Robert haynes

Born on August 19, 1926 in Wichita Falls, a small town in Texas, Roberta Arline Haynes moved with her family to Toronto (Canada) when she was one year old, but when she turned seven the clan moved again, this time to California (United States). Joined). She studied acting, first in New York, and then at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA), before making her theater debut. In 1950 she was successful on Broadway in “La madre de Chaillot” with John Carradine .

He began his journey in cinema briefly accompanying Humphrey Bogart , in an uncredited role in Knock on any door , and together with Jennifer Jones in We Were Strangers , one of John Huston ‘s less famous titles . She played her most prominent role in the aforementioned Return to Paradise , where she was a native of a Polynesian island who charmed a newly arrived driver, played by Gary Cooper , with whom she had an affair during filming in Samoa. . “I really connected with him, even though I think he was sick at the time and was taking medication,” she said in an interview.

She gave life to Native Americans in the westerns Vengeance Fever and The Nebraskan , but while on the television series The Rebel, she was the victim of an accident during the filming of an explosion. He lost his vision for a while, until he recovered thanks to two operations. She then spent seven years retired from acting.

Back at work, she briefly appeared as a mobster’s wife in John Boorman ‘s Point Blank , and guest-starred on popular television series such as Falcon Crest and Fantastic Car. She retired in 1989 after playing a bus passenger in the comedy Police Academy 6: City Under Siege .

Divorced from agent Jay Cantor, whom she married very young, she joined fellow actor Larry Ward ( Cheyenne ), with whom she had her only child. Since she separated from him in 1971, she had not remarried.