Robert Burton (4) (1946–)

[excerpted from actor's website]
I was born an Army Brat in Frankfurt, West Germany. Constantly on the move and back and forth from Europe, my Dad served one term in Korea and we settled in Pacific Grove, California. I began doing tv commercials part-time out of San Francisco and was fortunate to have been Joe DiMaggio's caddy in one commercial. I turned down a Ph.D. fellowship to the University of Texas to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood.

I managed to get some acting work including starring on the last two years of Lassie and worked with such notables as Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Angie Dickinson, and Katherine Helmond. I married Karen Black and thought I could handle that but I could not. I was about to leave the profession and get a “real” job when I was cast in a New York soap opera entitled For Richer For Poorer which brought me here to New York City.

I went to work as a temp at L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg Towbin on Wall Street and rose through the ranks to become co-head of the international marketing department and director of conferences. Difficult times until 1994 when I was guided into real estate once I was thinking clearly again.