House Peters

Robert House Peters, Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions." Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters began his career on a high note, playing the handsome leading man in In the Bishop's Carriage (1913), co-starring Mary Pickford. While The Bishop's Carriage was filmed in an East Coast studio, Peters was in Los Angeles by 1914, becoming one of the first screen stars to permanently settle there. Although he stated publicly that he preferred playing villains, Peters, curly haired and pleasantly dimpled, was from the outset typecast as the romantic hero. After enjoying his greatest success as the good-bad hero of The Girl of the Golden West (1915), Peters found his career peak of the early 1920s. He signed with Universal Studios for six films in 1924, hoping for a comeback. The results, however, were mostly mediocre and he was soon demoted to supporting roles. Retired after 1928's Rose Marie, Peters returned for a guest appearance in The Old West, a 1952 Gene Autry film that also featured his son, House Peters, Jr., who subsequently enjoyed a lengthy film career. Peters was married to actress Mae King in 1914 with whom he had three children, Gregg, Patricia and Robert, Jr. (1916–2008). Peters died at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bristol, England, UK, 1880-03-12

Died: 1967-12-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1913	In the Bishop's Carriage	Obermuller	10
2	1913	Chelsea 7750		0
3	1913	Leah Kleschna	Paul Sylvain	0
4	1913	A Lady of Quality	The Duke of Osmonde	0
5	1914	The Brute	Billy West	0
6	1914	Salomy Jane	Jack Dart, The Man	30
7	1914	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch		0
8	1915	The Girl of the Golden West	Ramerrez	55
9	1915	Mignon		0
10	1915	The Warrens of Virginia	Ned Burton	0
11	1915	The Unafraid	Stefan Balsic	0
12	1915	The Captive	Muhamud Hassan	60
13	1915	Stolen Goods	Richard Carlton	0
14	1915	The Great Divide	Stephen Ghent	70
15	1916	Between Men	Gregg Lewiston	0
16	1916	The Hand of Peril	James Kestner	0
17	1916	The Closed Road	Frank Sargeant	0
18	1916	The Rail Rider	Jim Lewis	0
19	1919	You Never Know Your Luck	J.G. Kerry	0
20	1920	Silk Husbands and Calico Wives		0
21	1920	A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios	Himself	60
22	1920	The Leopard Woman	John Culbertson	55
23	1920	The Great Redeemer	Dan Malloy	0
24	1920	Isobel or the Trail's End	Sgt. William MacVeigh	100
25	1921	Lying Lips	Blair Cornwall	0
26	1922	Human Hearts	Tom Logan	0
27	1922	The Storm	Burr Winton	0
28	1923	Don't Marry for Money	Peter Smith	0
29	1923	Held to Answer	John Hampstead	0
30	1925	The Tornado	Tornado	0
31	1925	Head Winds	Peter Rosslyn	50
32	1925	Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman	Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman	55
33	1926	The Combat	Blaze Burke	0
34	1928	Rose-Marie	Sergeant Malone	50
35	1952	O. Henry's Full House	Dave Bascom (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)	65
36	1952	The Old West	Parson Jonathan Brooks	50

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1913