He studied violin for seven years under the tutelage of Jascha Heifetz's father, but eventually developed more interest in theater.After serving in World War II, he made his stage debut in "The Rugged Path," starring Spencer Tracy, and appeared in other plays and a soap opera before being called to Hollywood.

Was this review helpful? "Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born in New York City on Nov. 30, 1918.His mother, reasoning that living amid the musical elite was not the best upbringing for a boy, sent him to boarding schools where he could be toughened by others his age.

Was this review helpful? Taking its title from a Shakespearean quotation, this "Twilight Zone" episode, written by series creator Rod Serling, is one of the darker ones I have seen.
Check out our breakdown of the movies and shows we're excited about this month, including "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? This Twilight Zone episode concerns the Phillipine campaign of 1945 and the 3 out of 5 found this helpful. Fitzgerald discovers much to his dismay that he has the uncanny psychic ability to accurately predict which soldier will die next in combat. 0 out of 1 found this helpful. "We could not have asked for a better character, or a better man, to play his role," FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said at the time.The son of violin virtuoso Efrem Zimbalist and acclaimed opera singer Alma Gluck, young Efrem initially appeared headed for a musical career himself. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Actor: Wait Until Dark. "The Purple Testament" is definitely one of the bleakest and most depressing Twilight Zone episodes I've seen thus far, but this shouldn't come too much as a surprise since the story is set in the heat and humidity of The Philippines in 1945, near the end of a long and harrowing WWII, amidst a platoon where all the soldiers are seemingly exhausted and already traumatized beyond repair for the rest of their lives. If I had seen this episode before, I don't remember it.

His only outlet was acting in campus plays.

Zimbalist, the son of famous musicians who gained television stardom in the 1950s-60s hit "77 Sunset Strip" and later "The FBI," died Friday at his ranch in Solvang, Calif., at age 95. "When the show of the same name ended in 1964, Zimbalist became an even bigger star playing the empathetic, methodical G-man Lewis Erskine in "The F.B.I.
Er trat danach häufig in Filmen und in Serien in Erscheinung, darunter in den Kinofilmen Weint um die Verdammten (1957) mit Clark Gable, Wa… experiences of one lieutenant. "He never came on the set, but I knew him. The acting is very good. It was only after the four were the only ones killed in the fighting with the Japs that he started to feel that he saw in advance that they were going to die! "In the 1990s, Zimbalist returned to television, recording the voice of Alfred the butler in the cartoon version of the "Batman" TV series. This inability to change the future despite his many efforts makes him depressed and sullen. The title is taken from Shakespeare's 'Richard III' that Serling quotes from at the end. officer and language expert whose partner was an Ivy League Ph.D.The program brought Zimbalist an Emmy nomination in 1959, but after a few seasons he tired of the long hours and what he believed were the bad scripts. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (November 30, 1918 – May 2, 2014) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, and voice actor. Nach dem Tod seiner ersten Frau Emily im Jahr 1950, mit der er die Kinder Efrem Zimbalist III und Nancy Zimbalist hat, und einer darauf folgenden Auszeit als Schauspieler kehrte er Mitte der 1950er Jahre zur Schauspielerei zurück und erlangte als Stu Bailey in der Fernsehserie 77 Sunset Strip (19581964) und als Lewis Erskine in der Serie FBI (19651974) große Bekanntheit.

As the stuff of science fiction, this approaches the realm of possibility so naturally that it becomes the stuff of horror. 10 out of 15 found this helpful. The great Warren Oates has a small part as a jeep driver who considers himself quite a careful man behind the wheel, with the likes of film director Paul Mazursky (Down and Out in Beverly Hills; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) and television actor Rob Masak (Murder She Wrote) also turning up in little roles. …