House Peters
Birthday
1880/03/12
Day of death
1967/12/07 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bristol, England, UK
Also know as
House Peters Sr., Robert House Peters, The Star of a Thousand Emotions
Biography
Robert House Peters, Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions." Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters began his career on a high note, playing the handsome leading man in In the Bishop's Carriage (1913), co-starring Mary Pickford. While The Bishop's Carriage was filmed in an East Coast studio, Peters was in Los Angeles by 1914, becoming one of the first screen stars to perman...Read more
Acting
(1913) Leah Kleschna
as Paul Sylvain
(1913) A Lady of Quality
as The Duke of Osmonde
(1915) Stolen Goods
as Richard Carlton
(1920) Isobel or the Trail's End
as Sgt. William MacVeigh
(1925) Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
(1923) Don't Marry for Money
as Peter Smith
(1923) Held to Answer
as John Hampstead
(1914) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Bob
(1915) Mignon
as Wilhelm Meister
(1915) The Unafraid
as Stefan Balsic
(1916) The Hand of Peril
as James Kestner
(1915) The Warrens of Virginia
as Ned Burton
(1916) Between Men
as Gregg Lewiston
(1920) The Great Redeemer
as Dan Malloy
(1952) O. Henry's Full House
as Dave Bascom (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
(1920) Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
as Deane Kendall
(1952) The Old West
as Parson Jonathan Brooks
(1914) Salomy Jane
as Jack Dart, The Man
(1920) The Leopard Woman
as John Culbertson
(1922) Human Hearts
as Tom Logan
(1915) The Captive
as Muhamud Hassan
(1925) Head Winds
as Peter Rosslyn
(1915) The Girl of the Golden West
as Ramerrez
(1913) In the Bishop's Carriage
as Obermuller
(1916) The Closed Road
as Frank Sargeant
(1916) The Rail Rider
as Jim Lewis
(1913) Chelsea 7750
as ---
(1925) The Tornado
as Tornado
(1922) The Storm
as Burr Winton
(1915) The Great Divide
as Stephen Ghent
(1921) Lying Lips
as Blair Cornwall
(1920) A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
as Himself
(1928) Rose-Marie
as Sergeant Malone
(1926) The Combat
as Blaze Burke
(1919) You Never Know Your Luck
as J.G. Kerry
(1914) The Brute
as Billy West
(1913) An Hour Before Dawn
as Kate's Father - the Ex Detective
(1913) The Port of Doom
as Kate's Father
(1914) The Pride of Jennico
as Basil Jennico
(1953) Treasure of the Golden Condor
as Magistrate (uncredited)
(1925) Counsel for the Defense
as Arnold Bruce
(1919) The Forfeit
as Jeffrey Masters