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Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American
He started his film career in the 1910s in
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film
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and stage actor
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.
Early life
Roberts was born inSan Francisco
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, California
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. He was a cousin of the stage actress Florence Roberts
Florence Roberts (March 16, 1861/1864 – June 6, 1940(photo included) was an American actress of the stage and in motion pictures.
Stock company actress
Born in New York City, she began acting onstage there. Her career began at the Brooklyn ...
. His choice of a career disappointed his mother (who wanted him to become a minister) and his father (who wanted him to learn a trade).
Career
Roberts debuted on stage at the Baldwin Theatre in San Francisco in 1880. He went on to act with a barnstorming troupe on the West Coast but tired of that lifestyle after several years and left acting for a time to command a schooner owned by his father. On stage in the 1890s he acted withFanny Davenport
Fanny Lily Gipsey Davenport (April 10, 1850 – September 26, 1898) was an English-American stage actress.
Life
The eldest child of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Elizabeth (Vining) Gill Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport was born on ...
in her play ''Gismonda'' (1894) and later in ''The Bird of Paradise'' (1912). His Broadway career began with ''We'Uns of Tennessee'' (1899) and ended with ''Believe Me Xantippe'' (1913).
He started his film career in the 1910s in Hollywood
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, and was often associated in the productions of Cecil B. DeMille. He portrayed Moses
Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu ( Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important pr ...
in the biblical prologue of DeMille's ''The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ ...
'' (1923). One of his last film appearances was as the heroine's father in ''The Cat's Pajamas
''The Cat's Pajamas'' is a 1926 American comedy silent film directed by William A. Wellman and written by Louis D. Lighton, Hope Loring and Ernest Vajda. The film stars Betty Bronson, Ricardo Cortez, Arlette Marchal, Theodore Roberts, Gordon ...
'' (1926).
Roberts also performed in vaudeville. After the end of a marriage, he spent six months in a New York jail because he refused to pay alimony.
Death
Roberts died of uremic poisoning inHollywood
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* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
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, California
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at age 67 and is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*Photographs and literature on Theodore Roberts
1861 births 1928 deaths 19th-century American male actors American male stage actors 20th-century American male actors American male silent film actors Male actors from San Francisco Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Vaudeville performers {{US-theat-actor-1860s-stub