Caribe
1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1975 Police Woman
1975 Mary Tyler Moore
1975 Kojak
1975 Demon, Demon
1974 Lincoln
1974 The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 It's Alive
1974 The New Land
1974 Cannon
1974 The Manhunter
1974 Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
1974 Night Games
1973 Another World
1973 Love Story
1973 The Streets of San Francisco
1973 The Stone Killer
1973 Scorpio
1973 Kung Fu
1972 The Brady Bunch
1970-1972 The Doris Day Show
1972 Ironside
1972 Die Sister, Die!
1971 Adam-12
1971 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1970-1971 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1971 Lock, Stock and Barrel
1971 Lawman
1971 The Name of the Game
1962-1970 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970 Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970 Insight
1969 Change of Habit
1963-1969 Bonanza
1969 Rascal
1969 Medical Center
1969 Land of the Giants
1969 My Friend Tony
1959-1968 Gunsmoke
1968 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1967 Daniel Boone
1967 Mannix
1967 Accidental Family
1967 Hostile Guns
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967 The Invaders
1967 Iron Horse
1967 Occasional Wife
1967 T.H.E. Cat
1966-1967 The Wild Wild West
1966 ABC Stage 67
1966 That Girl
1963-1966 The Andy Griffith Show
1966 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1966 The Group
1966 The Loner
1965 The Trials of O'Brien
1960-1965 Perry Mason
1965 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1965 Profiles in Courage
1959-1965 Wagon Train
1965 The Magnificent Yankee
1965 Diamond Jim: Skulduggery in Samantha
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1964 The Doctors and the Nurses
1964 The Eleventh Hour
1964 The Great Adventure
1964 Temple Houston
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1960-1963 The Untouchables
1963 McKeever & the Colonel
1962-1963 Route 66
1963 The Dick Powell Theatre
1963 G.E. True
1963 Sam Benedict
1963 Stoney Burke
1961-1963 Have Gun - Will Travel
1963 Ensign O'Toole
1962 Going My Way
1962 Kid Galahad
1962 Kraft Mystery Theater
1962 The Intruder
1962 The Tall Man
1962 Target: The Corruptors
1956-1962 G.E. True Theater
1961-1962 The New Breed
1961 The Gertrude Berg Show
1961 Shirley Temple Theatre
1961 Underworld U.S.A.
1960-1961 Sunday Showcase
1961 The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1961 Twilight Zone
1961 The Tom Ewell Show
1961 Laramie
1961 Checkmate
1961 Naked City
1959-1960 Riverboat
1960 Hong Kong
1960 Wrangler
1960 Overland Trail
1960 Startime
1960 Wake Me When It's Over
1960 The Betty Hutton Show
1960 Playhouse 90
1960 The DuPont Show of the Month
1959 Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
1955-1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1959 Peter Gunn
1959 Five Fingers
1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 The Badlanders
1955-1958 The United States Steel Hour
1951-1958 Kraft Theatre
1958 All the King's Men
1957 3:10 to Yuma
1956-1957 The Alcoa Hour
1956 Star Tonight
1955 Lux Video Theatre
1955 The Big Knife
1955 The Elgin Hour
1954 Justice
1951-1954 The Web
1953-1954 The Man Behind the Badge
1952 The Iron Mistress
1950-1952 Suspense
1952 Robert Montgomery Presents
1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1951 The Dagmar Story
1949-1950 Studio One in Hollywood
1949 Martin Kane
1939 Marco Millions
