Edith Roberts (September 17, 1899 – August 20, 1935) was an American silent film actress from New York City. She was a child performer in vaudevillebefore she came to Hollywood in 1915. Among her more than 150 screen credits are roles in Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925), Big Brother (1923), The Wagon Master (1929), and The Mystery Club (1926). Her final film role was in Two O'Clock in the Morning(1929).

Death

In private life she was Mrs. Harold Carter. She died, aged 35, from septicemia at the Hollywood Hospital in 1935, shortly after giving birth to a son, Robert, her only child. A Christian Science memorial service was conducted at the chapel at Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. Her sister was the actress Leona Roberts, and she was an aunt of Josephine Hutchinson.

Selected filmography

• When the Call Came (1915)
• Billy's College Job (1915)
• The Trail of the Wild Wolf (1916)
• Cinders (1916)
• The Brazen Beauty (1918)
• The Deciding Kiss (1918)
• Set Free (1918)
• Bill Henry (1919)
• Flesh and Blood (1922)
• Saturday Night (1922)
• Backbone (1923)
• Twenty Dollars a Week (1924)
• The Age of Innocence (1924)
• Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
• Roaring Rails (1924)
• Three Keys (1925)
• On Thin Ice (1925)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925)
• There You Are! (1926)
• The Jazz Girl (1926)
• The Adorable Outcast (1928)
• The Phantom of the North (1929)

References

• Los Angeles Times, Last Honor Paid To Edith Roberts, August 23, 1935, Page A2.
• New York Times, Mrs. Harold Carter, August 22, 1935, Page 15.