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Joe Roberts

1871 - 1923

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Joseph Henry Roberts (February 2, 1871 – October 28, 1923) was an American comic actor who appeared in 16 of Buster Keaton's 19 silent short films of the 1920s. "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 "The Cowboy, the Swell and the Lady." At this time, the first decade of the twentieth century, Buster Keaton's father, Joe Keaton, had a summer Actors' Colony for vaudevillians between Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake in Michigan, where Roberts got to know the Keaton family. When Buster's apprenticeship with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle came to an end and Keaton began making his own short films in 1920, he asked Roberts to join him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Roberts is the 2,580th most popular actor (up from 5,495th in 2019), the 4,492nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,009th in 2019) and the 1,251st most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Joe Roberts ranks 2,580 out of 13,578. Before him are Jack Cassidy, Laurie Metcalf, Hope Lange, Gérard Darmon, Bernard Fox, and Mikheil Chiaureli. After him are Eddie Bracken, Sabine Azéma, J. Y. Park, Phil Hartman, Jane Kaczmarek, and David Butler.

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Among people born in 1871, Joe Roberts ranks 93. Before him are Kiyoshi Shiga, Gyula Kellner, Saint-George Ashe, Gyula Károlyi, George Washington, and Guglielmo Ferrero. After him are Nils Edén, Abanindranath Tagore, Alexander Spendiaryan, Segundo de Chomón, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, and Alwin Berger. Among people deceased in 1923, Joe Roberts ranks 62. Before him are Hermes da Fonseca, Fritz Mauthner, Damat Ferid Pasha, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Alfred Edwards, and Sayed Darwish. After him are Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Armen Garo, George Clement Perkins, Stojan Protić, and Ernst Ziller.

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Among people born in United States, Joe Roberts ranks 4,492 out of 20,380. Before him are Marky Ramone (1952), Richard Bandler (1950), E. L. Doctorow (1931), Vincent Richards (1903), John Petrucci (1967), and Jim Bridger (1804). After him are Eddie Bracken (1915), Judy Collins (1939), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Gregory Benford (1941), and David Butler (1894).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joe Roberts ranks 1,251. Before him are Joseph Sweeney (1884), Alice Brady (1892), David Leitch (1975), Jack Cassidy (1927), Laurie Metcalf (1955), and Hope Lange (1933). After him are Eddie Bracken (1915), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), David Butler (1894), Dorothy McGuire (1916), David Cassidy (1950), and Jon Cryer (1965).

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