Joe Roberts
Birthday
1871/02/02
Day of death
1923/10/28 (52 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Albany, New York, USA
Also know as
Joseph Henry Roberts, Big Joe Roberts
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...Read more
Acting
(1923) Our Hospitality
as Joseph Canfield
(1920) One Week
as Piano Mover (uncredited)
(1922) The Paleface
as The Indian Chief
(1923) Three Ages
as The Girl's Father
(1922) The Blacksmith
as Blacksmith
(1920) Convict 13
as The Crazed Prisoner
(1922) Cops
as Police Chief (uncredited)
(1922) Day Dreams
as The Mayor
(1921) Hard Luck
as Lizard Lip Luke
(1922) My Wife's Relations
as Brother
(1921) The High Sign
as Leader of Buzzards
(1920) The Scarecrow
as Farmhand (uncredited)
(1922) The Electric House
as Millionaire
(1921) The Play House
as Actor / Stage Manager (uncredited)
(1920) Neighbors
as Her Father (uncredited)
(1923) The Love Nest
as Captain of the Whaler
(1922) The Frozen North
as The Driver
(1921) The Haunted House
as Bank Cashier
(1921) The Goat
as Police Chief
(1924) The Misfit
as The Drill Master
(1922) The Primitive Lover
as 'Roaring' Bill Rivers
(1921) Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Buzz Saw Brannigan (uncredited)