Jeremy Slate

Jeremy Slate
Slate in the early 1970s.
Born	Robert Perham (1926-02-17)February 17, 1926 Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Died	November 19, 2006(2006-11-19) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause of death	Complications from surgery for esophageal cancer
Alma mater	St. Lawrence University
Occupation	Film and television actor
Spouse(s)	Beverly Van Wert (1948-1966, 5 children) Tammy Grimes (1966-1967)

Jeremy Slate (born Robert Bullard Perham; February 17, 1926 - November 19, 2006) was an American film and television actor as well as a songwriter.

He attended a military academy and joined the United States Navy when he was sixteen. He was barely eighteen when his destroyer assisted in the Normandy Invasion on D-Day (June 6, 1944). After the war he attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he graduated with honors in English. He was also president of the student body, a member of the honor society, editor of the college literary magazine, a football player, and the backfield coach of the only undefeated team in the history of the university. He was a campus radio personality who married the queen of his fraternity's ball during his senior year. After graduation he became a radio sportscaster and DJ for several CBS and ABC affiliates while beginning a family that included three sons and one daughter but ultimately ended in divorce. Several years thereafter, he had a second daughter.

For six years, Slate had a promising career with W. R. Grace and Co. as a public relations executive and travel manager for company president J. Peter Grace. He then joined Grace Steamship Lines and moved with his family to Lima, Peru. There he joined a professional theatre group, became involved with a production of "The Rainmaker" and was awarded the Tiahuanacothe, the Peruvian equivalent of the Tony Award, for his portrayal of the character Starbuck. After a year of training, he left W. R. Grace to pursue a theatrical career.

He became known as one of the more talented members of the 1960s beach boy set and costarred with Ron Ely in the 1960-1961 Ivan Tors series The Aquanauts, which was renamed Malibu Run halfway during its brief run on CBS. The series could not compete successfully in the same time slot as NBC's durable western Wagon Train. He guest-starred in nearly one hundred television shows and appeared in twenty feature films. Among his many television appearances were two roles in the courtroom drama series Perry Mason, both times as Perry's client: In season 3, 1960, he played Bob Lansing in the episode, "The Case of the Ominous Outcast", and in season 5, 1962, he played Philip Andrews in "The Case of the Captain's Coins."