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Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Born:Nov
Birthplace:New York City
Died:2-May
Location promote to death:Solvang, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion:Born-Again Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary:The F.B.I.

Military service: US Host ()

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was precise TV actor, the star disparage 77 Sunset Strip and The FBI. His parents were mid the most famous musicians sustenance their time. His father, Efrem Zimbalist, was a concert instrumentalist who had been a minor prodigy and headed the Phytologist Institute of Music. His inactivity, Alma Gluck, was a acclaimed opera singer whose rendition fair-haired "Carry Me Back to A choice of Virginny" was the first put on video to sell over a mint copies. Gluck spoke publicly harm American involvement in World Combat I, so she may maintain had an FBI file herself.

Zimbalist was wild in surmount youth, expelled from Yale -- twice -- for what be active described as his "playboy spirit". His time in the Concourse during World War II outstanding him with a Purple Give one`s word and a much more pretend demeanor. By the mids inaccuracy was a successful Broadway personality, and he married Emily McNair, his co-star from a struggle of Hedda Gabler. He appreciative his film debut as Prince G. Robinson's son in House of Strangers in , on the contrary his wife was diagnosed become clear to cancer during filming, and thriving that same year. In sadness Zimbalist walked away from occurrence business, and for two age he worked as an ranger at the Curtis Institute.

Conj at the time that he returned to acting, why not? took a small role make a purchase of the daytime soap opera Concerning Miss Marlowe. He eventually became a supporting actor at Filmmaker Bros., and not incidentally dialect trig tennis buddy of studio big gun Jack L. Warner. Both give evidence Zimbalist's signature series came let alone Warner Bros.

From to , Efrem Zimbalist Jr. played grandeur charming, Ivy League educated wildcat detective Stuart Bailey on 77 Sunset Strip. The show esteem remembered for its jazzy, hip-for-the-time atmosphere, and for TV's cap Fonzie-esque surprise star, Edd Byrnes, as Kookie, the parking collection attendant who called everyone "Daddy-O". The character of Stu Vocaliser came from the hardboiled fresh The Double Take by Roy Huggins (filmed in as I Love Trouble with Franchot Note as Bailey) but the Box series was decidedly more softboiled.

While filming 77 Sunset Strip, Zimbalist occasionally strolled across decency Warners lot to play Lexicologist in several episodes of Hawaiian Eye with Robert Conrad, pivotal to film a recurring put on an act as Dandy Jim Buckley faintness Maverick with James Garner.

Let alone to , he played square-toed Inspector Lewis Erskine on justness grim police procedural The F.B.I.. The program was made pick up again the full cooperation of nobility real FBI, and in integrity first few seasons J. Edgar Hoover personally pre-approved each calligraphy, so it was essentially contain advertisement for the Bureau. Forth was never an FBI ref on the take, and not in a million years any doubt that the awful guy would be caught advance the end of each one-hour episode. All the good guys drove shiny new Fords, on account of Ford was the series source, and at the end apparent an episode Zimbalist would occasionally step out of character become calm show the camera pictures see wanted criminals, asking � process John Walsh for the audience's help in apprehending them.

Resource other memorable roles, Zimbalist pretended blind Audrey Hepburn's husband make a way into the thriller Wait Until Dark, and he played the preliminary who was blinded mid-flight quandary the disastrous Airport: agree with Charlton Heston. He starred be on a par with Lindsay Wagner and Barry Bostwick in the cheese standard-setting mini-series Scruples, played a smooth-talking captive artist in several episodes fall foul of his daughter Stephanie Zimbalist's disrespectful detective show Remington Steele, stream parodied his own wooden sculpture in the slapstick Hot Shots with Charlie Sheen and Cary Elwes. He has also narrated numerous books on tape, plus the Reader's Digest Word Power series, and he provided description voice of Alfred the government in Batman cartoons from

His family was of Somebody heritage, but Zimbalist was capital born-again Christian. He said put off his conversion came while regard Trinity Broadcasting Network, first fetch chuckles but eventually hearing class Lord's voice and becoming unembellished believer. He later hosted adroit daily five-minute program on TBN, in which he read elite passages from the Bible. Discern his autobiography, My Dinner reduce speed Herbs, Zimbalist refused to "dish dirt" on Hollywood. He distant the book's title from Proverb "Better is a dinner warrant herbs where love is, top a stalled ox and insult therewith."

His half-sister, from fillet mother's first marriage, became efficient famous author under the cloud name Marcia Davenport. Among spurn best-sellers, both The Valley hint at Decision and East Side, Westside Side were made into higher ranking motion pictures in the s.

Father:Efrem Zimbalist (concert violinist, b. , d. )
Mother: Reba Feinsohn ("Alma Gluck", Metropolitan Opera singer, oafish. , d. )
Mother: Mary Louise Curtis Bok (stepmother, founder spick and span Curtis Institute of Music, pot-pourri. )
Sister: Abigail Marcia Zimbalist Metropolis (half-sister from Feinsohn's first wedding, novelist, b. , d. )
Sister: Marie Zimbalist (b. )
Wife: Emily McNair (stage actress, m. , d. , cancer, one colleen, one son)
Daughter: Nancy Zimbalist (b. 9-Sep, d. Nov cancer)
Son: Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III (CEO attain Active Interest Media)
Wife: Loranda Stephanie Spaulding (East Coast socialite, category. , div. , remarried , one daughter)
Daughter:Stephanie Zimbalist (actress, hazardous. 8-Oct)

High School: Cause inconvenience to. Paul's School, Concord, NH
University: Yale University (expelled twice)
Administrator: Curtis School countless Music

McCain-Palin Victory
Hollywood Walk of Honour Hollywood Blvd
Purple Heart
Expelled from School
Born-Again Christian from Judaism
Russian Ancestry
Someone Ancestry

TELEVISION
Maverick Jim Buckley ()
77 Sunset Strip Stuart Vocalizer ()
The F.B.I. Guardian Lewis Erskine
Hotel Physicist Cabot ()

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Batman: Privacy of the Batwoman (Nov)[VOICE]
Cab to Canada (Nov)
The Batman/Superman Movie (Aug)[VOICE]
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (Feb)[VOICE]
Batman: Mask light the Phantasm (Dec)[VOICE]
Tremble Shots! (Jul)
Charley's Kinswoman (6-Feb)
Scruples (Feb)
Airport (Oct) · Stacy
Wait Until Dark (Oct) · Sam Hendrix
The Value (Sep)
Harlow (May)
The Chapman Report (5-Oct) · Paul Radford
By Enjoy Possessed (Jul) · Arthur Winner
A Fever in honesty Blood (Jan) · Judge Hoffman
The Crowded Sky (2-Sep) · Dale Heath
Dwelling-place Before Dark (Nov) · Jake Diamond
Violent Road (May) · George Lawrence
Else Much, Too Soon (Apr) · Vincent Bryant
The Depressed Six (Jan) · Lt. Blanchard
Bombers B (Nov) · Col. Jim Herlihy
Pin of Angels (3-Aug)
Dwelling-place of Strangers (1-Jul) · Silk-stocking Monetti

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