AMES, ROBERT

(1889-1931)

   Ames began his acting career with the Hunter-Bradford stock company in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was born. He toured in The Great Divide, then joined a resident company in Massachusetts. In 1916, he earned recognition playing opposite Ruth Chatterton in Come Out of the Kitchen. Several other good roles followed, including the sympathetic lead in Nice People (1921), the unsympathetic lead in The Hero (1921), and the errant son in Icebound (1923).