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Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861, San Francisco, California – December 14, 1928, Hollywood, California) 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.
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Birth Name
Theodore J. Roberts
Born
Tuesday, 08 October 1861
Died
Friday, 14 December 1928
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Forgotten Commandments | Moses (edited from "The Ten Commandments" [1923]) | 1932 |
The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
Noisy Neighbors | Colonel Carstairs | 1929 |
Ned McCobb's Daughter | Ned McCobb | 1928 |
The Masks of the Devil | Count Palester | 1928 |
The Cat's Pajamas | Sally's Father | 1926 |
Locked Doors | Mr. Reid | 1925 |
Sweet Lavender | Professor Phenyl | 1923 |
To the Ladies | John Kincaid | 1923 |
Stephen Steps Out | Stephen Harlow Sr. | 1923 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Forgotten Commandments | Moses (edited from "The Ten Commandments" [1923]) | 1932 |
The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
Noisy Neighbors | Colonel Carstairs | 1929 |
Ned McCobb's Daughter | Ned McCobb | 1928 |
The Masks of the Devil | Count Palester | 1928 |
The Cat's Pajamas | Sally's Father | 1926 |
Locked Doors | Mr. Reid | 1925 |
Sweet Lavender | Professor Phenyl | 1923 |
To the Ladies | John Kincaid | 1923 |
Stephen Steps Out | Stephen Harlow Sr. | 1923 |
The Ten Commandments | Moses - The Lawgiver / Moses - The Lawgiver - Prologue | 1923 |
Prodigal Daughters | J.D. Forbes | 1923 |
Night Life in Hollywood | Self | 1922 |
The Old Homestead | Uncle Joshua Whitcomb | 1922 |
A Trip to Paramountown | Himself / Self | 1922 |
If You Believe It, It's So | Sky Blue | 1922 |
Across the Continent | John Dent | 1922 |
Saturday Night | Uncle / Uncle Van | 1922 |
Hail the Woman | Oliver Beresford | 1921 |
Miss Lulu Bett | Dwight Deacon | 1921 |
The Affairs of Anatol | Gordon Bronson | 1921 |
Too Much Speed | Pat MacMurran | 1921 |
The Love Special | Railroad President Gage | 1921 |
The Furnace | General Archibald Foulkes-Brent | 1920 |
Something to Think About | Luke Anderson | 1920 |
Excuse My Dust | J.D. Ward | 1920 |
Judy of Rogues' Harbor | Grandpap Ketchel | 1920 |
Suds | Undetermined Role | 1920 |
Everywoman | Wealth | 1919 |
Male and Female | Lord Loam | 1919 |
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. | Sen. Ballard | 1919 |
What Every Woman Learns | Peter Fortesque | 1919 |
Secret Service | General Harrison Randolph | 1919 |
The Woman Thou Gavest Me | Daniel MacNeill | 1919 |
For Better, for Worse | Hospital Head | 1919 |
The Roaring Road | J.D. Ward, the Bear | 1919 |
Don't Change Your Husband | The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby / The Bishop - Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby | 1919 |
The Squaw Man | Big Bill | 1918 |
Arizona | Canby | 1918 |
Such a Little Pirate | Obadiah Wolf | 1918 |
The Source | Big John Beaumont | 1918 |
We Can't Have Everything | The Sultan | 1918 |
Old Wives for New | Tom Berkeley | 1918 |
M'Liss | John Benson 'Bummer' Smith | 1918 |
The Hidden Pearls | John Garvin | 1918 |
A Petticoat Pilot | 'Cap'n Shad' Gould | 1918 |
The Devil-Stone | 1917 | |
Nan of Music Mountain | Duke Morgan | 1917 |
A Little Princess | Cassim | 1917 |
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan | 1917 | |
The Varmint | A Roman | 1917 |
What Money Can't Buy | Madison Hale | 1917 |
The Cost of Hatred | Justus Graves | 1917 |
A Child of the Wild | 1917 | |
The American Consul | Abel Manning | 1917 |
Joan the Woman | Cauchon | 1916 |
The Plow Girl | Varney | 1916 |
Anton the Terrible | Anton Kazoff | 1916 |
Common Ground | James Mordant | 1916 |
The Thousand-Dollar Husband | Uncle Sven Johnson | 1916 |
The Sowers | Boris Dolokhof | 1916 |
Pudd'nhead Wilson | Pudd'nhead Wilson | 1916 |
Temptation | Otto Mueller | 1915 |
The Unknown | Capt. Destinn | 1915 |
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter | 1915 |
The Case of Becky | Balzamo | 1915 |
The Marriage of Kitty | Undetermined Role | 1915 |
The Secret Orchard | Favereau | 1915 |
The Immigrant | J.J. Walton | 1915 |
The Woman | The Hononorable Jim Blake | 1915 |
The Captive | The Burgomaster | 1915 |
The Unafraid | Dual Empire Secret Agent | 1915 |
After Five | Bruno Schwartz | 1915 |
The Girl of the Golden West | Jack Rance | 1915 |
Ready Money | Mike Reardon | 1914 |
Where the Trail Divides | Colonel William Landor | 1914 |
The Making of Bobby Burnit | Sam Stone | 1914 |