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Joe Roberts
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Joe Roberts
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1871-02-02,Albany, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
"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.

Filmography

Our Hospitality

7.491

Our Hospitality
1923-11-19

7.892

One Week
1920-08-29

6.104

The Paleface
1922-01-01

6.8

Three Ages
1923-09-24

6.645

The Blacksmith
1922-07-21

6.736

Convict 13
1920-10-27

7.171

Cops
1922-03-11

6.5

Day Dreams
1922-11-27

6.9

Hard Luck
1921-03-14

My Wife's Relations

6.2

My Wife's Relations
1922-05-15

7.2

The High Sign
1921-04-18

7.47

The Scarecrow
1920-11-07

7.076

Neighbors
1920-12-12

The Haunted House

6.569

The Haunted House
1921-02-21

7.2

The Goat
1921-05-15

6.804

The Play House
1921-10-26

The Frozen North

6.2

The Frozen North
1922-08-28

The Electric House

6.8

The Electric House
1922-10-01

6.701

The Love Nest
1923-03-01

7

The Misfit
1924-03-22

The Primitive Lover

6.7

The Primitive Lover
1922-04-30

Little Lord Fauntleroy

7.028

Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921-09-15

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

0

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride
2026-05-18