J.H. Roberts

John Henry Roberts was born 11th July 1884 in London.  As an actor, he was listed as J.H. Roberts with over 40 film credits to his name, mostly in the period between 1930’s and the late 1940’s, albeit he started his acting career much earlier – he first appeared on film in 1913 in Streets of New York followed an appearance in 1928’s The Constant Nymph.

Some of the other films that he appeared in include; White Face (1932), The Luck of a Sailor (1934), Pot Luck (1936), The Mill on the Floss (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), The Divorce of Lady X (1938), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939), The Door With Seven Locks (1940), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Uncensored (1942), as Sir Robert McLean (pictured) in The First of the Few (1942), The Dark Tower (1943), The Agitator (1945), The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947), Blanche Fury (1948), London Belongs to Me (1948), The Importance of Being Earnest (1949) and Marry Me (1949).

For fans of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, he appeared alongside them twice; in 1940 he played a minor role in Night Train to Munich and in 1948 he appeared in Quartet – he played the role of West in the Colonel’s Lady segment.

He was married to Beatrice Smith.

​He died 1st February 1961. 

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