Spencer Bell

Spencer Bell

Born: September 25, 1887
Died: August 18, 1935
in Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Movies for Spencer Bell...

You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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The Peacock Fan
Title: The Peacock Fan
Character: Arthur
Released: August 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.
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The Rodeo
Title: The Rodeo
Character: Magnolia's Husband
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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The Midnight Taxi
Title: The Midnight Taxi
Character: Rastus
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
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Deaf, Dumb and Blonde
Title: Deaf, Dumb and Blonde
Released: June 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Poodles Hanneford comedy produced and distributed by the Weiss Brothers.
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Oh, What a Man!
Title: Oh, What a Man!
Character: Waiter
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to infiltrate her gang in order to get the goods on her, but things don't turn out exactly the way he expected them to.
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The Outlaw Dog
Title: The Outlaw Dog
Character: 'Snowball' Black
Released: May 22, 1927
Type: Movie
When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows. He gets a chance to clear his name by helping Bill trap a pair of outlaws who plan to blow up a mail train and abscond with the loot.
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Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Title: Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Character: Black Preacher
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short
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Ice Cold Cocos
Title: Ice Cold Cocos
Character: Preacher
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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Creeps
Title: Creeps
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the property for herself and, with several hired-henchmen, sends "ghost" after "ghoul" through the house after the boys arrive.
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Matrimony Blues
Title: Matrimony Blues
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Perfect Clown
Title: The Perfect Clown
Character: Snowball (as G. Howe Black)
Released: December 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
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Blue Blood
Title: Blue Blood
Character: Amos Jeenkins
Released: December 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Blue Blood is an extant 1925 American silent comedy drama film
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Below Zero
Title: Below Zero
Released: July 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
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The Cloudhopper
Title: The Cloudhopper
Released: June 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
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The Dome Doctor
Title: The Dome Doctor
Released: April 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A Larry Semon comedy short.
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: Cowardly Lion / Rastus / Snowball
Released: February 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Up on the Farm
Title: Up on the Farm
Released: January 11, 1925
Type: Movie
"Lee [Moran] is a city chap who loves to go to the pace and is chagrined when an uncle leaves him his money provided he engages in farming. He has an inspiration and starts a farm on the roof of his apartment house, with a barn, farm vehicles, a donkey, a got and a lot of chickens." - Synopsis from Moving Picture World
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Kid Speed
Title: Kid Speed
Character: The Speed Kid's Co-Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
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Her Boy Friend
Title: Her Boy Friend
Character: Dock worker
Released: September 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
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That's the Spirit
Title: That's the Spirit
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Title: Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Character: The Janitor (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
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The Barnyard
Title: The Barnyard
Character: Helper
Released: June 11, 1923
Type: Movie
Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
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Passing the Buck
Title: Passing the Buck
Released: May 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.