| Robert Guillaume |
Robert Guillaume in 1980 | | Birth name | Robert Peter Williams | | Born | November 30, 1927 (1927-11-30) (age 80)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | | Spouse(s) | Marlene Williams (?-1983)
Donna Brown Guillaume (1984-present) | | Awards | | Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
1985 Benson
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
1979 Soap | | Robert Guillaume (born November 30, 1927) is an acclaimed Tony Award-nominated and two-time Emmy Award-winning American stage and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying the character Benson DuBois on the ABC sitcom Soap and its spinoff Benson. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Biography
Early life Guillaume was born as Robert Peter Williams (Guillaume is the French form of William) in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at St. Louis University and Washington University and served in the United States Army before pursuing an acting career. He made his Broadway debut in Kwamina in 1961. Other stage appearances included Golden Boy, Tambourines to Glory, Guys and Dolls, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, the Los Angeles production of Phantom of the Opera (succeeding Michael Crawford in the lead role), and Purlie! Nickname: Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government - Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area - City 66. ...
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Tambourines to Glory is a 1956 black gospel musical play by Langston Hughes. ...
Guys and Dolls is a musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown, a short story by Damon Runyon. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel by French novelist Gaston Leroux. ...
Michael Crawford (right) as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do Ave Em Michael Crawford, OBE (born Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, 19 January 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire), is an English actor and singer. ...
Career Guillaume made several guest appearances on sitcoms such as Good Times and The Jeffersons before making his series-regular debut on the ABC series Soap, playing Benson DuBois as a butler on that series from 1977 to 1979 and then on a spinoff series, Benson, until 1986. He won Emmy Awards for both series, in 1979 and 1985. He also appeared as marriage counselor Edward Sawyer on The Robert Guillaume Show (1989), Detective Bob Ballard on Pacific Station (1991), and television executive Isaac Jaffe on Aaron Sorkin's short-lived but critically acclaimed Sports Night (1998-2000). Guillaume suffered a mild stroke on January 14, 1999, while filming an episode of the latter series. He recovered and his character was later also depicted as having had a stroke. He also made a guest appearance on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter This article is about the television series. ...
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The Robert Guillaume Show was a sitcom vehicle for Robert Guillaume, the former star of the ABC hit series Benson and of the popular Soap. ...
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Guillaume has also appeared in a number of films, including Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Kid with the Broken Halo (co-starring Gary Coleman), Lean on Me (1989), First Kid (1996), and Big Fish (2003). His distinctive voice has also been used for characters in television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Fish Police, and Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child and for the voice of Rafiki in the movie The Lion King and its sequels and spin-offs. He also supplied the voice for Eli Vance in the 2004 video game Half-Life 2 and its subsequent sequels. promotional poster for Seems Like Old Times Seems Like Old Times is a 1980 comedy film starring Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn and directed by Jay Sandrich. ...
Lean on Me is a 1989 biographical-drama film written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. ...
First Kid is a motion picture from Walt Disney Pictures that was released on August 30, 1996. ...
Big Fish is a 2003 fantasy drama film, directed by Tim Burton and written by John August. ...
Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program, based on an idea by Ted Turner and produced by Andy Heyward, Robby London, Barbara Pyle and Nicholas Boxer. ...
Fish Police is the name of a comic book series by cartoonist Steven Moncuse, and its six episode cartoon adaptation, both works centering around law and crime in a fictional underwater metropolis with the protagonist, Inspector Gill, trying to solve various, often mafia-related crimes and avoid seduction by the...
Rafiki is an anthropomorphized mandrill who first appeared in the Walt Disney Pictures animated film The Lion King. ...
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Doctor Eli Vance is a fictional character from the computer games Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004) by Valve Software. ...
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Half-Life 2 (commonly abbreviated to HL2) is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game that is the sequel to Half-Life. ...
In the '80s Guillaume was a commercial pitchman for Ocean Spray, promoting its line of grapefruit juice. He also was the spokesman for "Milk of Magnesia". There is also an article about the agricultural cooperative Ocean Spray. ...
Guillaume is known as an accomplished singer and several episodes of Benson provided Guillaume a storyline to vocally perform.
Guillaume stirred some controversy when he replaced Michael Crawford as The Phantom in the National tour of Phantom of the Opera, some tickets being returned before the actor even made his show debut. He is further known to have the distinction as the first, and to date only, African American to assume the role of the Phantom. Michael Crawford (right) as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do Ave Em Michael Crawford, OBE (born Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, 19 January 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire), is an English actor and singer. ...
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel by French novelist Gaston Leroux. ...
Guillaume has his own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The St. ...
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