John Roche

John Roche

Born: February 6, 1893
Died: November 10, 1952
in Penn Yan, New York, USA
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John Roche (February 6, 1893 – November 10, 1952) was an American actor of the stage and screen.

Roche was born in the small village of Penn Yan, New York, on February 6, 1893. He graduated from the University of Rochester, after which he began his acting career touring with stock companies during the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1922, he broke into the film industry with a featured role in The Good Provider. During the 1920s, he acted in both films and on stage, including several roles in Broadway productions. He acted steadily in films until 1936, in both featured and supporting roles. In the mid-1930s he took a break from films, focusing on the stage, including directing the play, Mackerel Skies, which had a short run at the Playhouse Theatre in New York in 1936. Roche returned to films in 1941, with a small role in the Norma Shearer vehicle, We Were Dancing (1942), based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. Over the course of his career he was involved in over half a dozen Broadway productions and appeared in over 50 films. His final screen appearance was in 1946's The Brute Man.

Roche died on November 10, 1952, in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for John Roche...

The Spider Woman
Title: The Spider Woman
Character: Casino Croupier (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
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The Falcon Takes Over
Title: The Falcon Takes Over
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Just My Luck
Title: Just My Luck
Character: R.H. Nelson
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
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Beauty for Sale
Title: Beauty for Sale
Character: Robert Abbott
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
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Prosperity
Title: Prosperity
Character: Holland's Cohort Knapp
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Roger Elliott
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Character: Gregory Gordon
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Carl
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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Monte Carlo
Title: Monte Carlo
Character: Paul, the 'Real' Hairdresser
Released: August 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: De witt
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
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The Unholy Night
Title: The Unholy Night
Character: Lieutenant Savor
Released: September 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Jimmy Kempster
Released: August 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
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The Donovan Affair
Title: The Donovan Affair
Character: Jack Donovan
Released: April 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
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The Dream Melody
Title: The Dream Melody
Character: Richard Gordon
Released: January 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Richard Gordon is an aspiring composer who can't get arrested in his field of endeavor. Upon meeting nightclub singer Mary Talbot, Gordon is inspired to write his greatest melody. The song catches the ear of impresario George Monroe and before long Gordon has scaled the heights of fame and fortune. Mary despairs that she's been forgotten.
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Diamond Handcuffs
Title: Diamond Handcuffs
Character: Jerry Fontaine
Released: May 5, 1928
Type: Movie
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: Augustine St. Claire
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
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The Return of Peter Grimm
Title: The Return of Peter Grimm
Character: Frederick Grimm
Released: December 7, 1926
Type: Movie
"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.
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Midnight Lovers
Title: Midnight Lovers
Character: Owen Ffolliott
Released: October 25, 1926
Type: Movie
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
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The Clinging Vine
Title: The Clinging Vine
Character: House Guest
Released: September 6, 1926
Type: Movie
When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room. 
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Don Juan
Title: Don Juan
Character: Leandro
Released: August 6, 1926
Type: Movie
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Captain Fraser-Freer
Released: January 22, 1926
Type: Movie
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Saltonstall Adams
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: Maurice
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
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My Wife and I
Title: My Wife and I
Character: Spencer Hobart
Released: May 16, 1925
Type: Movie
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
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Recompense
Title: Recompense
Character: Dr. Sampson
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn, a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
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A Broadway Butterfly
Title: A Broadway Butterfly
Character: Crane Wilder
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
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K - The Unknown
Title: K - The Unknown
Character: Dr. Max Wilson
Released: November 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.
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The Tenth Woman
Title: The Tenth Woman
Character: Barry Compton
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Buddy Briskow
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.
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Lucretia Lombard
Title: Lucretia Lombard
Character: Fred Winship
Released: December 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
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Bag and Baggage
Title: Bag and Baggage
Character: Hal Tracy
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie