Robert Barrat

Robert Harriot Barrat (July 10, 1891 – January 7, 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.

Early years Barratt was born on July 10, 1891 in New York City, and educated in the public schools there. He left college and home during his sophomore year, traveling on a tramp steamer to Central America, England, France, and South America. After he returned to the United States, he worked for two years on his brother's farm near Springfield, Massachusetts, until he learned of an opening in the chorus for a musical comedy.

Career

Early in his career, Barrat traveled around the United States,

Barrat appeared in around 150 films, uncredited in some of them, in a Hollywood career that lasted four decades. He appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s. He played Nick, the sexually abusive father of Barbara Stanwyck's character, Lily, in the Pre-Code classic Baby Face.

Three of Barrat's best known roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Academy Award-winning film The Life of Emile Zola and the crooked saloon owner "Red" Baxter in the Marx Brothers western comedy Go West (1940). Barrat portrayed several historical characters, among them Davy Crockett in Man of Conquest, Zachary Taylor in Distant Drums, Abraham Lincoln in Trailin' West, Cornelius Van Horne in Canadian Pacific and General Douglas MacArthur twice, He was survived by his wife, Mary Dean.

Complete filmography

Her Own Way (1915) - Lt. Richard Coleman The Wonder Man (1920) - Alan Gardner Whispering Shadows (1921) - Hugh Brook Honor Among Lovers (1931) - Detective (uncredited) The Wiser Sex (1932) - Plainclothesman (uncredited) Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) - Detective (uncredited) King of the Jungle (1933) - Joe Nolan The Mind Reader (1933) - Detective (uncredited) Picture Snatcher (1933) - Grover Lilly Turner (1933) - Fritz 'Heinie' The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) - Sheriff (uncredited) Ann Carver's Profession (1933) - Andrew Simmons - Attorney (uncredited) The Silk Express (1933) - Mr. Calhoun, Attorney Heroes for Sale (1933) - Max The Mayor of Hell (1933) - Fred Smith Baby Face (1933) - Nick Powers Secret of the Blue Room (1933) - Paul, the Butler The Devil's in Love (1933) - Maj. Bertram (uncredited) Tugboat Annie (1933) - First Mate of 'Glacier Queen' (uncredited) Captured! (1933) - The Commandant My Lips Betray (1933) - Undetermined Role (uncredited) Wild Boys of the Road (1933) - Judge R.H. White I Loved a Woman (1933) - Charles Lane The Kennel Murder Case (1933) - Archer Coe From Headquarters (1933) - Anderzian Massacre (1934) - Dawson Hi, Nellie! (1934) - Beau Brownell Not Tonight, Josephine (1934, Short) Dark Hazard (1934) - Tex Willis Wonder Bar (1934) - Captain Hugo Von Ferring Gambling Lady (1934) - Mike Lee A Very Honorable Guy (1934) - Dr. Snitzer Upper World (1934) - Police Commissioner Clark Fog Over Frisco (1934) - Thorne Return of the Terror (1934) - Pudge Walker Midnight Alibi (1934) - Angie Morley Here Comes the Navy (1934) - Commander Denny Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) - Alex (Credits) / Alexis Romanoff Housewife (1934) - Sam Blake The Dragon Murder Case (1934) - Stamm Big Hearted Herbert (1934) - Jim I Sell Anything (1934) - McPherson The St. Louis Kid (1934) - Farmer Benson The Firebird (1934) - Halasz - the Apartment House Manager I Am a Thief (1934) - Baron Von Kampf Bordertown (1935) - Padre Devil Dogs of the Air (1935) - Commandant While the Patient Slept (1935) - Adolphe The Florentine Dagger (1935) - The Captain Village Tale (1935) - Drury Stevenson Stranded (1935) - Stanislaus Janauschek The Murder Man (1935) - Hal Robins - Newspaper Editor Special Agent (1935) - Chief of Internal Revenue Service Dressed to Thrill (1935) - Gaston Dupont Dr. Socrates (1935) - Dr. Ginder Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) - Buck Cantrell Captain Blood (1935) - Wolverstone Exclusive Story (1936) - Werther The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) - Buck Falin The Country Doctor (1936) - MacKenzie I Married a Doctor (1936) - Nels Valborg Sons o' Guns (1936) - Pierre Mary of Scotland (1936) - Norton The Last of the Mohicans (1936) - Chingachgook Trailin' West (1936) - Abraham Lincoln The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Count Igor Volonoff God's Country and the Woman (1937) - Jefferson Russett Black Legion (1937) - Brown (uncredited) The Barrier (1937) - John Gale Mountain Justice (1937) - Jeff Harkins Draegerman Courage (1937) - Martin Crane Souls at Sea (1937) - The Reverend (uncredited) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - Major Walsin-Esterhazy Confession (1937) - Prosecuting Attorney Love Is on the Air (1937) - J.D. Harrington The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) - 'Hank' Summers The Buccaneer (1938) - Captain Brown Penitentiary (1938) - Prison Yard Capt. Grady Forbidden Valley (1938) - Ramrod Locke Marie Antoinette (1938) - Citizen-Officer (uncredited) The Texans (1938) - Isaiah Middlebrack Breaking the Ice (1938) - William Decker Shadows Over Shanghai (1938) - Igor Sargoza Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938) - Captain Johnson Union Pacific (1939) - Duke Ring The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939) - Sheriff McNally Man of Conquest (1939) - David Crockett Heritage of the Desert (1939) - Andrew Naab Colorado Sunset (1939) - Dr. Rodney Blair Conspiracy (1939) - Tio / Edwards Bad Lands (1939) - Sheriff Bill Cummings Allegheny Uprising (1939) - Duncan The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) - Jim Harbison Laddie (1940) - Mr. John Stanton The Man from Dakota (1940) - Parson Summers Northwest Passage (1940) - Humphrey Towne Captain Caution (1940) - Capt. Dorman Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940) - Chester Russell Go West (1940) - 'Red' Baxter They Met in Argentina (1941) - Don Enrique de los Santos O'Shea Parachute Battalion (1941) - Col. Burke Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) - Judge Frank Dyer The Girl from Alaska (1942) - Frayne Fall In (1942) - Col. Elliott American Empire (1942) - Crowder A Stranger in Town (1943) - Mayor Connison They Came to Blow Up America (1943) - Capt. Kranz Bomber's Moon (1943) - Ernst Johnny Come Lately (1943) - Bill Swain The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) - Horace E. Bixby - Riverboat Captain Enemy of Women (1944) - Wallburg the Publisher The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - Willie's Father (scenes deleted) Grissly's Millions (1945) - Grissly Morgan Palmor The Great John L. (1945) - Billy Muldoon Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945) - Uncle Jim Collinshaw Dakota (1945) - Anson Stowe Road to Utopia (1945) - Sperry They Were Expendable (1945) - General MacArthur San Antonio (1945) - Col. Johnson Strangler of the Swamp (1946) - Christian Sanders Just Before Dawn (1946) - Clyde Travers Sunset Pass (1946) - Rand Curtis The Time of Their Lives (1946) - Maj. Putnam Dangerous Millions (1946) - Hendrick Van Boyden Magnificent Doll (1946) - Mr. Payne The Sea of Grass (1947) - Judge Seth White The Fabulous Texan (1947) - Dr. Sharp Road to Rio (1947) - Johnson I Love Trouble (1948) - Lt. Quint Relentless (1948) - Ed Simpson Joan of Arc (1948) - Jacques d'Arc Bad Men of Tombstone (1949) - Leadville Sheriff Song of India (1949) - Maharajah of Ramjat The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) - Steve Taylor Canadian Pacific (1949) - Cornelius Van Horne The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) - Marshal Heck Thomas Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) - James Lone Eagle Riders of the Range (1950) - Sheriff Cole The Baron of Arizona (1950) - Judge The Kid from Texas (1950) - General Lew Wallace American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) - Gen. Douglas MacArthur The Pride of Maryland (1951) - Colonel Harding Double Crossbones (1951) - Henry Morgan Darling, How Could You! (1951) - Mr. Rossiter Flight to Mars (1951) - Tillamar Distant Drums (1951) - Gen. Zachary Taylor Denver and Rio Grande (1952) - Charlie Haskins Son of Ali Baba (1952) - Commandant Cow Country (1953) - Walt Garnet Tall Man Riding (1955) - Tucker Ordway