Theodore Roberts
Acting
Born October 8, 1861, San Francisco, California, USA
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
- 1929Noisy Neighbors — Colonel Carstairs
- 1929Uncle's Visit — Uncle
- 1928Ned McCobb's Daughter — Ned McCobb
- 1928The Masks of the Devil — Count Palester
- 1926The Cat's Pajamas
- 1925Forty Winks — Adam Butterworth
- 1925Locked Doors — Mr. Reid
- 1924To the Ladies — John Kincaid
- 1923Grumpy — Grumpy
- 1923Prodigal Daughters — J.D. Forbes
- 1923Racing Hearts — John Kent
- 1923Stephen Steps Out — Stephen Harlow Sr.
- 1923The Ten Commandments — Moses - The Lawgiver
- 1922Across the Continent — John Dent
- 1922If You Believe It, It's So — Sky Blue
- 1922Our Leading Citizen — Colonel Sam De Mott - Politician
- 1922Saturday Night — Uncle
- 1922The Man Who Saw Tomorrow — Captain Morgan Pring
- 1922The Old Homestead — Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
- 1921Exit the Vamp — Old Man Shipley
- 1921Forbidden Fruit — James Harrington Mallory
- 1921Hail the Woman — Oliver Beresford
- 1921Miss Lulu Bett — Dwight Deacon
- 1921Sham — Jeriamiah Buck
- 1921The Affairs of Anatol — Gordon Bronson
- 1921The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel — As himself
- 1921The Love Special — Railroad President Gage
- 1921Too Much Speed — Pat MacMurran
- 1920Double Speed — John Ogden
- 1920Excuse My Dust — J.D. Ward
- 1920Judy of Rogues' Harbor — Grandpap Ketchel
- 1920Something to Think About — Luke Anderson
- 1920Suds — Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- 1920Sweet Lavender — Professor Phenyl
- 1920The Furnace — General Archibald Foulkes-Brent
- 1919Don't Change Your Husband — The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
- 1919Everywoman — Wealth
- 1919Fires of Faith — Salvationist
- 1919For Better, for Worse — Hospital Head
- 1919Hawthorne of the U.S.A. — Sen. Ballard
- 1919Love Insurance — Spencer Meyrick
- 1919Male and Female — Lord Loam
- 1919Peg o' My Heart
- 1919Secret Service — General Harrison Randolph
- 1919The Only Way
- 1919The Poor Boob — Henry Platt
- 1919The Roaring Road — J.D. Ward, the Bear
- 1919The Winning Girl — Major Milligan
- 1919The Woman Thou Gavest Me — Daniel MacNeill
- 1919What Every Woman Learns — Peter Fortesque
- 1919You're Fired — Gordon Rogers
- 1918A Petticoat Pilot — 'Cap'n Shad' Gould
- 1918Arizona — Canby
- 1918Hidden Pearls — John Garvin
- 1918M'Liss — John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
- 1918Old Wives for New — Tom Berkeley
- 1918Such a Little Pirate — Obadiah Wolf
- 1918The Source — Big John Beaumont
- 1918The Squaw Man — Big Bill
- 1918We Can't Have Everything — The Sultan
- 1917A Little Princess — Cassim
- 1917All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
- 1917Nan of Music Mountain — Duke Morgan
- 1917The American Consul — Abel Manning
- 1917The Cost of Hatred — Justus Graves
- 1917The Devil Stone
- 1917The Varmint — A Roman
- 1917What Money Can't Buy — Madison Hale
- 1916Anton the Terrible — Anton Kazoff
- 1916Common Ground — James Mordant
- 1916Joan the Woman — Cauchon
- 1916Pudd'nhead Wilson — Pudd'nhead Wilson
- 1916The Dream Girl — Jim Dugan
- 1916The Plow Girl — Varney
- 1916The Sowers — Boris Dolokhof
- 1916The Storm — Prof. Octavius Raydon
- 1916The Thousand-Dollar Husband — Uncle Sven Johnson
- 1916The Trail of the Lonesome Pine — Judd Tolliver
- 1915After Five — Bruno Schwartz
- 1915Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo — Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
- 1915Stolen Goods — German surgeon major
- 1915Temptation — Otto Mueller
- 1915The Captive — The burgomaster
- 1915The Case of Becky — Balzamo
- 1915The Girl of the Golden West — Jack Rance
- 1915The Immigrant — J.J. Walton
- 1915The Marriage of Kitty
- 1915The Secret Orchard — Favereau
- 1915The Unafraid — Dual Empire Secret Agent
- 1915The Unknown — Capt. Destinn
- 1915The Wild Goose Chase — Horatio Brutus Bangs
- 1915The Woman — The Hononorable Jim Blake
- 1914Ready Money — Mike Reardon
- 1914The Call of the North — Galen Albert
- 1914The Circus Man — Thomas Braddock
- 1914The Ghost Breaker — Prince of Aragon
- 1914The Making of Bobby Burnit — Sam Stone
- 1914The Man From Home — The Grand Duke Vaseill
- 1914What's His Name — Character Man
- 1914Where the Trail Divides — Colonel William Landor
Appearances as themselves (2)
- 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) — Self (archive footage)
- 1922A Trip to Paramountown — Self