Early in his career he owned the "Titian" Stradivarius violin. For his son, the actor, see, Zimbalist with his violin, circa 19151920, Efrem Zimbalist: A Life. His stepmother was the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music, Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist. His daughter Nancy Zimbalist died in 2012 of cancer. Kookie's character, played by Edd Byrnes, helped draw young viewers to the show, and his constant hair combing created the national catchphrase, "Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb.". He is survived by his daughter Stephanie and his son, Efrem Zimbalist III. At age 19, he found work as a musician with his father in New York and Philadelphia, where his father had taken a position at the famous Curtis Institute of Music. All characters were let go except for Efrem, whose new role was to travel the world as an investigator with his OSS background. During an extremely candid interview with Gentlemans Journal for their Summer 2021 issue, the 68-year-old star reflected on his own childhood and how it defined his approach to parenting. Ephrem Zimbalist Jr. reads from the Bible the Book of John (4 mins). [7] Inducted into the United States Army, he completed his initial training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Throwing themselves into selling Liberty Bonds, helping with the Red Cross and performing as much as four nights a week, it soon took its toll on Alma's voice while they were in Europe. She was buried later in June 1950 in Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, where the Zimbalist family maintains a residence and a cemetery holding. There he met his future wife, the newly named Alma Gluck. 1946 was a busy year for the actor, simultaneously appearing in three plays, two at the same theater. 9 April]1889 February 22, 1985) was a concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, where Stephanie grew up. Wife: Emily McNair (stage actress, m. 1945, d. 1950, cancer, one daughter, one son) Daughter: Nancy Zimbalist (b. They had two sons and Malinda died in 2005. Efrem Jr. was almost 20 years old and had a few regrets after his mother died. Following an appearance in the drama movie The Crowded Sky (1960), he did the film A Fever in the Blood (1961), which was based on William Pearsons 1959 novel of the same name. Zimbalist said in an interview in 2004, that fans of the show occasionally approached him to say they had joined the FBI or had become police officers because of his portrayal of the calm and authoritative government agent on the series. He became proficient at violin and composing music with several compositions to his credit. which was written in 1954, was optioned for a movie for many years, but never filmed, possibly because of controversy after the real life connection to the story was learned. The movies I used to be fanatic Zimbalist was born in 1918 in New York City to Jewish immigrants Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (18891985), a famous Russian-born violinist, and Alma Gluck (18841938), an equally famous Romanian-born operatic soprano. Studied Transcendental Meditation for 9 years under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and found it a total waste of time. The actor soon started taking up roles in television series and films as well. In 1941, he was drafted in the United States Army. Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (21 April[O.S. lol Thank you. It remained his favourite screen role. Marcia died 1996 in Monterey, CA just before her 93rd birthday. [citation needed], Zimbalist was drafted in 1941. His younger partner was Jeff Spencer (Roger Smith), and they were often helped by a young, finger-snapping, slang-talking parking lot attendant called Kookie (Edd Byrnes). I use to get her mixed up with Stephanie Powers; some shots they look so much alike. Efrem Zimbalist Sr. died in 1985 when he was also nearly 94 years old. He also lived to be 95 years old. His wife died of cancer in the same year, leaving their two children, Efrem and Nancy. He began a lifelong affiliation with the Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN). St. Petersburg Times - Newspaper interview 1979 talking about his new church, TBN, Marcia Davenport - Wikipedia and Movie Database. Due to his portrayal Lewis Erskine on The F.B.I., there was a surge of applicants to the F.B.I. In 1956, he married his second wife, Loranda Stephanie Spalding. The couple had two kids, Efrem and Nancy. 5). Efrem Zimbalist Jr. married Emily Munroe McNair in December 1941. . The 77 Sunset Strip show was considered to be one of the most swinging on television in the late 1950s and early 60s. On February 5, 2007, aged 73, Loranda died from lung cancer. Two years later, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant of the infantry division. Zimbalists parents, Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist, were of Jewish descent but on emigrating to America, had left the religion. It would have been difficult to predict, when Efrem Zimbalist Jr was growing up in New York, the son of the concert violinist Efrem Zimbalist and the opera singer Alma Gluck, surrounded by leading lights in the arts world, that his main claim to fame later in life would be playing a private investigator in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and a police inspector in The FBI. That doesn't mean his life didn't have any hiccups, they just weren't front page news. He did much to popularize the performance of classical music in his adopted country. In Home Before Dark (1958), with Jean Simmons as a psychiatric patient, he was a gentle pipe-smoking professor who faces antisemitism. Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (21 April [O.S. His and Alma's son, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and their granddaughter, Stephanie Zimbalist, both became popular actors, primarily in television. His sister Maria had been boarded with a family in Moscow. In 1986, he was in Charleston to co-host the festival's 10th gala at the Gaillard Auditorium with actress Colleen Dewhurst. Afraid to go home, he stayed with a friend in New York City for three months, working as a page at NBC headquarters, where he was dazzled by the famous radio stars. Nev and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. of En cino, Calif., the actor in the television series "The F.B.I [15], Zimbalist maintained a strong personal relationship with F.B.I. John Hansen from Australia (Gondwana Land) on May 21, 2014: What a wonderful tribute hub. For over twenty years of his later career, Zimbalist provided the voice for many characters on various animated TV series, including Alfred Pennyworth on "Batman.". "My Brother's Keeper." He didn't understand a word of Ukrainian. Jackie Lynnley from the beautiful south on May 23, 2014: My mom was crazy about this man and he was so handsome and smooth. [2] He had an older sister, Mary (19152008),[3] along with a half-sister from his mother's first marriage, author Marcia Davenport (19031996). His suave good looks made him a favorite actor for many. officer and language expert whose partner was an Ivy League Ph.D. An engaging read about a talented man. The quality of her voice was gone, she was often physically ill, although there are no mentions as to what was wrong at that time. In October 1956 their daughter Stephanie was born. In the same year, he married Stephanie Spaulding, and, thanks to the director Joshua Logan, gained a contract with Warner Bros, which exploited his good looks and suave, though rather bland, personality in secondary roles. After 77 Sunset Strip, he appeared in other series, including CBS's short-lived The Reporter starring Harry Guardino as journalist Danny Taylor of the fictitious New York Globe. In the meantime, Zimbalist had produced a double bill of Gian Carlo Menotti operas, The Medium and The Telephone, on Broadway. In the 1980s, he had a recurring role as Daniel Chalmers on his daughter Stephanie Zimbalist's TV series "Remington Steele." When the program's run ended in 1964, Zimbalist segued seamlessly into "The F.B.I." The family soon moved to Los Angeles, where Stephanie grew up. At at time in history when beatniks ala Dobie Gillis and Maynard were all the crazy, they employed Kookie, a beatnik parking lot attendant, who helped them track down their bad guys. In January 1979, Efrem Jr. embraced the evangelical television programs, often watching them late into the night. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. married Emily Munroe McNair in December 1941. ("Oh! The creators used it symbolically in several subsequent episodes. Susanna", "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"), 1962 - February 5, 2007 (her death, 1 child). When daughter Marcia started at Wellesley College in 1923, she decided to elope, giving birth to a daughter a year later in 1924. He and his daughter also appeared on stage together in his later years, their first being "The Night of the Iguana". In addition to his son and other daughter, Stephanie, he is survived by four grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Still working on the stepmother who brought a great literary legacy which Efrem Zimbalist III (Skip) carries on to this day. After graduation he debuted in Berlin (playing the Brahms Concerto) and London in 1907 and in the United States in 1911, with the Symphony Orchestra.[which?] Photograph: ABC Photo Archives. They had a daughter, actress Stephanie Zimbalist. He packed up his two children and moved to Philadelphia where his father was director of The Curtis Institute of Music. Father Daughter Relationship (6) Fear (6) Femme Fatale (6) Fire (6) Fistfight (6) Flashback (6) Henchman (6) Hospital (6) Husband Wife Relationship (6) Hyena (6) . She is buried in Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut near the family's summer home. In 1990, Zimbalist featured as the father of Zorro in the series The New Zorro. Efrem Zimbalist (18891985), Russian violinist, father of Efrem Jr. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (19182014), American actor, son of Efrem and father of Stephanie. Freeze: SubZero, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman; he also played villain Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. His parents eventually divorced and both remarried other people. There were two spellings shown of family name - Feinsohn and Fiersohn, The link shows Alma's correct birth year. Remington Steele is an American crime drama television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. Thanks for reading and commenting. In 1957, the actor played Lt. Ethan Sears in the romantic film Band of Angels. TV series, saying "it was a pure collaboration between the FBI agency, the Director J Edgar Hoover and Hollywood.". It would be Alma's last residence. He briefly attended Yale University but was expelled, reinstated and expelled a second time on account of low grades. Unable to break into radio as an actor, he studied at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse. He was its director from 1941 to 1968. and she gave birth to their daughter Stephanie. Efrem Jr.'s career was finally taking off. Efrem Zimbalist: A Life. I have them on auto publish until we get unpacked in our new home. I remember him, Rachael. Each generation remembers him in a different way - series television, stage plays, movies, the opera. After the war, the director and writer Garson Kanin, a friend of the family, gave Zimbalist his first professional role in his Broadway production of Robert E Sherwood's The Rugged Path (1945), which starred Spencer Tracy. I was unaware he recently died. For some reason, I have the two men in the same genre. Stephanie Zimbalist on the Importance of Trump. When it came time to take over the role that was played first by Douglas Fairbanks in the 1920 film The Mark of Zorro and then by Tyrone Power in the 1940 version, Mr. Williams took a refresher course with the Belgian fencing master Fred Cavens, who had taught both Fairbanks and Power. In 1943, having been a widower for five years, he married the Curtis Institute of Music's founder, Mary Louise Curtis Bok,[15] daughter of publisher Cyrus Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, and 14 years his senior. The birthday party concluded with a film to look back over his career. In 1950, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his production of "The Consul," which Efrem Jr. produced. After four years of flirting with each other, Laura Holt and Remington Steele finally tie the knot on Saturday`s episode of Remington Steele (9 p.m. on NBC-Ch. He was 95 years old, active up until the end, playing golf three times per week and attending his church on Sundays. He had nothing but praise for his experience on the show. His daughter Stephanie announced the news saying he was 95 years old, a devout Christian. When the show faltered in 1963, Jack Webb of "Dragnet" fame was hired for an overhaul. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was born Nov. 30, 1918, in New York with what some might call a silver spoon in his mouth. So, till date, she is neither married nor has any children. In the 1990s he became interested in stem cell therapy, its uses and merits. The show, one of the first TV series hits from the Warner Brothers studio, ran on ABC from 1958-64. UPDATE: He was the embodiment of a federal agent on "The F.B.I." after playing a private eye on another popular ABC series, "77 Sunset Strip." According to Doris Roberts in her 2005 interview with The Archive of American Television, the two did not speak when not in character in fact they didnt even say good morning to one another on the set. Maybe the actors wanted to move on; maybe they were out of scripts. #bravewarrior - hello! Born in New York City on November 30, 1918, surrounded by people of wealth and privilege throughout his childhood, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. received a boarding school education. It certainly is a great tribute - I hadn't thought about Efrem Zimbalist Jr for many a year. He was 95. But it was always interesting to see who the names and faces were and what they were wanted for. Her autobiography, "Too Strong For Fantasy" was published in 1967. Zimbalist married the famous American soprano Alma Gluck and they toured together for a time. The men remained mutual admirers for the rest of Hoover's life. [25], He had a nine-year association with the practice of Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (21 April 1889 February 22, 1985) was a concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music. #DDE Thank you for reading and commenting. Watch. That age might not seem extraordinary to some readers, but it does to me. Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s family announced that he died on Friday, May 2, 2014 of natural causes at his Solvang ranch in Southern California's beautiful horse country. Born in New York City to a popular violinist and a singer, Zimbalist grew up with an elder sister in a quite wealthy household. He let music fall to the sidelines for a time, but never far out of sight. His projects for that year also included the movies The Deep Six, 'Girl on the Run', and 'Home Before Dark'. Efrem Jr. enjoyed a personal friendship with J Edgar Hoover as technical adviser to the show. he once recalled. In 1954, he was cast in his first television project, titled Concerning Miss Marlowe. I do recall 77 SunsetStrip and FBI. His big-spender days were over after being expelled from Yale a second time; it was time to get serious about his direction in life. Zimbalist was born in 1918 in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (18891985), a famous Russian-born violinist [1] and symphony conductor, and Alma Gluck (18841938), an equally famous Romanian-born operatic soprano. About. She fought to keep the magazine as a monthly publication until 1970, when it was sold to a larger publishing firm. While still employed at the school, he was cast in a recurring acting part in a television soap opera "Concerning Miss Marlowe" and by 1956, he had given up the music school position altogether. He died in 1985, at the age of 94. Don't worry. He and his partner Jeff Spencer (played by Roger Smith) operated from an office in the center of Hollywood where, aided by their sometime helper, Kookie, a jive-talking beatnik type who doubled as a parking lot attendant, they tracked down miscreants. Hoover and Efrem Jr. remained friends until Hoover's death. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. had a Spoleto Fesitval connection. It was an unheard of salary in the days when many US workers were earning less than a dollar a day. It's a site that collects all the most frequently asked questions and answers, so you don't have to spend hours on searching anywhere else. In 2003, he published his memoirs, My Dinner of Herbs, and a year later came out of retirement to act with his daughter again in a stage production of Tennessee Williams's Night of the Iguana in Ventura, California. [9] Zimbalist was assigned as a platoon leader in Company L, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division and participated in combat in Europe following the Normandy landings. "[25], In the late 1970s, he was drawn to the Charismatic Christianity movement. Marcia Davenport had an interesting life and made her mark in literature with her first book, Mozart, the first published American biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His partner in life and work, Samuel Barber died in 1981. The repair work failed, and the series ended the following year. Stephanie Zimbalist was born in New York City, the daughter of Loranda Stephanie (ne Spalding) and actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who helmed the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The FBI as well as theatrical films. At the end of each episode, after Zimbalist and his fellow G-men had captured that week's mobsters, subversives, bank robbers or spies, the series would post real photos from the FBI's most-wanted list. With Angela Lansbury, Donna Bullock, Len Cariou, James Handy. As the sly, silver-haired mentor of Pierce Brosnans title character on Remington Steele, he appeared on the 1982-87 NBC series with his daughter on a handful of episodes. Both were much looked forward to in our house, and probably in your house too. The actor, who in recent years had retired to his ranch in Southern California's bucolic horse country, died there Friday at age 95. On loan to Columbia, he was Lana Turner's illicit lover in the lurid melodrama By Love Possessed (1961). He also played Charles Cabot on the series "Hotel.". [15] Hoover held up Zimbalist as a model for F.B.I. He studied at Fay School in Massachusetts and later boarded at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. He attended St. Paul's School, an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. Loranda's middle name was given to their daughter, actress Stephanie Zimbalist. Two years later, he had his first recurring role, that of a gambler named Dandy Jim Buckley, on the dramatic series Maverick. After serving in World War II, he made his stage debut in "The Rugged Path," starring Spencer Tracy, and appeared in other plays and a soap opera before being called to Hollywood. He and his daughter also appeared on stage together in his later years, their first being "The Night of the Iguana". Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Zimbalist is survived by his three children son Efren, daughters Stephanie an actress and our girl Nancy Zimbalist. In January 1950, Emily died from cancer. I'm touched by his regret that his mother did not get to share in his wonderful life; but then she has no memory of his screw-ups either. In 1950, tragedy struck their new family. After his wife died in 1950 he gave up acting for a time to teach at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where his father was an artist in residence. The links to 7 sites where this information was available are now disabled on the web because the sites have been turned into catalog sales sites. Explore. During World War II he served in the infantry, receiving a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound in his leg. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was engaged to Kipp Hamilton (1960). Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born on the 30 th November 1918 in New York City, New York, USA of Russian and Romanian ancestry, and passed away on the 2 nd May 2014 in Solvang, California, USA, of natural causes at the age of 95. He also starred as the lead in several feature films for Warners, such as Bombers B-52, The Deep Six, A Fever in the Blood and The Chapman Report. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. at his Encino, CA home with wife Loranda Stephanie Spaulding and daughter Stephanie Zimbalist1961 1978 Sid Avery All images in our archive are available for professional licensing and as fine art prints. At the end of each episode, the series would always post real photos of the FBI's most wanted list. The actor's son,. Why Do Cross Country Runners Have Skinny Legs? But it wouldn't hurt to see a return to good sidekick detective shows. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. dating history Relationships. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born in New York City on Nov. 30, 1918. Menotti is just another fascinating life that intersected with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. During this time in the late 1940s, Efrem Jr. sponsored several students from the Curtis Institute of Music and would go on to sponsor many more aspiring students for the rest of his life. Zimbalist was in such demand during this time that he was given a vacation by Jack L. Warner, owing to exhaustion from his busy schedule. "I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivet, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'" Zimbalist was preceded in death by his second wife and by his daughter Nancy. He studied violin for seven years under the tutelage of Jascha Heifetz's father, but eventually developed more interest in theater. Zimbalist was born in New York, grew up on an estate in the Connecticut countryside and received an expensive education in New England. Zimbalist was generous in his praise of producer Martin and of his own experience starring in the show. Although he continued to consider himself ethnically Jewish, he found himself attracted, along with his wife Alma, to Anglican Christianity, and they regularly attended the Episcopal Church in New Hartford. It was Efrem Sr.'s first marriage and Alma's second. Three years later in 1918 when Efrem Jr. was born, Alma decided she wanted to stop traveling. You never saw headlines about him causing a scene, being arrested in any nightclubs and you never heard about a mud slinging divorce like you did with other Hollywood stars. I think it is all in his perception, which I'm sorry it was that way, but probably not true on her end. In 1963, Dragnet's Jack Webb was hired as consultant to overhaul the show. Zimbalist was discharged as the war ended, earning many awards, including the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal. (S 1: Ep 9), Episode: "A Little Left of Heaven (Pilot) (S 1:Ep 1), Episode: "Knights of the Round Table, Parts 1 and 2" (S 3: Ep 1 & S 3: Ep 2), Episode: "World's Finest, part 3" (S 2: Ep 18). Efrem Jr. threw himself into studying and composing music, and became dean of students in 1954. From this record we also learn that Alma's father is dead (never made the trip to US) since her mother is listed as a widow who had 7 children, 4 survived. Her reported salary for engagements and royalties was over $400,000, making her a very wealthy performer, but also a target in a bitter, much contested divorce from her first husband. Stephanie Zimbalist was born in New York City, the daughter of Loranda Stephanie (ne Spalding) and actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. [5], Zimbalist boarded at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, taking part in school plays. Her mother's obituary Zara Fiersohn shows she died at age 74 on August 5, 1916. Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice: Directed by Vincent McEveety. "77 Sunset Strip" Private eye Stuart Bailey who ran a Los Angeles detective agency. In 1917, he was elected as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music, by the fraternity's Alpha Chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1958, Zimbalist played the co-lead Stuart "Stu" Bailey in 77 Sunset Strip, a popular detective series running until 1964. Roger Smith is married to Ann-Margret and suffers with Myasthenia Gravis, a serious Autoimmune Disease. Victor W. Kwok from Hawaii on May 23, 2014: This is an amazing tribute hub. Emily died from cancer in 1950. The Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI honored Efrem's character "Lewis Erskine" in 1985 with a special set of retired credentials. He also voiced characters in the series The Legend of Prince Valiant and Spider-Man. Efrem Jr. attended Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts. His character, "Stu Bailey," as a former OSS officer and language expert, along with Roger Smith's Ivy League PhD character "Jeff Spence," ran a private eye office at the famed address in Hollywood. His baritone voice was instantly recognizable on television and most notably as Alfred the butler on Batman: The Animated Series (FOX 1992-1995), and in Christian circles on The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) announcing the TBN station identification at the chime every hour (1979-2014), on Christian programs featuring his reading the Bible on TBN and the 700 Club, and as narrator on audio books. As the sly, silver-haired mentor of Pierce Brosnan's title character on Remington Steele, he appeared on the 1982-87 NBC series with his daughter on a handful of episodes. Granddaughter Stephanie played the female lead in Remington Steele opposite Pierce Brosnan. He became acquainted with Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and it is his voice you hear at the top of every hour announcing the station's name. [25] Afterward he joined the Anglican Church of Our Savior in Santa Barbara; he was an occasional reader there and requested donations be made to them (among others) in his obituary. In a five-minute segment called "The Word" aired on TBN at 25 minutes after the hour, Zimbalist would read a verse from the Bible, eventually completing the entire text, verse by verse. Votes: 2,308. Efrem Sr. lived in Reno Nevada until his death in 1985 at age 94. While he was in the Army, Efrem Jr. met actor-producer Garson Kanin and theirs was a friendship that would get his start in show business. He furthered his acting training at Neighborhood Playhouse[6] before serving in the United States Army during World War II, where he became friends with writer and director Garson Kanin. The age of 90 plus years is a theme you may have noticed in several places in this article. Its critical and surprising commercial success led to his following it up with Menotti's The Consul (1950), which won the New York Drama Critics' award and the Pulitzer prize for the best musical in 1950. Zimbalist's first recurring role in a Warner Bros. Television series was as roguish gambler "Dandy Jim Buckley" on Maverick, opposite James Garner in 1957, and making five appearances as the character. He played a blinded pilot in Airport 1975 and, much later, lampooned his FBI image in Hot Shots! She was buried in the family plot at Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Both the programs established him as a household name. In 1956, he married his second wife, Loranda Stephanie Spalding. Comedian Leslie Jones to be the first guest host of The Daily Show on Tuesday, Pamela Anderson on surviving paparazzi, tabloids, and the stolen sex tape, Golden Globes 2023 highlights and winners, Golden Globes 2023: List of winners and nominees, "S.W.A.T." [citation needed], Jack Warner lent him to Columbia Pictures for By Love Possessed in exchange for adding several years to his Warners' contract, but he refused to let Zimbalist appear in BUtterfield 8 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was previously married to Loranda Spaulding (1956 - 2007) and Emily McNair (1941 - 1950). It's hardly surprising that the son of renowned Russian-born concert Alma's manager and piano accompanist Althea Jewell kept her in singing engagements and recording sessions which paid handsomely, so she could well afford to send her daughter to The Friends School, a private boarding school in Pennsylvania. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born in New York City on Nov. 30, 1918. Jack Warner supported Efrem Jr.'s plan to retire to raise his kids away from Hollywood. At the Fay School, Efrem Jr. performed in stage plays, but his father was grooming him to follow in his footsteps by taking training on the violin. Academy in Quantico, Virginia. "[23], Zimbalist was baptized in the Episcopal Church. Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and FBI director Robert Mueller show off the badge that was presented to the actor as an honorary special agent, the highest civilian honor awarded by the FBI, June 8, 2009 in Los Angeles. A prolific actor who also appeared in numerous films and stage productions, Zimbalist became a household name in 1958 as Stu Bailey, the wisecracking private investigator who was a co-partner in a swinging Hollywood detective agency located at the exclusive address of "77 Sunset Strip.". 1947) and Nancy (19442012). The sidebar mentions how the age of 90 plus years is a theme that runs throughout this article. What a gentleman and what an accomplished life! The program brought Zimbalist an Emmy nomination in 1959, but after a few seasons he tired of the long hours and what he believed were the bad scripts. Then "77 Sunset Strip" debuted, starring Zimbalist as a cultured former O.S.S. 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