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- Robert came from a large Catholic family, raised in Los Angeles, and lived at Sycamore Farms, Malibu CA in about 1970, which he leased with his brother Peter Porter. This was an old horse stable that had been a Malibu landmark for decades, still located on Cross Creek Road today just off the Malibu Lagoon and the central shopping area.
The brothers built the large two-story horse barn using materials "borrowed" from the county building site a block away, and at the time the trainer was Capt. Pat Conar, an Irishman that had served in the British Cavalry and coached Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. The stable clientèle was a mix of socialites like Gigi Gaston (Getty), actors & models along with regular locals like director Sam Peckinpah's daughter Melissa Peckinpah.
The brothers lived in the small house on the property and much of the layout is still the same, except the stable was later expanded in front of the large barn and in the back. Robert's girlfriend at the time was a beautiful Hippy local Erin Murphy whose grandfather was director Dudley Murphy, founder of the famous Holiday House hotel & restaurant located a few miles up the coast. Their relationship was a tumultuous, passionate affair out of an Italian movie.
This was the period after he had a few roles in major movies and was beginning to do the Indy type work that most know him for. Robert was so charismatic there was a constant stream of female stable boarders looking for any excuse to hang out. These were also the times of the anti-war protests and anti-establishment Yippies and the brothers lived the part, dressing like European aristocratic vagabonds.
Robert had been heavily influenced by the Actors Studio, Method Acting and actors like Brando and James Dean, that had set the bar in the previous decade. His throwback style was out of place in the new industry which had taken on television level mass production values and cookie cutter acting styles. His friendship and association with talents like Zalman King, who later gained notoriety for cult films like Wild Orchid (1989) encouraged him to step off into the independent type roles that would let him stretch his acting chops.
This was the period when he did The Jesus Trip (1971) and in the first wave of the counterculture following films such as Easy Rider (1969) there was a buzz at the time that this might be his big break in a lead role. Distribution & PR was lacking though and his last major film was Klansman (1974) with a large cast of A & B list actors starting with Lee Marvin & Richard Burton and descending down to other names like O.J. Simpson, Lola Falana and Linda Evans.
His last work of note, Trip WIth the Teacher (1975), a low budget movie inspired by European New Wave films such as Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970), saw him in a supporting role to his friend Zalman King, who played the lead bad guy while Robert was the conflicted younger brother exasperated by his sibling's evil doings. This work would presage later violent Grindhouse movies such as Tarantino's, also influenced by major fare like Peckinpah shooters.
The Porter brothers dropped out of the horse business and got into agriculture, first with a foolhardy pot grow near the Malibu/Ventura county line off Yerba Buena Road below Mt. Boney Peak, and later a stint doing some back to the land farming on the McGrath Family Farms in Oxnard which led to brother Peter going into the pickling business selling hot peppers through their company Hosan Produce.
Robert was working as a stonemason in Sacramento CA in 2007 and talking about returning to acting as a teacher. - Actor
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Joe Lala was born on 3 November 1947 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), Seinfeld (1989) and Out for Justice (1991). He was married to Ginny McSwain. He died on 18 March 2014 in Tampa, Florida, USA.- Dusan Pocek was born on 29 May 1932 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Porodicno blago (1998), Atomic War Bride (1960) and Rosenbergovi ne smeju da umru (1972). He died on 18 March 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Jorge Arvizu was born on 23 July 1932 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for El asesino del metro (1991), Zapata (1970) and Cuestión de honor (1993). He died on 18 March 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Producer
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Karl Baumgartner was born in 1949 in Brunico, Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He was a producer and executive, known for Underground (1995), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) and Tulpan (2008). He died on 18 March 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.- Jackie Salling was born on 24 October 1926 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wages of Sin (1938) and Ye Olde Minstrels (1941). He died on 18 March 2014 in Santa Maria, California, USA.
- Ottavio Garaventa was born on 26 January 1934 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Il Mefistofele (1989) and Nabucco (1991). He was married to Angela Laura. He died on 18 March 2014 in Savignone, Liguria, Italy.
- Bohumil Slezácek was born on 31 May 1928 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Andel blazené smrti (1966), Legenda o zivých mrtvých (1971) and Cops and Robbers (1997). He died on 18 March 2014 in Brno, Czech Republic.
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Wanda Rollny was born on 13 July 1929 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. Wanda was a director and editor, known for Chopin w kraju (1961) and Kazimierz - miasto polskiego renesansu (1954). Wanda died on 18 March 2014 in Poland.