{{Short description|British-born American stage and film actor (1880–1947)}} {{Infobox person | name = Roland Bottomley | image = A Man's Home (1921) - 15.jpg | image_size = | caption = Bottomley in ''A Man's Home'' (1921) | birth_name = | birth_date = September 23, 1880 | birth_place = Liverpool, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1947|1|5|1880|9|23}} | death_place = New York City, US | resting_place = Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | occupation = actor | years_active = 1913-1944 | spouse = | children = }} '''Roland Bottomley''' (1880-1947)<ref>''Who Was Who on Screen'' p.46 2nd Edition c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt ..{{ISBN|0-8352-0914-8}}</ref> was a British born American stage and film actor from Liverpool, England. Some sources have him born in 1878 and others in 1879.<ref>''Silent Film Necrology'', p.55 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana ..{{ISBN|0-7864-1059-0}}</ref><ref>''American and British Theatrical Biography'', p.125 c.1979 by J. P. Wearing ..{{ISBN|0-8108-1201-0}}</ref> He moved to America circa 1913 and settled in California. He first made movies for the Kalem Company. By the 1920s he acted at Paramount, Fox, Universal and for Thomas H. Ince. After his last film in 1925 he returned to Broadway for the remainder of his career. Bottomley died in New York at the beginning of 1947.

==Selected filmography== *''The Green Cloak'' (1915) *''The Net of Deceit'' (1915)*short *''The Grip of Evil'' (1916) *''The Neglected Wife'' (1917) *''The Devil'' (1921) * ''The Charming Deceiver'' (1921) * ''A Man's Home'' (1921) *''Modern Marriage'' (1923) *''Does It Pay?'' (1923) *''The Dawn of a Tomorrow'' (1924) *''Enticement'' (1925 *''Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman'' (1925)

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