Robert Blake, the actor who became a Hollywood pariah after he was charged with—and eventually acquitted of—the murder of his second wife, has died. He was 89.
Lynch cast Blake as the Mystery Man, who makes an unnerving entrance in a party scene—tellingFred Madison that the two of them have not only met before at Fred’s house, but “as a matter of fact, I’m there right now.” David Foster Wallace, writing in, called his performance “riveting and creepy.” The character, he conjectured, was clearly meant to be “the devil, or at least somebody's very troubling idea of the devil, a kind of pure floating spirit of malevolence.
Success did not come easy for Blake, nor did fame when he finally achieved it more than two decades into his career. Blake was born Michael Gubotosi on Sept. 18, 1933 in Nutley, New Jersey. His parents had a song and dance act, and Blake performed with his two siblings as “The Three Little Hillbillies.”
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