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Robert Guillaume
30 November 1927
Robert Guillaume played in 12 movies in the Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Music genres.
Robert Guillaume got succeed with average imdb rating 6.2.
The product of a tough, impoverished raising, African American actor Robert Guillaume fought his point at fault of the St. Louis slums about virtue of predisposition, persistence and an unwillingness to give in down to anyone. After military service and college, Guillaume held down short-style jobs ranging from cook to streetcar conductor, all the while training his voice fit potential euphonious comedy work--training that paid off with his earliest Broadway show, 1961's Kwamina.
... > Among his tons stage credits were the musical versions of Golden Small fry (with Sammy Davis Jr.) and Purlie Victorious, and the prolonged-running review Jacques Brel is Alive and Poetically and Living in Paris. When New York dais urge a exercise was scarce, Guillaume created his own opportunities not later than giving one-man concerts. After guesting in several of the black-oriented TV sitcoms of the 1970s, Guillaume was pitch in 1977 as the imperious, candid family retainer Benson in the daytime-drama pillory Soap (the actor would be first to admit that many of Benson's more contentious traits sprang from Guillaume's own prickly personality). The role won Guillaume a 1978 Emmy as "Outstanding Supporting Actor." In 1979, Guillaume carried over his Soap role into his own starring series, Benson, which ran until 1986 and which won Guillaume another Emmy, this regulate as "Outstanding Kick off b lure Actor." Robert Guillaume also headlined the correctly titled 1989 series The Robert Guillaume Show, wherein for approximately five months he starred as divorced confederation counselor Edward Sawyer.
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