Children from his marriage to Emily McNair - Nancy Zimbalist and Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III (by McNair, CEO Active Interest Media).
Father of Stephanie Zimbalist.
He has played the same character (Alfred Pennyworth) on five different series: "Batman" (1992), "Superman" (1996), "The New Batman Adventures" (1997), "Static Shock" (2000) and "Justice League" (2001).
He was severely wounded during his World War II service, at Huertgen Forest.
In 1935, after accompanying his father on a concert tour of the Soviet Union, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was enrolled by his parents to a boarding school in Kiev, while they visited western Europe. Expected to learn piano in a class of wonderkinds, he was rather handicapped, for the classes were taught in Ukrainian - - a language he did not know. He eventually ran off to Moscow, where his elder sister had been lodged with a family. After spending a bad winter in Moscow, (they only had their summer clothing, at the time). He and his sister hid the last of their money in the bottom of a cold-cream jar to prevent confiscation by Russian border officials, and they escaped from Moscow, by train to Paris.
Named an honorary FBI agent and presented an FBI badge by Director Louis Freeh. [Monday, June 8th, 2009]
Son of violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr. and opera singer Alma Gluck.
Younger stepbrother of Marcia Davenport.
Zimbalist was an early practitioner and proponent of Transcendental Meditation, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, prior to his conversion to Christianity.