Matty Roubert

Matty Roubert

Born: January 22, 1907
Died: May 17, 1973
in New York City, New York, USA
Matthew Roubert was born in New York in 1907 was a child star from about 1910-1921, and his father William L. Roubert was involved with "Little Matty Roubert" and his silent screen adventures. Matty's earliest film appearances were at Vitagraph and Biograph.

Movies for Matty Roubert...

Challenge of the Range
Title: Challenge of the Range
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.
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Law of the Lash
Title: Law of the Lash
Character: Peewee
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
When Decker's gang holds up a stage, henchman Lefty takes a lady's rings. Later lefty accidentally exposes the rings buying ammunition and Cheyenne sees them. When Lefty tries to shoot Cheyenne he is captured. Now Cheyenne wants the rest of the gang and their leader.
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I Love a Mystery
Title: I Love a Mystery
Character: Newsboy (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Townsman
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: Barfly
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Frontier Vengeance
Title: Frontier Vengeance
Character: Henchman Pinto
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Henchman
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Henchman Pete
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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My Favorite Wife
Title: My Favorite Wife
Character: Page Boy Paging Mr. Arden (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
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Cafe Hostess
Title: Cafe Hostess
Character: Newsboy
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Saga of Death Valley
Title: Saga of Death Valley
Character: Foster
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Paradise Valley Henchman
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Chet Logan
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Shine On Harvest Moon
Title: Shine On Harvest Moon
Character: Ben Jackson
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A rustler's son (Roy Rogers) courts a rancher's daughter (Mary Hart) during a range war.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Newspaper Vendor
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Slaves in Bondage
Title: Slaves in Bondage
Character: Good-Looking Freddie
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Newsboy
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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The Garden Murder Case
Title: The Garden Murder Case
Character: Newsboy (Uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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Broadway Hostess
Title: Broadway Hostess
Character: Second Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Newsboy (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Newsboy
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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Vanity Street
Title: Vanity Street
Character: Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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By Whose Hand?
Title: By Whose Hand?
Character: Second Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1932
Type: Movie
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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Tom Brown of Culver
Title: Tom Brown of Culver
Character: Cadet
Released: June 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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Up Pops the Devil
Title: Up Pops the Devil
Character: Subscription Boy
Released: May 19, 1931
Type: Movie
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
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Close Harmony
Title: Close Harmony
Character: Bert
Released: April 12, 1929
Type: Movie
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
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Circus Day
Title: Circus Day
Released: May 11, 1920
Type: Movie
A young boy loves the circus and attempts to make his own.
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Little Billy's Triumph
Title: Little Billy's Triumph
Released: January 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime.
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John Barleycorn
Title: John Barleycorn
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life. At age five he was instructed to bring a pail of beer to his father and drank some to prevent it spilling over, getting drunk for the first time. As an adult, he goes through cycles of abstinence only to return to hard drinking.
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The Skeleton
Title: The Skeleton
Released: October 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.
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The Freshet
Title: The Freshet
Character: Meg's Son
Released: November 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Tom Ennis, a stalwart, sturdy fellow, is apprenticed to John Matthews, the village blacksmith, whose daughter is a likable girl. Tom falls in love with her, but her father opposes him and Meg marries one who is her father's choice.