Teddy the Rough Rider

6.7

19 minutes

2/21/1940

Overview

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.

Cast List

Sidney Blackmer
as Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Wood
as President William McKinley
Selmer Jackson
as John W. Riggs
Theodore von Eltz
as William Loeb
Arthur Loft
as Big Jim Rafferty
John Ridgely
as Reporter
Glenn Strange
as Jim Rawlins
Robert Warwick
as Capt. Leonard Wood
Frank Wilcox
as Roosevelt's Secretary
Pierre Watkin
as Sen. Platt
Wedgwood Nowell
as Mine Owner
Edward McWade
as Russell Alger, Secretary of War
Edward Van Sloan
as Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Earl Dwire
as Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
Nat Carr
as Reporter
Walter Fenner
as 1st Slum Lord
Gus Glassmire
as 3rd Slum Lord
Frank Mayo
as Cabinet Member
Morgan Wallace
as First Financier