Robert Gerringer

Robert Gerringer

Acting
1926-05-12

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1The Exorcist

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Senator at Party

7.7 / 10
Horror

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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#2The Defenders

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as D.A. Louis Fontana

6.3 / 10
Drama

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

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#3Spenser: For Hire

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

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#4Espionage

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Director

10.0 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

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#5The Way We Were

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Dr. Short

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

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#6Texas

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
Soap

Texas is an American daytime soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982. It was sponsored and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions at NBC Studios in Brooklyn, New York City. Texas is a spinoff of Another World. It was co-created by head writers John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, and executive producer Paul Rauch of Another World. Rauch would hold the title of executive producer for the parent series and its spin-off until 1981.

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#7ABC Stage 67

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as George Blessing

6.8 / 10
DramaDocumentary

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.

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#8The Sentinel

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Hart

6.1 / 10
HorrorMysteryFantasy

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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#9Tanner '88

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Farmer Bob

6.9 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.

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#10The Edge of Night

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
CrimeMysterySoap

The Edge of Night was an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984. There were 7,420 episodes, with some 1,800 available for syndication.

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#11The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Commissioner McGrady

5.2 / 10
ComedyCrime

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

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#12A Lovely Way to Die

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Connor (uncredited)

4.8 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.

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#13Black Like Me

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Ed Saunders

6.2 / 10
Drama

Black Like Me is the true account of journalist and author John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.

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#14Hide in Plain Sight

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Judge Duval

5.7 / 10
Drama

True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.

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#15The Beat

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Dr. Morningstone

6.2 / 10
Drama

A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.

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#16The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as James

4.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control, and yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the alter. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her life. Adapted from the short story by acclaimed writer Katherine Anne Porter ("Ship of Fools"), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall reminds us of the plight of many women who wait for life to claim them, rather than seek life out for themselves.

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