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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1861-10-08 (163 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Theodore Roberts

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.

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Known For

Acting

1942

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)

1929

Uncle's Visit as Uncle

1928

Ned McCobb's Daughter as Ned McCobb
The Masks of the Devil as Count Palester

1926

1925

Locked Doors as Mr. Reid
Forty Winks as Adam Butterworth

1924

To the Ladies as John Kincaid

1923

The Ten Commandments as Moses - The Lawgiver
Racing Hearts as John Kent
Stephen Steps Out as Stephen Harlow Sr.
Prodigal Daughters as J.D. Forbes

1922

The Old Homestead as Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
Our Leading Citizen as Colonel Sam De Mott - Politician

1921

The Affairs of Anatol as Gordon Bronson
Too Much Speed as Pat MacMurran
Miss Lulu Bett as Dwight Deacon
Hail the Woman as Oliver Beresford
Forbidden Fruit as James Harrington Mallory
The Love Special as Railroad President Gage
Sham as Jeriamiah Buck

1920

Excuse My Dust as J.D. Ward
Something to Think About as Luke Anderson
Suds as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Furnace as General Archibald Foulkes-Brent
Double Speed as John Ogden
Judy of Rogues' Harbor as Grandpap Ketchel

1919

The Woman Thou Gavest Me as Daniel MacNeill
Male and Female as Lord Loam
The Winning Girl as Major Milligan
The Roaring Road as J.D. Ward, the Bear
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. as Sen. Ballard
For Better, for Worse as Hospital Head
Don't Change Your Husband as The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
Secret Service as General Harrison Randolph
You're Fired as Gordon Rogers
Everywoman as Wealth
Fires of Faith as Salvationist

1918

The Squaw Man as Big Bill
The Source as Big John Beaumont
M'Liss as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
Arizona as Canby
Old Wives for New as Tom Berkeley
Hidden Pearls as John Garvin

1917

The Cost of Hatred as Justus Graves
The American Consul as Abel Manning
Nan of Music Mountain as Duke Morgan
What Money Can't Buy as Madison Hale

1916

The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Uncle Sven Johnson
Joan the Woman as Cauchon
Common Ground as James Mordant
The Dream Girl as Jim Dugan
Pudd'nhead Wilson as Pudd'nhead Wilson

1915

Temptation as Otto Mueller
The Immigrant as J.J. Walton
Stolen Goods as German surgeon major
The Wild Goose Chase as Horatio Brutus Bangs
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo as Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
The Unafraid as Dual Empire Secret Agent
The Captive as The burgomaster
The Woman as The Hononorable Jim Blake
The Unknown as Capt. Destinn
After Five as Bruno Schwartz

1914

Ready Money as Mike Reardon
The Circus Man as Thomas Braddock
What's His Name as Character Man
Where the Trail Divides as Colonel William Landor
The Man From Home as The Grand Duke Vaseill
The Call of the North as Galen Albert
The Ghost Breaker as Prince of Aragon