---
name: "Robert Ober"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-ober"
fi1m_id: "robert-ober"
imdb_id: "nm0643212"
tmdb_id: 29976
wikidata_id: "Q18534084"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 March 1881"
died: "7 December 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:17:27.193871+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Robert Ober

## Identity

Robert Ober

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-ober
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-ober
- **IMDb ID:** nm0643212
- **TMDB ID:** 29976
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18534084
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ober, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18534084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643212/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29976

Actor. Born 9 March 1881 in Bunker Hill, Illinois, USA. Died 7 December 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 March 1881, Bunker Hill, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 7 December 1950
- **Also known as:** Robert Howard Ober
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ober, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18534084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643212/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29976

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Big Parade*](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md) (80)

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## Biography

Robert Howard Ober (also credited as Robert Ober) was an American stage and silent film actor. Born in Bunker Hill, Illinois, he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and began his theatre career in that city before moving to New York.

He made his Broadway debut in 1904 and appeared in numerous productions, including *Forty-five Minutes from Broadway*, *Fair and Warmer* and *You Can't Take It With You*. His film credits include *The Young Rajah* (1922), *The Big Parade* (1925) as Harry Apperson, *The Mystic* (1925) and *The Idle Rich* (1929). He also directed *The Woman Racket* (1930) and wrote the story for *Fighting Lady* (1935).

Ober died in New York City in 1950.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Big Parade* (1925), Fi1m 80, as Harry Apperson — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Birth of a Baby* (1938), as Mr. Case
- *The Woman Racket* (1930), Director
- *The Idle Rich* (1929), as Henry Thayer
- *Black Butterflies* (1928), as Jimmie
- *Across the Atlantic* (1928), as Dan Clayton
- *A Reno Divorce* (1927), as Eric Frane
- *The Little Adventuress* (1927), as Leonard Stoddard
- *Held by the Law* (1927), as Boris Morton
- *The Whole Town's Talking* (1926), as Donald Montallen
- *Butterflies in the Rain* (1926), as Emsley Charleton
- *Fools of Fashion* (1926), as Joe Alden
- *The Checkered Flag* (1926), as Marcel Dejeans
- *Morals for Men* (1925), as Harvey Larkin
- *Time, the Comedian* (1925), as Anthony Dakon
- *The Big Parade* (1925), as Harry Apperson — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)
- *The Mystic* (1925), as Anton
- *Introduce Me* (1925), as Algy Baker
- *Souls for Sables* (1925), as Jim Hamilton
- *The Young Rajah* (1922), as Horace Bennett

## Gallery

- ![Robert Ober](https://film.one/media/person/3850148/gallery-ee89d9bdf193.jpg) Robert Ober — Baker's Art Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Robert_Ober%2C_stage_actor_%28SAYRE_7329%29_retouched.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor Robert Ober](https://film.one/media/person/3850148/gallery-76a1f6dd2e9d.jpg) Actor Robert Ober — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Robert_Ober_portrait_photograph_ca._1913.jpg/1280px-Robert_Ober_portrait_photograph_ca._1913.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robert Ober](https://film.one/media/person/3850148/gallery-c01cac3b328d.jpg) Robert Ober — Image via TMDB

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