Richard Rober

Richard Rober (born Richard Steven Rauber; May 14, 1906 – May 26, 1952) was an American stage and film actor. From the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s he featured in numerous theatre productions, including being part of the original cast of Born Yesterday in Chicago, and the long-running Oklahoma!. In 1947 he moved to Hollywood and appeared in dozens of B-movies and film noir-type films, including Call Northside 777, Sierra (1950), and The Well (1951). He died in an automobile accident in 1952 at the age of 46.

Early life and family Richard Steven Rauber was born in Rochester, New York, on May 14, 1906. He was the son of Frederick S. Rauber, an attorney, and Elizabeth Ford.

While Rober mostly played supporting roles, his career began to go on the ascendancy before his death in 1952. He had a starring role in The Well (1951), and had traveled to Austria to play the lead in the MGM production The Devil Makes Three (1952). His second marriage, at age 40, was to Mary Hay Barthelmess, age 23, daughter of actors Richard Barthelmess and Mary Hay, in New York in January 1946. They later divorced.

Death Rober died after crashing his car in the San Fernando Valley on May 26, 1952. Rescuers took the pair to Santa Monica Hospital, where Rober died a few hours later. Britton survived with rib injuries.

Rober was eulogized in Rochester and buried in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.