It's hardly surprising that the son of renowned Russian-born concert violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (1889-1985) and Romanian-born opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1938) would desire a performing career of some kind. Born in New York City on November 30, 1918, surrounded by people of wealth and privilege throughout his childhood, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ...
Full Name | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. |
Net Worth | $600,000 |
Date Of Birth | November 30, 1918 |
Died | May 2, 2014, Solvang, California, United States |
Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Height | 6' (1.83 m) |
Profession | Actor |
Education | Fay School, Yale University |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Loranda Stephanie Spaulding, Emily Munroe McNair |
Children | Stephanie Zimbalist, Nancy Zimbalist, Efrem Zimbalist III |
Parents | Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck |
Siblings | Marcia Davenport |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0956544 |
Awards | Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor |
Nominations | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star - Male, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Dramatic or Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance By A Supporting Actor In A Com... |
Movies | Wait Until Dark, House of Strangers, Hot Shots!, The Chapman Report, Band of Angels, Home Before Dark, By Love Possessed, The Crowded Sky, Airport 1975, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Bombers B-52, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, A Fever in the Blood, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, Terror Out Of The ... |
TV Shows | Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The F.B.I., Challenge of the Super Friends, Zorro, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Scruples, Concerning Miss Marlowe |
Star Sign | Sagittarius |
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1 | Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again -- for the same reason. This time I quit. |
2 | As for the year 2000 being the time for Armageddon, Jesus himself said: "Even the son doesn't know. Only the father knows." So if Jesus didn't know, you can be sure I've got no idea. |
3 | I happen to believe that the liberating movements of our time are devised and thought up, not for the people they are supposed to champion, but to splinter society. In the case of women's liberation, if the state gets the women out of the house working, they can get to the children and bring them up. I thing that has been the game plan all along. |
4 | I don't even know the people who are making movies today. I stopped going to the movies over 20 years ago. The movies I used to be fanatic about they stopped making. They started making another kind of movie, and it's not my kind of world. |
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1 | His daughter Nancy Zimbalist died in 2012. |
2 | In 2009, FBI Director Robert Mueller presented an honorary Special Agent badge to Zimbalist. |
3 | Close friends with then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, Zimbalist ended many Quinn Martin productions on Sunday nights with a description of a fugitive wanted by FBI agents, exhorting viewers to be on the lookout. One of the more prominent names from this segment was James Earl Ray, assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
4 | Zimbalist died on May 2, 2014 from natural causes at the age of 95, outliving his father's age of 94 by one year. His daughter Stephanie announced the news saying he was 95 years old, a devout Christian. He actively enjoyed his life to the last day, showering love on his extended family, playing golf and visiting with close friends. |
5 | He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7095 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994. |
6 | Occasionally, he does voice-overs, reading Biblical verses, for the Trinity Broadcasting Network, as a commercial-break starts or concludes. [February 2007] |
7 | Came out of retirement to act with daughter Stephanie Zimbalist in a stage production of "Night of the Iguana" in Ventura, California. [October 2004] |
8 | Is a staunch conservative Republican. |
9 | Has played the same character (Alfred Pennyworth) on five different series: Batman: The Animated Series (1992), Superman (1996), The New Batman Adventures (1997), Static Shock (2000) and Justice League (2001). |
10 | Younger stepbrother of Marcia Davenport. |
11 | Children from his marriage to Emily McNair: Nancy Zimbalist and Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III. |
12 | His father was Russian-born and his mother was Romanian-born; both were from Jewish families. Zimbalist was an early practitioner and proponent of Transcendental Meditation, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, prior to his conversion to Christianity. |
13 | In 1935, after accompanying his father on a concert tour of the Soviet Union, he was enrolled by his parents to a boarding school in Kiev, while they visited western Europe. Expected to learn piano in a class of wonderkinds, he was rather handicapped, for the classes were taught in Ukrainian - a language he did not know. He eventually ran off to Moscow, where his elder sister had been lodged with a family. After spending a bad winter in Moscow, (they only had their summer clothing, at the time). He and his sister hid the last of their money in the bottom of a cold-cream jar to prevent confiscation by Russian border officials, and they escaped from Moscow, by train to Paris. |
14 | He was severely wounded during his World War II service, at Huertgen Forest. |
15 | Son of violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr. and opera singer Alma Gluck. |
16 | Father of Stephanie Zimbalist. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Sugarfoot | 1958 | TV Series | Kerrigan the Great |
Girl on the Run | 1958 | | Stuart Bailey |
Violent Road | 1958 | | George Lawrence |
Too Much, Too Soon | 1958 | | Vincent Bryant |
The Deep Six | 1958 | | Lt. Blanchard |
Bombers B-52 | 1957 | | Col. Jim Herlihy |
Band of Angels | 1957 | | Lt. Ethan Sears |
Conflict | 1957 | TV Series | Stuart Bailey |
The Phil Silvers Show | 1957 | TV Series | Musician |
The United States Steel Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Sean O'Neill |
Goodyear Playhouse | 1956 | TV Series | |
Star Tonight | 1956 | TV Series | |
Concerning Miss Marlowe | 1954 | TV Series | Jim Gavin (1954-1955) |
House of Strangers | 1949 | | Tony Monetti |
Mr. and Mrs. North | 1946 | TV Movie | |
The Delivery | 2008/I | Short | Dr. Engel |
Justice League | 2003-2004 | TV Series | Alfred Pennyworth |
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman | 2003 | Video | Alfred (voice) |
Static Shock | 2003 | TV Series | Alfred Pennyworth |
The First Day | 2001 | TV Movie | Benjamin Hart |
Batman: Vengeance | 2001 | Video Game | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
Spider-Man | 2000 | Video Game | Doctor Octopus (voice) |
Superman | 1997-1999 | TV Series | Alfred |
Cab to Canada | 1998 | TV Movie | Vice Chancellor |
The New Batman Adventures | 1997-1998 | TV Series | Alfred Pennyworth / Business Man / Man #2 / ... |
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | 1998 | Video | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
The Visitor | 1997 | TV Series | Wayland Scott |
Spider-Man | 1995-1997 | TV Series | Dr. Octopus Dr. Otto Octavius Butler |
The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest | 1997 | TV Movie | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
Babylon 5 | 1997 | TV Series | William Edgars |
Mighty Ducks | 1996 | TV Series | Dr. Denton P. Hookerman |
Picket Fences | 1996 | TV Series | Hal Klosterman / Lester Blodgett |
Iron Man | 1995 | TV Series | Justin Hammer Firepower |
Gargoyles | 1995 | TV Series | Mace Malone |
One West Waikiki | 1995 | TV Series | Walter Mansfield |
Biker Mice from Mars | 1995 | TV Series | King Arthur |
Batman: The Animated Series | 1992-1995 | TV Series | Alfred Pennyworth Piedmont Police Chief Frankie ... |
The Street Corner Kids: The Sequel | 1995 | | Makenzie |
Turbocharged Thunderbirds | 1994-1995 | TV Series | Jeff Tracy / The Hood / Cyric Mazard / ... |
The Nanny | 1994 | TV Series | Theodore Timmons |
Heaven Help Us | 1994 | TV Series | Martin Kitteridge |
Burke's Law | 1994 | TV Series | Sam Gallagher |
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 1993 | | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers | 1993 | Video Game | Wolfgang (voice) |
The Legend of Prince Valiant | 1991-1993 | TV Series | King Arthur |
Trade Winds | 1993 | TV Mini-Series | Christof Philips |
Murder, She Wrote | 1988-1992 | TV Series | Adam Quatrain / Richard Thompson Grant / Gen. Marcus Havermeyer |
Hot Shots! | 1991 | | Wilson |
Zorro | 1990 | TV Series | Don Alejandro de la Vega |
Who's the Boss? | 1990 | TV Series | Robert Robinson |
Streets | 1989 | TV Series | |
Hunter | 1988 | TV Series | Clarence Hyland |
Hotel | 1984-1988 | TV Series | Charles Cabot / Alexander Heath |
American Playhouse | 1987 | TV Series | Col. Francis Chesney |
Remington Steele | 1983-1987 | TV Series | Daniel Chalmers |
Finder of Lost Loves | 1985 | TV Series | Judge Alex Hale |
Cover Up | 1984 | TV Series | E.G. Dawson |
Partners in Crime | 1984 | TV Series | Grant Latham |
Hardcastle and McCormick | 1984 | TV Series | Emmett Parnell |
The Love Boat | 1984 | TV Series | Senator Dan Whitman |
The Tempest | 1983 | Video | Prospero |
Fantasy Island | 1983 | TV Series | Marshall Baldwin |
Insight | 1963-1983 | TV Series | Booth / God (T. Lord) / Fleming / ... |
Shooting Stars | 1983 | TV Movie | Robert Cluso |
Baby Sister | 1983 | TV Movie | Tom Burroughs |
Charley's Aunt | 1983 | TV Movie | Colonel Francis Chesney |
The Avenging | 1982 | | Jacob Anderson |
Family in Blue | 1982 | TV Movie | Marty Malone |
Beyond Witch Mountain | 1982 | TV Movie | Bolt |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1982 | TV Series | Aristotle |
Scruples | 1980 | TV Mini-Series | Ellis Ikehorn |
The Gathering, Part II | 1979 | TV Movie | Victor Wainwright |
The Best Place to Be | 1979 | TV Movie | Bill Reardan |
Terror Out of the Sky | 1978 | TV Movie | David Martin |
A Family Upside Down | 1978 | TV Movie | Mike Long |
Who Is the Black Dahlia? | 1975 | TV Movie | Sgt. Harry Hansen |
Airport 1975 | 1974 | | Captain Stacy |
The F.B.I. | 1965-1974 | TV Series | Inspector Lewis Erskine |
Wait Until Dark | 1967 | | Sam Hendrix |
The Reward | 1965 | | Frank Bryant |
Harlow | 1965/II | | William Mansfield |
Rawhide | 1965 | TV Series | Jeff McKeever |
The Reporter | 1964 | TV Series | Charles Durwood |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Stranger |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | John Ferris |
77 Sunset Strip | 1958-1964 | TV Series | Stuart Bailey Stu Bailey Sandy the Executioner |
The Chapman Report | 1962 | | Paul Radford |
Hawaiian Eye | 1959-1962 | TV Series | Stuart Bailey |
Bronco | 1961 | TV Series | Edwin Booth |
By Love Possessed | 1961 | | Arthur Winner |
A Fever in the Blood | 1961 | | Judge Leland Hoffman |
The Crowded Sky | 1960 | | Dale Heath |
The Alaskans | 1960 | TV Series | John Conrad |
Maverick | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Dandy Jim Buckley |
Home Before Dark | 1958 | | Jacob 'Jake' Diamond |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
TV Land Moguls | 2004-2009 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
The Brothers Warner | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Actor |
Batman: Behind the Mystery | 2003 | Video short | Himself |
Praise the Lord | 1981-2003 | TV Series | Himself |
Hollywood Behind the Badge: A Century of Cops and Detectives | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
Vicki! | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul | 1993 | Documentary | Himself / Narrator (voice) |
A Year to Remember | 1991 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host (1999) |
The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Himself |
Hot Shots: The Making of an Important Movie | 1991 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The 2nd Annual American Comedy Awards | 1988 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special |
You Are the Jury | 1984-1986 | TV Series | Himself - Host / Narrator |
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
50th Presidential Inaugural Gala | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1984 | TV Movie | Himself |
The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series |
Xpose | 1982 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
The Anita Bryant Spectacular | 1980 | TV Special | Himself - Dancer |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1964-1979 | TV Series | Himself - Actor / Himself |
The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special |
ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
The 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1977 | TV Special | Himself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1972-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
Dinah! | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
Zenith Presents: A Salute to Television's 25th Anniversary | 1972 | TV Special | Himself |
Your FBI | 1972 | Documentary short | Narrator |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
Season in Tyrol | 1969 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
Password All-Stars | 1965 | TV Series | Himself |
The 15th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1963 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
Person to Person | 1961 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
What About Linda? | 1961 | TV Special | Himself |
The 11th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Himself - Nominated: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series |
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