Theodore Roberts
Birthday: 1861-10-08
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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.
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The Ten Commandments
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receip...
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The Squaw Man
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming...
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Temptation
Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. S...
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The Cost of Hatred
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he re...
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (J...
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Ready Money
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city type...
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The Devil Stone
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy ...
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The Circus Man
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling ...
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We Can't Have Everything
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage i...
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Racing Hearts
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daugh...
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To the Ladies
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in co...
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbek...
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Male and Female
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler....
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The Affairs of Anatol
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excit...
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The Immigrant
Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil ...
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The Source
A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and...
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Too Much Speed
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim....
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Stolen Goods
The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbe...
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Locked Doors
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid f...
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What's His Name
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years ...
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The Wild Goose Chase
Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by...
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A Little Princess
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does ...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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The Masks of the Devil
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, ...
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter o...
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Miss Lulu Bett
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, w...
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The Unafraid
In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her s...
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Saturday Night
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry t...
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M'Liss
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is...
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The Winning Girl
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Mil...
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Hail the Woman
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories a...
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Arizona
A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not lov...
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The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is ...
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The Roaring Road
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quar...
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Excuse My Dust
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't ...
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
American law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when...
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Forbidden Fruit
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no r...
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Something to Think About
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to th...
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All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
Short film with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & W.S. Hart promoting war bonds....
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal ...
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The American Consul
Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his o...
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The Making of Bobby Burnit
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Bec...
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Where the Trail Divides
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an In...
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Old Wives for New
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becom...
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The Captive
During the Balkan Wars, Sonia is a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger...
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For Better, for Worse
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, b...
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Joan the Woman
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w...
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Suds
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes ...
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The Girl of the Golden West
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too,...
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Common Ground
Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mo...
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Don't Change Your Husband
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking...
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Prodigal Daughters
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Fo...
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Secret Service
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate line...
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The Love Special
Jim Glover is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company pres...
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The Call of the North
Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to ave...
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The Woman
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry ...
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The Case of Becky
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality....
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The Unknown
Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" fi...
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Hidden Pearls
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in lov...
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The Furnace
Folly Vallance marries millionaire Anthony Bond for his money, but he insists on a marriage in name ...
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The Cat's Pajamas
Sally, seamstress for a fashionable modiste, supports a disabled father and adores her kitten, Tommy...
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The Old Homestead
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson....
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Double Speed
Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles....
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You're Fired
Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Dee...
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The Dream Girl
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in schem...
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protecto...
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Everywoman
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1...
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Sham
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant y...
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Forty Winks
The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, pe...
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Nan of Music Mountain
Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider...
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Across the Continent
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed fro...
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The Ghost Breaker
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaine...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites....
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Fires of Faith
The story of the Salvation Army, told through the tale of two men and two women who serve in the Fir...
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After Five
Thinking that he has lost both his money and his beloved Nora's in a bad investment young New Yorker...
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The Marriage of Kitty
A young woman who agrees to a sham wedding with Lord Riginald Belsize because his inheritance prohib...
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What Money Can't Buy
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor...
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The Poor Boob
When he loses both his father’s canning factory and his girl “Tiny” to Stephen Douglas modest Simpso...
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Sweet Lavender
Ruth Holt, owner of a boardinghouse in a small college town, lives with her pretty niece "Sweet Lave...
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If You Believe It, It's So
The story of a crook who achieves regeneration through association rather than reformation through f...
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The Storm
A young woman asks her former sweetheart, a minister, to perform the marriage service in her wedding...
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
In trying to decide whom to marry--Rita Pring, the daughter of a South Seas ship captain, or Lady He...
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The Sowers
Headed by a young nobleman, the Russian League of Freedom determines to free the peasants from oppre...
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Exit the Vamp
Marion Shipley is happily devoted to her husband, John, until Mrs. Willy Strong, a society "vampire,...
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What Every Woman Learns
Because Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries D...
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The Secret Orchard
The Secret Orchard is a 1915 American drama silent film directed by Frank Reicher....
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The Varmint
John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when i...
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