Actor
Robert Ames
March 22, 1889 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Robert Downing Ames (March 23, 1889 – November 27, 1931) was an American stage and film actor whose career was cut short by his death at age 42.
After a brief stint in vaudeville, Ames moved to Hollywood in the mid 1920s to concentrate on film work, though on occasion he would return to perform on the New York stage. He co-starred in several early talkies, including The Trespasser (1929) with Gloria Swanson, A Lady to Love (1930) with Vilma Bánky and Edward G. Robinson, and the 1930 version of Holiday, opposite Ann Harding in the role later taken by Cary Grant in the better-remembered 1938 remake.
Often works with
George MacFarlane
4 titles together
Behind Office Doors, Rich Man's Folly, Double Cross Roads
Mary Astor
3 titles together
Holiday, Behind Office Doors, Smart Woman
Hedda Hopper
3 titles together
Holiday, War Nurse, Rebound
Stuart Erwin
2 titles together
The Stolen Jools, The Trespasser
Edward Everett Horton
2 titles together
Holiday, Smart Woman
Hallam Cooley
2 titles together
Holiday, Black Waters
Full filmography · 24
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
as Gail Redman
1932
Rich Man's Folly
as Joe Warren
1931
Smart Woman
as Donald 'Don' / 'Donnie' Gibson
1931
Rebound
as Bill Truesdale
1931
Three Who Loved
as Philip Wilson
1931
The Stolen Jools
as Robert Ames (uncredited)
19315.6
Behind Office Doors
as James Duneen
1931
Millie
as Tommy Rock
19315.3
Madonna of the Streets
as Morton
1930
War Nurse
as Robin Neill
1930
Holiday
as Johnny Case
19306.2
Not Damaged
as Charlie Jones
1930