Frederick Roger Imhof[1] (August 15, 1875 – April 15, 1958)[1] was an American film actor, vaudeville, burlesque and circus performer, sketch writer, and songwriter.

[8][9] "The Pest House" was "the most popular and longest running of several sketches starring the portly pair Roger Imhof and Marcel Corinne".

[6][10] According to an October 1920 edition of the Oregon Daily Journal, the sketch involved Imhof playing an Irish peddler who spends a mishap-filled night at an inn.

[6][12] He reportedly invested in Chicago and Los Angeles real estate, but lost most of his money in the stock market and during the Great Depression.

[1] As an actor, he appeared in films from 1932 to 1944, including San Francisco (1936), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and This Gun for Hire (1942).