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Roy Roberts

Actor

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Birth Place

Tampa, Florida

Born

March 19, 1900

Died

May 28, 1975

Biography

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Roy Roberts was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Roberts appeared in such films as "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943), the Anne Baxter biographical drama "The Sullivans" (1944) and "Tampico" (1944) with Edward G Robinson. He also appeared in the drama "Roger Touhy, Gangster" (1944) with Preston Foster, "Wilson" (1945) and the drama "A Bell For Adan...

Filmography

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The Outfit (1974)

Chinatown (1974)

The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

This Savage Land (1969)

Elizabeth's father

Some Kind of a Nut (1969)

1st vice president

Photos & Videos

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He Walked By Night (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Hand Me That Hammer

House Of Wax (1953) -- (Movie Clip) They Always Want A Corpse

Biography

Roy Roberts was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Roberts appeared in such films as "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943), the Anne Baxter biographical drama "The Sullivans" (1944) and "Tampico" (1944) with Edward G Robinson. He also appeared in the drama "Roger Touhy, Gangster" (1944) with Preston Foster, "Wilson" (1945) and the drama "A Bell For Adano" (1945) with John Hodiak. His film career continued throughout the forties and the fifties in productions like the crime picture "The Reckless Moment" (1949) with James Mason, the action film "Chain Lightning" (1950) with Humphrey Bogart and "Borderline" (1950). He also appeared in the adventure "The Palomino" (1950) with Jerome Courtland. Toward the end of his career, he continued to act in "The King and Four Queens" (1956) with Clark Gable, the Efrem Zimbalist Jr. drama "The Chapman Report" (1962) and the Brian Keith adaptation "Those Calloways" (1964). He also appeared in "I'll Take Sweden" (1965) with Bob Hope and the Rod Taylor dramatic adaptation "Hotel" (1967). Roberts was most recently credited in "The Christmas Angel" (NBC, 1998-99). Roberts passed away in May 1975 at the age of 69.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Outfit (1974)

Chinatown (1974)

The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

This Savage Land (1969)

Elizabeth's father

Some Kind of a Nut (1969)

1st vice president

Tammy and the Millionaire (1967)

I'll Take Sweden (1965)

Those Calloways (1965)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

The Underwater City (1962)

The Chapman Report (1962)

The White Squaw (1956)

Backlash (1956)

Yaqui Drums (1956)

The Boss (1956)

The King and Four Queens (1956)

Sheriff Tom Larrabee

The First Texan (1956)

The Last Command (1955)

Stranger on Horseback (1955)

The Eternal Sea (1955)

Medical captain

Wyoming Renegades (1955)

Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

Chief Ranger Will Erickson

I Cover the Underworld (1955)

District Attorney

The Outlaw Stallion (1954)

Sea of Lost Ships (1954)

Captain of the <I>Eagle</I>

Dawn at Socorro (1954)

They Rode West (1954)

Second Chance (1953)

House of Wax (1953)

The Glory Brigade (1953)

Sgt. Chuck Anderson

San Antone (1953)

Tumbleweed (1953)

The Man Behind the Gun (1953)

Sen. Mark Sheldon

The Lone Hand (1953)

One Minute to Zero (1952)

Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Maj. George Porter Houston

The Big Trees (1952)

Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)

Hoodlum Empire (1952)

Cripple Creek (1952)

Marshal John Tetheroe

The Cimarron Kid (1952)

Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

My Favorite Spy (1951)

Stage to Tucson (1951)

The Enforcer (1951)

Capt. Frank Nelson

The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Santa Fe (1951)

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)

The Tanks Are Coming (1951)

Fighting Coast Guard (1951)

Sheriff Knudson

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

The Second Face (1950)

Borderline (1950)

Chain Lightning (1950)

Wyoming Mail (1950)

Charles De Haven

The Palomino (1950)

Bodyhold (1950)

Charlie Webster

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)

A Kiss for Corliss (1949)

The Reckless Moment (1949)

Flaming Fury (1949)

Capt. Taplinger

Force of Evil (1949)

Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

Chicago Deadline (1949)

Jerry Cavanaugh

Joan of Arc (1948)

Wandamme, a Burgundian captain

No Minor Vices (1948)

Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)

Captain from Castile (1948)

Captain Alvarado

Gentleman's Agreement (1948)

He Walked by Night (1948)

The Gay Intruders (1948)

Charles McNulty

Nightmare Alley (1947)

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Daisy Kenyon (1947)

The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)

Behind Green Lights (1946)

Strange Triangle (1946)

Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)

A Bell for Adano (1945)

Circumstantial Evidence (1945)

The Caribbean Mystery (1945)

Capt. Van den Bark

Within These Walls (1945)

The Sullivans (1944)

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Capt. Jim Cross

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Chief set Electrician

Omar Khayyam (1957)

Stalag 17 (1953)

Red, Hot and Blue (1949)

The Accused (1949)

The Great Man's Lady (1942)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984)

Production Assistant

The Great McGinty (1940)

I Love That Man (1933)

Chief Electrician

College Humor (1933)

Chief Electrician

Cast (Special)

The Marriage Broker (1957)

Don Chancelor (Guest)

Alias Mike Hercules (1956)

Walter Harding (Guest)

Producer (Special)

Miss A. and Miss M. (1993)

A Tale of Two Cities (1989)

A Wreath of Roses (1989)

The Ebony Tower (1987)

December Flower (1987)

A Dedicated Man (1985)

Misc. Crew (Special)

The Christmas Angel (1998)

Life Events

Videos

He Walked By Night (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Hand Me That Hammer Crime-lab whiz Lee (Jack Webb) works some magic for cops Jones (James Cardwell) and Brennan (Scott Brady), impressing Captain Breen (Roy Roberts) in He Walked By Night, 1948.

House Of Wax (1953) -- (Movie Clip) They Always Want A Corpse Burke (Roy Roberts), believing he's successfully offed his partner in a fire and collected the insurance money, boasting for cute but conniving Cathy (Carolyn Jones), then assailed by a phantom guy (Who might be Vincent Price!), in House Of Wax, 1953.

My Darling Clementine (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Indian Charlie The cattle-driving Earp brothers (Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Tim Holt) arrive at the fancied-up barber shop in Tombstone when trouble arises, with some racism, early in John Ford's My Darling Clementine, 1946.

Chain Lightning (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Make Him Come Down! Distinctly not-bad special effects, Roy Roberts a general running a flight test, Raymond Massey the aviation kingpin, Eleanor Parker the panicked girlfriend of the pilot, revealed to be Humphrey Bogart, Stuart Heisler directing, opening the jet-age melodrama Chain Lightning, 1950.

Chain Lightning (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Never Mind The Clusters Dragged to a party at the home of an aircraft tycoon (Raymond Massey), veteran pilot Matt (Humphrey Bogart) with pal "Hink" (James Brown), surprised by ex-girlfriend Jo (Eleanor Parker), escorted by engineer Troxell (Richard Whorf), then cornered by his ex-commander (Roy Roberts), in Chain Lightning, 1950.

Boss, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Middle Class City Ghost-screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's opening, 1919, introducing doughboy Matt (John Payne), two comrades (William Bishop, Bob Morgan) griping on parade, big brother Tim (Roy Roberts) and girlfriend Elsie (Doe Avedon), in The Boss, 1956.

House Of Wax (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Historic Peep Show Director Andre de Toth's excellent opening shots and introduction of Professor Jarrod (Vincent Price), entering into a cordial disagreement with his partner Burke (Roy Roberts), in Warner Bros.' 1953 version of House Of Wax.

Killer That Stalked New York, The - (Original Trailer) A female jewel thief (Evelyn Keyes) isn't The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), it's the smallpox virus she brought back from Cuba.

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