Theodore Roberts
Born: 1861-10-08 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1928-12-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American movie and stage actor. He was a stage actor decades before becoming lovable old man in silents. On stage in the 1890s he acted with Fanny Davenport in her play called Gismonda (1894) and later in The Bird of Paradise (1912) with actress Laurette Taylor. He started his film career in the 1910s in Hollywood, and was often was associated in the productions of Cecil B. DeMille. He was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filmography
1942
- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
1929
- Noisy Neighbors as Colonel Carstairs
- Uncle's Visit as Uncle
1928
- The Masks of the Devil as Count Palester
- Ned McCobb's Daughter as Ned McCobb
1926
1925
- Locked Doors as Mr. Reid
- Forty Winks as Adam Butterworth
1924
- To the Ladies as John Kincaid
1923
- The Ten Commandments as Moses - The Lawgiver
- Racing Hearts as John Kent
- Prodigal Daughters as J.D. Forbes
- Stephen Steps Out as Stephen Harlow Sr.
- Grumpy as Grumpy
1922
- The Old Homestead as Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- Saturday Night as Uncle
- Across the Continent as John Dent
- If You Believe It, It's So as Sky Blue
- Our Leading Citizen as Colonel Sam De Mott - Politician
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow as Captain Morgan Pring
1921
- The Affairs of Anatol as Gordon Bronson
- Sham as Jeriamiah Buck
- Forbidden Fruit as James Harrington Mallory
- Miss Lulu Bett as Dwight Deacon
- The Love Special as Railroad President Gage
- Exit the Vamp as Old Man Shipley
- Hail the Woman as Oliver Beresford
- Too Much Speed as Pat MacMurran
1920
- Judy of Rogues' Harbor as Grandpap Ketchel
- The Furnace as General Archibald Foulkes-Brent
- Suds as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Something to Think About as Luke Anderson
- Sweet Lavender as Professor Phenyl
- Excuse My Dust as J.D. Ward
- Double Speed as John Ogden
1919
- Male and Female as Lord Loam
- The Winning Girl as Major Milligan
- Secret Service as General Harrison Randolph
- For Better, for Worse as Hospital Head
- The Roaring Road as J.D. Ward, the Bear
- The Poor Boob as Henry Platt
- Don't Change Your Husband as The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
- Hawthorne of the U.S.A. as Sen. Ballard
- Everywoman as Wealth
- What Every Woman Learns as Peter Fortesque
- You're Fired as Gordon Rogers
- Fires of Faith as Salvationist
- The Only Way
- Love Insurance as Spencer Meyrick
- The Woman Thou Gavest Me as Daniel MacNeill
- Peg o' My Heart
1918
- Hidden Pearls as John Garvin
- We Can't Have Everything as The Sultan
- Old Wives for New as Tom Berkeley
- The Squaw Man as Big Bill
- M'Liss as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
- Arizona as Canby
- The Source as Big John Beaumont
- Such a Little Pirate as Obadiah Wolf
- A Petticoat Pilot as 'Cap'n Shad' Gould
1917
- A Little Princess as Cassim
- The Varmint as A Roman
- The American Consul as Abel Manning
- The Cost of Hatred as Justus Graves
- All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
- The Devil Stone
- Nan of Music Mountain as Duke Morgan
- What Money Can't Buy as Madison Hale
1916
- Joan the Woman as Cauchon
- The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Uncle Sven Johnson
- Anton the Terrible as Anton Kazoff
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Judd Tolliver
- The Dream Girl as Jim Dugan
- Common Ground as James Mordant
- Pudd'nhead Wilson as Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The Storm as Prof. Octavius Raydon
- The Sowers as Boris Dolokhof
- The Plow Girl as Varney
1915
- The Unafraid as Dual Empire Secret Agent
- The Captive as The burgomaster
- The Immigrant as J.J. Walton
- The Case of Becky as Balzamo
- Temptation as Otto Mueller
- After Five as Bruno Schwartz
- Stolen Goods as German surgeon major
- Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo as Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
- The Girl of the Golden West as Jack Rance
- The Wild Goose Chase as Horatio Brutus Bangs
- The Woman as The Hononorable Jim Blake
- The Unknown as Capt. Destinn
- The Marriage of Kitty
- The Secret Orchard as Favereau
1914
- The Call of the North as Galen Albert
- The Making of Bobby Burnit as Sam Stone
- Where the Trail Divides as Colonel William Landor
- The Ghost Breaker as Prince of Aragon
- The Circus Man as Thomas Braddock
- Ready Money as Mike Reardon
- The Man From Home as The Grand Duke Vaseill
- What's His Name as Character Man