{{Short description|American actor}} {{Infobox person | name = Roy Applegate | image = Actor Roy Applegate (SAYRE 2687).jpg | caption = Applegate in 1907 | birth_date = {{birth date|1878|12|07}} | birth_place = Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1950|02|09|1878|12|07}} | death_place = Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, U.S. | occupation = Film actor }}

'''Roy Applegate''' (7 December 1878 – 9 February 1950) was an American actor

==Background== He played Judge Gates in ''The Child of Destiny'' (1916),<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qEbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=29 |publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company |year=1916 |title=The Child of Destiny |page=884}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYcqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910–1936 |first1=Jay Robert |last1=Nash |first2=Robert |last2=Connelly |first3=Stanley Ralph |last3=Ross |publisher=Cinebooks |year=1988 |pages=8, 329, 331 |isbn=9780933997103}}</ref> Opera House Manager in ''The Musician's Daughter'' (1911),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3VZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=Griffithiana |issue=44–46 |publisher=Cineteca D.W. Griffith |year=1992 |pages=92–93}}</ref> Arthur Jepson in ''All for a Girl'' (1915),{{sfn|Connelly|1998|p=8}} Simon Legree in ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1914),{{sfn|Connelly|1998|p=291}} Mackenzie in ''A Man's Law'' (1918),{{sfn|Connelly|1998|p=383}} and Detective in ''Sally of the Sawdust'' (1925).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baQqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=The Griffith Project |volume=10 |first=Paolo Cherchi |last=Usai |publisher=British Film Institute |year=2006 |page=177 |isbn=9781844572199 |editor-first=Eileen |editor-last=Bowser |editor2-first=Cynthia |editor2-last=Rowell}}</ref> He also appeared in ''The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde'' (1915).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-npZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=A guide to American silent crime films |first1=Larry |last1=Langman |first2=Daniel |last2=Finn |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1994 |page=59 |isbn=9780313288586}}</ref>

==Death== He was reported missing since February 9, 1950, and found dead in the bathroom of his home by his sister and brother-in-law due to a heart attack.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28731793/1950_roy_applegate_actor_and_veteran/ |title=Roy Applegate, Actor, Veteran, Found Dead |newspaper=The Morning Call |date=11 February 1950 |access-date=28 September 2019 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Filmography== thumb|right|Applegate and Elsie MacLeod in ''Her Husband's Honor'' (1915) {{columnslist| * ''He Couldn't Help It'' (1927) * ''Tin Gods'' (1926) * ''Sally of the Sawdust'' (1925) as Detective * ''Yolanda'' (1924) as Sir Karl Pitti * ''Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1920) as Capt. Harris * ''Babs'' (1920) as Jabez Prouty * ''The Midnight Bride'' (1920) as James Weir * ''The Friendly Call'' (1920) * ''The Prey'' (1920) as Pete Canard * ''Upside Down'' (1919) as James Wortley Tammers * ''The Cambric Mask'' (1919) as Henry Murden * ''Once to Every Man'' (1918) as Dave * ''The Daredevil'' (1918) as Col. Robert Carruthers * ''A Man's Law'' (1918) as Mackenzie * ''The Child of Destiny'' (1916) as Judge Gates * ''Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph'' (1916) as Judge Winters * ''The Kiss of Hate'' (1916) as Goliath * ''A Daughter of the Sea'' (1915) as Alexander Gibson * ''The Bludgeon'' (1915) as Fred Hillman * ''The Game of Three'' (1915) as Bud, assistant detective * ''All for a Girl'' (1915) as Arthur Jepson / Old farmer * ''Her Husband's Honor'' (1915) as Deputy Grayson * ''The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde'' (1915) as Big Charles * ''The Avalanche'' (1915) as Peter Vaughan * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1914) as Simon Legree * ''The Musician's Daughter'' (1911) as Opera House Manager * ''Hands Across the Sea in '76'' (1911) }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7tPAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36 |volume=40 |issue=2 |first=Robert B. |last=Connelly |publisher=December Press |year=1998 |pages=439 |isbn=9780913204368 |edition=2nd}}

==External links== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0032402}}

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Category:1878 births Category:1950 deaths Category:Male actors from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Category:American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Category:Military personnel from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Category:American male silent film actors Category:20th-century American male actors