Jeremy Slate (born Robert Bullard Perham; February 17, 1926 â€"
November 19, 2006) was an American film and television actor, and
songwriter.He attended a military academy and joined the United States
Navy when he was sixteen. He was barely eighteen when his destroyer
assisted in the Normandy Invasion on D-Day (June 6, 1944). After the
war he attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he
graduated with honors in English. He was also president of the student
body, a member of the honor society, editor of the college literary
magazine, a football player, and the backfield coach of the only
undefeated team in the history of the university. He was a campus
radio personality who married the queen of his fraternity's ball
during his senior year. After graduation he became a radio
sportscaster and DJ for several CBS and ABC affiliates while beginning
a family that included three sons and one daughter but ultimately this
marriage ended in divorce. Several years thereafter, he had a second
daughter.For six years, Slate had a promising career with W. R. Grace
and Co. as a public relations executive and travel manager for company
president J. Peter Grace. He then joined Grace Steamship Lines and
moved with his family to Lima, Peru. There he joined a professional
theatre group, became involved with a production of "The Rainmaker"
and was awarded the Tiahuanacothe, the Peruvian equivalent of the Tony
Award, for his portrayal of the character Starbuck. After a year of
training, he left W. R. Grace to pursue a theatrical career.Slate
co-starred with Ron Ely in the 1960â€"1961 Ivan Tors series The
Aquanauts,:53â€"54 which was renamed Malibu Run:647 halfway during its
brief run on CBS. The series could not compete successfully in the
same time slot as NBC's durable western Wagon Train. He guest-starred
in nearly 100 television shows and appeared in twenty feature films.
Among his many television appearances were two roles in the courtroom
drama series Perry Mason, both times as Perry's client: In season 3,
1960, he played Bob Lansing in the episode, "The Case of the Ominous
Outcast", and in season 5, 1962, he played Philip Andrews in "The Case
of the Captain's Coins."
November 19, 2006) was an American film and television actor, and
songwriter.He attended a military academy and joined the United States
Navy when he was sixteen. He was barely eighteen when his destroyer
assisted in the Normandy Invasion on D-Day (June 6, 1944). After the
war he attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he
graduated with honors in English. He was also president of the student
body, a member of the honor society, editor of the college literary
magazine, a football player, and the backfield coach of the only
undefeated team in the history of the university. He was a campus
radio personality who married the queen of his fraternity's ball
during his senior year. After graduation he became a radio
sportscaster and DJ for several CBS and ABC affiliates while beginning
a family that included three sons and one daughter but ultimately this
marriage ended in divorce. Several years thereafter, he had a second
daughter.For six years, Slate had a promising career with W. R. Grace
and Co. as a public relations executive and travel manager for company
president J. Peter Grace. He then joined Grace Steamship Lines and
moved with his family to Lima, Peru. There he joined a professional
theatre group, became involved with a production of "The Rainmaker"
and was awarded the Tiahuanacothe, the Peruvian equivalent of the Tony
Award, for his portrayal of the character Starbuck. After a year of
training, he left W. R. Grace to pursue a theatrical career.Slate
co-starred with Ron Ely in the 1960â€"1961 Ivan Tors series The
Aquanauts,:53â€"54 which was renamed Malibu Run:647 halfway during its
brief run on CBS. The series could not compete successfully in the
same time slot as NBC's durable western Wagon Train. He guest-starred
in nearly 100 television shows and appeared in twenty feature films.
Among his many television appearances were two roles in the courtroom
drama series Perry Mason, both times as Perry's client: In season 3,
1960, he played Bob Lansing in the episode, "The Case of the Ominous
Outcast", and in season 5, 1962, he played Philip Andrews in "The Case
of the Captain's Coins."
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