El Brendel

El Brendel

Born: March 24, 1890
Died: April 9, 1964
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
El Brendel (born Elmer Goodfellow Brendel), nicknamed "The Synthetic Swede", was an American stage, film, and television actor. Although of German and Irish parentage, he adopted the comedic persona of a Swede who speaks fractured English.

Movies for El Brendel...

The She-Creature
Title: The She-Creature
Character: Olaf, the butler
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
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Paris Model
Title: Paris Model
Character: Papa Jensen
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
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Title: My Little Margie
Released: June 16, 1952
Type: TV
My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Title: The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Character: Mr. Jorgensen
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Title: Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Character: Professor Brendel
Released: April 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.
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Snooper Service
Title: Snooper Service
Released: February 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
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I'm from Arkansas
Title: I'm from Arkansas
Character: Oly
Released: October 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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Machine Gun Mama
Title: Machine Gun Mama
Character: Ollie Swenson
Released: August 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. Low-budget comedy with songs and a misleading title.
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Title: Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Character: Axel Swenson
Released: July 23, 1944
Type: Movie
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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Defective Detectives
Title: Defective Detectives
Character: El
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
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A Rookie's Cookie
Title: A Rookie's Cookie
Character: Ole - Rookie Policeman
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
El, a rookie cop, falls for a girl who is being hounded by a racketeer.
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Boobs in the Night
Title: Boobs in the Night
Released: June 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad scientist and his assistant.
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I Spied for You
Title: I Spied for You
Character: Ole Olesen
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole discovers Nazi spies planning to take over the ship he's working on.
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His Wedding Scare
Title: His Wedding Scare
Character: Oley
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
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Ham and Yeggs
Title: Ham and Yeggs
Character: El Brendel
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A vamp pursues El, who's inherited $500,000.
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Phoney Cronies
Title: Phoney Cronies
Character: Oley
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Three klutzy moving men end up in a museum that may or may not be haunted - slapstick hijinks ensue.
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Olaf Laughs Last
Title: Olaf Laughs Last
Character: Olaf Hansen
Released: June 18, 1942
Type: Movie
El tries to save his girlfriend, disinterested in him, from a gang of kidnappers.
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Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Title: Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Character: Oley Brendel
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
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The Blitz Kiss
Title: The Blitz Kiss
Character: Oley Olsen
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Gardeners El and Tom find themselves drafted in the army and struggle to make good.
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Love at First Fright
Title: Love at First Fright
Character: Zeb
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative.
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Ready, Willing but Unable
Title: Ready, Willing but Unable
Character: Olley Olsen
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
El accidentally hits a mannequin with his automobile; believing he's killed a man, he and Tom set out to dispose of the body.
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Yumpin' Yiminy!
Title: Yumpin' Yiminy!
Character: Oley Brendel
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
El uknowingly becomes the assistant to a jewel thief.
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Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Olaf Larsen
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Slushy
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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If I Had My Way
Title: If I Had My Way
Character: Axel Swensen
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
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Call a Messenger
Title: Call a Messenger
Character: 'Baldy'
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Jeff
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Code of the Streets
Title: Code of the Streets
Character: Mickhail 'Micky' Bjorgulfsen
Released: April 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Axel
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Valley of the Giants
Title: Valley of the Giants
Character: 'Fats'
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Ole
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Happy Landing
Title: Happy Landing
Character: Yonnie
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
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The Holy Terror
Title: The Holy Terror
Character: 'Bugs' Svenson
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Ole Olson
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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Career Woman
Title: Career Woman
Character: Chris Erleson
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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Ay Tank Ay Go
Title: Ay Tank Ay Go
Character: Ollie
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud.
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Okay, José
Title: Okay, José
Character: Knute Knudsen
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.
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What, No Men?
Title: What, No Men?
Character: Gus Olsen - Gas Company Representative
Released: January 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Title: Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
Title: The Meanest Gal in Town
Character: Chris Peterson
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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My Lips Betray
Title: My Lips Betray
Character: Oswald Stigmat, Chauffeur
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
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The Last Trail
Title: The Last Trail
Character: Newt Olsen
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad man" (O'Brien) boards an Eastbound train, where he strikes up a friendship with a genial gangster (J. Carroll Naish). Later on, the cowboy returns to the West as a member of the gangster's gang. He poses as the heir to a vast cattle ranch, never dreaming that he really is the heir. When the truth is revealed, the wayward cowboy switches to the side of the Law, while another of the gangster's flunkeys (Claire Trevor) reveals herself to be an honest newspaperwoman -- and thus a suitable candidate for romance.
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Hot Pepper
Title: Hot Pepper
Character: Olsen
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
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Handle with Care
Title: Handle with Care
Character: Carl Lundstrom
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
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Disorderly Conduct
Title: Disorderly Conduct
Character: Olsen
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
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Delicious
Title: Delicious
Character: Chris Jansen
Released: December 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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West of Broadway
Title: West of Broadway
Character: Axel 'Swede' Axelson
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Ole
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
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Women of All Nations
Title: Women of All Nations
Character: Olsen
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
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Six Cylinder Love
Title: Six Cylinder Love
Character: Janitor
Released: May 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Swedish Waiter
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Mr. Lemon Of Orange
Title: Mr. Lemon Of Orange
Character: Mr. Lemon / Silent McGee
Released: March 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A fast and uproarious farce of gunmen, gun molls, and the Swedish boy's night out.
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Just Imagine
Title: Just Imagine
Character: Single O
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
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The Big Trail
Title: The Big Trail
Character: Gus
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
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New Movietone Follies of 1930
Title: New Movietone Follies of 1930
Character: Alex Svenson
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.
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The Golden Calf
Title: The Golden Calf
Character: Knute Olson
Released: March 16, 1930
Type: Movie
In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It."
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Sunny Side Up
Title: Sunny Side Up
Character: Eric Swenson
Released: December 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
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Hot for Paris
Title: Hot for Paris
Character: Axel Olson
Released: December 22, 1929
Type: Movie
A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.
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The Cock-Eyed World
Title: The Cock-Eyed World
Character: 'Yump' Olsen
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
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Frozen Justice
Title: Frozen Justice
Character: Swede
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Drama set in Alaska
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Minstrel Show Performer
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
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Wings
Title: Wings
Character: Herman Schwimpf
Released: August 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
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Ten Modern Commandments
Title: Ten Modern Commandments
Character: 'Speeding' Shapiro
Released: July 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
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Rolled Stockings
Title: Rolled Stockings
Character: Rudolph
Released: June 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: 'Oley Smoke' Oleson
Released: April 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Dave Saulter, a rambling young cowboy drifts into a small western town the day a big gold shipment is leaving by stagecoach. Two different people plan to rob the stagecoach...Buck O'Hara, the driver who is very trusted, and a stranger, Texas Jack. Dave gets involved and is accused of being one of the robbers.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Botts
Released: April 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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Man of the Forest
Title: Man of the Forest
Character: Horace Pipp
Released: December 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before she reaches him.
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You Never Know Women
Title: You Never Know Women
Character: Toberchik
Released: September 20, 1926
Type: Movie
On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
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The College Flirt
Title: The College Flirt
Character: Knute Knudson
Released: September 18, 1926
Type: Movie
A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the train, Pat meets Denis Adams, a prominent athlete who is working his way through school as coach of the girls' track team; he introduces her to track star Charlie Paddock. Through efforts to keep her associates in place, Pat sinks deeper into the mire of antagonism; her only friends are Harriet Porter and Knute Knudson, the Swedish janitor.