Theodore Roberts (1921) 🇬🇧

A famous character actor

Theodore Roberts began his stage career in 1880 and he played in countless productions and took many varied parts. Then several years ago he entered pictures and signed a long term contract with Lasky [Jesse L. Lasky].

His most sensational screen success was in Old Wives for New, while other films in which he has appeared are “The Barrier,” The Girl of the Golden West, The Admirable Crichton, Everywoman.

Thoroughness in Make-Up

Mr. Roberts believes in giving the most careful study to the make-up necessary to a character part. He says he has let his hair get long and unkempt, allowed his beard to grow, grown a moustache, and then shaved off for his next picture, and even shaved his eyebrows.

Hobbies

Theodore Roberts has many hobbies. He raises Airedales, and is very fond of pigeons and tame seagulls. In his house in Los Angeles he has an aviary with a little miniature lake in which the birds can swim. Then he goes in for painting, drawing, and is also a sculptor. Considering that Mr. Roberts is a cinema actor, one wonders when he finds time to indulge in his various hobbies.

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Theodore Roberts’s aviary in his Los Angeles home

Theodore Roberts, with Lois Wilson on one side and Bryant Washburn on the other, in a scene from Love Insurance.

Theodore Roberts in a costume part with Wanda Hawley

Collection: Picture Show Magazine, February 1921