Stephen Roberts (23 November 1895 – 17 July 1936) was an American film director. He directed more than 100 films from 1923 to 1936. He was born in
Summersville, West Virginia
Summersville is a city in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,459 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Nicholas County.
History
Summersville was laid out in 1824. The city was named for Lewis Summers, a l ...
, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack.
Selected filmography
* ''Cheer Up'' (1924) with
Cliff Bowes, Virginia Vance,
Eddie Boland
* ''The Radio Bug'' (1926) short comedy filmed in both silent and
Phonofilm
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.
In 1919 and 1920, de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patents on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofi ...
versions
* ''
Listen Lena'' (1927)
* ''
Lady and Gent'' (1932)
* ''
If I Had a Million'' (1932)
* ''
The Story of Temple Drake'' (1933)
* ''
The Trumpet Blows'' (1934)
* ''
Romance in Manhattan'' (1935)
* ''
Star of Midnight'' 1935, RKO. Source: ''Graham Greene on Film'', Simon and Schuster 1972, p. 14.
* ''
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford'' (1936)
References
External links
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1895 births
1936 deaths
Film directors from West Virginia
People from Summersville, West Virginia
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