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==Personal life==
Rober was married twice.<ref name=cal>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46395432/calgary-herald/|title=Richard Rober Weds|authoragency=Associated Press|date=January 21, 1946|newspaper=[[Calgary Herald]]|page=5|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref> His second marriage, at age 40, was to Mary Hay Barthelmess, age 23, daughter of actors [[Richard Barthelmess]] and [[Mary Hay (actress)|Mary Hay]], in New York in January 1946.<ref name=cal/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46395292/the-los-angeles-times/|title=Barthelmess Wedding Set|first=Hedda|last=Hopper|authorlink=Hedda Hopper|date=January 20, 1946|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=17|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref> They later divorced.
==Death==
Rober died after crashing his car in the [[San Fernando Valley]] on May 26, 1952.<ref name=democrat/> He had been driving with a passenger, actress Norma Britton. The car swerved off the highway in heavy fog and plummeted over a {{cvt|75|ft}} embankment.<ref name=democrat/><ref name=nyt>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/27/archives/actor-dies-in-crash-richard-rober-killed-in-car-plunge-actress.html|title=ACTOR DIES IN CRASH; Richard Rober Killed in Car Plunge -- Actress Injured|date=May 27, 1952|accessdateaccess-date=February 18, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Rescuers took the pair to [[UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica|Santa Monica Hospital]], where Rober died a few hours later. Britton survived with rib injuries.<ref name=democrat>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7271321/democrat_and_chronicle/|title=Funeral of Richard Rauber, Actor, Arranged Here Monday|newspaper=[[Democrat and Chronicle]]|date=May 30, 1952|page=30|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref>
Rober was eulogized in Rochester and buried in the [[Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Rochester, New York)|Holy Sepulchre Cemetery]] there.{{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=634}}<ref name=democrat/>
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<small>Sources: <ref name=ibd>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/richard-rober-90253|title=Richard Rober|work=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|year=2020|accessdateaccess-date=February 18, 2020}}</ref>{{sfn|Dietz|2010|p=302}}{{sfn|Mantle|1938|pp=368, 444}} </small>
==References==
==Sources==
*{{cite book|ref=harv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwFlAAAAMAAJ&q=Richard+Rober|title=Theatre World – Season 1951-1952|first=Daniel C.|last=Blum|year=1951|publisher=Crown Publishing Company}}
*{{cite book|ref=harv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgOqZWHCLbUC&pg=PA302|title=Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows|first=Dan|last=Dietz|year=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786457311}}
*{{cite book|ref=harv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiYOAAAAIAAJ&dqq=lord+ross|title=Burns Mantle Yearbook|volume=19|year=1938|first=Burns|last=Mantle|authorlink=Burns Mantle}}
*{{cite book|ref=harv|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA634|title= Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|first=Scott|last=Wilson|year=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn= 9780786479924}}
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