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