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American actor best known for the TV series Baretta who was found liable in a civil court for the death of his wife

Blake was charged in 2002 with fatally shooting his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley

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Robert Blake, a child actor from the Depression-era "Our Gang" comedies who won adult stardom playing an undercover cop on the 1970s television series "Baretta" before fame was eclipsed by his murder trial in the 2001 killing of his wife, has died at age 89. Blake, who also won acclaim…

The Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89.

Robert Blake died from heart disease at his home surrounded by family in Los Angeles on Thursday but the actor's notoriety came when he was acquitted of murdering his wife in 2001

LOS ANGELES — Robert Blake, the critically acclaimed and Emmy-award-winning actor whose career was derailed by charges he murdered his wife in 2001, has died.

An Emmy-winning actor whose career triumphs were later overshadowed by a trial in which he was acquitted of murdering his wife, Robert Blake has died at age 89