House Peters Sr.
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Born |
Robert House Peters 12 March 1880 Bristol, England |
Died |
7 December 1967 87) Woodland Hills, California, US | (aged
Burial place | Cremated at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale [1] |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1900s–1950s |
Spouse(s) | Mae King (m. 1914) |
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."
Biography
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 at the 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 portraying villains as well as Procter and Gamble's Mr. Clean character in cleaning product commercials from the late 1950s into the '60s.
Personal life
Peters was married to actress Mae King in 1914 with whom he had three children, Gregg, Patricia and Robert Jr. (1916–2008). Peters died of pneumonia[2] at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Selected filmography
- In the Bishop's Carriage (1913)
- Chelsea 7750 (1913)
- An Hour Before Dawn (1913)
- Leah Kleschna (1913)
- A Lady of Quality (1913)
- The Pride of Jennico (1914)
- Clothes (1914)
- The Brute (1914)
- Salomy Jane (1914)
- The Captive (1915)
- The Unafraid (1915)
- The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
- The Girl of the Golden West (1915)
- Mignon (1915)
- The Great Divide (1915)
- The Rail Rider (1916)
- The Velvet Paw (1916)
- Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)
- The Leopard Woman (1920)
- The Invisible Power (1921)
- The Man from Lost River (1921)
- The Storm (1922)
- Held to Answer (1923)
- Head Winds (1925)
- Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925)
- Counsel for the Defense (1925)
- Prisoners of the Storm (1926)
- The Combat (1926)
- Rose-Marie (1928)
References
External links
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