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Peters
1880 - 1967 |
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. The actor House Peters was born as Robert House Peters in England. He grew up in Australia and went to San Francisco later where he began his career as a stage actor. He made his film debut in 1913 at Mary Pickford's side - she was one of the greatest star of the early silent film - for the production "In the Bishop's Carriage" (13). In the same year he took part in some other movies and House Peters soon became a demanded silent movie actor. To these movies belong "An Hour Before Dawn" (13) and "A Lady of Quality" (13). Thank to his versatile repertoire of emotional roles he got the nickname "The Star of a Thousand Emotions". Personally he preferred to impersonate villains. To his other silent movies of the 10s belong "Salomy Jane" (14), "The Girl of the Golden West" (15), "Mignon" (15), "The Great Divide" (15), "As Men Love" (17), "Heir of the Ages" (17) and "The Forfeit" (19). His last great movies came at the beginning of the 20s into being, among them "The Leopard Woman" (20), "The Invisible Power" (21), "The Storm" (22), "Human Hearts" (22) and "Don't Marry for Money" (23). He got a contract at Universal in 1924 but he was not able to avoid
the diminishment of his popularity and finally he was normally engaged
for support roles.
Afterwards he retired from the film business and dedicated again to
the theater. It lasted till 1952 before he returned for a brief time in
front of the camera, both for cinema and television.
Other movies with House Peters:
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