Robert Barr Miller
- Actor
Canadian murderer and small-time crook who appeared in one film. Born Robert Miller Barr in Chilliwack, British Columbia, on November 6, 1911, Barr as a child made his way to the United States with his parents. As he approached adulthood, he embarked on a career of mainly petty crimes. In July, 1935, with a partner, Clyde Johnson, held up an establishment in Castella, California. On the run, they were overtaken in Dunsmuir, California, by Highway Patrolman George Malone and honorary Dunsmuir police chief Frank "Jack" Daw. The outlaws shot both officers, and Daw died. Barr escaped, while Johnson was captured and arrested. Johnson was subsequently broken out of the Yreka, California, jail and lynched. Barr made his escape to southern California. He supported himself by small robberies and also by getting a job as an actor in the film Rose Marie while it shot on location in Lake Tahoe, working under the alias Robert Miller. Captured in Los Angeles later in 1936, he confessed not only to his crimes but to his brief career as an actor. He was sentenced to life in prison and incarcerated first at Folsom prison and later at San Quentin. After eight years working as a meat cutter in the prison, he was paroled in order to be deported back to Canada. What became of him thereafter is unknown.