Syd Crossley

Syd Crossley

Born: November 17, 1885
Died: November 15, 1960
in Islington, London, England, UK

Movies for Syd Crossley...

Old Mother Riley's Circus
Title: Old Mother Riley's Circus
Character: The Bailiff
Released: December 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
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Meet Maxwell Archer
Title: Meet Maxwell Archer
Character: Perkins
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
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Come on George!
Title: Come on George!
Character: Police Constable Cronley
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Title: His Lordship Goes to Press
Released: January 16, 1939
Type: Movie
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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Save a Little Sunshine
Title: Save a Little Sunshine
Character: Assistant
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
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Penny Paradise
Title: Penny Paradise
Character: Uncle Lancelot
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
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We're Going to Be Rich
Title: We're Going to Be Rich
Character: Jake
Released: July 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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Sweet Devil
Title: Sweet Devil
Character: Police Constable
Released: January 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Minor Role
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Old Mother Riley
Title: Old Mother Riley
Character: Briggs’ Butler
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
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Lucky Jade
Title: Lucky Jade
Character: Rickets
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her employer's priceless jade collection also becomes the target of unscrupulous thieves.
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Cotton Queen
Title: Cotton Queen
Character: Shearman
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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Pearls Bring Tears
Title: Pearls Bring Tears
Character: Bankes
Released: March 20, 1937
Type: Movie
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: Police Constable
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Released: December 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
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The Man in the Mirror
Title: The Man in the Mirror
Character: Porter
Released: October 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
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One Good Turn
Title: One Good Turn
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
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Queen of Hearts
Title: Queen of Hearts
Character: Constable
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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The Man Behind the Mask
Title: The Man Behind the Mask
Character: Policeman
Released: August 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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Everything Is Rhythm
Title: Everything Is Rhythm
Character: Waiter
Released: June 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
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Public Nuisance No. 1
Title: Public Nuisance No. 1
Character: Policeman
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, to win a fairground lottery and stay in the hotel as a prize. Complications arise!
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Cheer Up
Title: Cheer Up
Character: Waiter
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
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Boys Will Be Girls
Title: Boys Will Be Girls
Character: Nolan
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
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The Deputy Drummer
Title: The Deputy Drummer
Character: Curtis
Released: September 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.
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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: PC Smithers
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Soldier
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Dandy Dick
Title: Dandy Dick
Character: Wilkins
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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It's a Bet
Title: It's a Bet
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
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Over the Garden Wall
Title: Over the Garden Wall
Character: Podds
Released: June 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...
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Give Her a Ring
Title: Give Her a Ring
Released: June 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A telephonist falls for her employer.
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Those Were the Days
Title: Those Were the Days
Character: Wyke
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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The Bermondsey Kid
Title: The Bermondsey Kid
Character: Porky
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
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You Made Me Love You
Title: You Made Me Love You
Character: Bleak
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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Meet My Sister
Title: Meet My Sister
Character: Butler
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Umbrella
Title: The Umbrella
Character: Police Constable
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
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Leave It to Me
Title: Leave It to Me
Character: Beach
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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The King's Cup
Title: The King's Cup
Character: Crossley
Released: February 2, 1933
Type: Movie
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
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Letting in the Sunshine
Title: Letting in the Sunshine
Character: Jenkyns
Released: February 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.
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Perfect Understanding
Title: Perfect Understanding
Character: Butler
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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Perfect Understanding
Title: Perfect Understanding
Character: Butler (Uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Sullivan
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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Here's George
Title: Here's George
Character: Commissionaire
Released: September 20, 1932
Type: Movie
'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Old Spanish Customers
Title: Old Spanish Customers
Character: Spanish customs officer
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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Lucky Ladies
Title: Lucky Ladies
Character: Hector Ramsbottom
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
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High Society
Title: High Society
Character: Simeon
Released: July 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
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The Last Coupon
Title: The Last Coupon
Released: July 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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The Mayor's Nest
Title: The Mayor's Nest
Character: Milkman
Released: June 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
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Men Like These
Title: Men Like These
Released: January 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Title: Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Character: Warder Jackson
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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The Flying Fool
Title: The Flying Fool
Character: Hicks
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
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The Middle Watch
Title: The Middle Watch
Character: Sentry
Released: October 27, 1930
Type: Movie
'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Man from Chicago
Title: The Man from Chicago
Character: Charles
Released: October 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Suspense
Title: Suspense
Character: Cpl. Brown
Released: July 4, 1930
Type: Movie
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
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Just for a Song
Title: Just for a Song
Character: Stage Manager
Released: March 11, 1930
Type: Movie
A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.
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The Musical Beauty Shop
Title: The Musical Beauty Shop
Character: Customer
Released: March 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret.
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The Hate Ship
Title: The Hate Ship
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Telegraphist
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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Loud Soup
Title: Loud Soup
Character: Snoops - the butler
Released: March 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Loud Soup is a comedy short
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Goldfish's Butler
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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The Fatal Warning
Title: The Fatal Warning
Character: Dawson
Released: February 15, 1929
Type: Movie
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.
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The Circus Kid
Title: The Circus Kid
Character: Skelly's Runner
Released: October 7, 1928
Type: Movie
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
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The Cowboy Kid
Title: The Cowboy Kid
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.
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A Perfect Gentleman
Title: A Perfect Gentleman
Character: The Valet
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
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That Certain Thing
Title: That Certain Thing
Character: Valet
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Butler
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
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The Blood Ship
Title: The Blood Ship
Character: Cockney Bouncer
Released: July 18, 1927
Type: Movie
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
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One Hour Married
Title: One Hour Married
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.
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The Golden Web
Title: The Golden Web
Character: Butler
Released: September 1, 1926
Type: Movie
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
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Mama Behave
Title: Mama Behave
Character: The Chase Butler
Released: February 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
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Keep Smiling
Title: Keep Smiling
Character: Ryan's Butler
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate.
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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Title: Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Character: Townsman
Released: July 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.