Robert Emhardt

Robert Christian Emhardt (July 24, 1914 – December 26, 1994) was an American character actor who worked on stage, in film, and on television. Emhardt was frequently cast as a villain, often a crooked businessman or corrupt politician.

Early years Emhardt was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He began his Broadway career in the 1930s as an understudy for the equally heavyset Sydney Greenstreet. Emhardt made his stage debut in The Pirate (1942). One of the founding members of the Actors Studio, Emhardt was a member of the cast of the original 1952 Broadway stage production of The Seven Year Itch. He won the Critics Circle Award for best supporting actor for his performance in Life with Mother in the 1948–1949 season. with whom he had appeared on Broadway in both Harriet and The Pirate. After the dissolution of the marriage, he married actress Silvia Sideli in 1954. They had a son named Christopher and a daughter named Mia.

Emhardt died of heart problems at his home in Ojai, California, on December 26, 1994, at the age of 80.

Filmography

Marco Millions (1939 TV movie) The Dagmar Story (1951 TV movie) – Pa Lewis The Iron Mistress (1952) – General Cuny The Big Knife (1955) (uncredited) 3:10 to Yuma (1957) – Mr. Butterfield, Stage Line Owner The Badlanders (1958) – Sample Wake Me When It's Over (1960) – Joab Martinson Underworld U.S.A. (1961) – Earl Connors The Intruder (1962) – Verne Shipman Kid Galahad (1962) – Maynard The Magnificent Yankee (1965 TV movie) – Henry Adams Diamond Jim: Skulduggery in Samantha (1965 TV movie) – Schindler The Group (1966) – Mr. Andrews Hostile Guns (1967) – R. C. Crawford Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) – Otis J. Hendershot Sr. Rascal (1969) – Constable Change of Habit (1969) – The Banker Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970) – Lester Calhoun The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970 TV movie) – Cy Brown Lawman (1971) – Hersham Lock, Stock and Barrel (1971 TV movie) – Sam Hartwig Scorpio (1973) – Man in hotel The Stone Killer (1973) – Fussy Man Night Games (1974 TV movie) – Judge Ambrose Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (1974 TV movie) It's Alive (1974) – The Executive The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974 TV movie) – Dr. Willards Demon, Demon (1975 TV movie) Alex & the Gypsy (1976) – Judge Ehrlinger The Chopped Liver Brothers (1977 TV movie) – Duffy Fraternity Row (1977) – Brother Bob Abernathy It Happened One Christmas (1977 TV movie) – Judge The Seniors (1978) – The Bishop Die Sister, Die! (1978) – James Lendon Price Pleasure Cove (1979 TV movie) – Fat Man at Bar Institute for Revenge (1979 TV movie) – Senator Aunt Mary (1979 TV movie) – Berwick Forced Vengeance (1982) – Carl Gerlich

Partial television credits Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1959) season 1 episode "Don't Come Back Alive" (1955) - Mr. Kettle season 2 episode "De Mortuis" (1956) - Professor Rankin season 2 episode "Crackpot" (1957) - Mr. Moon season 2 episode "Martha Mason, Movie Star" (1957) - Henry G. McKay season 3 episode "The Right Kind of House" (1958) - Mr. Waterbury season 5 episode "Road Hog" (1959) - Ed Fratus Kraft Television Theatre (two-part teleplay "All the King's Men") (1958) Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (episode "Make Me Not a Witch") (1959) – Priest Perry Mason (episode "Case of the Ominous Outcast") (1960) – J.J. Flaherty The Twilight Zone (episode "Static") (1961) – Professor Ackerman The Barbara Stanwyck Show (episode "The Golden Acres") (1961) – Ben The Andy Griffith Show (1963) (season 3 episode "Man in a Hurry") - Malcolm Tucker Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (episode:"A Killing at Sundial") (1963) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (season 3 episode "Return of Verge Likens") (1964) - Riley McGrath Perry Mason (1965) season 9, episode 6 "The Case of the Carefree Coronary" - Arthur Wendell The Wild Wild West (episode "The Night of the Tottering Tontine") (1967) - Martin Grevely & (episode "The Night of the Two-legged Buffalo") (S1 E23) - Claude Duchamps Mannix (1967) S1 E7 "Warning: Live Blueberries" as Ralph Warden, the crooked owner of a hippie nightclub which features Buffalo Springfield performing "For What it's Worth". Adam-12 (episode "Anniversary") (1971) - George Moore Another World (1973-1974) - Mac Cory The Rookies (1975) Season 4, Episode 4 " Someone who cares"