Robert Colbert
Biography
Robert Colbert is an American retired actor who began performing while serving as a soldier on Okinawa, where a woman with Air Force Special Services heard him speak and brought him into a production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He gained experience with the Portland Repertory Theater, then appeared in minor films including Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) with the Three Stooges. After signing with Warner Bros., he was cast in A Fever in the Blood (1961) and made many guest appearances on Warner Bros. television series. He is best known for playing Dr. Doug Phillips in thirty episodes of the ABC science fiction series The Time Tunnel from 1966 to 1967 and for two appearances as Brent Maverick in the ABC/Warner Bros. western Maverick. He also played Stuart Brooks on The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 1983 and appeared in Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).
95years old
Turns 96 on July 26in 257 days
- Born Long Beach
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 34 years1958 to 1992
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Big break
Colbert's agent set up a meeting with Irwin Allen. In 1966 and 1967, Colbert played Doug Phillips in thirty episodes of The Time Tunnel, an ABC science fiction series about two time travelers.
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