Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
3/12/1880
Place of Birth
Bristol, England, UK
Also Known As
House Peters Sr.Robert House PetersThe Star of a Thousand Emotions
House Peters
Biography
Robert House Peters, Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions." Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters began his career on a high note, playing the handsome leading man in In the Bishop's Carriage (1913), co-starring Mary Pickford. While The Bishop's Carriage was filmed in an East Coast studio, Peters was in Los Angeles by 1914, becoming one of the first screen stars to permanently settle there.
Although he stated publicly that he preferred playing villains, Peters, curly h...
Known For
Between Men
as Gregg Lewiston
The Storm
as Burr Winton
The Tornado
as Tornado
Rose-Marie
as Sergeant Malone
The Unafraid
as Stefan Balsic
Human Hearts
as Tom Logan
The Captive
as Muhamud Hassan
O. Henry's Full House
as Dave Bascom (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
The Leopard Woman
as John Culbertson
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as Magistrate (uncredited)
Rich Men's Wives
as John Masters
The Old West
as Parson Jonathan Brooks
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
as Himself
Isobel or the Trail's End
as Sgt. William MacVeigh
Counsel for the Defense
as Arnold Bruce
The Girl of the Golden West
as Ramerrez
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
as Deane Kendall
The Forfeit
as Jeffrey Masters
Leah Kleschna
as Paul Sylvain
The Rail Rider
as Jim Lewis