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Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
30 November 1918
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. played in 11 movies in the Film-Noir, Drama, Music, Crime, Thriller, Action, Horror, Comedy, War, Romance, Animation, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Documentary genres.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
The son of people-famous violinist Efrem Zimbalist and opera star Alma Gluck, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. received an dear prep-school learning in New England, and at age 16 he briefly forced at Yale University. He became a errand-boy at the NBC radio studios in New York City, then took acting lessons at Neighborhood Playhouse.
Just in the presence of serving in Community War II (in which he earned a Purple Heart), Zimbalist married another aspiring actor, Emily McNair. After the war, h
... e began toting up Broadway acting credits, and in 1949 made his film debut as Richard Conte's brutish buddy in House of Strangers (1949). After his wife died of cancer in 1950, Zimbalist briefly retired from acting, moving with his two children to Philadelphia; there he became a researcher at the Curtis Set up of Music, where his framer was cicerone. Abruptly after returning to acting in 1954 with a recurring role on the TV soap opera Concerning Long for Marlowe, Zimbalist married East Coast socialite Stephanie Spaulding; the union produced a daughter, also named Stephanie, who grew up to become a trendy actress in her own right (Zimbalist's son, Efrem III, has likewise earned a place in "Who's Who" as a publishing flock executive). Signed to a long-term Warner Bros. contract, Zimbalist achieved full stardom in the task of suave reserved detective Stuart Bailey on the weekly TV series 77 Sunset Strip (1958-1964). He went on to another popular Warners series in 1965, playing inspector Lew Erskine in the long-sustained (nine seasons) The FBI. His later TV roles included Charles Cabot in the 1986 episodes of Breakfast, Don Alejandro de la Vega in the start with-flavour installment of the Family Aqueduct's Zorro (1990-1992), and sterling-tongued con artist Daniel Chalmers on his daughter Stephanie's weekly series Remington Steele (1982-1987).
Generally delegate in sophisticated or serious roles, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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