Date of birth: 1877-11-07
Place of birth: Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Robert Edward Homans, Robert E. Homans, Bob Homans, Robert E. Homas, Robert A. Homans
Robert Edward Homans (November 8, 1877 – July 28, 1947) was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career.
1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t
1935-10-21
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
1937-07-16
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bou
1943-08-27
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Gr
1938-07-24
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
1927-03-01
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their r
1941-06-14
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen
1929-02-10
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
1933-12-09
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho
1930-08-24
Bob Merril, looking for the killer of Buddy's father, has found the secret entrance to Pecos' hideou
1932-07-16
Verdugo finds a young boy on the desert and raises him as his son. Now a grown man, Dan is framed fo
1931-04-18
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o
1928-09-15
A forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang tr
1941-03-07
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politici
1931-08-29
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beg
1933-02-09
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them
1945-12-08
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
1945-05-11
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investi
1942-04-22
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen
1943-02-19
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
1945-04-14
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After
1941-08-08
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou
1936-03-04
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
1936-11-06
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l
1939-09-08
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to th
1938-03-03
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering mi
1944-03-22
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
1939-06-02
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be us
1928-05-15
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
1933-06-03
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving
1931-04-01
A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
1941-12-12
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen
1932-11-18
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st
1930-06-01
Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's she
1941-06-27
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
1937-09-04
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played
1931-11-21
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
1930-10-26
A cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her.
1932-11-09
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town
1935-12-02
Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper pu
1943-04-01
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt t
1931-11-07
When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previo
1936-06-13
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean
1936-02-14
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of
1936-06-07
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a tra
1936-08-01
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
1945-01-22
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order
1941-06-11
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gan
1944-06-30
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of
1937-04-05
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance com
1944-03-31
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings
1939-02-25
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j
1938-07-04
As executor of the owner's will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn
1937-06-29
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous
1932-05-05
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working
1938-11-05
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue
1943-01-29
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. Th
1938-02-21
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
1938-09-14
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, an
1938-10-04
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the
1930-11-23
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
1930-01-10
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich play
1932-04-17
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do abou
1938-10-01
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the
1931-07-15
A ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.
1930-04-20
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a noc
1942-11-04
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police office
1943-01-16
Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
1930-08-09
Unemployed jockey Tod Taylor gets a huge break when he is hired by Matt Riley. Within weeks, Taylor
1937-07-15
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lechero
1934-11-17
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol
1938-12-09
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H
1931-06-21
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't ma
1937-07-06
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unin
1935-09-29
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in m
1927-05-15
Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late A
1936-09-11
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
1936-01-24
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
1936-01-17
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out
1938-06-04
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
1936-07-31
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
1939-03-02
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo
1939-03-11
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
1939-03-08
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman wh
1939-04-08
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r
1939-03-29
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence
1939-04-28
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
1939-06-09
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes
1939-08-18
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f
1939-06-23
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the
1939-07-08
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrup
1939-07-28
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim
1939-08-19
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h
1944-07-31
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told i
1929-05-19
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and t
1942-03-01
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a
1939-12-15
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself up
1939-11-07
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's f
1939-12-29
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls
1939-09-08
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
1938-12-16
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
1939-11-08
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his
1933-02-03
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid
1935-10-16
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicat
1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter
1938-12-10
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre
1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the
1932-12-02
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to f
1937-03-06
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car
1941-10-18
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li
1937-02-13
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a
1936-08-20
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of
1939-09-29
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
1936-09-28
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra
1941-11-12
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he
1942-06-19
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned
1942-05-28
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is
1936-06-05
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
1936-02-21
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette l
1937-02-10
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l
1937-01-02
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma
1940-05-20
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
1929-03-30
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
1939-08-21
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will
1934-05-25
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f
1944-12-06
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of
1944-03-30
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. Bu
1945-11-16
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
1940-03-23
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in
1943-04-20
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
1939-05-19
A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows airc
1936-12-26
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebe
1940-01-19
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story tak
1940-07-25
In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantl
1933-12-22
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and
1940-05-24
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
1940-11-22
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and matern
1940-11-09
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co
1940-02-17
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
1940-10-19
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age
1940-04-20
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to Ame
1940-11-30
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
1940-05-10
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reuni
1940-08-28
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his musi
1940-12-27
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars p
1940-04-19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur
1928-12-09
Blindfold is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Charles Klein and written by
1943-04-09
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel
1938-04-02
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr
1937-10-08
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh
1932-07-23
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in
1932-11-17
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki
1936-12-18
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing f
1942-07-31
A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Som
1935-09-06
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to fi
1940-06-21
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then franti
1942-05-31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D
1942-01-31
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
1941-10-01
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his
1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod
1942-10-20
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate ma
1930-03-09
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away
1926-11-01
American silent film directed by Frank O'Connor.
1939-07-28
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's W
1940-03-01
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
1941-12-31
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U
1940-01-26
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new su
1933-09-01
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush an
1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
1997-01-05
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c
1939-02-17
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of on
1938-02-26
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodn
1941-12-09
This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Naz
1944-09-15
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love a
1924-09-21
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements
1943-03-18
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
1937-09-24
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new
1937-02-28
A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
1936-10-10
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro
1935-05-09
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperat
1944-02-08
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of t
1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia
1939-05-11
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
1945-09-21
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
1941-02-08
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend h
1944-06-10
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires
1939-11-08
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks
1946-05-04
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a
1930-11-08
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha
1931-04-23
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life
1943-03-10
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feedin
1945-04-16
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is t
1937-01-30
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining
1945-08-13
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai
1935-11-09
The singing stoker and the vamp.
1943-04-01
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
1937-05-14
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
1927-06-12
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an ac
1937-08-27
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin
1931-10-15
Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in
1938-02-12
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a
1945-04-13
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding-
1942-02-01
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a
1945-12-07
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat
1945-09-29
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
1932-01-14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr
1933-02-18
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
1943-04-15
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a rec
1936-11-30
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.
1942-10-21
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
1943-11-12
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
1929-10-16
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitap
1929-07-22
A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway f
1924-02-03
Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan,
1935-05-03
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o
1939-03-17
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice a
1937-06-04
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re
1938-06-01
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in
1939-03-23
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen
1934-05-18
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contr
1930-05-11
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in
1935-02-22
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third
1936-02-28
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of Presid
1936-05-01
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears whil
1930-10-09
Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Ali
1939-08-11
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i
1934-03-09
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and te
1944-10-06
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to th
1931-06-06
Sailor Joe Hart, who is spending his shore leave at a gambling joint, sells his gun to young Laurie