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Egbert "Bert" Roach (August 21, 1891 – February 16, 1971) was an American film actor. He appeared in 327 films between 1914 and 1951. He was born in Washington, D.C., and died in Los Angeles, California, age 79.
Total trailers found: 163
21 September 1935
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies.
28 April 1942
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family.
27 September 1930
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong.
21 February 1932
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
03 February 1939
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
22 April 1942
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
02 March 1919
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
14 November 1921
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother.
04 May 1932
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
08 March 1930
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League".
29 December 1928
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present.
12 June 1942
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
08 May 1921
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler.
17 August 1930
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
05 June 1922
Billy Kirkwood, a young businessman, travels to New York City for a vacation. There he comes to the rescue of pretty young Dorothy Calender, escorting her to a taxi because she was being followed by some sinister-looking men.
19 September 1921
When retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts the child, who grows up to be an adventurous youngster of the docks.
30 August 1935
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher.
31 December 1946
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
10 May 1919
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
01 December 1930
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
02 July 1937
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
17 April 1920
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined.
11 May 1939
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances.
14 March 1940
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder.
13 July 1939
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan.
25 May 1934
Former detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora.
23 April 1937
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
27 January 1932
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
02 August 1943
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right.
07 March 1942
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
14 September 1946
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
01 December 1935
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
13 April 1939
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
20 November 1928
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star.
19 July 1951
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
19 August 1946
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married.
21 January 1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
20 June 1940
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
27 December 1930
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.
16 May 1941
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
31 May 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums.
26 June 1936
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
23 May 1941
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
17 November 1939
Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr.
05 June 1936
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
28 November 1926
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village.
17 August 1951
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
15 May 1947
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple.
11 January 1946
Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue.
01 September 1924
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
19 October 1933
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
23 July 1937
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a scheming bookie in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
10 May 1931
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
04 June 1941
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
12 August 1932
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life.
06 May 1938
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives.
06 October 1944
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest.
