Bert Roach
Popularity:0.113
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1891-08-20
Place of Birth:Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Also Known As:Egbert Roach, Egbert "Bert" Roach

The Crowd (1928)
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress,...

Tin Hats (1926)
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady...

Show People (1928)
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

Decoy (1946)
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.

Double Wedding (1937)
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes...

Love Me Tonight (1932)
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

The Flaming Forest (1926)
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.

Free Love (1930)
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.

Mannequin (1938)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...

My Sister Eileen (1942)
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...

She Sighed by the Seaside (1921)
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie...

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets...

Down with Husbands (1930)
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League".

Tillie the Toiler (1927)
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic...

Little Giant (1946)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his...

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend...

The Rowdy (1921)
When retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts the child, who grows up to be an adventurous youngster of...

Fingers at the Window (1942)
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Arrowsmith (1931)
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

Wedding Yells (1942)
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).

Bird of Paradise (1932)
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of...

Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O. (1914)
Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.

The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend...

The Flirt (1922)
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss,...

God's Country and the Woman (1937)
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property...

Why Beaches Are Popular (1919)
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Hotel Continental (1932)
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons,...

The Impatient Maiden (1932)
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

Keystone Hotel (1935)
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry...

Lady on a Train (1945)
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...

Evenings for Sale (1932)
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in...

Shadow of Doubt (1935)
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

Sensations of 1945 (1944)
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at...

The Girl Said No (1937)
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along...

Daring Daughters (1933)
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.

I'll Wait for You (1941)
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

Viennese Nights (1930)
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von...

Night World (1932)
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

The Song of the Flame (1930)
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is...

Guard That Girl (1935)
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a...

Romance on the Run (1938)
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process...

Hearts and Flowers (1919)
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919)
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

The Great Waltz (1938)
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Paris Interlude (1934)
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

So Long Letty (1929)
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets...

Down on the Farm (1920)
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But...

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Accidents Will Happen (1922)
A comic one-act film about an insurance agent who has to sell an insurance policy to a reluctant client in order to win over the daughter of the...

Lawful Larceny (1930)
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.

Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and...

No, No, Nanette (1930)
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.

Here Comes the Band (1935)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

Saratoga (1937)
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Hold Your Breath (1921)
Charles and Bert who have defied the Volstead act are seen clambering about the roof of a building, high above a busy street. After a few...

Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in...

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Show Boat (1951)
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Liliom (1930)
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker...

Honolulu (1939)
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Man About Town (1939)
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he...

Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German...

Fast and Furious (1939)
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...

Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

Six Cylinder Love (1931)
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

Captain Thunder (1930)
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the...

Traveling Saleslady (1935)
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and...

Love Crazy (1941)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Man from Rainbow Valley (1946)
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him a show horse, his niece Kay North tricks Monte...

Twelve Miles Out (1927)
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry...

International Settlement (1938)
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Secret Sinners (1933)
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that...

Compromised (1931)
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through...

The Thin Man (1934)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Cairo (1942)
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Soapsuds and Sirens (1917)
A professor who teaches dancing classes has few students. A janitor suggests advertising flyers from the printer downstairs. The printer's wife ends...

Code of the Streets (1939)
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis,...

The Mortal Storm (1940)
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

The Bad Sister (1931)
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the...

Women Without Names (1940)
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

Sons o' Guns (1936)
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join...

That's the Spirit (1924)
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to...

Hotel Imperial (1939)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

Three Girls About Town (1941)
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Under a Spell (1920)
When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of...

Say It in French (1938)
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...

The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as...

Hold Everything (1930)
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

The Taxi Dancer (1927)
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.

Fatty's Magic Pants (1914)
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected...

Walking Down Broadway (1938)
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

The Latest from Paris (1928)
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In...

Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Money Talks (1926)
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury...

My Favorite Spy (1942)
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

The Last Warning (1928)
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by...

Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Telling the World (1928)
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal...

The Desert Rider (1929)
Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack Hoxie must find the killer before he disappears...

Mardi Gras (1943)
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would...

A Lady of Quality (1924)
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde....

Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her...

Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues...

A Small Town Idol (1921)
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local...

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

Young Nowheres (1929)
Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.

Happy Times and Jolly Moments (1943)
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

San Francisco (1936)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

The Good Old Soak (1937)
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

Fun on a Weekend (1947)
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth...

The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young...

The Battle of the Century (1927)
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Grand Central Murder (1942)
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a...

The Jury's Secret (1938)
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear...

Half a Sinner (1934)
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

The Millionaire (1921)
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really...

Under the Black Eagle (1928)
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.

The Denial (1925)
When Dorothy wants to marry Bob (Robert Agnew), her mother, Mildred, forbids the match. Dorothy angrily asserts that Mildred might reconsider if her...

Honeymoon (1928)
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former...

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Only Yesterday (1933)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

Joy of Living (1938)
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her...

Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the...

Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Her Favorite Patient (1945)
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.

Duel in the Sun (1946)
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...

A Certain Young Man (1928)
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train,...

Call Her Savage (1932)
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her...

Smouldering Fires (1925)
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.

Excuse Me (1925)
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.

The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville...

Handy Andy (1934)
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty...

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret...

Bad Boy (1935)
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for...

Wickedness Preferred (1928)
He couldn't help it if the girls all fell for him. But his wife certainly cramped his romantic style!