Award winning Theatre Director, Actor, Poet, and Short Story Writer; Bob’s career encompasses stage, film, and television. On stage he has crossed the fields from Shakespeare where he appeared in King Lear and Hamlet to Sam Shepards’ True West. Thru-out his many years on stage, he has appeared in the original production of “The Grapes of Wrath,” and the original productions of The Martian Chronicles,” “Fahrenheit 451,” And the revival of “Dandelion Wine.” All written by the writer and close friend Ray Bradbury.
His love of stage continued beyond acting. Robert in his directorial debut began with Marsha Normans “Getting Out”, was nominated for The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Theatre Direction. His original production of “Generation” by Dennis Clontz received National Honors as runner-up for the Best Play Produced Outside of New York City. He was on the Artistic Advisory Board for over twenty Years to The Colony Theatre Group in Los Angeles and Burbank, helping to guide and direct performances when he had time, which became his second home.
His film appearances are numerous and include The Mask starring Jim Carey, Candyman 3, Good Luck, Moonbase, and Steel Frontier. Robert has worked on well over one-hundred television shows such as: NYPD Blue, MacGyver, Max Headroom, The Flash, The Phoenix, Simon and Simon, Cop Rock, Cheers, George Carlen’s Comedy Hour and multiple seasons or shows of: Murder She Wrote, T.J. Hooker, In The Heat Of The Night, Dark Justice, Fall Guy, David Hasselhoffs, Knight Rider, Dallas, Equalizer, and Falcon Crest and the award winning T.V. show Hill Street Blues. Bobs’ preference of genre has always been “Westerns “, and T.V. shows in the genre include: Doctor Quinn Medicine Women, Father Murphy, Paradise, The Adventures of Briscoe County Junior and Walker, Texas Ranger. He has also appeared in The Mini-series Movies Made for Television: the western “Desperado: Badlands Justice”, World War III, From Here to Eternity, and By Dawn’s Early Light. There have also been “Pilots”, Darkroom with Billy Crystal and Brian Dennehy, Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour and George Clooneys’, Sunset Beat. This was early Clooney, with shoulder length hair and driving a motorcycle.
For over 10 years Robert spent 4 hours a day getting into make-up for The Iconic role of GOWRON, The Head of The Klingon Empire in two of Star Treks most prestigious shows: Star Trek, The Next Generation, and Star Trek, Deep Space 9. All Robert ever wanted was to be a working character actor, his wish came true-more than true. ‘GOWRON” branched out as a cultural phenomenon; adding Hallmark Cards -tree ornaments, commercials, board games, card games, Klingon Playmate Dolls which went world-wide, even Klingon Coffee “RAKTAJINO”.
Bob in his youth watching the original show Star Trek, had always wished to play a KLINGON and so Captain Jean Luc must have said “Make it So! “. Robert won the SCI-FI UNIVERSE READERS CHOICE UNIVERSE AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN GENRE MULTIPLE MEDIA for his work on the STAR TREK: KLINGON CD-ROM. Bob gave his acceptance speech in the Klingon Language, which brought the house down. Whether it is a gunfight with Willie Nelson, arguments with Carrol O’Connor, being arrested by Bill Shantner or explaining computers to Angela Landsbury, Robert has always tried to bring his sense of humor to his characters all in the name of the “the Bad Guy”.
In the end or continuing; he has played: South Africans, Germans, Russians, French, Irish, British, Cajun, Carolinians, New Englanders, terrorists, and Gangsters from all walks of life and of course characters from the Old West and the New West, the ‘Final Frontier’.
Bob has 3 sons, who all graduated from universities this year. He is also blessed with and a brilliant, beautiful, and talented wife who stays away from publicity. One Actor in a family is enough.