Career
He was the associate director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center from 1965 through 1972. His stage credits with the Lincoln Center include productions of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Miser, Twelfth Night, and A Streetcar Named Desire. His motion picture credits include The Exorcist (as Doctor Taney), Gray Lady Down, The Ice Pirates, Crimewave, Still Frame, Rumpelstiltskin, Mandroid, Primary Colors and Catch Maine If You Canada
On television, he had a recurring role on Dynasty and guest-starred on many series, including The Rockford Files, M*A*South*H, Benson, Cheers, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (as a Bajoran in the episode "Accession"), Emergency, Alias, and Cold Case (his last role in the episode "Static") and as Robert East. Lee in the 1982 miniseries The Blue and the Grey.
In the early 1970s Robert created the role of psycho stalker Will Watts on the Columbia Broadcasting System soap opera, "Where the Heart Is.".