Roy Roberts
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Birth Name: Roy Barnes Jones
Born: 19 March 1906 Died: 28 May 1975
Country of origin: United States
Height: 5' 10"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Lillian Moore
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Tall, silver-maned character actor Roy Roberts began his film career as a 20th Century-Fox contractee in 1943. Nearly always cast in roles of well-tailored authority, Roberts was most effective when conveying smug villainy. As a hotel desk clerk in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), he suavely but smarmily refused to allow Jews to check into his establishment; nineteen years later, Roberts was back behind the desk and up to his old tricks, patronizingly barring a black couple from signing the register in Hotel (1966). As the forties drew to a close, Roberts figured into two of the key film noirs of the era; he was the carnival owner
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2. Bewitched
Rating: | 813 Watched |
4. The Munsters (1964)
Rating: | 571 Watched |
5. The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Rating: | 220 Watched |
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1. Chinatown
Rating: | 1674 Watched |
2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Rating: | 322 Watched |
3. House of Wax (1953)
Rating: | 254 Watched |
5. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Rating: | 143 Watched |
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