Billy Bevan

Billy Bevan

Born: September 29, 1887
Died: November 26, 1957
in Orange, New South Wales, Australia
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Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris, 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in 254 American films between 1916 and 1950.

Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie Bevan. He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912 and later toured Canada. Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916. When the company disbanded, Bevan became a supporting actor in Mack Sennett movie comedies. An expressive pantomimist, Bevan's quiet scene-stealing attracted attention, and by 1922 Bevan was a Sennett star. He supplemented his income, however, by establishing a citrus and avocado farm at Escondido, California.

Usually filmed wearing a derby hat and a drooping mustache, Bevan may not have possessed an indelible screen character like Charlie Chaplin but he had a friendly, funny presence in the frantic Sennett comedies. Much of the comedy depended on Bevan's skilled timing and reactions; the famous "oyster" routine performed on film by Curly Howard, Lou Costello, and Huntz Hall—in which a bowl of "fresh oyster stew" shows alarming signs of life and battles the guy trying to eat it—was originated on film decades earlier by Bevan in the short film Wandering Willies.

By the mid-1920s Bevan was often teamed with Andy Clyde; Clyde soon graduated to his own starring series. The late 1920s found Bevan playing in wild marital farces for Sennett.

The advent of talking pictures took their toll on the careers of many silent stars, including Billy Bevan. Bevan began a second career in "talkies" as a character actor and bit player in roles such as that of a bus driver in the 1929 film High Voltage, a hotel employee in the Mae Murray film Peacock Alley, and the supporting role of Second Lieutenant Trotter in Journey's End in 1930. His starring roles had come to an end, however, and for the next 20 years he often would play rowdy Cockneys (as in Pack Up Your Troubles with The Ritz Brothers), and affable Englishmen (as in Tin Pan Alley and Terror by Night). He played a friendly bus conductor opposite Greer Garson in one of the opening scenes of Mrs. Miniver.

Bevan died in 1957 in Escondido, California, just before new audiences discovered him in Robert Youngson's silent-comedy compilations. (The Youngson films mispronounce his name as "Be-VAN"; Bevan himself offered the proper pronunciation in a Voice of Hollywood reel in 1930.)

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Vincent Price's Dracula
Title: Vincent Price's Dracula
Character: Horace - (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.
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30 Years of Fun
Title: 30 Years of Fun
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Title: The Golden Age of Comedy
Character: archive footage
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Title: Hans Christian Andersen
Character: Town Councilman (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Title: The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
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Three Secrets
Title: Three Secrets
Character: Ed Jackson (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Title: Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Character: Will Scarlet
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
Title: Fortunes of Captain Blood
Character: Billy Bragg
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
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Tell It to the Judge
Title: Tell It to the Judge
Character: Winston, Kitty's Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Title: The Secret Of St. Ives
Character: Douglas (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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The Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden
Character: Barney
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
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Let's Live a Little
Title: Let's Live a Little
Character: Morton
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Black Arrow
Title: The Black Arrow
Character: Dungeon Keeper
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
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The Swordsman
Title: The Swordsman
Character: Old Andrew
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
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It Had to Be You
Title: It Had to Be You
Character: Evans
Released: December 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
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Moss Rose
Title: Moss Rose
Character: Harry, Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
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Cluny Brown
Title: Cluny Brown
Character: Uncle Arn Porritt
Released: June 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Devotion
Title: Devotion
Character: Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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Terror by Night
Title: Terror by Night
Character: Conductor Taking Tickets
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Malvolio Jones
Released: March 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.
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National Velvet
Title: National Velvet
Character: Constable (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
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Tonight and Every Night
Title: Tonight and Every Night
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
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The Pearl of Death
Title: The Pearl of Death
Character: Constable With Food Tray (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
Title: The Invisible Man's Revenge
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Bookie (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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The Return of the Vampire
Title: The Return of the Vampire
Character: Horace (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Wartime Cabby
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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London Blackout Murders
Title: London Blackout Murders
Character: Air Raid Warden
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Title: Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Puritan Vendor (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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Counter-Espionage
Title: Counter-Espionage
Character: George Barrow
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Bus Conductor (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Farmer
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Character: Phillips
Released: April 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: Mr. Bindle
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Mr. Weller
Released: August 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
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Shining Victory
Title: Shining Victory
Character: Chivers
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
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Penny Serenade
Title: Penny Serenade
Character: McDougal (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Stage Doorman
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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The Long Voyage Home
Title: The Long Voyage Home
Character: Joe
Released: November 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Jim (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Castle Guide
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: British Sergeant
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Duffy
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: Cockney (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Street Watch Leader
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Title: Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Character: Aquarium Guard
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Shadows Over Shanghai
Title: Shadows Over Shanghai
Character: Gallicuddy
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
Title: Mysterious Mr. Moto
Character: Customs Official
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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The Young in Heart
Title: The Young in Heart
Character: Kennel Man (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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Blond Cheat
Title: Blond Cheat
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Nick
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
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Bringing Up Baby
Title: Bringing Up Baby
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: McLean
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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The Sheik Steps Out
Title: The Sheik Steps Out
Character: Munson
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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Another Dawn
Title: Another Dawn
Character: Pvt. Hawkins
Released: June 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Atkins
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Personal Property
Title: Personal Property
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Plug Hat
Released: January 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Innkeeper
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Piccadilly Jim
Title: Piccadilly Jim
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: Frederick
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Police Constable Albert
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Mr. Boswick
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Cabby (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Song and Dance Man
Title: Song and Dance Man
Character: Curtis
Released: March 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Jerry Cruncher
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Officer Watkins
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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The Last Outpost
Title: The Last Outpost
Character: Private Foster
Released: October 11, 1935
Type: Movie
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
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Black Sheep
Title: Black Sheep
Character: Alfred
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Title: Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character: Horse Auctioneer
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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Mystery Woman
Title: Mystery Woman
Character: Jepson
Released: January 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: December 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Limehouse Blues
Title: Limehouse Blues
Character: Herb
Released: December 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Man in Hotel Room
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Cloakroom Attendant
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Meadows
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Mac
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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The Lost Patrol
Title: The Lost Patrol
Character: Hale
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
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Pop's Pal
Title: Pop's Pal
Character: Grandpa
Released: December 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan comedy short involving warring fathers-in-law, Lloyd Hamilton in small role. --IMDb reviewer
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Two of Spades (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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The Way to Love
Title: The Way to Love
Character: M. Prial
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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Too Much Harmony
Title: Too Much Harmony
Character: Stage Director
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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The Big Squeal
Title: The Big Squeal
Character: Jake Burke
Released: July 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
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Thundering Taxis
Title: Thundering Taxis
Character: One of the Taxi Boys
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Detective #2 (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
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A Study in Scarlet
Title: A Study in Scarlet
Character: Will Swallow
Released: May 14, 1933
Type: Movie
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
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Uncle Jake
Title: Uncle Jake
Character: Uncle Jake
Released: May 4, 1933
Type: Movie
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Looking Forward
Title: Looking Forward
Character: Mr. Barker
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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Techno-Crazy
Title: Techno-Crazy
Character: Mary's Father - the Mayor
Released: March 12, 1933
Type: Movie
TECHNO-CRAZY has to be one of the strangest comedy shorts of the 1930's. Starring Monte Collins as a young man who dreams of technological progress in society bringing a "technocracy" that's a utopia and Billy Bevan as the Mayor, whose daughter Collins wants to marry, the short begins with a dream sequence where Collins is running a factory on his own and explaining to someone how no one needs to work in this new utopia and everything operates automatically.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: George Grainger
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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Luxury Liner
Title: Luxury Liner
Character: Schultz
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
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She Whoops To Conquer
Title: She Whoops To Conquer
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
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Me and My Gal
Title: Me and My Gal
Character: Ashley (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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Payment Deferred
Title: Payment Deferred
Character: Charlie Hammond
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
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Honeymoon Beach
Title: Honeymoon Beach
Character: Billy Bevan
Released: October 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of Ma's intentions, as is Blondie who has plans of her own regarding Billy. The laughs here are only slightly less scarce than the chicken in the boarding house chicken-and-dumplings in "True Grit."
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Joseph Sedley
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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Sky Devils
Title: Sky Devils
Character: Colonel
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.
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The Silent Witness
Title: The Silent Witness
Character: Horace Ward
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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Who's Who in the Zoo
Title: Who's Who in the Zoo
Character: Father
Released: October 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing for an exam.
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Waterloo Bridge
Title: Waterloo Bridge
Character: Soldier on the Make (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Character: Hodgkins
Released: August 19, 1931
Type: Movie
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
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Chances
Title: Chances
Character: Cuthbert (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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Born to Love
Title: Born to Love
Character: Departing British Soldier (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
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For the Love o' Lil
Title: For the Love o' Lil
Character: Edward O. Walker
Released: August 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.
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Monte Carlo
Title: Monte Carlo
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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Journey's End
Title: Journey's End
Character: Trotter
Released: April 9, 1930
Type: Movie
In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
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Scotch
Title: Scotch
Character: Gilbert - Addie's Brother
Released: January 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
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Peacock Alley
Title: Peacock Alley
Character: Walter
Released: January 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
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Weak But Willing
Title: Weak But Willing
Character: George Downing
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Gus Jones
Released: June 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
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Don't Get Jealous
Title: Don't Get Jealous
Character: Billy Blake
Released: May 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. Billy, his landlord, offers to take out Carmelita to a cafe and have Wilbur follow them to test his wife's fidelity.
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Pink Pajamas
Title: Pink Pajamas
Character: Billy Brooks
Released: April 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously jealous. Billy sends his wife some silk pajamas to mollify her, but they're sent to Mrs. Dent by mistake. Billy innocently trying to be helpful is almost caught in the wrong apartment, but a card that accompanied the silkies will fall into the wrong hands.
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Calling Hubby's Bluff
Title: Calling Hubby's Bluff
Character: Billy Barton
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
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The Sky Hawk
Title: The Sky Hawk
Character: Tom Berry
Released: January 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
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His New Stenographer
Title: His New Stenographer
Character: Billy Brooks
Released: December 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Billy Brooks, a lawyer, sets out to get a divorce for a client by framing him in a compromising situation. But the scheme goes askew when the client's wife gets a job as Billy's new stenographer and he, not knowing who she is, selects her as the correspondent to frame her own husband.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: Paris Cabman
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Hubby's Weekend Trip
Title: Hubby's Weekend Trip
Character: Bill Blake
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
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Motorboat Mamas
Title: Motorboat Mamas
Character: Billy Bender
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
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His Unlucky Night
Title: His Unlucky Night
Character: Billy Trotter
Released: August 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
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The Girl from Nowhere
Title: The Girl from Nowhere
Character: Constable Billy Barnes
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
The Girl from Nowhere is a comedy short
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The Bicycle Flirt
Title: The Bicycle Flirt
Character: Doty Bassett - the Bicycle Flirt
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
The Bicycle Flirt is a silent comedy short
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: Best Man
Released: February 8, 1928
Type: Movie
A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
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The Beach Club
Title: The Beach Club
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.
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The Girl from Everywhere
Title: The Girl from Everywhere
Character: Messenger
Released: December 11, 1927
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
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The Bull Fighter
Title: The Bull Fighter
Character: Pete De Tour
Released: November 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The Bull Fighter is a 1927 short comedy
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Gold Digger of Weepah
Title: Gold Digger of Weepah
Character: The Barber
Released: October 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
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The Golf Nut
Title: The Golf Nut
Character: Billy Divott
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
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Cured in the Excitement
Title: Cured in the Excitement
Character: Professor Brawn
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Cured in the Excitement is a 1927 Comedy short film.
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A Small Town Princess
Title: A Small Town Princess
Character: Joe Whiffet
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
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Easy Pickings
Title: Easy Pickings
Character: The Detective
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Peter's cousin. Knowing that Dolores is dead, Stewart, who catches Mary Ryan burglarizing the Van Horne home, induces her to pose as Dolores.
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Peaches and Plumbers
Title: Peaches and Plumbers
Character: Bill the Plumber
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
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Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Title: Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Character: Charley Carter
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short
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Flirty Four-Flushers
Title: Flirty Four-Flushers
Character: Jerry Connors / Archibald De Shyster
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
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Masked Mamas
Title: Masked Mamas
Character: Casey McCorkle
Released: October 30, 1926
Type: Movie
A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
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Should Husbands Marry?
Title: Should Husbands Marry?
Character: The Cop
Released: October 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
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Hoboken to Hollywood
Title: Hoboken to Hollywood
Character: Billy Judkins
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood office. He is going to drive there with his wife and mother. Along the way, they encounter Mr. Pinkney and his new bride, who too are heading west. Their misadventures together and meeting up with a band of marauding Indians may prevent any of them from reaching their intended destination. If Billy and Mr. Pinkney ever make it to Hollywood, they're both in a for a big surprise.
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Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
Title: Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
Character: Billy Foote
Released: August 8, 1926
Type: Movie
A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the instructor, not knowing who he is, shows her picture around the table. This prompts a round-table discussion in which none of the standard rules for civility is part of the discussion.
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A Sea Dog's Tale
Title: A Sea Dog's Tale
Character: Wilbur Watts
Released: July 11, 1926
Type: Movie
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
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Ice Cold Cocos
Title: Ice Cold Cocos
Character: Gus Gander
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
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Musclebound Music
Title: Musclebound Music
Character: Billy Hornby
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
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Fight Night
Title: Fight Night
Character: Walter Moore
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.
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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Title: Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Character: Pete
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
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Wandering Willies
Title: Wandering Willies
Character: Percy Nudge
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
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Circus Today
Title: Circus Today
Character: Gus Barnum
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Two circus hands create chaos.
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Trimmed in Gold
Title: Trimmed in Gold
Character: Otto Stropp
Released: February 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Trimmed in Gold is a silent comedy short.
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Whispering Whiskers
Title: Whispering Whiskers
Character: The Drifter
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.
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From Rags to Britches
Title: From Rags to Britches
Character: Joe Bush
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
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Over Thereabouts
Title: Over Thereabouts
Character: Joe Dobell
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
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Butter Fingers
Title: Butter Fingers
Character: Nick
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
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The Iron Nag
Title: The Iron Nag
Character: Joe Gobb
Released: August 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A jail break turns into a race.
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Sneezing Beezers
Title: Sneezing Beezers
Character: Joe Honck - Taxi Driver
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short.
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Title: Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Character: Hiram Case
Released: June 14, 1925
Type: Movie
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
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The Lion's Whiskers
Title: The Lion's Whiskers
Character: Otto Klutch
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!
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Giddap!
Title: Giddap!
Character: Gaspard De Brie
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
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Honeymoon Hardships
Title: Honeymoon Hardships
Character: Farmer
Released: January 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple are forced to sleep apart,The beds are rock hard, the food is inedible,and the farmhouse leaks in the middle of a fierce rainstorm. On top of everything else, a hick uncle with a large family pay a sudden visit.
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Off His Trolley
Title: Off His Trolley
Character: The Traffic Cop
Released: December 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
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The Cannon Ball Express
Title: The Cannon Ball Express
Character: Adam Fargo - Baggage Master
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
The Cannon Ball Express is a 1924 comedy short.
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Galloping Bungalows
Title: Galloping Bungalows
Character: John Syrup Soother
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
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Wandering Waistlines
Title: Wandering Waistlines
Character: Sandy Hook - Sailor
Released: October 5, 1924
Type: Movie
The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.
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Little Robinson Corkscrew
Title: Little Robinson Corkscrew
Character: The Sheriff
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
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Three Foolish Weeks
Title: Three Foolish Weeks
Character: King of Anchovia
Released: September 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way with her. She's actually the queen traveling incognito, which the loyal residents recognize. The cross-eyed baron keeps getting caught trying to get into the queen-then the inn keeper's wife's bedroom.
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Lizzies of the Field
Title: Lizzies of the Field
Character: Bud Gasket
Released: September 7, 1924
Type: Movie
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
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East of the Water Plug
Title: East of the Water Plug
Character: The Sheriff
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy.
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Wall Street Blues
Title: Wall Street Blues
Character: The Janitor
Released: August 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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The Hollywood Kid
Title: The Hollywood Kid
Character: Studio Organist
Released: April 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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The White Sin
Title: The White Sin
Character: Travers Dale
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
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One Spooky Night
Title: One Spooky Night
Character: A.J. Bird Jr.
Released: January 27, 1924
Type: Movie
One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short
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Inbad the Sailor
Title: Inbad the Sailor
Character: Jake aka Inbad the Sailor
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short.
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The Extra Girl
Title: The Extra Girl
Character: Comedian
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
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Pitfalls of a Big City
Title: Pitfalls of a Big City
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
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Nip and Tuck
Title: Nip and Tuck
Character: Sailor
Released: August 11, 1923
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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When Summer Comes
Title: When Summer Comes
Character: Lyons - the Tenderfoot
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
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The Crossroads of New York
Title: The Crossroads of New York
Character: Press Agent
Released: June 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
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Gymnasium Jim
Title: Gymnasium Jim
Character: Jim
Released: May 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
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On Patrol
Title: On Patrol
Character: The Amateur Cop
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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The Duck Hunter
Title: The Duck Hunter
Character: The Sportsman
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 comedy short.
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Around the Town: British Film Stars and Studios
Title: Around the Town: British Film Stars and Studios
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1921
Type: Movie
The other side of the screen with noted producers and film stars.
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: The Nosey Butler
Released: December 24, 1921
Type: Movie
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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Be Reasonable
Title: Be Reasonable
Character: A Rolling Stone
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collection agents either want Billy to pay for this necklace or return it. Well, she naturally doesn't want to give up the pearls, so Billy decides to break in to her house to steal them (and a few other items while he's at it).
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Love and Doughnuts
Title: Love and Doughnuts
Character: The Burglar
Released: September 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
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Astray from the Steerage
Title: Astray from the Steerage
Character: A steerage passenger
Released: April 23, 1921
Type: Movie
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
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A Small Town Idol
Title: A Small Town Idol
Character: Director
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
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The Quack Doctor
Title: The Quack Doctor
Character: The Hired Lady's Sweetheart
Released: July 4, 1920
Type: Movie
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
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Cupid In Quarantine
Title: Cupid In Quarantine
Character: The Father
Released: September 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Eleanor Field and Cullen Landis are in love, but her father, Billy Bevan, objects because.... hey this is a one-reel comedy and we don't have time for things like that. After he sneaks past Bevan, the young couple decide to force the issue. The pastor next door has small pox, so they paint marks on each other's face. Bevan catches on and with the aid of a cooperative beat officer, he does his best to scare them.
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Her Rustic Romeo
Title: Her Rustic Romeo
Released: May 28, 1918
Type: Movie
A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
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Somebody's Widow
Title: Somebody's Widow
Character: Secretary
Released: January 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.
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Bombs and Bandits
Title: Bombs and Bandits
Character: The Chief of Police
Released: July 3, 1917
Type: Movie
The Mayor and the Chief of Police have offices in the same building, and are both enamored of the chief's stenographer, Dolly. However, she gives most of her attention to young Sammy, secretary to the Mayor. Approximately, 11 minutes survive from this two-reeler.
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Pirates of the Air
Title: Pirates of the Air
Character: The Bartender
Released: June 28, 1916
Type: Movie
The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.
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Gertie's Gasoline Glide
Title: Gertie's Gasoline Glide
Character: The Minister
Released: May 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Two men are vying for the favours of Gaby. One of them takes her for a motorcycle ride, the other in his car. When the second man manages to marry her, the first takes his revenge. He calls the police, and takes the newlyweds along on a kamikaze ride in his car, chased by the police.
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One Cylinder Love
Title: One Cylinder Love
Character: The Bachelor's Butler / Chauffeur / Footman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.