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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Elementary Number Theory A Problem Oriented Approach
- Picture for You
- Mommy, What I Would Do If I Were You,
- Don't Leave Just Yet
- My Father Harry
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Film & TV
Albany, New York, USA
"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 called "The Cowboy, the Swell and the Lady." At this time, in the first decade of the twentieth century, Buster Keaton's father, Joe Keaton, had started a summer Actors' Colony for vaudevillians…
Known for
- A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride — Self (Archival)2026
- The Misfit — The Drill Master1924
- Our Hospitality — Joseph Canfield1923
- Three Ages — The Girl's Father1923
- The Love Nest — Captain of the Whaler1923
- The Paleface — The Indian Chief1922
- The Blacksmith — Blacksmith1922
- Cops — Police Chief (uncredited)1922
- Day Dreams — The Mayor1922
- My Wife's Relations — Brother1922
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,284
- Total plays
- 18,803
Tags
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Roberts
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Albany
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- silent film
- Image
- Buster Keaton (left) and Joe Roberts in the movie Neighbors (1920).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1871-02-02
- date of death
- 1923-10-28
- cause of death
- stroke
- Commons category
- Joe Roberts
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- time period
- 20th century
- start of work period
- 1920-00-00
- end of work period
- 1923-00-00
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