ROBERT BLAKE - LASER MEDIA COVER SIGNED - HFSID 278674

ROBERT BLAKE
Laserdisc cover for the true crime classic In Cold Blood, signed by Blake
Laserdisc cover signed "Robert Blake" in gold ink. Color, 12¼x12¼, with Aron's Records price tag still affixed. Disc ©1984 Columbia Pictures Home Video, content ©1967 Pax Enterprises, Inc. Blake played drifter Perry Smith, a drifter who helped to murder a Kansas family during a 1959 robbery, in Richard Brooks' In Cold Blood (1967). This film was an adaptation of Truman Capote's true crime book of the same name. Blake, born Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi in 1933, was a child actor (as Mickey Gubitosi) in forty Our Gang comedies as well as the Red Ryder series. Portraying Tony Baretta, a New York City undercover policeman in the 1975-1978 Emmy Award winning ABC series Baretta, Blake won an Emmy Award in 1975 (he was also nominated for an Emmy for the role in 1977) and the 1976 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actor in a Drama. Blake was also nominated for an Emmy Award for the made-for-TV movie, Judgment Day: The John List Story (1973), and he received nominations for Golden Globes for Electra Glide in Blue (1973) and for the made-for-TV movie Blood Feud (1983). His notable films include Pork Chop Hill (1959), Town Without Pity (1961) and In Cold Blood (1967), and Blake also guest starred on a long list of TV shows. In April 2005, he was acquitted of charged that he had murdered, or arranged the murder of his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley in 2001. Lightly scuffed and creased. Light impressions and scratched on cover (not visible head-on). Light tear on left edge. Rounded corners. Otherwise in fine condition.