John Roche

John Roche

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Roche (February 6, 1893 – November 10, 1952) was an American actor of the stage and screen. Roche was born in the small village of Penn Yan, New York, on February 6, 1893. He graduated from the University of Rochester, after which he began his acting career touring with stock companies during the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1922, he broke into the film industry with a featured role in The Good Provider. During the 1920s, he acted in both films and on stage, including several roles in Broadway productions. He acted steadily in films until 1936, in both featured and supporting roles. In the mid-1930s he took a break from films, focusing on the stage, including directing the play, Mackerel Skies, which had a short run at the Playhouse Theatre in New York in 1936. Roche returned to films in 1941, with a small role in the Norma Shearer vehicle, We Were Dancing (1942), based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. Over the course of his career he was involved in over half a dozen Broadway productions and appeared in over 50 films. His final screen appearance was in 1946's The Brute Man. Roche died on November 10, 1952, in Los Angeles, California.

  • Title: John Roche
  • Popularity: 0.1857
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1893-02-06
  • Place of Birth: Penn Yan, New York, USA
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John Roche Movies

  • 1929
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    The Donovan Affair

    The Donovan Affair

    6 1929 HD

    Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.

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  • 1929
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    The Awful Truth

    The Awful Truth

    1 1929 HD

    Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.

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  • 1932
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    Winner Take All

    Winner Take All

    4.714 1932 HD

    Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?

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  • 1927
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    6.636 1927 HD

    In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.

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  • 1930
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    Monte Carlo

    Monte Carlo

    6.526 1930 HD

    A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

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  • 1929
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    This Thing Called Love

    This Thing Called Love

    1 1929 HD

    A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.

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  • 1937
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    Kid Galahad

    Kid Galahad

    7 1937 HD

    Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

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  • 1924
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    Flowing Gold

    Flowing Gold

    1 1924 HD

    Calvin Gray, a former soldier, is hired to manage the wealth of the Briskow family in a Texas oil town. As he defends them from a corrupt banker and a cunning con artist, he forms a deep connection with the Briskows' daughter, Allegheny, leading to unexpected changes in his life.

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  • 1935
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    Just My Luck

    Just My Luck

    1 1935 HD

    Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.

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  • 1923
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    Lucretia Lombard

    Lucretia Lombard

    5 1923 HD

    Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.

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  • 1929
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    The Dream Melody

    The Dream Melody

    1 1929 HD

    Richard Gordon is an aspiring composer who can't get arrested in his field of endeavor. Upon meeting nightclub singer Mary Talbot, Gordon is inspired to write his greatest melody. The song catches the ear of impresario George Monroe and before long Gordon has scaled the heights of fame and fortune. Mary despairs that she's been forgotten.

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  • 1933
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    Beauty for Sale

    Beauty for Sale

    7 1933 HD

    A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.

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  • 1932
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    Prosperity

    Prosperity

    4.7 1932 HD

    Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

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  • 1925
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    Kiss Me Again

    Kiss Me Again

    1 1925 HD

    Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice. A lost film.

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  • 1924
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    The Tenth Woman

    The Tenth Woman

    1 1924 HD

    A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.

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  • 1926
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    The Return of Peter Grimm

    The Return of Peter Grimm

    1 1926 HD

    "Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.

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  • 1932
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    Lady with a Past

    Lady with a Past

    5.8 1932 HD

    A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.

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  • 1926
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    Don Juan

    Don Juan

    6.429 1926 HD

    If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.

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  • 1926
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    Midnight Lovers

    Midnight Lovers

    6 1926 HD

    During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.

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  • 1926
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    The Clinging Vine

    The Clinging Vine

    6.2 1926 HD

    When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room. 

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  • 1925
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    Bobbed Hair

    Bobbed Hair

    1 1925 HD

    Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.

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  • 1928
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    Diamond Handcuffs

    Diamond Handcuffs

    1 1928 HD

    In South Africa, a worker in a diamond mine is sentenced to death for stealing a huge diamond he found in the mine. Before he dies he passes the stone to a local girl, Musa. Known as the "Shah" diamond, it eventually winds up in New York City. Complications ensue, involving a wealthy society matron, her jealous husband, a gang of vicious jewel thieves and a brutal gangster who owns a nightclub. A lost film.

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  • 1943
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    The Spider Woman

    The Spider Woman

    6.9 1943 HD

    Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".

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  • 1929
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    The Unholy Night

    The Unholy Night

    5.3 1929 HD

    When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

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  • 1925
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    Recompense

    Recompense

    1 1925 HD

    Clergyman Peter leaves the pulpit to enter World War I to be near Julie, the woman he loves. They are separated, but after the war she nurses him through a long illness. He will not marry her because it would hinder the humanitarian work that he plans. She keeps her faith in him, which prompts him to return to her and marry her. A lost film.

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  • 1925
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    A Broadway Butterfly

    A Broadway Butterfly

    1 1925 HD

    Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.

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  • 1924
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    K - The Unknown

    K - The Unknown

    1 1924 HD

    Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.

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  • 1923
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    Bag and Baggage

    Bag and Baggage

    1 1923 HD

    Country girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft after a criminal named Jathrow Billings mistakes her handbag for a satchel of jewels he stole from the wealthy Mrs. Marian Cooper. Hal solves the mystery and keeps Hope out of jail.

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  • 1924
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    Cornered

    Cornered

    1 1924 HD

    A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.

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  • 1925
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    My Wife and I

    My Wife and I

    1 1925 HD

    In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.

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  • 1942
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    The Falcon Takes Over

    The Falcon Takes Over

    6.2 1942 HD

    While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.

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  • 1926
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    The Man Upstairs

    The Man Upstairs

    1 1926 HD

    The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.

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  • 1932
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    The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

    The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

    1 1932 HD

    The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.

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  • 1922
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    The Good Provider

    The Good Provider

    1 1922 HD

    A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves fruitless and eventually his kin sees the error of their ways and return to their true home.

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  • 1930
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    Sin Takes a Holiday

    Sin Takes a Holiday

    5.4 1930 HD

    Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from plain to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair.

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  • 1924
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    A Lost Lady

    A Lost Lady

    1 1924 HD

    A spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband but soon becomes bored. She finally leaves him but doesn't really know what she wants. A young man who is a friend--and, unbeknownst to her, an admirer--takes her in.

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  • 1924
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    Her Marriage Vow

    Her Marriage Vow

    1 1924 HD

    A man sees his wife flirting with a former boyfriend. Enraged, he decides to end the marriage. After cooling down, though, he begins to have second thoughts about the separation, especially since there are children involved.

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  • 1926
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    Her Big Night

    Her Big Night

    1 1926 HD

    Tom Barrett, a motion picture press agent, noting Frances Norcross' resemblance to film star Daphne Dix, offers her passes to the star's personal appearance. While waiting for her fiancé, Johnny Young, Frances is offered $1,000 to impersonate Daphne and successfully appears in her place, assuaging the fears of Myers, a producer, who knows Daphne is with millionaire Harmon on a yacht. Reporter J. Q. Adams has his suspicions aroused and sends a cub reporter to impersonate Daphne's husband.

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  • 1925
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    The Love Hour

    The Love Hour

    1 1925 HD

    Two shop girls, Lizzie and Betty, meet a millionaire and a plumber at a beach resort and fall in love with them. However the villain is conspiring to steal Betty away from her husband and obtain his wealth.

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