Robert Schell Taber (1865 – March 8, 1904)[1] was an American Broadway actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

[3] 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.

According to many who knew her, Marlowe sacrificed her own interests many times in order to promote Taber's career, as when he played Hotspur to her Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1.

At the time of his divorce Taber was appearing in London, where, among other roles, he played Macduff in Macbeth at the Lyceum Theatre in 1898, opposite Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

[5] He appeared as Orsino in Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of Twelfth Night at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1901.