Robert Prosky
Highest Rated: 98% Broadcast News (1987)
Lowest Rated: 0% Loose Cannons (1990)
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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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8% | 27% | The Skeptic | Father Wymond (Character) | $6.2K | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The Valley of Light | Hoke (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Suits on the Loose | Bishop Hollister (Character) | $79.4K | 2006 |
| 18% | 28% | Eye See You | McKenzie (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 16% | 24% | Dudley Do-Right | Inspector Fenwick (Character) | $9.8M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swing Vote | Chief Justice (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lake | Herb (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 36% | 42% | Mad City | Lou Potts (Character) | $10.6M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Road Home | Father Tierney (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 12% | 39% | The Chamber | E. Garner Goodman (Character) | $14.4M | 1996 |
| 13% | 41% | The Scarlet Letter | Horace Stonehall (Character) | $10.4M | 1995 |
| 95% | 86% | Dead Man Walking | Hilton Barber (Character) | $37.1M | 1995 |
| 60% | 62% | Miracle on 34th Street | Judge Henry Harper (Character) | $17.2M | 1994 |
| 71% | 77% | Mrs. Doubtfire | Jonathan Lundy (Character) | $219.2M | 1993 |
| 78% | 90% | Rudy | Father Cavanaugh (Character) | $20.7M | 1993 |
| 38% | 47% | Last Action Hero | Nick (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hit Woman: The Double Edge | Maggie's Father (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Edge | Maggie's Father (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story | Maishe (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 50% | 62% | Far and Away | Daniel Christie (Character) | $58.2M | 1992 |
| 52% | 59% | Hoffa | Billy Flynn (Character) | $23.3M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Age Isn't Everything | Grandpa Irving (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christine Cromwell: In Vino Veritas | Larry Cerreta (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 0% | 26% | Loose Cannons | Von Metz (Character) | $4.5M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Green Journey | Bishop Richard Baker (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 0% | 13% | Funny About Love | E.T (Character) | $7.6M | 1990 |
| 60% | 50% | Green Card | Brontë's Lawyer (Character) | $29.8M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Pursuit | Bill (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 71% | 57% | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Grandpa Fred (Character) | $40.5M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | From the Dead of Night | Doctor Walter Hovde (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Heist | Dancer (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Home Fires Burning | Rosh Benefield (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 40% | 70% | The Great Outdoors | Wally (Character) | $37.3M | 1988 |
| 83% | 79% | Things Change | Joseph "Don Giuseppe" Vincent (Character) | $2.3M | 1988 |
| 98% | 79% | Broadcast News | Ernie Merriman (Character) | $49.2M | 1987 |
| 60% | 60% | Big Shots | Keegan (Character) | $2.9M | 1987 |
| 50% | 61% | Outrageous Fortune | Stanislav Korzenowski (Character) | $52.8M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Into Thin Air | Jim Conway (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 82% | 88% | The Natural | The Judge (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 38% | 55% | The Lords of Discipline | Col. "Bear" Berrineau (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 40% | 43% | The Keep | Father Fonescu (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 69% | 64% | Christine | Will Darnell (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 33% | 30% | Hanky Panky | Hiram Calder (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | World War III | Gen. Aleksey Rudenski (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 0% | 19% | Monsignor | Bishop Walkman (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ordeal of Bill Carney | Judge Philip Erbsen (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 94% | 81% | Thief | Leo (Character) | - | 1981 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 80% | ER | Wayne Rutley (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 2000 1997 |
| 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 |
| 93% | 94% | Frasier | T.H. Houghton (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Cheers | Navy Captain Franklin Howe (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coach | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lifestories | Narrator | 1990-1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Murder of Mary Phagan | Unknown (Character) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hill Street Blues | Stan Jablonski (Character) | 1984-1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1986 |
QUOTES FROM Robert Prosky CHARACTERS
Colonel General Aleksey Rudenski says: The Americans will not go to war over this..
E. Garner Goodman says: How much do you know about the death penalty?
Adam Hall says: I've read everything there is.
E. Garner Goodman says: Then you know nothin'.
Will Darnell says: (sees Christine drive into the garage, all burned up) - If I'm gonna have to come in and get ya...I'm gonna get ya.
Will Darnell says: (sees Christine drive into the garage, all burned up) If I'm gonna have to come in and get ya, I'm gonna get ya.
Will Darnell says: Look uh...I know you don't exactly have money falling out of you?re a**hole. If you did, you wouldn't be here...Maybe we can work out some kind of deal...Why don't you sweep up around the place... do a few lubes... put the toilet paper on the little spools, sh*t like that. Do that and you can raid my junk pile for whatever you want? Hell, I might even throw in a few bucks.
Will Darnell says: Look uh, I know you don't exactly have money falling out of you?re a**hole. If you did, you wouldn't be here. Maybe we can work out some kind of deal. Why don't you sweep up around the place, do a few lubes, put the toilet paper on the little spools, sh*t like that. Do that and you can raid my junk pile for whatever you want? Hell, I might even throw in a few bucks.
Arnie Cunningham says: (smiles) - Well, I'll have to think about it.
Arnie Cunningham says: (smiles) Well, I'll have to think about it.
Will Darnell says: (angry) - Well don't think about it too long, I'll throw you out on your fu**ing ass!
Will Darnell says: (angry) Well don't think about it too long, I'll throw you out on your fu**ing ass!
Will Darnell says: Ya know Pepper, ya can't polish a turd.
Will Darnell says: (Arnie pulls the worn out, smoking old Christine into Darnell's Do It Yourself garage) - Kiddo, you sold him that piece of sh*t you ought a be fu**ing ashamed of yourself.
Will Darnell says: (Arnie pulls the worn out, smoking old Christine into Darnell's Do It Yourself garage) Kiddo, you sold him that piece of sh*t you ought a be fu**ing ashamed of yourself.
Dennis Guilder says: I didn't sell it to him. I tried to talk him out of it.
Will Darnell says: You should of tried harder. - I knew a guy who had a car like that once. Fu**ing bastard killed himself in it. Son of a bitch was so mean...if you poured boiling water down his throat...he would have pissed ice cubes.
Will Darnell says: You should of tried harder. I knew a guy who had a car like that once. Fu**ing bastard killed himself in it. Son of a bitch was so mean, if you poured boiling water down his throat he would have pissed ice cubes.