Robert Harland

Robert "Bob" Harland
Harland as Jack Flood (left) with Stephen McNally as Paul Marino in ABC's Target: The Corruptors!.
Born	Robert Yurgatis c. 1934 Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.
Alma mater	American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Occupation	Actor: Law of the Plainsman Target: The Corruptors!
Spouse(s)	Jane Muriel Earle (married c. 1956)
Children	2

Robert "Bob" Harland (born Robert Yurgatis^[1] c. 1934),^[2] is an American actor whose principal work was performed on television in the late 1950s and 1960s. He appeared as a regular in the role of the young investigator Jack Flood on ABC's Target: The Corruptors! (1961–1962),^[3]: 1053 co-starring with Stephen McNally as the syndicated newspaper columnist Paul Marino.^{[citation needed]}

Background[]

In 1934, Harland was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. His parents, of Lithuanian descent, were Frank Yurgatis, a longshoreman,^[4] and Gabler Yurgatis.^[5] He graduated from St. James High School^[1] in 1953. After high school, he attended night school, worked at several jobs, and went to the Columbia School of Broadcasting in Philadelphia.^[6]

When Harland worked as an announcer and disc jockey at a radio station in Wilmington, Delaware, he developed an interest in acting, which led to his studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.^[6]

Career[]

In 1957, Harland had the male lead in a summer stock theater production of Bus Stop in Arden, Delaware, at the Robin Hood Playhouse.^[6]

Prior to Target: The Corruptors! Harland had appeared in a recurring role as Deputy Billy Lordan on NBC's Law of the Plainsman^[3] with Michael Ansara and Gina Gillespie. Among the episodes in which Harland appeared were "Trojan Horse", "Amnesty", "Rabbit's Fang", "A Question of Courage", "The Comet", "The Rawhiders", and "Common Ground".^{[citation needed]}

Harland's first acting appearance occurred 1958 in the role of Hank Moore in the film, As Young As We Are.^[7] Harland starred in one of the final episodes of CBS's The Millionaire fantasy drama series with Marvin Miller.^{[citation needed]}

Other acting roles[]

His other early work was mostly on westerns, including appearances as Andy Forrest in the episode "A Case of Slow" on ABC's Black Saddle with Peter Breck.

On October 11, 1960, Harland and Gigi Perreau, cast as Lin and Sara Lou Proctor, play a young couple from the East who has eloped and is headed west in the second episode, "The Land Beyond", of ABC's Stagecoach West, with Wayne Rogers and Robert Bray.^{[citation needed]}

Harland appeared on November 3, 1960 as Mike Duane in the episode "Shorty" of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane and Don Collier. He starred in three episodes, all in 1960, on CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater: as Jack Hoyt in "Knife of Hate" with Lloyd Nolan as Dr. Elisha Pittman and Susan Oliver, as Dr. Pittman's daughter; Lee Phelps in the gripping western drama, "Killer Instinct", and Les in "The Reckoning". He appeared in 1961 as Corporal Clay Taylor in an episode of NBC's Wagon Train, and as Phil Davies in "The Convict's Revenge" episode of ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp with Hugh O'Brian.^{[citation needed]}

After 1962, Harland's work was mostly in dramas, such as ABC's Ben Casey with Vince Edwards and three times on CBS's Perry Mason (1963–1964) with Raymond Burr. Those episodes included the role of Kenneth L. "Ken" Judson in "The Case of the Greek Goddess" (1963),^{[citation needed]} as Todd in "The Case of the Badgered Brother" (also 1963), and as title character and defendant Bill Jarvis in "The Case of the Bullied Bowler" (1964).^[8]

In 1961, Harland guest starred with Gloria Talbott in the episode "Terror in the Afternoon" of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. In 1964, he played the character Hal Jackson in the episode "Have Library, Will Travel" on the CBS sitcom, Petticoat Junction. In 1967, he guest-starred as agent MacGregor in the episode "The Gray Passenger" of the ABC crime series, The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..^{[citation needed]}

After a seven-year absence from the screen, Harland in 1973–1974 appeared seven times as Sergeant Older in ABC's dramatic series, The Rookies in episodes entitled "Walk a Tightrope", "Rolling Thunder", "Eyewitness", and "A Matter of Justice". He also wrote two episodes in 1973 for The Rookies: "Margin for Error" and "Easy Money".^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, after a 14-year absence from the screen, Harland made his last four television appearances, three times as James Rayford in the ABC night-time soap opera Dynasty. In 1997, Harland's last film role was as Bob Potter in The Rest of My Life.^{[citation needed]}

While not acting, Harland was employed for many years at the Budweiser plant in Van Nuys, California. His son, Robert, worked at the plant too for thirty-one years before he retired in 2009.^[9]

Personal life[]

Harland and his wife, the former Jane Earle, have two children born in Chester, a daughter and a son, Robert "Bob" Yurgatis.^[9]

References[]

External links[]

• Robert Harland at IMDb