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
- Ned McCobb's Daughter as Ned McCobb
- The Masks of the Devil as Count Palester
1926
1925
- Forty Winks as Adam Butterworth
- Locked Doors as Mr. Reid
1924
- To the Ladies as John Kincaid
1923
- The Ten Commandments as Moses - The Lawgiver
- Grumpy as Grumpy
- Racing Hearts as John Kent
- Prodigal Daughters as J.D. Forbes
- Stephen Steps Out as Stephen Harlow Sr.
1922
- Saturday Night as Uncle
- The Old Homestead as Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- Across the Continent as John Dent
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow as Captain Morgan Pring
- Our Leading Citizen as Colonel Sam De Mott - Politician
- If You Believe It, It's So as Sky Blue
1921
- Forbidden Fruit as James Harrington Mallory
- The Affairs of Anatol as Gordon Bronson
- Hail the Woman as Oliver Beresford
- Miss Lulu Bett as Dwight Deacon
- The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel as As himself
- Too Much Speed as Pat MacMurran
- Sham as Jeriamiah Buck
- The Love Special as Railroad President Gage
- Exit the Vamp as Old Man Shipley
1920
- The Furnace as General Archibald Foulkes-Brent
- Suds as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Something to Think About as Luke Anderson
- Excuse My Dust as J.D. Ward
- Sweet Lavender as Professor Phenyl
- Judy of Rogues' Harbor as Grandpap Ketchel
- Double Speed as John Ogden
1919
- Love Insurance as Spencer Meyrick
- Male and Female as Lord Loam
- For Better, for Worse as Hospital Head
- The Poor Boob as Henry Platt
- Hawthorne of the U.S.A. as Sen. Ballard
- The Roaring Road as J.D. Ward, the Bear
- What Every Woman Learns as Peter Fortesque
- Don't Change Your Husband as The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
- You're Fired as Gordon Rogers
- Secret Service as General Harrison Randolph
- The Winning Girl as Major Milligan
- Peg o' My Heart
- Everywoman as Wealth
- Fires of Faith as Salvationist
- The Only Way
- The Woman Thou Gavest Me as Daniel MacNeill
1918
- A Petticoat Pilot as 'Cap'n Shad' Gould
- Old Wives for New as Tom Berkeley
- Such a Little Pirate as Obadiah Wolf
- We Can't Have Everything as The Sultan
- Hidden Pearls as John Garvin
- M'Liss as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
- The Squaw Man as Big Bill
- The Source as Big John Beaumont
- Arizona as Canby
1917
- The Varmint as A Roman
- A Little Princess as Cassim
- The Devil Stone
- Nan of Music Mountain as Duke Morgan
- The Cost of Hatred as Justus Graves
- What Money Can't Buy as Madison Hale
- All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
- The American Consul as Abel Manning
1916
- The Sowers as Boris Dolokhof
- The Plow Girl as Varney
- Joan the Woman as Cauchon
- Anton the Terrible as Anton Kazoff
- The Dream Girl as Jim Dugan
- The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Uncle Sven Johnson
- Pudd'nhead Wilson as Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The Storm as Prof. Octavius Raydon
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Judd Tolliver
- Common Ground as James Mordant
1915
- The Secret Orchard as Favereau
- After Five as Bruno Schwartz
- The Captive as The burgomaster
- The Unknown as Capt. Destinn
- The Woman as The Hononorable Jim Blake
- The Case of Becky as Balzamo
- The Girl of the Golden West as Jack Rance
- The Immigrant as J.J. Walton
- The Wild Goose Chase as Horatio Brutus Bangs
- Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo as Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
- Temptation as Otto Mueller
- The Unafraid as Dual Empire Secret Agent
- Stolen Goods as German surgeon major
- The Marriage of Kitty
1914
- Ready Money as Mike Reardon
- The Ghost Breaker as Prince of Aragon
- The Man From Home as The Grand Duke Vaseill
- The Call of the North as Galen Albert
- What's His Name as Character Man
- The Making of Bobby Burnit as Sam Stone
- The Circus Man as Thomas Braddock
- Where the Trail Divides as Colonel William Landor