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