Robert Colbert: Robert Colbert. Actor: A Fever in the Blood. Tall, virile American TV leading man of the 1960s and 70s, born in Long Beach, California, the youngest of three siblings of Clarence Loy Colbert Jr. (1902-1962) and Helena M. Colbert (née Gorman, 1900-1990). As a youth, he attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, excelling both academically and as an athlete in track and field. During his school years, he first discovered...