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Your first IMDb credit is 'Jimmy Coleman' on "Maverick." Anything you can share about getting started in your career with that role?
Robert Redford: I've got news for you. It's not the first. Want to know the first? This is embarrassing. The first show I ever did was a segment of "Perry Mason." It was 1959 [in an episode called] "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee." That's how it all started and it's a miracle I survived!
Robert Redford: I've got news for you. It's not the first. Want to know the first? This is embarrassing. The first show I ever did was a segment of "Perry Mason." It was 1959 [in an episode called] "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee." That's how it all started and it's a miracle I survived!
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