Robert Taber (actor)

Robert Taber
Postcard image of Taber (1902)
Born	1865 Staten Island, New York, U.S. (pre-NYC amalgamation)
Died	March 8, 1904 (aged 38–39)

Robert Schell Taber (1865 – March 8, 1904) was an American Broadway actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Born in 1865 in Staten Island (before the amalgamation of New York City in 1898), where his father, Charles Corey Taber (1821–1892) was a well-known cotton merchant, his brothers were mathematician Dr. Henry S. Taber (1860–1936), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and professor of Mathematics at Clark University from 1888 to 1921, and Edward Martin Taber (1863–1896), a landscape artist. Robert Taber attended Princeton University.

His first professional engagement was in 1886 as Silvius in As You Like It with the theatrical company of Helena Modjeska. Taber later appeared with Richard Mansfield. In 1888 he joined the company of the actress Julia Marlowe and became the company's leading man.

During 1890 and 1891 he appeared in the companies of Augustin Daly and Richard Mansfield, returning to Julia Marlowe's company in late 1891, appearing with her in Twelfth Night in 1892. In 1896 he appeared as Captain Absolute in a production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals with his wife Julia Marlowe, Joseph Jefferson and Louisa Lane Drew at Macauley's Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.