Roy Roberts

Acting · Born 1906-03-19 in Dade City, Florida, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roy Roberts (born Roy Barnes Jones; March 19, 1906 – May 28, 1975) was an American character actor. Over his more than 40-year career, he appeared in more than nine hundred productions on stage and screen. Born in Tampa, Florida, Roberts began his acting career on stage with a stock company there. He left the Tampa company after a year to perform in touring stock theater for five years. He first appeared on Broadway in May 1931 before making his motion picture debut in Gold Bricks, a 1936 two-reel comedy short released by 20th Century-Fox. He appeared in numerous films in secondary parts and returned to perform on Broadway in such productions as Twentieth Century, My Sister Eileen, and Carnival in Flanders until he began making guest appearances on…

Filmography

• Chinatown as Mayor Bagby
• My Darling Clementine as Mayor
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Policeman Outside Irwin & Ray's Garage
• Nightmare Alley as McGraw / Final Carnival Owner (uncredited)
• Gentleman's Agreement as Mr. Calkins
• The Brasher Doubloon as Lt. Breez
• Second Chance as Charley Malloy
• Miss Grant Takes Richmond as Roberts - Construction Foreman (uncredited)
• He Walked by Night as Police Captain Breen
• The Killer That Stalked New York as Mayor of New York

TV

• The Andy Griffith Show as J. Howard Jackson
• The Twilight Zone as Mr. Cooper
• The Addams Family as Thaddeus Logan
• Bewitched as Frank Stephens
• Perry Mason as Arthur Janeel
• Perry Mason as Harvey Skeen
• Perry Mason as Henry Thomas
• Perry Mason as W. L. Picard
• The Munsters as Mr. Morgan
• My Three Sons