House Peters

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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 haired and

pleasantly dimpled, was from the outset typecast as the romantic hero.

Peters lifts Beatriz Michelena onto his horse in 1914's

Salomy Jane

After enjoying his greatest success as the good-bad hero of

The Girl of the Golden West (1915), Peters found his career at the peak of the

early 1920s. He signed with Universal Studios for six films in 1924, hoping for

a comeback. The results, however, were mostly mediocre and he was soon demoted

to supporting roles. Retired after 1928's Rose Marie, Peters returned for a

guest appearance in The Old West, a 1952 Gene Autry film that also featured his

son, House Peters, Jr., who subsequently enjoyed a lengthy film career

portraying villains as well as Procter and Gamble's Mr. Clean character in

cleaning product commercials from the late 1950s into the '60s.

Peters was married to actress Mae King in 1914 with whom he

had three children, Gregg, Patricia and Robert, Jr. (1916-2008). Peters died at

the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

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