The American actor Robert Blake, who played the character of Baretta, in a series from the 60s, died on March 9.
His real name was Michael James Vincenzo Gubitosi and he was born in Nutley, New Jersey; on September 18, 1933. Baretta was the character that brought him to fame: a detective who lived in a very small and messy apartment but was very skilled at solving cases.
Some years ago he was charged, tried, and acquitted in the trial for the murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley.
Bakley, 44, died after being shot while she was waiting for her husband in her car outside a Hollywood restaurant. The actor stated that after dinner he left the establishment with her wife, whom he left alone inside the car, in a parking lot, when he realized that the pistol he was carrying to protect her had been left in the car. restaurant.
The relationship between Blake and Bakley began in 1999 when they both met at a jazz club in Burbank, Los Angeles. Bakley became pregnant and the couple married in October 2000, after DNA tests proved that Blake was indeed the father of the baby.
In 1985 he starred in the television series Hell Town (1985), in which he played a priest (Noah "Hardstep" Rivers) who worked in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood. He appeared in Money Train Robbery (1995) and Lost Highway (1997), the latter directed by David Lynch.
