Matty Roubert

Acting

Matty Roubert

Born — Died

1907-01-22 — 1973-05-17

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 12 titles

My Favorite Wife poster
7.0

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

My Favorite Wife

1940

Texas poster
6.7

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.

Texas

1941

I Love a Mystery poster
6.4

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.

I Love a Mystery

1945

Law of the Lash poster
5.5

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.

Law of the Lash

1947

Cafe Hostess poster
5.4

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Cafe Hostess

1940

Under Texas Skies poster
5.8

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.

Under Texas Skies

1940

Adventures of Red Ryder poster
6.7

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.

Adventures of Red Ryder

1940

Wild West poster
9.0

Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop them. When Eddie and the boys catch three of Dawson's men destroying telegraph equipment, the Judge releases them and this leads to the showdown between the two sides.

Wild West

1946

Arizona Bound poster
4.2

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

Arizona Bound

1941

Challenge of the Range poster
6.5

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.

Challenge of the Range

1949

Frontier Vengeance poster
7.0

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.

Frontier Vengeance

1940

No artwork available
9.0

Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbows traces the history of aluminum in brief, dramatic episodes. It shows the challenges presented to the youth of the 1940s of the opportunities in the world of chemistry.

Unfinished Rainbows

1941

1930s · 24 titles

It Happened One Night poster
7.8

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

It Happened One Night

1934

Mad Love poster
7.0

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

Mad Love

1935

Baby Face poster
7.3

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.

Baby Face

1933

Shall We Dance poster
7.3

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.

Shall We Dance

1937

The Garden Murder Case poster
5.7

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.

The Garden Murder Case

1936

It's in the Air poster
6.3

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.

It's in the Air

1935

The Death Kiss poster
5.2

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.

The Death Kiss

1932

Up Pops the Devil poster
5.0

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.

Up Pops the Devil

1931

While New York Sleeps poster
7.0

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

While New York Sleeps

1938

The Marshal Of Mesa City poster
7.5

A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

The Marshal Of Mesa City

1939

Tom Brown of Culver poster
6.8

Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.

Tom Brown of Culver

1932

Saga of Death Valley poster
6.7

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.

Saga of Death Valley

1939

Angel's Holiday poster
6.0

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.

Angel's Holiday

1937

Calling Dr. Kildare poster
6.6

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?

Calling Dr. Kildare

1939

By Whose Hand? poster
6.6

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.

By Whose Hand?

1932

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

The Oregon Trail poster
7.5

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.

The Oregon Trail

1939

Hollywood Boulevard poster
4.5

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.

Hollywood Boulevard

1936

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

Beggars in Ermine poster
7.2

John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.

Beggars in Ermine

1934

Slaves in Bondage poster
3.0

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.

Slaves in Bondage

1937

Broadway Hostess poster
6.0

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Broadway Hostess

1935

Vanity Street poster
7.1

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Vanity Street

1932

Divot Diggers poster
6.3

When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.

Divot Diggers

1936

1920s · 3 titles

1910s · 8 titles

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I poster
NR

The first of a series of three reels. This reel depicts the escape of Eliza and the removal of Uncle Tom from his old home in Kentucky. According to an article in Film Index (16 Jul 1910 ), the scene depicting the escape of Eliza was filmed in the early spring, when the ice on the Ohio river had started to melt.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I

1910

The Big Sister poster
NR

A daughter of the slums has a little brother and makes a brave attempt to earn enough for both herself and Jimmy after her father is sent to jail on a fake charge trumped-up by "Nifty" Mendez, who is very anxious to get her in his toils. Betty escapes from the city and Nifty. On the road Jimmy is struck by Rodney Channing's motor. The injury is not serious but Jimmy must remain in Channing's home for some time. During the visit, love grows up between Channing and Betty, who is now of course very happy. But a newspaper announcement and the author send Nifty again into her life and simultaneously with his entrance comes the exit of happiness.

The Big Sister

1916

Little Billy's Triumph poster
6.0

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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Little Billy's Triumph

1914

No artwork available
NR

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.

John Barleycorn

1914

The Skeleton poster
4.0

Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.

The Skeleton

1912

No artwork available
7.0

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.

The Freshet

1911

No artwork available
8.0

1912 silent film directed by Harry C. Mathews

The Golden Rod

1912

No artwork available
10.0

John Dobbs, an aged farmer, comes to the village with his family, and while there makes the sale of a cow for a good sum.

Baby Sherlock

1912