Robert Blake

Wide-eyed little "Bobby Blake" began his acting career as an "Our Gang" kid and eventually matured into one of Hollywood's finest actors. Born Michael Gubitosi, the boy was two years old when he joined his family vaudeville act, "The Three Little Hillbillies." The act was doomed to failure, as were most of the pipe dreams of the Gubitosi family. Relocating from New Jersey to California, "Michael"'s mom found work for her kids as extras at the MGM studios. The young Gubitosi impressed the producers of the "Our Gang" series, and as a result the six-year-old was elevated to star status in the short subjects series. Little "Mickey Gubitosi" whined and whimpered his way through 40 "Our Gang" shorts, reaching an artistic low point with the execrable "All About Hash" (1940). During his five-year tenure with the series, the boy anglicized his professional name to "Bobby Blake". Freelancing after 1944,... Full Biography