Robert Viharo
{{short description|American actor (born 1942)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|8|14}}
| birth_place = U.S.
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| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1960's - 2000's
| spouse = Anne Helm 1972 - 1980, Jeane Manson 1981 - ?
| children = Will Viharo, Serena Viharo
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Robert Viharo (born August 14, 1942) is an American actor. He made an early appearance in 1966 as Harry in Dark Shadows. He is known for his role in Valley of the Dolls (1967) in the part of a Broadway director. He had the starring role as Zachary Kane in the action film Bare Knuckles (1977). He also played the part of Col. Ernesto Dorio in the film Romero (1989).
Television
From 1966 to 1991, he appeared in numerous television shows. In Dark Shadows in 1966, he played the part of Harry. In the same year, he was in The Fugitive.All Movie [http://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-viharo-p73525 Robert Viharo] In the Gunsmoke episode "The Sodbusters" (1972), he played the part of the gunslinger Dick Shaw. In The High Chaparral episode "Alliance" (1969), he played the part of Johhny Ringo. In Starsky & Hutch he played 2 roles un both episodes: Vern Dubois in S1E20 Running and John Gallagher/Jack Cunningham in S3E10 The collector.
The 1980s saw him in such shows as Hardcastle and McCormick in the "Black Widow" episode,{{cite web |title=Hardcastle and McCormick |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/hardcastle-and-mccormick/episodes-season-1/1030005838/ |website=TVGuide.com |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} TJ Hooker playing the part of John Simone in the "Funny Money" episode, Hill Street Blues in the "Last Chance Salon" episode, and starring as Jake Calbar in 'The Deadly Collection' episode of The New Mike Hammer. He also appeared in CHiPs.
In the early 1990s, he played Caesar in Palace Guard.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Film
In the 1960s, he appeared in Valley of the Dolls (1967), Villa Rides (1968),{{cite book |last1=Freese |first1=Gene |title=The Western Films of Robert Mitchum: Hollywood's Cowboy Rebel |date=2019-11-22 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-3746-4 |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nEK9DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Robert+Viharo%22&pg=PA142 |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} and Stuntman (1968). Viharo starred alongside Sherry Jackson as Zachary Kane in Bare Knuckles (1977), a film about a bounty hunter.Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969 [https://books.google.com/books?id=eBvMFuHle2kC&dq=Robert+Viharo+Bare+Knuckles&pg=RA1-PT158 *Don Edmonds*]{{cite news |title=Robert Viharo Filmography |url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/73525/Robert-Viharo/filmography |access-date=24 May 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=2021-05-21}}
His other films included Return to Macon County (1975), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), The Evil (1978), Hide in Plain Sight (1980),{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Danny |title=Don't Miss "Hide in Plain Sight" at the Queens Alt-Programming Coup the Caan Film Festival |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/18/dont-miss-hide-in-plain-sight-at-the-queens-alt-programming-coup-the-caan-film-festival/ |access-date=24 May 2021 |work=The Village Voice |date=2018-05-18}} Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980), and The Night Stalker (1987). One of his later roles was in Presque Isle (2007).
Personal life
Viharo was married to actress Jennifer West in the late 1960s; the couple had two sons, Rome Viharo and Zola Viharo.
Viharo was married to actress Anne Helm in the early 1970s and divorced some time later. They had one daughter together, Serena Viharo.Drive-in Dream Girls:By Tom Lisanti [https://books.google.com/books?id=hwFbcgV_LDgC&dq=Robert+Viharo+Anne+Helm&pg=PA261 Page 261] Helm's marriage to Viharo was her second. In 1981 he married actress and singer Jeane Manson; the marriage was short-lived.
He is also the father of Will Viharo,San Francisco Bay Guardian Online [http://www.sfbg.com/2007/07/04/new-midnight The new midnight] an author.East Bay Express Stefanie Kalem, [http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/faster-parkway-guy-write-write/Content?oid=3048086 "Faster, Parkway Guy! Write! Write!" By Stefanie Kalem ], East Bay Express, November 23, 2011
References
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External links
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Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors