Robert Walden

About Robert Walden

Who is it?: Actor, Director, Writer
Birth Day: September 25, 1943
Birth Place:  New York City, New York, United States
Birth Sign: Libra

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Robert Walden was born on September 25, 1943 in  New York City, New York, United States, is Actor, Director, Writer. Robert Walden plays Fran Drescher's father Glen in TV Land's original sitcom "Happily Divorced."Walden's acting credits include hits in both television and film, such as the smash series "Lou Grant" (for which he received three Emmy® nominations), the show "Brothers" (two CableACE nominations) and the films "All The President's Men," "Intervention," "The Out of Towners" and "Audrey Rose." He has also guest starred on "Law & Order: SVU," "The West Wing" and "Judging Amy." Walden's stage credits include off-Broadway productions of "House of Blue Leaves" (Cincinnati Playhouse), "The American Clock," "Prymate" (Florida State University) and "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" (Pasadena Playhouse) for which he won a Drama-Logue award for Best Actor.Other acting appearances include "History of American Film" (Mark Taper Forum), "Dance of Death" (Arena Stage), "Last Days of Isaac" (A.C.T), "Other People's Money" (Old Globe) and "Jake's Women" (Stage West). He has also served as a writer for such hits as "The Twilight Zone," "Beauty and the Beast," "Who's the Boss?" and "Brothers." Directing credits include theater productions of "Dylan," "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" and "After Crystal Night."
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Biography/Timeline

1960

He was a member of the Doo Wop group Bobby & The Chord-A-Roys in 1960.

1970

Walden's career began in 1970, in Bloody Mama for Roger Corman. After that, and for the first several years of his career, he often played young doctors, such as in the television series The New Doctors (one of the rotating elements of NBC's The Bold Ones) as Dr. Cohen, after the departure of John Saxon prior to the final season, and notably in films Blue Sunshine and Paddy Chayefsky's The Hospital. His breakthrough role was in the television series Lou Grant, on which he played Journalist Joe Rossi. He was a cast member on Lou Grant during its entire run (1977–1982), and received three Emmy Award nominations (in 1979, 1980 and 1981) for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role. Walden has played several historical characters, including Donald Segretti in the 1976 film All the President's Men, and J. Robert Oppenheimer in the 1980 TV movie Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb. From 1984 until 1989, he starred in the groundbreaking Showtime sitcom Brothers as the middle of three brothers, the owner of a bar/restaurant who was a retired NFL placekicker. His youngest brother, played by Paul Regina, was gay and the series dealt with issues regarding homosexuality. Walden also made a cameo appearance as a sound Engineer in the 1994 film Radioland Murders.

2006

Walden is a distinguished Teacher of acting at The New School for Drama, division of the New York City university The New School. In August, 2006 he appeared in the Herbert Bergoff Playwrights Foundation production of Arthur Miller's The American Clock under the direction of Austin Pendleton. Walden also appeared in the movie Capricorn One (1978) as Elliot Whitter.

2011

In 2011, Walden made a return to series television in the TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced, playing Glenn Newman, the father of the lead character played by series creator and Writer Fran Drescher, with Rita Moreno co-starring as his wife. As on his previous series Brothers, Happily Divorced is also predominantly gay-themed, as the plot is based on Drescher's divorce from series co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson, who later revealed he was gay and remained friends with Drescher. The series was cancelled in 2013 after two seasons.