Lynne Roberts

Acting

Lynne Roberts

Born — Died

1922-11-22 — 1978-04-01

Place of birth

El Paso, Texas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lynne Roberts, born Theda May Roberts (November 22, 1922 – April 1, 1978) was an American film actress who appeared exclusively in B-movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynne Roberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 8 titles

Because of You poster
6.5

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Because of You

1952

Hunt the Man Down poster
6.3

A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

Hunt the Man Down

1950

Violent Playground poster
7.2

A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

Violent Playground

1958

The Blazing Sun poster
10.0

Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother. When Kitty Bartlett comes to town claiming to be the slain Bartlett's widow, Gene has to save her from the irate townspeople who are not aware that her name isn't Bartlett but she really is the daughter of a law officer slain by Al Bartlett. Ben Luder, a local hood, tricks Bartlett back into town by saying he has to fixed to have Doc Larry Taylor do plastic surgery on him. En route they meet Doc and his assistant Helen Ellis and Ben's ruse is exposed. Bartlett kills Ben and forces Doc to drive him to the railroad. Gene, in a fight atop a runaway train, captures Bartlett.

The Blazing Sun

1950

Call of the Klondike poster
7.3

A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.

Call of the Klondike

1950

No artwork available
8.0

When an airplane lands in Los Angeles after sending a radio request for police and medical aid, one of the passengers, matronly Mrs. Judd, tells Police Inspector Bruce what happened

The Great Plane Robbery

1950

Dynamite Pass poster
6.1

A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.

Dynamite Pass

1950

Port Sinister poster
6.0

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Port Sinister

1953

1940s · 35 titles

Ball of Fire poster
7.4

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Ball of Fire

1941

Robin Hood Of Texas poster
7.0

When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.

Robin Hood Of Texas

1947

D.O.A. poster
6.9

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.

D.O.A.

1949

The Man in the Trunk poster
9.0

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

The Man in the Trunk

1942

Ride on Vaquero poster
5.2

The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.

Ride on Vaquero

1941

A Dangerous Profession poster
5.7

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

A Dangerous Profession

1949

Sioux City Sue poster
10.0

A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.

Sioux City Sue

1946

Riders of the Purple Sage poster
7.0

Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a young George Kennedy as Lassiter.

Riders of the Purple Sage

1941

Madonna of the Desert poster
8.0

A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.

Madonna of the Desert

1948

The Ghost That Walks Alone poster
4.8

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.

The Ghost That Walks Alone

1944

My Buddy poster
9.0

A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.

My Buddy

1944

Dr. Renault's Secret poster
5.5

A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.

Dr. Renault's Secret

1942

Eyes of Texas poster
7.0

A ranch owner turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer covets the ranch and uses a gang of local toughs, a pack of killer dogs, and a phoney rancher's beneficiary to get it. U.S. Marshal Rogers opens an investigation when the rancher is killed.

Eyes of Texas

1948

Saddle Pals poster
6.5

Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.

Saddle Pals

1947

The Big Bonanza poster
6.3

Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.

The Big Bonanza

1944

The Magnificent Rogue poster
6.5

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

The Magnificent Rogue

1946

Sons of Adventure poster
9.0

This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.

Sons of Adventure

1948

Secret Service Investigator poster
7.5

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.

Secret Service Investigator

1948

Last of the Duanes poster
6.5

Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.

Last of the Duanes

1941

Moon Over Miami poster
6.5

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.

Moon Over Miami

1941

The Bride Wore Crutches poster
7.0

A cub reporter goes after his story in a big way when he single-handedly exposes a crime ring.

The Bride Wore Crutches

1940

Trouble Preferred poster
6.0

A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.

Trouble Preferred

1948

Romance of the Rio Grande poster
4.7

When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.

Romance of the Rio Grande

1941

Girls of the Big House poster
7.5

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.

Girls of the Big House

1945

Quiet Please, Murder poster
7.0

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Quiet Please, Murder

1943

The Phantom Speaks poster
5.7

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

The Phantom Speaks

1945

Lightnin' in the Forest poster
4.7

Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...

Lightnin' in the Forest

1948

Winter Wonderland poster
5.2

A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.

Winter Wonderland

1946

No artwork available
8.0

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.

Street of Memories

1940

That's My Gal poster
10.0

Two sharpie promoters put on a show they believe is so bad it will not play more than one day and they therefore will not have to pay the long list of investors, i.e, suckers and buyers. But one of the investors dies intestate and his interests pass to the state. The governor's secretary engages new talent and a new orchestra, in order to make the show successful and a profitable investment for the state.

That's My Gal

1947

High School poster
6.7

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high school.

High School

1940

Young America poster
9.0

Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.

Young America

1942

Star Dust poster
5.7

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Star Dust

1940

Behind City Lights poster
7.0

This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played by Peter Cookson and Jerome Cowan. Roberts is set up for a patsy by these two rogues, and nearly ends up in jail-and later on, narrowly escapes being rubbed out by gangsters.

Behind City Lights

1945

Hi-Yo Silver poster
7.0

Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."

Hi-Yo Silver

1940

1930s · 17 titles

Stella Dallas poster
6.9

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

Stella Dallas

1937

Billy The Kid Returns poster
4.9

After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.

Billy The Kid Returns

1938

Shine On Harvest Moon poster
5.0

A rustler's son (Roy Rogers) courts a rancher's daughter (Mary Hart) during a range war.

Shine On Harvest Moon

1938

Heart of the Rockies poster
8.0

Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the criminals' deeds. But when a ranger is shot and Stony is framed for the crime, it's up to Lullaby and Tucson to prove his innocence.

Heart of the Rockies

1937

Dick Tracy Returns poster
6.0

Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.

Dick Tracy Returns

1938

Call The Mesquiteers poster
6.5

The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack their truck for a getaway and the police conclude they are part of the gang, an identification which is just fine with the gang's nameless chief.

Call The Mesquiteers

1938

Hollywood Stadium Mystery poster
6.2

A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.

Hollywood Stadium Mystery

1938

Everything's on Ice poster
5.3

Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.

Everything's on Ice

1939

The Lone Ranger poster
7.0

In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator. In one of his first actions, he captures and assumes the identity of Texas' new Finance Commissioner, Colonel Marcus Jeffries, after having the real man murdered. When a contingent of Texas Rangers enters the territory, Snead, one of Smith's men, leads them into an ambush by Smith's "troopers". The Rangers are apparently wiped out, although one injured survivor is left. The survivor, nursed back to health by Tonto, swears to avenge the massacre and defeat "Colonel Jeffries" and his men.

The Lone Ranger

1938

Southward Ho! poster
5.5

Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.

Southward Ho!

1939

My Wife's Relatives poster
7.0

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.

My Wife's Relatives

1939

Rough Riders' Round-up poster
5.2

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.

Rough Riders' Round-up

1939

The Mysterious Miss X poster
5.4

After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.

The Mysterious Miss X

1939

Frontier Pony Express poster
5.0

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.

Frontier Pony Express

1939

Should Husbands Work? poster
6.0

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy

Should Husbands Work?

1939

Come On, Rangers poster
8.0

A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot.

Come On, Rangers

1938

The Higgins Family poster
7.0

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

The Higgins Family

1938

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