Robert Ginty (born August 14, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American movie actor and director. August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
He first became known for his steady role in the TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Baa, Baa Black Sheep is a nursery rhyme set to a variant of the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star tune [1]. Baa Baa, Black Sheep is the title of a short story by Rudyard Kipling. ...
In the 1980s, Ginty was the star of several B-movie actioners, such as The Exterminator and its sequel. The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... The Exterminator is a 1980 action movie directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Robert Ginty as the leading role. ...
He later focused less on his acting career and more on his activity as a director, mostly for television, for such series as Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena. ...
Ginty was a guest lecturer at the Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Superieure, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts.
Ginty was the in-house producer/director of Introvision Studios, where such films as The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford, Fearless directed by Peter Weir, and Steven Segal's Under Siege, as well as Rambo II, Stand By Me, Darkman, Karate Kid II and Army of Darkness had their special effects done.
Ginty is a founding member of the Director's Guild of Ireland as well as being a member of Screen Producers Ireland, the Director's Guild of Great Britain, the Director's Guild of America and the Director's Guild of Canada.
Ginty worked in the regional theater circuit, and moved to Broadway after Harold Prince hired him as his assistant after seeing him perform Shakespeare in New Hampshire.
Eventually Hollywood beckoned and Ginty transplanted himself to the western shore where he found frequent work as a strong-armed player on TV action, appearing in different series in the mid-1970s.
Soon Ginty was on a roll, emulating Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone as a high-action anti-hero.Four years later,he would reprise the action lead in the sequel Exterminator 2.
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