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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Elliott (October 9, 1879 – November 15, 1951) was an American character actor who appeared in 102 films and TV shows from 1916 to 1951. He was born Richard Robert Elliott in 1879 in Columbus, Ohio. Most of his main roles were in the silent era. In the sound era he mostly performed in supporting roles and bit parts. On the stage he originated the Sergeant O'Hara character opposite Jeanne Eagels in Somerset Maugham's play Rain (1922). Active in films...
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The Devil's Playground
1946
as Judge Morton
Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and he is looking for her. But Hoppy soon learns the girl ...

Chick Carter, Detective
1946
as Dan Rankin
Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports t...

The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...

You, the People
1940
as Mr. Edward Gibbon
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the cu...

Flowing Gold
1940
as Mac, Highway Patrolman (uncredited)
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires hi...

The Ghost Breakers
1940
as Lieutenant Murray (uncredited)
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning he...

'Til We Meet Again
1940
as Detective (uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. J...

Half a Sinner
1940
as Officer Kelly
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some f...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...

Invisible Stripes
1939
as Arresting Officer (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Gone with the Wind
1939
as Yankee Major
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...

The Roaring Twenties
1939
as First Detective
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl...

I Stole a Million
1939
as Peterson
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Mickey the Kid
1939
as FBI Agent Farrow
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.

Should a Girl Marry?
1939
as Warden
A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.

The Saint Strikes Back
1939
as Chief Inspector Webster
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after b...

Made for Each Other
1939
as Airport Operations Manager (uncredited)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

Trade Winds
1938
as Captain George Faulkiner
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and...

Circumstantial Evidence
1935
as Detective Brown (uncredited)
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder...

Times Square Lady
1935
as "Brick" Culver
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir ...

The World Accuses
1934
as Lt. Ryan
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
as Inspector 'Mac' McKinney
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a mar...

Gambling Lady
1934
as Graves
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks ou...

Lady Killer
1933
as Detective Joe Brannigan
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Twin Husbands
1933
as Sergeant Kerrigan
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains o...

Heroes for Sale
1933
as 'Red' Squad Policeman #1
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his batt...

The Return of Casey Jones
1933
as Casey Jones
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a rai...

The Crime of the Century
1933
as Captain Tim Riley
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up ...

Self Defense
1932
as Dan Simmons
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so s...

Madison Square Garden
1932
as Honest John Miller
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When ...

The Phantom of Crestwood
1932
as Detective (uncredited)
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.

White Eagle
1932
as Capt. Blake
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his men dress as Indians and attack anything bringing ...

The Midnight Patrol
1932
as Howard Brady
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.

Behind Stone Walls
1932
as District Attorney John Manson Clay
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jac...

Five Star Final
1931
as R.J. Brannegan
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman in...

Murder at Midnight
1931
as Inspector Taylor
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...

The Star Witness
1931
as Deputy Williams (uncredited)
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals...

The Maltese Falcon
1931
as Police Lt. Dundy
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette kno...

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots'
1931
as Himself - Golfer
Bobby Jones teaches a group of truant businessman how to improve their chip shots.

The Finger Points
1931
as Frank Carter
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on...

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

The Doorway to Hell
1930
as Captain Pat O'Grady
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and ...

Men of the North
1930
as Sergeant Mooney
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie be...

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
as Self
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten...

Sweet Mama
1930
as Mack
A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she love...

Kathleen Mavourneen
1930
as Dan Moriarity
Kathleen O'Connor, fresh off the boat from Ireland, must decide between the two men who love her - a poor plumber and a wealthy politician.

The Divorcee
1930
as Bill
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.

Hide-Out
1930
as William Burke
A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and t...

Thunderbolt
1929
as Prison chaplain
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and wh...

The Lone Wolf's Daughter
1929
as Ethier
Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her enga...

Romance of the Underworld
1928
as Edwin Burke
When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend. A kind-hearted cop takes p...

Lights of New York
1928
as Detective Crosby
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Happiness Ahead
1928
as Detective
Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund Lo...

Obey Your Husband
1928
as Mr. Kennedy
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.

Man and Wife
1923
as Dr. Howard Fleming
Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Suppose...

The Broken Silence
1922
as Bruce Cameron

Without Fear
1922
as John Miles
Ruth Hamilton, from a wealthy aristocratic family, cares little for society or its conventions and refuses the proposal of William Barton, a socialite...

A Pasteboard Crown
1922
as Stewart Thrall

Fair Lady
1922
as Norvin Blake
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arr...

Lonely Heart
1921

The Empire of Diamonds
1920
as Matthew Versigny
Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his diamo...

Checkers
1919
as Kendal
Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order ...

A Woman There Was
1919
as Pulke
Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (William B. Davidson) arrives and there is a romance, whi...

Unknown Love
1919
as Captain Jack Tims
Doris Parker, the daughter of an American Marine Officer, becomes Harry Townsend's pen pal. Harry is a young American soldier with no family who has g...

For the Freedom of the East
1918
as Robert Kenyon
When Men Betray
1918

Joan of Plattsburg
1918
as Capt. Lane
Joan, an earnest little orphan who lives in an asylum near the World War I training camp at Plattsburg, reads the story of "Joan of Arc" and soon imag...

The Debt
1917
A reception in their small village in celebration of the Count’s daughter Ann’s engagement to Baron Moreno is disrupted by the news that a mine in whi...

Mrs. Balfame
1917
as Dwight Rush
Mrs. Balfame is a 1917 Mystery Drama

Motherhood
1917
as Albert
European peasants Albert & Louise are separated by war with Albert only able to return once during the conflict. While he is away the enemy’s captain ...

Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
1917
Eve Leslie and Adam Moore become interested in the stock market. Eve decides to try to add to her fortunes by plunging. Tempted by the sin of greed, E...

Miss Petticoats
1916
as Rev. Ralph Harding
Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes...

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph
1916
as Robert Ewing
"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged...

The Kiss of Hate
1916
as Sergius Orzoff
When Count Peter Turgeneff, his daughter, Nadia, and Paul, his generous-hearted son, came to live in the Governor's palace in the Russian province of ...