Florence Roberts

Florence Roberts

1861-03-16 New York City, New York, USA 62 Credits

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Silent Night

Silent Night

2020

as Jenny

5.1
Acting

Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former c...

On Their Own

On Their Own

1940

as Granny Jones

Acting

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pet...

Double Alibi

Double Alibi

1940

as Landlady

4.5
Acting

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940

as Mrs. Bowling Green

7.0
Acting

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...

Young as You Feel

Young as You Feel

1940

as Granny Jones

Acting

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go b...

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work

1939

as Granny Jones

Acting

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their househ...

Quick Millions

Quick Millions

1939

as Granny Jones

7.5
Acting

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

The Jones Family in Hollywood

The Jones Family in Hollywood

1939

as Granny Jones

Acting

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Everybody's Baby

Everybody's Baby

1939

as Granny Jones

Acting

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

The Storm

The Storm

1938

as Mrs. Roberts

Acting

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm

1938

as Granny Jones

Acting

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Personal Secretary

Personal Secretary

1938

as Mrs. J. J. Farrell

Acting

Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers

1938

as Granny Jones

Acting

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A Trip to Paris

A Trip to Paris

1938

as Granny Jones

1.0
Acting

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be vict...

Love on a Budget

Love on a Budget

1938

as Granny Ida Jones

Acting

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle wh...

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble

1937

as Granny Jones

6.0
Acting

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Hot Water

Hot Water

1937

as Granny Jones

5.0
Acting

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola

1937

as Madame Zola

6.6
Acting

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins...

Big Business

Big Business

1937

as Granny Jones

5.0
Acting

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Nobody's Baby

Nobody's Baby

1937

as Mrs. Mason - Landlady

5.7
Acting

Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompet...

Off to the Races

Off to the Races

1937

as Granny Jones

Acting

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

Back to Nature

Back to Nature

1936

as Granny Jones

Acting

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and ...

Educating Father

Educating Father

1936

as Granny Jones

Acting

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come i...

Every Saturday Night

Every Saturday Night

1936

as Granny Evers

Acting

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

The Country Doctor

The Country Doctor

1936

as Grandmother (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Your Uncle Dudley

Your Uncle Dudley

1935

as Janet Dixon

1.0
Acting

A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.

Harmony Lane

Harmony Lane

1935

as Mrs. Foster

3.5
Acting

The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

Every Night at Eight

Every Night at Eight

1935

as Mrs. Murgatroyd (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing,...

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

1935

as Toussaint

7.2
Acting

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

The Nut Farm

The Nut Farm

1935

as Ma Barton, Willie's Mother

8.0
Acting

Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is ...

Public Opinion

1935

as Mrs. Buttons

Acting

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

The Fighting Westerner

The Fighting Westerner

1935

as Mrs. Ballard

4.7
Acting

A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, an...

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

1934

as The Widow Peep

6.3
Acting

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little ...

Sons of Steel

Sons of Steel

1934

as Sarah Mason

5.0
Acting

Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakew...

Student Tour

Student Tour

1934

as Elderly Woman

5.0
Acting

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

1934

as Lady Flora

6.1
Acting

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Four Parts

Four Parts

1934

as Mother

Acting

Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.

The Cracked Ice Man

The Cracked Ice Man

1934

as Betty's Mother

Acting

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

1934

as Agnes

5.0
Acting

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One mo...

Hoopla

Hoopla

1933

as Ma Benson

6.0
Acting

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

Torch Singer

Torch Singer

1933

as Mother Angelica

5.2
Acting

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, ...

Melody Cruise

Melody Cruise

1933

as Miss Potts

5.2
Acting

A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.

Lilly Turner

Lilly Turner

1933

as Wedding Guest Calling for Bride (uncredited)

5.6
Acting

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engine...

Daring Daughters

Daring Daughters

1933

as Ginger Hemingway, the Grandmother

Acting

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.

Fast Workers

Fast Workers

1933

as Short Window-Shopper (Uncredited)

5.3
Acting

Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she ...

Dangerously Yours

Dangerously Yours

1933

as Mrs. Lathem

Acting

A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.

Officer Thirteen

Officer Thirteen

1932

as Granny

6.2
Acting

A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the ju...

Vanity Street

Vanity Street

1932

as Annie - Fern's Maid (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

The All-American

The All-American

1932

as Mrs. King

5.0
Acting

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

The Hollywood Handicap

1932

Acting

1930s Thalians Club comedy.

Make Me a Star

Make Me a Star

1932

as Mrs. Gashwiler

5.5
Acting

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood?

1932

as Elderly Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura...

Westward Passage

Westward Passage

1932

as Mrs. Ottendorf

5.8
Acting

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

Fanny Foley Herself

Fanny Foley Herself

1931

as Lucy

Acting

A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.

Too Many Cooks

Too Many Cooks

1931

as Mrs. Cook

2.5
Acting

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Everything’s Rosie

Everything’s Rosie

1931

as Mrs. Lowe

4.0
Acting

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands

1931

as Henrietta Parker

5.3
Acting

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled d...

The Eyes of the World

The Eyes of the World

1930

as The Maid (prologue)

Acting

The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film star...

The Vulture's Prey

1922

as Landlady

Acting

South African Film

The Man Who Was Afraid

1920

as Mrs. Robinson

Acting

South African Film

Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain

1920

as Mrs. McKenzie

Acting

Early South African lensed adaptation of King Solomon's Mines featuring Allan Quatermain and his adventures.

Sapho

Sapho

1913

as Fanny Le Grand / Sapho

Acting

A woman with a notorious past enchants a student preparing for the foreign service.