Bert Roach
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Egbert "Bert" Roach (August 21, 1891 – February 16, 1971) was an American film actor. He appeared in 327 films between 1914 and 1951. He was born in Washington, D.C., and died in Los Angeles, California, age 79.
Decoy
as BartenderA fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just...
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Arrowsmith
as Bert TozerA medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use...
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The Thin Man
as Crying Man at Party (uncredited)A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...
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Duel in the Sun
as Party Guest (uncredited)Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds...
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San Francisco
as Freddie DuaneA beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days...
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Fury
as Waiter (uncredited)Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to...
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Love Me Tonight
as EmileA Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
as Man Waiting (uncredited)Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
as PaulIn 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an...
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Show Boat
as Drunk (uncredited)A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show...
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The Crowd
as BertJohn, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They...
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Hellzapoppin'
as Robert T. MacChesney (uncredited)Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring...
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The Mortal Storm
as Fat Song Leader in CafeThe Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s....
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Another Thin Man
as Cookie (uncredited)Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
as AthosTyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised...
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
as Ship Bartender (uncredited)A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
as Crandall (uncredited)A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as...
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Show People
as Heavyset Man in Casting Agency (uncredited)Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great...
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Love Crazy
as Front Desk Clerk (uncredited)Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...
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Call Her Savage
as Man Who Tries to Pick Up Nasa (Uncredited)A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....
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Only Yesterday
as Rex (Uncredited)On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....
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The Tall Target
as Politician (uncredited)A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train...
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They Made Me a Criminal
as Hendricks (uncredited)A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Bird of Paradise
as HectorWhen a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king...
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Double Wedding
as ShrankA bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her...
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Lady on a Train
as uncreditedWhile watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building....
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Saratoga
as Passenger on Train (uncredited)A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Women Without Names
as Ogrim - Stubborn JurorJoyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused...
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International Settlement
as Lord FauntleroyIn Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun...
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The Great Waltz
as VogelhuberComposer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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Liliom
as WolfA carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the...
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Mannequin
as Mr. Schwartz (Uncredited)Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only...
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The Battle of the Century
as Ringside spectatorFight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to...
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Captain Thunder
as PabloA notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. ...
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Love Before Breakfast
as The HostScott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots...
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Nurse Edith Cavell
as George MoulinBritish nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the...
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The Bad Sister
as Wade TrumbullMarianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's...
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A Slight Case of Murder
as Speakeasy Proprietor (uncredited)Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective...
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Little Giant
as Joe (bartender) (uncredited)Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the...
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Hotel ClerkSpies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Rose of Washington Square
as Mr. Paunch (uncredited)Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband...
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered...
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My Sister Eileen
as Pete the Drunk (uncredited)Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their...
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My Favorite Spy
as Pedestrian in ParkThe Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy...
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Night World
as Tommy"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful...
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The Impatient Maiden
as Mr. GilmanA maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Fingers at the Window
as KrumIn Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders,...
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Hotel Imperial
as Fat Comic (uncredited)It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
as Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Keystone Hotel
as Hotel ManagerThe Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents...
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Hi Diddle Diddle
as Fat ManWhen the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's...
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The Millionaire
as Bobo HarmsworthJack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He...
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Public Hero Number 1
as Salesman on Bus Annoying Terry (uncredited)G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums...
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Code of the Streets
as JoeFrankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and...
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Man About Town
as Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she...
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Honolulu
as Grayson's Party Guest (uncredited)Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner...
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Money Talks
as Oscar WatersSam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and...
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Sensations of 1945
as Photographer in Penny Arcade Number (uncredited)As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses...
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The Perils of Pauline
as Western Saloon Set BartenderFunloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for...
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Grand Central Murder
as Tubby (uncredited)Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at...
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Smouldering Fires
as Member of the CommitteeA successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She...
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Here Comes the Band
as Drummer in BandIn this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by...
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Things You Never See on the Screen
as SelfFlubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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So Long Letty
as Tommy RobbinsUncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his...
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Walking Down Broadway
as Archie - Stage ManagerFive closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...
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Fast and Furious
as Bartender (uncredited)Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York,...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Mr. Ed Thompson (uncredited)We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to...
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God's Country and the Woman
as KewpieHard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son....
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Fun on a Weekend
as Oswald J. NichollShy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired...
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Joy of Living
as German Waiter at Beer Garden (Uncredited)Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon...
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Sons o' Guns
as VogelBroadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He...
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Free Love
as Bit Part (uncredited)A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to...
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Handy Andy
as Phil (uncredited)A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a...
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Hotel Continental
as Charlie LaytonScheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy....
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Excuse Me
as Jimmy WellingtonA sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
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The Song of the Flame
as Count BorisThis was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert...
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Hold Everything
as Nosey BartlettA man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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The Rowdy
as Howard MorseWhen retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts the...
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Viennese Nights
as Gus SascherIn 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner....
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Three Girls About Town
as Advising DrunkFaith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...
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Quiet Please, Murder
as Hungry Library PatronA forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to...
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Shadow of Doubt
as Stumbling Detective After TrennaWhen a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the...
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The Jury's Secret
as Juror HackenmeirA reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her...
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Under the Black Eagle
as Hans SchmidtA German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
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Hearts and Flowers
as AlA flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Secret Sinners
as The Out of Work ActorA young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to...
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Down on the Farm
as Roach - the FarmerThe day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing...
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Dr. Renault's Secret
as Inn ProprietorA remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French...
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I'll Wait for You
as Jim, the Hotel Clerk (uncredited)A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He...
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The Flirt
as Wade TrumbleTreats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged...
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Lawful Larceny
as FrenchWhen Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she...
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
as JohnA New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a...
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Paris Interlude
as NobleExpatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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The Last Warning
as Mike BrodyA producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of...
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Guard That Girl
as EllwoodAttorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into...
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A Certain Young Man
as Mr. CrutchleyAn aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his...
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Daring Daughters
as Joby JohnsonA savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from...
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The Good Old Soak
as MikeA small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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The Princess and the Plumber
as Albert BowersA derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to...
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Traveling Saleslady
as HarryA toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
as GuldschreschtsChristopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied...
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
as Drunken Man (uncredited)A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and...
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Six Cylinder Love
as Harold RogersTroubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them...
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She Sighed by the Seaside
as The WidowerLifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and...
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Her Favorite Patient
as George HastingsA beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked...
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Say It in French
as WaiterAn American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are...
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The Flaming Forest
as SloppyBased on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming...
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Fatty's Magic Pants
as Party Guest (uncredited)'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be...
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A Lady of Quality
as Sir Christopher CrowellClorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to...
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Evenings for Sale
as Otto VolkImpoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume...
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A Small Town Idol
as Martin BrownSam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his...
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Young Nowheres
as Mr. JesseYoung Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard...
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The Arkansas Traveler
as Optimistic HoboThe Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily...
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Twelve Miles Out
as LukeJerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While...
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No, No, Nanette
as Bill EarlyA bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
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Romance on the Run
as Happy DrunkA (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets...
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
as Bert HolmesA musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose...
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Honeymoon
as BertTwo men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as Von HindenburgBehind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of...
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Telling the World
as LaneThe journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it....
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Man from Rainbow Valley
as MayorWhen unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making...
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The Denial
as ArthurWhen Dorothy wants to marry Bob (Robert Agnew), her mother, Mildred, forbids the match. Dorothy...
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Compromised
as TonyPoor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and...
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Half a Sinner
as RumplemeyerA con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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Why Beaches Are Popular
as Bert RoachThis short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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The Taxi Dancer
as Charlie CookA southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
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Under a Spell
as The ValetWhen Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs...
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Mardi Gras
as ChamberlainThe first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the...
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Tillie the Toiler
as BillTillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire...
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The Desert Rider
as Friar BernardoJack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds....
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Accidents Will Happen
as Ned's ValetA comic one-act film about an insurance agent who has to sell an insurance policy to a reluctant...
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The Latest from Paris
as Bert BlevinsThe Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg...
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