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Aliases: Theodore Nowlin Roberts , The Grand Duke of Hollywood

Gender: Male

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 46

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Ten Commandments
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7

The Ten Commandments

(1923) Moses - The Lawgiver
The Captive
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6

The Captive

(1915) The burgomaster
Male and Female
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6

Male and Female

(1919) Lord Loam
Joan the Woman
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6

Joan the Woman

(1916) Cauchon
For Better, for Worse
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6

For Better, for Worse

(1919) Hospital Head
Stolen Goods
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0

Stolen Goods

(1915) German surgeon major
A Little Princess
Average
5

A Little Princess

(1917) Cassim
Something to Think About
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7

Something to Think About

(1920) Luke Anderson

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1942 Self (archive footage)
1929 Uncle
1928 Ned McCobb
Count Palester
1926 N/A
1925 Adam Butterworth
Mr. Reid
1924 John Kincaid
1923 Stephen Harlow Sr.
Moses - The Lawgiver
John Kent
J.D. Forbes
1922 Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
Self
John Dent
Uncle
1921 Oliver Beresford
Dwight Deacon
Gordon Bronson
Pat MacMurran
Jeriamiah Buck
Railroad President Gage
James Harrington Mallory
1920 N/A
Luke Anderson
J.D. Ward
Grandpap Ketchel
John Ogden
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1919 Wealth
Sen. Ballard
Lord Loam
General Harrison Randolph
Gordon Rogers
Daniel MacNeill
J.D. Ward, the Bear
Hospital Head
Major Milligan
The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
N/A
1918 Big Bill
Canby
Big John Beaumont
The Sultan
Tom Berkeley
John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
John Garvin
1917 N/A
Duke Morgan
Cassim
N/A
Justus Graves
Abel Manning
1916 Cauchon
James Mordant
Jim Dugan
Uncle Sven Johnson
Judd Tolliver
1915 J.J. Walton
Otto Mueller
Capt. Destinn
Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
Balzamo
The Hononorable Jim Blake
Horatio Brutus Bangs
German surgeon major
The burgomaster
Dual Empire Secret Agent
Jack Rance
1914 Prince of Aragon
Thomas Braddock
The Grand Duke Vaseill
Mike Reardon
Character Man
Colonel William Landor
Sam Stone
Galen Albert
Year Character Movie/Tv

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