Robert Barrat
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.[2] Early in his career, Barrat traveled around the United States,[2] sometimes acting with stock theater companies and sometimes performing in vaudeville on the Keith and Orpheum circuits.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,[4] in They Were Expendable and American Guerrilla in the Philippines.
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