Highest rated movie: Our Hospitality (1923)
Lowest rated movie: The Frozen North (1922)
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Looking for reviews of Joe Roberts movies? Cinafilm has a total of 180 reviews across 8 movies.
Movies starring Joe Roberts have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 72%.
Our Hospitality - released in 1923 - is Joe Roberts's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 93 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Joe Roberts is The Frozen North - released in 1922 - with a score of 62% based on 7 reviews.
"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 between Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake in Michigan. Roberts became acquainted with the Keaton family as a member of this community.
When Buster Keaton's film apprenticeship years with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle came to an end, and Keaton began making his own shorts in 1920, he asked Roberts to join him. Roberts' hefty 6'3" frame, usually playing a menacing heavy or authority figure, made a striking and amusing contrast to the thin, 5'6" Keaton.
IMDB shows that Roberts made only two films without Keaton. He played the role of "Roaring Bill" Rivers in 1922's The Primitive Lover starring Constance Talmadge—Keaton's sister-in-law—and the silent film actor Harrison Ford; and a drill master in the Clyde Cook comedy The Misfit,[4] released in March 1924, after Roberts' death.
When Keaton began making feature films in 1923, he apparently intended to continue working with Roberts. Roberts had roles in Keaton's Three Ages and Our Hospitality (both 1923). During the filming of the second feature, Roberts had a stroke but insisted on returning to the set to finish the film. After completion, Roberts suffered another stroke and died shortly afterwards.
Joe Roberts has acted in films with Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton and Virginia Fox.
Joe Roberts has worked with these film directors: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, John G. Blystone and Malcolm St. Clair.
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