- Almost died after contracting pernicious anemia in 1963. Fortunately Roth managed to pull through, but lost a lot of weight in the process and acquired a very gaunt look as a direct result of this.
- Was the father of three children: son Eugene Arthur and daughters Rosemarie and Dorene.
- Had a small part in The Cure (1974), which would have been his last role, but it was cut from the episode before broadcast.
- His father was a professional gambler and his mother was a dressmaker.
- From 1920 to the early 1940s he was in the exhibition area of show business, managing vaudeville theaters and, later, movie theaters all over the US. He specialized in installing pipe organs in theaters, and while in Hollywood in the early 1940s to do just that, he was spotted by a casting director who thought he looked the way a Nazi SS officer was supposed to look (although he was actually Swedish, not German) and talked him into doing a small part in a picture, which gave him his start in acting.
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