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Pernell Roberts

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Pernell Roberts Biography

  • Birth Name: Pernell Elvin Roberts
  • Birth Place: Waycross, GA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/18/1928, Taurus
  • Date of Death: 01/24/2010
  • Profession: Actor
Pernell Roberts Fast Facts:
  • First acted as a teen in school and church plays.
  • Enlisted in the Marines in 1946 and played in the Marine Corps Band.
  • Won a Best Actor Drama Desk award in 1955 as the lead in an Off-Broadway production of Macbeth.
  • Rose to fame as eldest son Adam Cartwright on the long-running hit TV western Bonanza. Was unhappy with his character development and left the show after the sixth season.
  • Attended the historic march in Selma, AL with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 to support the voting rights movement.
  • Returned to episodic TV in 1979 playing the title character and the chief of surgery in Trapper John, M.D., taking over the role vacated by Wayne Rogers on the TV show M*A*S*H. 
  • Host and narrator of FBI: The Untold Stories.
  • Died after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
    Pernell Roberts Relationships:
  • Betty Roberts - Mother
  • Eleanor Criswell - Wife
  • Jonathan Christopher Roberts - Son
  • Judith Anna LeBreque - Ex-wife
  • Kara Knack - Ex-wife
  • P.E. Roberts - Father
  • Vera Mowry - Ex-wife

  • Pernell Roberts Awards:
  • 1981 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee

  • College:
  • Attended Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; attended University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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