Actor Robert Blake, a child star from the ‘Our Gang’ comedies who won adult fame as a street-wise undercover cop on the popular 1970s television series ‘Baretta’ before being charged in the 2001 killing of his wife, has died at age 89
He started appearing as Mickey in the "Our Gang" short film series, also known as "The Little Rascals," in 1939.
Blake was only 8 years old when he started appearing as Mickey in the latter years of the "Our Gang" shorts, going on to play the character of Little Beaver, a Native American boy, in the "Red Ryder" Western series. His "Baretta" character was rough around the edges and often wore disguises to solve crimes. He kept a pet cockatoo named Fred and was known for such catch phrases as: "And you can take that to the bank," and "That's the name of that tune." The show's theme song centered on the line "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Blake's acting work was overshadowed four years later by the Bakley murder, which remains unsolved. Bakley had been married nine times when she met Blake in 1999 and had supported herself by maintaining multiple identities and using magazine ads to persuade men to send her money, authorities said. Investigators determined Blake's gun did not kill Bakley and the real murder weapon was found in a dumpster nearby.Blake was arrested and charged with murder almost a year later and spent several months in jail before being granted bail. When he went on trial in 2005 prosecutors had no witnesses or solid evidence linking him to the killing and built their case on the premise that Blake wanted Bakley dead because he felt she had tricked him into marriage by getting pregnant.
"I didn't know her well enough to know her," he told CNN in 2012. "I love her ... but we were not dramatically in love or things like that.
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