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  Robert Blake (actor)
Actor Robert Blake, born September 18, 1933 as Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey.
Blake is probably best known for his Emmy Award-winning title role in the 1970s television drama Baretta, in which he played an undercover police detective who specialized in disguises.
Blake was known to have had a troubled childhood including abuse by an alcoholic father, and was prone to violence, which caused him to be frequently expelled from schools.
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 Expert: Evidence shows actor Robert Blake did not murder his wife - Courttv.com - Trials
Blake, 71, claims he had nothing to do with Bakley's murder, and that someone else killed the mother of four as he briefly left her alone to retrieve a gun he had inadvertently left behind at a restaurant where the couple had just dined.
Experts for both sides have agreed that Blake's handling of his own gun that evening — a licensed revolver, which was not the murder weapon — could have caused the positive GSR result on his hands, as the sticky residue easily transfers from surface to surface.
Blake is charged with one count of murder, with the special circumstance of lying in wait and two counts of solicitation of murder.
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 USATODAY.com - Actor Robert Blake pleads innocent in killing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Blake, who was released on bail for the first time after his preliminary hearing earlier this month, stood as a prosecutor read the charges against him, which include murder and solicitation to murder.
Blake says he found his wife shot in their car after he went back to the restaurant to retrieve a handgun he carried for protection.
Prosecutors say Blake killed her himself because he was unable to hire a hit man. Prosecution witnesses testified that the actor felt Bakley was a bad influence who associated with disreputable people and might eventually lead their daughter into child pornography.
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 Robert Blake Biography (Actor/Murder Suspect) — Infoplease.com
An actor who once played a cop on TV, Blake was charged in 2002 with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, and finally cleared in 2005.
Blake and Bakley were married in November of 2000 after paternity tests proved he was the father of her infant daughter Rose.
Robert Blake, 2005 People in the News - Robert Blake, actor, was acquitted by a California jury in March of the 2001 murder of his wife,...
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 CNN.com - Actor Robert Blake proclaims innocence - Feb. 25, 2003
Blake said Bakley, who has been portrayed by defense attorneys as a grifter who bilked men with "lonely hearts" letters, was probably slain by one of her victims.
Blake added that he used to see strange people "hanging around" his house and that one of them followed him and Bakley when they went to dinner on the night of the slaying.
Blake, a former child actor who starred in the "Our Gang" comedies, has also appeared in dozens of movies, including 1967's "In Cold Blood," based on the Truman Capote book of the same name, in which he portrayed one of two men who murdered a Kansas family and were hanged for their crime.
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 Actor Robert Blake acquitted of his wife's murder - Courttv.com - Trials
Outside the courthouse, Blake borrowed a pair of cutters from a cameraman, sliced off the electronic monitor that had been strapped around his right ankle, and handed it to his attorney, who held it up in a victory gesture.
The panel also found Blake not guilty of solicitation of murder, but were unable to reach a verdict on a second solicitation count, which was subsequently dismissed.
Blake claimed he had returned briefly to the restaurant to retrieve a revolver he had accidentally left behind and returned to find her dead.
www.courttv.com /trials/blake/031605_verdict_ctv.html   (925 words)

  
 CNN.com - Blake found not guilty in wife's killing - Mar 16, 2005
Blake was charged with one count of murder with a special circumstance of lying in wait and two counts of solicitation of murder in the shooting death of Bonny Lee Bakley, 44.
Blake had said he left Bakley in the car while he returned to the restaurant to retrieve a handgun he had left behind.
Prosecutors said Blake felt Bakley had tricked him into marriage after she became pregnant with his child -- and that he hated her so much he would do anything to keep her away from the girl, Rosie, who was 3 months old at the time of the killing.
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 CNN.com - Actor Robert Blake denied bail - June 27, 2002
Blake, 68, the star of the 1970s television series "Baretta," has been in jail since his arrest April 18.
Blake lawyer Harland Braun said he would file a writ to the appellate court next week to try to overturn the judge's decision.
Braun accused prosecutors of stretching the law solely to keep Blake behind bars, and he said the actor was neither a flight risk nor dangerous.
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 Actor Robert Blake charged with wife's murder; bodyguard charged in plot - Tuesday Apr. 23, 2002 - The Arizona Daily ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, was shot to death May 4, 2001, as she sat in her husband's car outside a restaurant where the couple had just dined.
Blake, 68, star of the 1970s detective series "Baretta," has said his wife was shot when he returned to the restaurant to retrieve a gun he had accidentally left behind.
The actor married Bakley after she gave birth to a child she initially said was fathered either by Blake or Christian Brando.
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 Robert Blake News - Page 2
Lawyers for Robert Blake, the actor who was found liable in a civil case for $30 million in his wife's death, asked for a new trial Monday, alleging juror misconduct.
A year after Robert Blake was acquitted in criminal court of killing his wife, the former tough guy actor spends his days exercising horses at a friend's ranch and planning a comeback, The Associated Press...
Actor Robert Blake, acquitted eight months ago of murdering his wife, was found liable on Friday for her slaying in a wrongful death civil suit brought by her children and was ordered to pay $30 million in...
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 Robert Blake (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Blake on the cover of the Baretta Season 1 DVD set.
In 1956, he was billed as Robert Blake for the first time.
Robert Blake ordered her to take a DNA test to prove the paternity.
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 Robert Blake News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Robert Blake is due to stand trial in November A judge has ruled there is no evidence linking Marlon Brando's son with the murder of actor Robert Blake's wife.
Robert Blake's lawyer gave notice Monday that he will appeal the wrongful-death verdict by a civil jury that awarded $30 million to the family of the actor's slain wife.
A lawyer for Robert Blake argued Friday that the actor should be granted a new trial in a civil case on his wife's death because of juror misconduct.
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 Actor Robert Blake Arrested for the Murder of His Wife Bonny Bakley, former Hollywood Actor Robert Blake is 68
Hollywood actor Robert Blake, 68, former star of the 1970s detective series, "Baretta," was arrested on Thursday, April 18 for the murder of his wife, Bonny Bakley, a year ago.
Blake's handyman and bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder.
According to Robert Blake, his wife was shot in the head while he went back into the restaurant to retrieve his gun.
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 USATODAY.com - Actor Robert Blake's wife shot to death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Blake, 67, who had left his wife in the car while he went back to a restaurant to pick up his own handgun, checked himself into a hospital for treatment of high blood pressure Saturday and will remain there for at least two more days, said attorney Harland Braun.
Blake's wife, identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office as Bonny Lee Bakley, 45, was shot late Friday as she sat in a car near an Italian restaurant that Blake frequented in Studio City.
Blake had been carrying the gun because his wife feared for her life, Braun said.
www.usatoday.com /life/2001-05-05-robertblake-wifedeath.htm   (444 words)

  
 CNN.com - Actor Robert Blake pleads not guilty - Jun. 5, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Court TV Actor Robert Blake Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of murder in connectiong with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Balkey.
Blake was unexpectedly granted bail on March 13, after Superior Court Judge Lloyd M. Nash ruled that there was enough evidence presented at a three-week preliminary hearing to have a full-scale trial, but not enough to keep the actor behind bars.
Blake claimed he left Bakley sitting in his Dodge Stealth to retrieve his own personal handgun from the restaurant when she was shot.
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 Popjournalism :: News :: 'Baretta' actor Robert Blake acquitted of murder
After a much-publicized trial, actor Robert Blake was found not guilty of murder.
On Wednesday, due to lack of reliable evidence, Blake was acquitted of killing his wife four years ago.
Blake was charged with shooting his 44-year-old wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, in their car outside of a restaurant in 2001.
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 Morty's Guide to Robert Blake with Daily Links to Breaking News Coverage
Robert Blake: Actor found not guilty in the 2001 shooting death of...
Robert Blake did not try to help his wife as she lay dying in his car, three prosecution witnesses told a Los Angeles court yesterday, on the second day of the...
When a DNA test determined that it was Blake, not Brando, that was the father of Bakley's youngest child, Blake agreed to marry her, and the baby's name was changed to Rose Lenore Sophia Blake.
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 FOXNews.com - Actor Robert Blake, Bodyguard Arrested in Wife's Killing - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts ...
Blake, 68, was arrested Thursday at a home in Hidden Hills, a gated suburban community where the actor moved after Bonny Lee Bakley's slaying.
Blake was taken to the downtown Los Angeles County jail, where he was held in the hospital section to segregate him from the general inmate population, said Deputy Roberta Granek, a Sheriff's Department spokeswoman.
Blake's lawyer, who was hired shortly after the killing, investigated the woman's past and came up with the theory that there were many men who might have wanted her dead.
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 Robert Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Blake was acquitted last March in a criminal murder trial, where the 72 year-old star of "In Cold Blood" and television's "Baretta" stood accused of shooting his wife twice in the head in May 2001.
The subsequent media flurry unveiled the Blake marriage to be less than blissful; after a one-night stand in 1999, Blake had married Bakley only after a DNA test confirmed him as the father of their daughter, now 5 years old.
Actor Robert Blake remained hospitalized Sunday while police searched for the gunman who killed his wife as she sat in their car.
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 Actor Robert Blake Charged With Wife's Murder - News
Blake said that once the two returned to the car, he briefly left her to go back to the restaurant -- Vitello's, where a dish was named after him -- to retrieve a gun that he carried to protect Bakley and that had slipped from his waistband during dinner.
Blake married Bakley after paternity tests showed he was the father of a child who, according to tape-recorded phone conversations featuring Bakley, she initially believed might have been the daughter of Christian Brando, Marlon Brando's son.
In contrast, Blake has been processed into the Los Angeles County jail system, being held in the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles in a cell where, for his own protection, he is isolated from the general inmate population.
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 Actor Robert Blake acquitted of murdering his wife in 2001 | wkyc.com
Actor Robert Blake acquitted of murdering his wife in 2001
Actor Robert Blake acquitted of murdering his wife in 2001
Blake dropped his head as the verdict was read and then appeared to shake with tears.
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 Robert Blake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Blake, brother to poet William Blake, who William claimed visited him in his dreams.
Robert Blake (admiral) (1599–1657), an English military commander of the 17th Century
Robert Blake (folk singer), a folk singer from the Pacific Northwest who recorded a split LP with Erik Peterson
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Blake (actor)
He was born Michael James Vincenzo Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey, the son of James Gubitosi (January 14 1906–August 15 1956) and Elizabeth Cafone (born 1910).
Blake also starred in the role of an Indian fugitive in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), a film adaptation of Of Mice and Men (1981) and as a motorcycle highway patrolman in Electra Glide in Blue (1973).
Expressing disbelief that Blake was found liable by the jury in the civil trial, M. Gerald Schwartbach (Blake's attorney in the criminal trial) vowed to appeal the jury verdict.
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 Robert Blake (actor)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933) is an Italian-American actor most famous for starring in the US television series Baretta.
Blake also starred in the role of an Indian fugitive in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) and as an obnoxious motorcycle highway patrolman in Electra Glide in Blue (1973).
Blake's defense team and members of the jury responded that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
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 FOXNews.com - Ex-Cop: Blake Had Murder on His Mind - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
Blake's lawyer objected to the tape on the grounds it was recorded illegally.
Blake, gaunt and gray, listened grimly to the testimony at a hearing that will determine whether he stands trial for murder.
Blake showed no reaction as his old friend William Welch, a retired homicide detective, testified about a scenario as bizarre as a movie script.
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 Digital Journal - Actor Robert Blake's Wife Shot
LOS ANGELES — The wife of actor Robert Blake was shot to death in her car while she waited for the former ``Baretta'' TV star near a restaurant, police said Saturday.
Blake, 67, told officers that as the couple returned to their car from a restaurant he realized he had forgotten something and went back inside to retrieve it.
Blake was questioned early Saturday as a witness, Campos said.
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 Tough-guy actor Robert Blake acquitted murder_life_English_SINA.com
Robert Blake may have hated his wife, but not enough to kill her, to borrow the title of his most famous film, in cold blood.
Bakley was killed in Studio City on May 4, 2001, as she sat in Blake's car outside of Vitello's restaurant, where the couple had just dined.
Blake's defense team contended that the actor had left Bakley in the car while he returned to the restaurant to retrieve a forgotten firearm that he carried for protection.
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 AndhraNews.Net - Actor Robert Blake acquitted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Visibly relieved and sobbing as the verdict was read, Robert Blake was aquitted on all counts and walked out of the courtroom yesterday a free man.
The 71 year-old actor also said he was ready to "cowboy it...Get in a motor home or van, feel the wind in my hair and find a little bar in Arizona or someplace."
They also claimed that he was the trigger man who, after dining with his wife in their favorite restaurant, put two bullets in her head as the two of them sat in their car outside.
www.andhranews.net /international/A/Ac/Actor-Robert-Blake-acquitted.asp   (434 words)

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