Tall (6'2"), burly, and reliable character actor Gene Roth was born Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth on January 8, 1903 in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the youngest of three sons born to German father Eugene Stutenroth and Swedish mother Anna Christina Olsen. Roth and his two brothers were raised by their mother after their father abandoned them when Gene was only two years old. Gene graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1920. He began his acting career doing uncredited bit roles in silent pictures in the early 20s. Moreover, Roth worked as a movie theater manager and built and installed pipe organs before his acting career took off in the 40s following his arrival in Hollywood, California in 1943. Often cast as threatening heavies (he's perhaps best known for his portrayals of bad guys in many 40s comedy shorts he did with the Three Stooges), scruffy working class types, and rough-around-the-edges law officers (he played initially skeptical small town sheriffs in the 50s creature feature classics "Attack of the Giant Leeches" and "Earth vs. the Spider"), Gene worked profusely in both films and television alike in a career that spanned a little over two decades. After retiring from acting in the early 70s, Roth worked part time as a liquor counterman at a drug store and was an active participant in the nostalgia convention circuit. He was married four times and was the father of three children. Gene's life came to a tragic untimely end at age 73 when he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 1976.
Almost died after contracting pernicious anemia in 1963. Fortunately Roth managed to pull through, but lost a lot of weight in the process and acquired a gaunter look as a direct result of this.Was the father of three children: son Eugene Arthur and daughters Rosemarie and Dorene.His father was a professional gambler and his mother was a dressmaker.Had a small part in "The Cure" episode of the TV series "Planet of the Apes," but said role was cut from the final finished version that was broadcast on television.
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3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister.