Ralph Arthur Roberts

Acting

Ralph Arthur Roberts

Born — Died

1884-10-01 — 1940-03-12

Place of birth

Meerane, Saxony, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 3 titles

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8.0

Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many women, he plans to bring them all together the night before his wedding. While sitting alone in his apartment and burning all his old photos and love letters, he notices a woman in the garden. She assets, that she’s hiding from a stubborn admirer and he stupidly offers her to come in … and then it all begins! First, his wife-to-be Hilde shows up, who wants to spend the night before their wedding together. While Rudi tries to hide the unknown woman in his bedroom, a hotel detective shows up and claims he’s following a thief.

Polterabend

1940

Danger On Wheels poster
4.6

During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.

Danger On Wheels

1940

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10.0

It's been said, that Dr. Kugler is always ready with some gossip about the missteps and bad habits of young girls. His daughter Lisa, however, is no saint either -- only he knows nothing about it and his wife is at wits' end about it. Finally, Aunt Edith has to stick her nose in everyone's affairs and in the end, she even finds a match for Lisa.

My Daughter Doesn't Do That

1940

1930s · 40 titles

Duty Is Duty poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Duty Is Duty

1931

Gypsy Blood poster
10.0

Princess Stauffenstein has arranged a marriage for her grandnephew Poldi and orders him to meet his unknown bride Steffi. But he falls for alluring dancer Ilonka while his uncle Leopold, sent to reason with him, is enchanted by Steffi.

Gypsy Blood

1934

A Song for You poster
8.0

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.

A Song for You

1933

Burglars poster
6.4

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

Burglars

1930

Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous poster
8.0

A musical-comedy directed by Carl Boese

Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous

1930

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8.0

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Schön ist es, verliebt zu sein

1934

Soldier Comrades poster
9.0

A rich,spoiled young man learns about military discipline after bonding with a more hard working comrade,and helping to rescue a child from a fire.

Soldier Comrades

1936

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Frau Eva wird mondän

1934

A Night in Paradise poster
8.0

One of the popular Weimar-era musical comedies not released in the US until after the Nazi takeover, this one has a Cinderella-type plot.

A Night in Paradise

1932

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7.0

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Der Schrecken vom Heidekrug

1934

No Celebration Without Meyer poster
7.0

Siegmund Meyer might be a professional matchmaker, but his own married bliss will not come that easily. In order to impress city councillor Goebel, the father of Meyer's love interest Mary, he tries to pass as an industrial tycoon. But Mary's heart belongs to someone else, and while Meyer continues his risky role-changing, he fails to notice that his loyal secretary Ms. Krause has been secretly in love with him for a long time.

No Celebration Without Meyer

1931

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8.0

A councilor is tricked by an impostor, whom he believes to be a baron. He gives him money and his marriageable daughter -- but then the real baron shows up and plays the chauffeur.

Da stimmt was nicht

1934

Marriage in Small Doses poster
8.0

Nora and Peter constantly fight and wish to divorce. Nora's uncle Eberhard, however, believes the two belong together and comes up with a plan to bring the two back together again: as a lawyer, who is processing the divorce, he explains to them that the paperwork for the divorce is completed, but will only go into effect once they undertake a reconciliation attempt. For the first reconciliation meeting, Eberhard enlists the help of his friend Christa and together, they turn Nora into such a hot tamale, that Peter burns with jealousy that any other man might look at her. At the second meeting of the two, which takes place a year later (how long do divorces in Nazi Germany take?!?!), Nora plays the girl abandoned by everyone. In the interim, she's given birth to Peter's son -- which apparently does not count as a reconciliation -- and Peter has become a successful composer. When Nora again disappears after this meeting, Peter does all he can to win her back.

Marriage in Small Doses

1939

My Wife, the Pearl poster
7.5

A lawyer is abandoned by his wife. To save face, he introduces his friend to a client as his wife. But she has just been divorced and was supposed to be set up with this friend by an aunt. Numerous misunderstandings arise until in the end everyone breaks up reconciled.

My Wife, the Pearl

1937

There Is Only One Love poster
10.0

The chamber singer Sir Henry Godwin and the ballet master Blattner need a vacation.

There Is Only One Love

1933

Angels with Minor Faults poster
7.0

Mary arrives in Berlin from Canada to visit her nephew Max and meet his twin daughters that she has been amply supporting financially. But Max has cheated: There is only one daughter Inge who has to enact both girls to cover up the mess.

Angels with Minor Faults

1936

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The handsomest man in the state

1932

My Aunt, Your Aunt poster
8.0

Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...

My Aunt, Your Aunt

1939

Meine Frau, die Schützenkönigin poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Frau, die Schützenkönigin

1934

The Cheeky Devil poster
10.0

Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted.

The Cheeky Devil

1932

Tanz auf dem Vulkan poster
6.3

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

1938

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8.0

The eccentric owner of a chateau, Lord Wilford, is fond of everything that is connected with criminal cases. His passion takes up so much time that even his secretary hardly has time to see her fiance. When mysterious letters arrive, announcing that a certain Mister X wants to steal a valuable statuette, the Lord is very enthusiastic. Apparently he himself will now experience a real criminal case! His secretary persuades him to hire a famous detective from London - none other than her fiance. But he is far from being a talented detective, and when a valuable pearl necklace disappears, the fiance falls under suspicion to be the thief.

The Mysterious Mister X

1936

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8.0

The seamstresses Franzi and Mizzi have opened up a small shop in a suburb of Vienna. Mizzi is of the opinion, however, that her friend could have a much better life if only she'd marry Karl, the son of the landlord, who has been hot for her for quite a while now. Next store to them lives a rather elegant gentleman, whom Mizzi does not like. One day, an excited woman bursts into the studio, tears off her clothes and begs the girls to act as if they're fitting her for a dress should her husband waltz on in, too. In fact, her jealous husband Stefan does show up and is thrilled to discover that his Gerda isn't cheating on him. But Mizzi and Franzi are positive, that she's been meeting a certain elegant gentleman next door.

A Merry House

1939

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier poster
7.0

This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier

1932

Don't Be Afraid of Love poster
7.5

The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive.

Don't Be Afraid of Love

1933

The Unrecognized Man of the World poster
8.0

The author of a series of love stories based on his own experiences meets a country girl who can't stand his writing, in this Bavarian comedy which culminates in a grand masquerade ball.

The Unrecognized Man of the World

1936

Die Unschuld vom Lande poster
9.0

A village maiden gets her chance at becoming a big star in the Berlin theater.

Die Unschuld vom Lande

1933

Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast poster
8.0

Dr. Lorenz is presenting her married daughter to everyone as being unmarried, because she believes a flirtation between the girl and her son-in-law’s boss just might play to the married couple’s advantage. Everyone seems to dance to the doctor’s tune, even a rather moronic professor. However, at the end of all these entanglements, everything seems to work out after all.

Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast

1937

Everyone Asks for Erika poster
10.0

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Everyone Asks for Erika

1931

No artwork available
8.0

Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.

Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1

1930

Es war einmal ein Musikus poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Es war einmal ein Musikus

1933

Punks Arrives from America poster
9.0

A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself to his fellow citizens,which he does by foiling the robbery of his uncle and then marrying his sweetheart.

Punks Arrives from America

1935

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der kühne Schwimmer

1934

Mädchen für alles poster
10.0

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Mädchen für alles

1937

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10.0

In this comedy, a crude country girl from Poland is brought to Germany and turned into a fine lady by a cosmopolitan jeweler.

Old Comrades

1934

Her Majesty Love poster
10.0

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.

Her Majesty Love

1933

The Tender Relatives poster
7.5

Mr. and Mrs. Linsemann have been happily married for a year. In their chic home, a modern villa financed by a loan and not yet fully paid off, the lady of the house intends to throw a big one-year anniversary party to please her husband. For this reason, she invites all his relatives to a large party, including her wealthy Uncle Adolf, from whom she hopes for a substantial financial boost to help pay off the loan. But this bash soon turns into a disaster, because the guests are quite a handful: there's dear, well-behaved Uncle Emil, who was always under the thumb of his rather unpleasant brother Adolf; the Webers with their teenage son; Cousin Wilhelm and his wife; and Mr. and Mrs. Stempel. A musician, a nanny, and a singer are also in attendance.

The Tender Relatives

1930

True Jacob poster
7.0

The village mayor is a bigoted man: when he sees a girl from the variety show, the morality no longer applies to him.

True Jacob

1931

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Carefree Choral Society

1931

The Isle of Lies poster
9.0

A country girl, mistaken for the niece of an American millionaire, wins the prize in a toothpaste contest, a trip to the Baltic seashore.

The Isle of Lies

1932

1920s · 17 titles

No artwork available
10.0

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Die dritte Eskadron

1926

Parisian Women poster
10.0

Parisian Women (German: *Pariserinnen*) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Léo Lasko. Ressel Orla, Xenia Desni, and Ralph Arthur Roberts starred in the film. The film premiered at the Marmorhaus cinema in Berlin.

Parisian Women

1921

Die tolle Komteß poster
7.0

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Die tolle Komteß

1928

Lotte poster
10.0

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Lotte

1928

No artwork available
NR

German silent film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Marcella Albani, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Curt Bois.

Anschluß um Mitternacht

1929

Der Frauenkönig poster
10.0

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Der Frauenkönig

1923

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10.0

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Der Ladenprinz

1928

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8.0

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Ein rheinisches Mädchen beim rheinischen Wein

1927

Moral poster
7.5

When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son and heir is not living his life to the full. Ninon d’Hauteville, a showgirl and the revue’s star attraction, takes a job as piano teacher to the young prince after her engagement at the local theatre was brought to a premature end, a result of the Morality Society’s interference. It doesn’t take long for those hypocrites to get wind of this. While on the outside they appear to be concerned with running the immoral woman out of their town, behind closed doors they rank among the new piano teacher’s most ardent pupils. However, Ninon, out to right the wrong done against her, secretly keeps a “diary” of their visits, recording each encounter on film with a hidden camera.

Moral

1928

Erniedrigte und Beleidigte poster
NR

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Erniedrigte und Beleidigte

1922

The Buddenbrooks poster
6.0

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.

The Buddenbrooks

1923

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NR

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Die Blumenfrau vom Potsdamer Platz

1925

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8.0

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Der Raub der Sabinerinnen

1928

My Aunt - Your Aunt poster
7.0

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My Aunt - Your Aunt

1927

No artwork available
9.0

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Die Tragödie eines Verlorenen

1927

Heut tanzt Mariett poster
8.0

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Heut tanzt Mariett

1928

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8.0

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Prince or Clown

1928

Behind the camera