Theodore Roberts
Known for Acting · 101 credits
- Born
- 1861-10-08
- Died
- 1928-12-14
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Theodore Nowlin Roberts · The Grand Duke of Hollywood
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.
Known For
Movies (101)
Hidden Pearls
1918
as John Garvin
After Five
1915
as Bruno Schwartz
Forty Winks
1925
as Adam Butterworth
The Unknown
1915
as Capt. Destinn
The Source
1918
as Big John Beaumont
Racing Hearts
1923
as John Kent
M'Liss
1918
as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
Sham
1921
as Jeriamiah Buck
The Ten Commandments
1923
as Moses - The Lawgiver
Anton the Terrible
1916
as Anton Kazoff
Double Speed
1920
as John Ogden
We Can't Have Everything
1918
as The Sultan
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night
1922
as Uncle
To the Ladies
1924
as John Kincaid
Prodigal Daughters
1923
as J.D. Forbes
The Roaring Road
1919
as J.D. Ward, the Bear
Everywoman
1919
as Wealth
What Money Can't Buy
1917
as Madison Hale
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
as Gordon Bronson
The Captive
1915
as The burgomaster
For Better, for Worse
1919
as Hospital Head
Excuse My Dust
1920
as J.D. Ward
Joan the Woman
1916
as Cauchon
Grumpy
1923
as Grumpy
The Ghost Breaker
1914
as Prince of Aragon
Exit the Vamp
1921
as Old Man Shipley
The Furnace
1920
as General Archibald Foulkes-Brent
A Petticoat Pilot
1918
as 'Cap'n Shad' Gould
Nan of Music Mountain
1917
as Duke Morgan
Arizona
1918
as Canby
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1916
as Judd Tolliver
Male and Female
1919
as Lord Loam
The Circus Man
1914
as Thomas Braddock
The Secret Orchard
1915
as Favereau
Locked Doors
1925
as Mr. Reid
The Masks of the Devil
1928
as Count Palester
Peg o' My Heart
1919
Suds
1920
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
What's His Name
1914
as Character Man
The Poor Boob
1919
as Henry Platt
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
The Unafraid
1915
as Dual Empire Secret Agent
Hail the Woman
1921
as Oliver Beresford
Secret Service
1919
as General Harrison Randolph
Our Leading Citizen
1922
as Colonel Sam De Mott - Politician
A Little Princess
1917
as Cassim
Fires of Faith
1919
as Salvationist
Forbidden Fruit
1921
as James Harrington Mallory
Ned McCobb's Daughter
1928
as Ned McCobb
Stolen Goods
1915
as German surgeon major
Stephen Steps Out
1923
as Stephen Harlow Sr.
Something to Think About
1920
as Luke Anderson
Don't Change Your Husband
1919
as The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
Ready Money
1914
as Mike Reardon
The Dream Girl
1916
as Jim Dugan
The Call of the North
1914
as Galen Albert
The Woman
1915
as The Hononorable Jim Blake
Across the Continent
1922
as John Dent
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
as Sen. Ballard
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
1922
as Captain Morgan Pring
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916
as Uncle Sven Johnson
The Sowers
1916
as Boris Dolokhof
Old Wives for New
1918
as Tom Berkeley
The Cat's Pajamas
1926
You're Fired
1919
as Gordon Rogers
The Marriage of Kitty
1915
The Immigrant
1915
as J.J. Walton
The Only Way
1919
What Every Woman Learns
1919
as Peter Fortesque
The Old Homestead
1922
as Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
The Girl of the Golden West
1915
as Jack Rance
Temptation
1915
as Otto Mueller
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915
as Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
The Woman Thou Gavest Me
1919
as Daniel MacNeill
The Wild Goose Chase
1915
as Horatio Brutus Bangs
Where the Trail Divides
1914
as Colonel William Landor
Miss Lulu Bett
1921
as Dwight Deacon
The Making of Bobby Burnit
1914
as Sam Stone
Too Much Speed
1921
as Pat MacMurran
The Winning Girl
1919
as Major Milligan
The Devil Stone
1917
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916
as Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Cost of Hatred
1917
as Justus Graves
The Squaw Man
1918
as Big Bill
Judy of Rogues' Harbor
1920
as Grandpap Ketchel
The Man From Home
1914
as The Grand Duke Vaseill
The Love Special
1921
as Railroad President Gage
The Storm
1916
as Prof. Octavius Raydon
The American Consul
1917
as Abel Manning
Common Ground
1916
as James Mordant
Uncle's Visit
1929
as Uncle
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1917
The Varmint
1917
as A Roman
Noisy Neighbors
1929
as Colonel Carstairs
The Case of Becky
1915
as Balzamo
Sweet Lavender
1920
as Professor Phenyl
If You Believe It, It's So
1922
as Sky Blue
The Plow Girl
1916
as Varney
Such a Little Pirate
1918
as Obadiah Wolf
Love Insurance
1919
as Spencer Meyrick
About Theodore Roberts
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. With 101 credits spanning from 1914 to 1942, Theodore Roberts has appeared in 101 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Hidden Pearls (1918) — as John Garvin
- After Five (1915) — as Bruno Schwartz
- Forty Winks (1925) — as Adam Butterworth
- The Unknown (1915) — as Capt. Destinn
- The Source (1918) — as Big John Beaumont
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