John Roche (actor)
John Roche (May 6, 1893 – November 10, 1952) was an American actor of the stage and screen. BiographyJohn Conklin Roche was born in the small village of Penn Yan, New York, on May 6, 1893.[1] His father purportedly died by the time of the 1900 census.[2] By 1910, Roche worked as a stenographer at a flour mill.[3] He graduated from the University of Rochester, after which he began his acting career touring with stock companies during the 1910s and early 1920s.[4] By the time of the 1920 census, he listed himself as divorced and worked as a motor truck engineer in Manhattan.[5] In 1922, he broke into the film industry with a featured role in The Good Provider.[6] During the 1920s, he acted in both films and on stage, including several roles in Broadway productions, such as R.U.R. (1922).[7][8][9] By 7 April 1930, he lived in Los Angeles with his partner, Newell Vanderhoef, with whom he stayed until at least 1950.[10][11][12] 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.[4][13] By 1940, he took up regular work selling jewelry at a department store.[11][12] 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.[14] Over the course of his career he was involved in over six Broadway productions and appeared in over 50 films.[7][8] His final screen appearance was in 1946's The Brute Man.[15] Roche died on November 10, 1952, at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.[4][16] His remains were interred at Holy Cross Cemetery.[17] Vanderhoef was not named in his obituary, though it states he was survived by his brother, Angelo James Roche, Esq.[18] Angelo also had a partner, James H Corliss.[19] Filmography(According to AFI database)[7]
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