Robert Ames

Ames, Robert (1889–1931), actor. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he served an apprenticeship with stock companies in New England before catching New York's attention opposite Ruth Chatterton in Come Out of the Kitchen (1916). The boyish‐looking Ames was best known as Billy Wade, the high‐principled hero of Nice People (1921), the unprincipled central figure of The Hero (1921), the pathetically overreaching husband of It's a Boy! (1922), and the black sheep, Ben, in Icebound (1923).