John Roche

Biography

John Roche was born in Penn Yan, New York, on February 6, 1893, and began his acting career touring with stock companies during the 1910s and early 1920s. He broke into film in 1922 with a featured role in The Good Provider, later alternating between stage and screen roles throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Roche directed a play, Mackerel Skies, before resuming film work in 1941.