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Robert Prosky
Highest Rated: 98% Broadcast News (1987)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Dec 13, 1930
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Likable stage veteran who became a busy character actor in film and TV of the 1980s and 1990s, Robert Prosky spent 23 seasons as a resident actor with the Arena Stage Theater in Washington, DC before making his film debut as an initially ingratiating gangster in Michael Mann's "Thief" (1981). He came to prominence as the endearing Sgt. Jablonski who replaced Michael Conrad's Sgt. Esterhaus ("Let's be careful out there!") at the opening of each episode of TV's "Hill Street Blues." Prosky also became a familiar TV face in a succession of TV movies, pilots, and guest spots.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8% | 27% | The Skeptic | Father Wymond (Character) | $6.2K | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Valley of Light | Hoke (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Suits on the Loose | Bishop Hollister (Character) | $79.4K | 2006 |
| 17% | 28% | Eye See You | McKenzie (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swing Vote | Chief Justice (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 16% | 24% | Dudley Do-Right | Inspector Fenwick (Character) | $9.8M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lake | Herb (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 33% | 42% | Mad City | Lou Potts (Character) | $10.6M | 1997 |
| 12% | 39% | The Chamber | E. Garner Goodman (Character) | $14.4M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Road Home | Father Tierney (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 95% | 86% | Dead Man Walking | Hilton Barber (Character) | $37.1M | 1995 |
| 13% | 41% | The Scarlet Letter | Horace Stonehall (Character) | $10.4M | 1995 |
| 60% | 62% | Miracle on 34th Street | Judge Henry Harper (Character) | $17.2M | 1994 |
| 70% | 77% | Mrs. Doubtfire | Jonathan Lundy (Character) | $219.2M | 1993 |
| 77% | 90% | Rudy | Father Cavanaugh (Character) | $20.7M | 1993 |
| 41% | 48% | Last Action Hero | Nick (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Edge | Maggie's Father (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 50% | 62% | Far and Away | Daniel Christie (Character) | $58.2M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story | Maishe (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 52% | 58% | Hoffa | Billy Flynn (Character) | $23.3M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hit Woman: The Double Edge | Maggie's Father (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Age Isn't Everything | Grandpa Irving (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Green Journey | Bishop Richard Baker (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 0% | 14% | Funny About Love | E.T (Character) | $7.6M | 1990 |
| 0% | 27% | Loose Cannons | Von Metz (Character) | $4.5M | 1990 |
| 59% | 50% | Green Card | Brontë's Lawyer (Character) | $29.8M | 1990 |
| 71% | 59% | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Grandpa Fred (Character) | $40.5M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christine Cromwell: In Vino Veritas | Larry Cerreta (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Pursuit | Bill (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | From the Dead of Night | Doctor Walter Hovde (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Home Fires Burning | Rosh Benefield (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | The Heist | Dancer (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 40% | 71% | The Great Outdoors | Wally (Character) | $37.3M | 1988 |
| 85% | 80% | Things Change | Joseph "Don Giuseppe" Vincent (Character) | $2.3M | 1988 |
| 60% | 59% | Big Shots | Keegan (Character) | $2.9M | 1987 |
| 56% | 60% | Outrageous Fortune | Stanislav Korzenowski (Character) | $52.8M | 1987 |
| 98% | 79% | Broadcast News | Ernie Merriman (Character) | $49.2M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Into Thin Air | Jim Conway (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 83% | 88% | The Natural | The Judge (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 70% | 64% | Christine | Will Darnell (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 39% | 43% | The Keep | Father Fonescu (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 38% | 56% | The Lords of Discipline | Col. "Bear" Berrineau (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 0% | 17% | Monsignor | Bishop Walkman (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 45% | 31% | Hanky Panky | Hiram Calder (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | World War III | Gen. Aleksey Rudenski (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 80% | 81% | Thief | Leo (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Judge Philip Erbsen (Character) | - | 1981 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Wayne Rutley (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 2000 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once and Again | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danny | Unknown (Character) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Veronica's Closet | Unknown (Character) | 1997-1998 |
| 88% | No Score Yet | Michael Hayes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 95% | 94% | Frasier | T.H. Houghton (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 87% | 94% | Cheers | Navy Captain Franklin Howe (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coach | Coach 'Jake the Snake' Connelly (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lifestories | Narrator | 1990-1991 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Bishop Patrick Shea (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| 97% | No Score Yet | Hill Street Blues | Stan Jablonski (Character) | 1984-1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1986 |