Joe Roberts
Actor/Actriz
23
Películas
0
Series
"Big Joe" Roberts, as he was known in vaudeville, toured the country with his first wife, Lillian Stuart Roberts as part of a rowdy act known as Roberts, Hays, and Roberts. Their signature routine was called "The Cowboy, the Swell and the Lady." At this time, in the first decade of the twentieth century, Buster Keaton's father, Joe Keaton, had started a summer Actors' Colony for vaudevillians between Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake in Michigan. Roberts became acquainted with the Keaton family as a member of this community.
When Buster Keaton's film apprenticeship years with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle came to an end, and Keaton began making his own shorts in 1920, he asked Roberts to join him. Roberts' hefty 6'3" frame, usually playing a menacing heavy or authority figure, made a striking and amusing contrast to the thin, 5'6" Keaton.
IMDB shows that Roberts made only two films without Keaton. He played the role of "Roaring Bill" Rivers in 1922's The Primitive Lover starring Constance Talmadge—Keaton's sister-in-law—and the silent film actor Harrison Ford; and a drill master in the Clyde Cook comedy The Misfit,[4] released in March 1924, after Roberts' death.
When Keaton began making feature films in 1923, he apparently intended to continue working with Roberts. Roberts had roles in Keaton's Three Ages and Our Hospitality (both 1923). During the filming of the second feature, Roberts had a stroke but insisted on returning to the set to finish the film. After completion, Roberts suffered another stroke and died shortly afterwards.
Como Actor/Actriz
Our Hospitality
Joseph Canfield
The Goat
Police Chief
One Week
Piano Mover (uncredited)
Neighbors
Her Father (uncredited)
The High Sign
Leader of Buzzards
The Scarecrow
Farmhand (uncredited)
Cops
Police Chief (uncredited)
The Blacksmith
Blacksmith
Convict 13
The Crazed Prisoner
The Haunted House
Bank Cashier
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Buzz Saw Brannigan (uncredited)
Hard Luck
Lizard Lip Luke
The Electric House
Millionaire
The Frozen North
The Driver
The Love Nest
Captain of the Whaler
My Wife's Relations
Brother
The Play House
Actor / Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Paleface
The Indian Chief
Three Ages
The Girl's Father
Day Dreams
The Mayor
A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride
Self (Archival)
The Misfit
The Drill Master
The Primitive Lover
'Roaring' Bill Rivers