Robert colbert actor biography wikipedia

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As a youth, he attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, excelling both academically and as an athlete in track and field. During his school years, he first discovered his aptitude for acting. He studied theatre arts at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to military service with U. While working in a clerical position with a Military Police unit, Colbert sidelined as a disc jockey for the prominent local radio station KSBK in Naha, which often hired Americans and tended to promote the latest in American pop music.

Colbert was paid two dollars an hour, four nights a week. Though financially lucrative, he quit the radio job when a woman in the Air Force, who had heard his voice on the airwaves, prompted him to try out for a stage production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.

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This firmly hooked him on acting. Following his army discharge, Colbert honed his newly acquired skills in Shakespearean roles with the Portland Repertory Theater in Oregon. While staging the performance of a play at a supper club, he was approached by the comic actor and singer Mickey Shaughnessy with an offer to travel to Hollywood to meet his agent.

For a guy who had at different times worked as a furniture mover, ditch digger, bulldozer driver and kitchen appliance salesman, the offer proved irresistible. Signed under contract by Warner Brothers, Colbert made his screen debut in He had a few minor film roles before becoming a regular guest actor in many of the Warners' TV series on the ABC network, including multiple appearances as different characters in Bourbon Street Beat , Colt.

He particularly liked being in westerns and had a great fondness for horses. Colbert appeared three times on Maverick during season four, the first time as suspected stage coach robber "Cherokee" Dan Evans, then twice as Brent, a third brother of Bret Maverick famously played by James Garner , to whom Colbert bore more than a passing resemblance.