House Peters
Acting
Born 1880-03-12
Died 1967-12-07
Bristol, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
49 credits
O. Henry's Full House
The Forfeit
Leah Kleschna
Treasure of the Golden Condor
The Storm Breaker
Rich Men's Wives
An Hour Before Dawn
Happiness of Three Women
The Old West
The Velvet Paw
The Girl of the Golden West
Between Men
The Closed Road
Rose-Marie
The Warrens of Virginia
The Captive
Stolen Goods
Mignon
Counsel for the Defense
The Port of Doom
Salomy Jane
You Never Know Your Luck
Isobel or the Trail's End
Thunderbolts of Fate
The Tornado
Prisoners of the Storm
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
A Lady of Quality
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
The Highway of Hope
The Storm
The Hand of Peril
The Heir of the Ages
Lying Lips
The Rail Rider
The Pride of Jennico
The Unafraid
The Brute
The Combat
Human Hearts
Head Winds
Don't Marry for Money
The Great Redeemer
The Great Divide
In the Bishop's Carriage
The Leopard Woman
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Held to Answer
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