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