Theodore Roberts
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.
Born: October 8, 1861
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known For
A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Don't Change Your Husband
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
The Ten Commandments
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
Old Wives for New
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Suds
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
Something to Think About
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
Male and Female
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
Forbidden Fruit
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
American law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when Hawthorne breaks the bank. While driving through the impoverished kingdom of Bovinia, Hawthorne falls in love with a woman he meets when he retrieves his blown-off cap. Deciding to stay, Hawthorne is persuaded to finance a revolution until he learns that the woman he loves is Princess Irma and that she is in danger of being assassinated.
For Better, for Worse
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Ned McCobb
as Count Palester
as Adam Butterworth
as Mr. Reid
as John Kincaid
as Stephen Harlow Sr.
as Moses - The Lawgiver
as John Kent
as J.D. Forbes
as Grumpy
as Captain Morgan Pring
as Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
as Self
as Sky Blue
as Colonel Sam De Mott - Politician
as John Dent
as Uncle
as Oliver Beresford
as Old Man Shipley
as Dwight Deacon
as Gordon Bronson
as Pat MacMurran
as Jeriamiah Buck
as Railroad President Gage
as James Harrington Mallory
as General Archibald Foulkes-Brent
as Luke Anderson
as Professor Phenyl
as J.D. Ward
as Grandpap Ketchel
as John Ogden
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
as Wealth
as Sen. Ballard
as Lord Loam
as Peter Fortesque
as Spencer Meyrick
as Salvationist
as General Harrison Randolph
as Gordon Rogers
as Daniel MacNeill
as Hospital Head
as J.D. Ward, the Bear
as Henry Platt
as Major Milligan
as The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
as Big Bill
as Canby
as Obadiah Wolf
as Big John Beaumont
as The Sultan
as Tom Berkeley
as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
as John Garvin
as Duke Morgan
as Cassim
as A Roman
as Madison Hale
as Justus Graves
as Cauchon
as Varney
as Prof. Octavius Raydon
as Anton Kazoff
as James Mordant
as Jim Dugan
as Boris Dolokhof
as Judd Tolliver
as J.J. Walton
as Otto Mueller
as Capt. Destinn
as Balzamo
as The Hononorable Jim Blake
as Favereau
as Horatio Brutus Bangs
as German surgeon major
as The burgomaster
as Dual Empire Secret Agent
as Bruno Schwartz
as Jack Rance
as Prince of Aragon
as Thomas Braddock
as The Grand Duke Vaseill
as Mike Reardon
as Character Man
as Colonel William Landor
as Galen Albert