| Robert LeClair | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||
| Days Of Our Lives | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Robert Clary | ||||||||||||||||
| Current status | Former; Regular | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1972–73, 1975-83, 1986-87 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | August 28, 1972 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | June 17, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Left Town (now deceased) | ||||||||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Betty Corday | ||||||||||||||||
| Profile | |||||||||||||||||
| Fullname | Robert Jacobs (birthname) | ||||||||||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish-American | ||||||||||||||||
| Gender | Male | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | Before 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cause of death | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Singer at Doug's Place | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Unknown Formerly Salem, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
Robert LeClair was a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Robert Clary.
Storylines
Robert LeClair was a close friend of Doug Williams' and would often perform with him at Doug's Place. He also served as Doug’s best man at his and Julie Olsons 1976 wedding. He was infatuated with Rebecca North, Doug's housekeeper, and when she’s pregnant and abandoned at the altar by her boyfriend Johnny, he steps in to marry her and accept the child as his own. He learns from Linda Patterson that she was artificially inseminated which eases his doubts of Rebecca being unfaithful and he legally adopts Dougie LeClair as his own and makes Doug and Julie his godparents.
Despite his attempts to make Rebecca love him, her heart belonged to Johnny Collins and he agrees to a divorce with the two sharing custody of Dougie. However, when Rebecca wants to move Japan with Johnny, Robert fights for full custody for Dougie but loses in court and reluctantly lets her take his son with the promise that she visit once year. He regains custody of Dougie in February 1979 after Rebecca dies in a plane crash. A safety deposit box is discovered with a letter to Doug revealing that his is the biological father of Dougie. Doug kept it to himself while setting up a trust for Dougie until Robert reveals his intentions to move to Paris with his sister because he felt Dougie would need a maternal influence. At that point, Dougie was renamed Charles. Doug reveals the truth Christmas of that year. With this revelation, Robert decides to stay In Salem and let Doug be apart of his son’s life under the condition that he never tell Dougie the truth. The next year however, Robert moves to Paris anyway with Dougie who eventually went to a Swiss boarding school.
He returned to Salem for Doug's help after he gets in trouble with the DiMeras after stealing money from them while laundering it for them. He helps get info on Stefano DiMera and clears his fears but leaves Salem again. In 1986, he returned and revealed that not only is he a Holocaust survivor, but Robin Jacobs' uncle, Mike Hortons then love interest. When a former Nazi war criminal, Dr. Fredrich Kluger, under the guise of “Fred Miller” arrives at Salem University Hospital, Robert sets out to prove that he's the man responsible for his mother’s death. Robert is shot by Fred in a confrontation but survives and Fred is arrested. The incident and reconnecting Robin and her father inspires him to speak about his Holocaust experience on a lecture tour.
In 2024, Robert's grandson, Doug Williams III, mentions that his Grandpa Robert had passed away.
