Robert Brower
{{Short description|American actor (1850–1934)}}
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Robert Brower (July 14, 1850 – December 8, 1934) was an actor who appeared in many American films.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqIYAQAAIAAJ&q=robert+brower+film|title=Silent Film Necrology|first=Eugene Michael|last=Vazzana|date=January 18, 2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786410590|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqVZAAAAMAAJ&q=robert+brower+film|title = Horror in Silent Films: A Filmography, 1896-1929|isbn = 9780786400362|last1 = Kinnard|first1 = Roy|year = 1995}} He appeared in several Edison films. He was lauded for his "characterizations" including in Apples of Sodom.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUlJAQAAMAAJ&q=robert+brower+film&pg=RA4-PA64|title=To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette|date=January 18, 1913|publisher=Amer. Company, Limited|via=Google Books}}
Brower was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. While in his teens he performed in theater.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvI9AQAAMAAJ&q=robert+brower+film&pg=RA1-PA3|title=The Edison Kinetogram|date=January 18, 1914|publisher=Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated|via=Google Books}}
Filmography
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- Aida (1911) as High Priest of Isis
- Silver Threads Among the Gold (1911)
- Hearts and Diamonds (1912)
- The Shadow on the Blind (1912)
- Helping John (1912)
- The Ambassador's Daughter (1913)
- Apples of Sodom (1913)
- Dolly Varden (1913)
- The Diamond Crown (1913) as Inspector Dalton
- The Substitute Stenographer (1913) as the Police Inspector
- The Mystery of the Fadeless Tints (1914) as Detective Narko
- The Mystery of the Glass Tubes (1914) as Detective Narko{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJYZDgAAQBAJ&q=robert+brower+film&pg=PA156|title=Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography|first=Ken|last=Wlaschin|date=October 21, 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786454297|via=Google Books}}
- The Vanishing Cracksman (1914) as Detective Narko
- Vanity Fair (1915) as Mr. Osborne
- When Love Is King (1916) as The Prime Minister
- Builders of Castles (1917) as The Builder
- The Tell-Tale Step (1917) as Doctor Oppenheim Bertellini
- The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917) as Herbert Brewster
- Something to Do (1919) as Mr. Remwick
- The Beauty Market (1919) as Amelia's Uncle Issacs
- Rose o' the River (1919) as Grandfather Wiley
- Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919) as De Witz
- Everywoman (1919) as Age
- The Heart of Youth (1919) as The Squire
- Held by the Enemy (1920) as Uncle Rufus
- A Cumberland Romance (1920) as Mountain Bishop
- Jack Straw (1920) as Count of Pomerania
- A City Sparrow (1920) as Parson Neil
- Peck's Bad Boy (1921) as The Minister (uncredited)
- The Little Minister (1921) as Hendry Munn
- The Jucklins (1921) as Attorney Conkwright
- What Every Woman Knows (1921) as Scot Lawyer
- The Lost Romance (1921) as Butler
- The Faith Healer (1921) as Dr. Martin
- Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922) as Marriage License Clerk
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922) as Bishop
- Thirty Days (1922) as Professor Huxley
- Singed Wings (1922) as Don José della Guerda
- Fools First (1922) as Butler
- Racing Hearts (1923) as Horatio Whipple
- Adam's Rib (1923) as Hugo Kermaier
- Long Live the King (1923) as The King
- Fifth Avenue Models (1924) as Art Salesman
- Riders Up (1924) as General Jeff
- The Thoroughbred (1925)
- Wild Oats Lane (1926) as The Kleptomaniac
- Home Cured (1926) (uncredited)
- The Honeymoon Express (1926) as Dick Donaldson
- The Gay Defender (1927) as Ferdinand Murrieta
- The Last Trail (1927) as Sam Beasley
- Beggars of Life (1928) as Blind Sims (uncredited){{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f45d13e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126233147/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f45d13e|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 26, 2021|title=Robert Brower|website=BFI}}
- Abraham Lincoln (1930) (uncredited)
- Blind Adventure (1933) as Hotel Dining Guest (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man (1933) as Farmer (uncredited)
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Category:Actors from Ocean County, New Jersey
Category:American male film actors