Gene Roth

Gene Roth
Roth in The Hoodlum (1951)
Born	Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth (1903-01-08)January 8, 1903 Redfield, South Dakota, U.S.
Died	July 19, 1976(1976-07-19) (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Gene Stutenroth Eugene Stutenroth Eugene Roth
Occupations	Actor film manager
Years active	1922–1967

Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976), known profesionally as Gene Roth, was an American film actor and film manager.

Early years

Roth was born in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the son of a German father and a Swedish mother, who raised their three sons after the father left the family. The actor, whose billing names included Gene Stutenroth, Eugene Stutenroth, and Eugene Roth finished high school in 1920 and was a manager of a movie theater before he became an actor.^[1]

Film

Roth appeared in over 250 films between 1922 and 1967.^[2] His first film was Daughter of the Tong (1939).^[1]

As Gene Stutenroth, he became a successful manager of movie theaters in the 1930s, and was working in this capacity when he visited Hollywood in 1944. Stutenroth was watching a movie scene being photographed when a member of the crew noticed that he looked like

In 1960, Roth appeared as Davis on the TV western Cheyenne in the episode "Counterfeit Gun." ^{[citation needed]}

Roth appeared three times on Gene Barry's TV western Bat Masterson, once playing "Mayor Oliver Hinton" in the 1959 episode "Election Day", and twice in 1960, once playing a miner in the episode "The Rage of Princess Anne" and another time as a crooked bartender in the episode "The Big Gamble".

Roth retired from acting in the 1960s and operated a liquor store in Hollywood.

Death

Roth was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 1976.^[4]

Selected filmography

References

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