Personal Info
Birth date
1922-11-22 (102 Years)
Day of death
1978-04-01
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
El Paso, Texas, USA
Also known as
Theda May Roberts
Mary Hart
Lynne Roberts
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.Ball of Fire
7.348
Overview:
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.Dr. Renault's Secret
5.2
Overview:
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.D.O.A.
6.923
Overview:
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.Stella Dallas
6.874
Overview:
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.Port Sinister
4
Overview:
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.Billy The Kid Returns
4.5
Overview:
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.Moon Over Miami
6.1
Overview:
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.Dick Tracy Returns
5.8
Overview:
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.Star Dust
4.7
Overview:
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.The Lone Ranger
6
Overview:
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 Mysterious Miss X
5.3
Overview:
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.Mama Runs Wild
NYR
Overview:
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).Violent Playground
7.045
Overview:
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.Sons of Adventure
NYR
Overview:
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.A Dangerous Profession
5.6
Overview:
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.Quiet Please, Murder
6.722
Overview:
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.Eyes of Texas
6
Overview:
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.High School
5.5
Overview:
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.Secret Service Investigator
6
Overview:
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.The Big Bonanza
5.5
Overview:
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.Madonna of the Desert
6
Overview:
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.Rough Riders' Round-up
4
Overview:
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.The Man in the Trunk
NYR
Overview:
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.In Old Caliente
5
Overview:
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."That's My Gal
NYR
Overview:
Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) 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 (Lynne Roberts) engages new talent (the Four Step Brothers, Guadalajara Trio, St. Clair & Vilvoa, Dolores and Don Graham, et al) and a new orchestra (Jan Savitt), in order to make the show successful and a profitable investment for the state. Barry (in another of the vast majority of his films in which he was not billed as Don "Red" Barry), who has fallen in love with the first-billed Roberts, reforms and buys up the surplus stock.Acting
1962The Merv Griffin Show (1 Episode) as Self
1958Violent Playground as Maureen Owen
1953Port Sinister as Dr. Joan Hunter
1952Because of You as Rosemary Balder
1952The Blazing Forest as Grace Hansen
1950Hunt the Man Down as Sally Clark
1950Call of the Klondike as Emily Mallory
1950The Blazing Sun as Helen Ellis
1950Love Thy Neighbor as Madge
1950Dynamite Pass as Mary Madden
1949D.O.A. as Jane Carlyle (uncredited)
1949A Dangerous Profession as Miss Wilson (uncredited)
1948Trouble Preferred as Madge Walker
1948Sons of Adventure as Jean
1948Eyes of Texas as Nurse Penny Thatcher
1948The Timber Trail as Alice Baker
1948Secret Service Investigator as Susan Lane
1948Lightnin' in the Forest as Jerri Vail
1948Madonna of the Desert as Monica Dale
1947Robin Hood Of Texas as Virginia
1947Saddle Pals as Shelly Brooks
1947That's My Gal as Natalie Adams
1947The Pilgrim Lady as Henrietta Rankin aka Iris Fabian
1946Sioux City Sue as Sue Warner
1946The Magnificent Rogue as Pat Brown Morgan
1946Winter Wonderland as Nancy Wheeler
1945Girls of the Big House as Jeanne Crail
1945Behind City Lights as Jean Lowell
1945The Chicago Kid as Chris Mitchell
1945The Phantom Speaks as Joan Renwick
1944The Big Bonanza as Judy Parker
1944My Buddy as Lucy Manners
1944The Port of 40 Thieves as Nancy Hubbard Chaney
1944The Ghost That Walks Alone as Sue McGuire Grant
1943Quiet Please, Murder as Kay Ryan
1942Dr. Renault's Secret as Madelon Renault
1942The Man in the Trunk as Peggy LaRue
1942Young America as Elizabeth Barnes
1941Ball of Fire as Veiled Woman in Gene Krupa’s Audience (uncredited)
1941Riders of the Purple Sage as Bess
1941Last of the Duanes as Nancy Bowdrey
1941Moon Over Miami as Jennie May
1941Ride on Vaquero as Marquerita Martinez
1941Romance of the Rio Grande as Maria Cordova
1940Street of Memories as Catherine (Kitty) Foster
1940Hi-Yo Silver as Joan Blanchard
1940Star Dust as College Girl
1940High School as Carol Roberts
1939Everything's on Ice as Jane Barton
1939Should Husbands Work? as Jean Higgins
1939In Old Caliente as Jean
1939My Wife's Relatives as Jean Higgins
1939Frontier Pony Express as Ann Langhorne
1939Patrola na hranicích Mexika as Ellen Denby
1939Rough Riders' Round-up as Dorothy Blair
1939The Mysterious Miss X as Julie Graham (as Mary Hart)
1938Shine On Harvest Moon as Claire Brower
1938Come On, Rangers as Janice Forbes
1938Billy The Kid Returns as Ellen Moore (as Mary Hart)
1938Dick Tracy Returns as Gwen Andrews
1938The Higgins Family as Marian Higgins
1938Call The Mesquiteers as Madge Irving (as Lynn Roberts)
1938Hollywood Stadium Mystery as Edna Mayberry (as Lynn Roberts)
1938The Lone Ranger as Joan Blanchard
1937Mama Runs Wild as Edith Summers (as Lynn Roberts)
1937Heart of the Rockies as Lorna Dawson (as Lynn Roberts)
1937Stella Dallas as Student (uncredited)
1937Dangerous Holiday as Jean Robbins