George Rowe

George Rowe

Born: September 14, 1894
Died: November 18, 1981
in Maine, USA

Movies for George Rowe...

Loose Change
Title: Loose Change
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.
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Soft Pedal
Title: Soft Pedal
Character: Wily
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
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Unfriendly Enemies
Title: Unfriendly Enemies
Character: The Cameraman's Assistant
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land, they take foolish chances and must dodge flying shells, falling down and losing their film repeatedly.
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Looking for Sally
Title: Looking for Sally
Character: Bell Boy
Released: May 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.
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Is Marriage the Bunk?
Title: Is Marriage the Bunk?
Character: Piano mover
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family.
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The Haunted Honeymoon
Title: The Haunted Honeymoon
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet Gaynor in one of her first films. One of the first comedies to parody horror films, it was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.
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The Wages of Tin
Title: The Wages of Tin
Character: Driving instructor
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
aka Billy, the Ford Buster
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Outdoor Pajamas
Title: Outdoor Pajamas
Character: Mr. Shrimp
Released: September 13, 1924
Type: Movie
This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.
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Short Kilts
Title: Short Kilts
Character: Blacksmith
Released: August 3, 1924
Type: Movie
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
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Rupert of Hee-Haw
Title: Rupert of Hee-Haw
Character: Duke of Bromo
Released: June 7, 1924
Type: Movie
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Brothers Under the Chin
Title: Brothers Under the Chin
Released: April 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 silent comedy.
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Zeb vs. Paprika
Title: Zeb vs. Paprika
Character: Rival Jockey
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Postage Due
Title: Postage Due
Character: Photographer
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
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Smithy
Title: Smithy
Character: Worker
Released: January 19, 1924
Type: Movie
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
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The Big Idea
Title: The Big Idea
Character: Patent Lawyer
Released: January 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned.
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Mother's Joy
Title: Mother's Joy
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Mother's Joy is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Fully Insured
Title: Fully Insured
Character: The Insurance Agent
Released: December 16, 1923
Type: Movie
A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.
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Uncensored Movies
Title: Uncensored Movies
Character: Jeeves - the Chauffeur
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.
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Scorching Sands
Title: Scorching Sands
Character: Arab
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
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Join the Circus
Title: Join the Circus
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
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Frozen Hearts
Title: Frozen Hearts
Character: Soldier
Released: October 27, 1923
Type: Movie
In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
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No Pets
Title: No Pets
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.
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Roughest Africa
Title: Roughest Africa
Character: Native (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Two bungling adventures go on a big game hunt in Africa.
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A Man About Town
Title: A Man About Town
Character: Cross-eyed Barber
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
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Take the Air
Title: Take the Air
Released: September 9, 1923
Type: Movie
James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.
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Short Orders
Title: Short Orders
Character: Chef
Released: September 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with dogs following Stan at the end.
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Oranges and Lemons
Title: Oranges and Lemons
Character: Worker
Released: August 12, 1923
Type: Movie
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
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Post No Bills
Title: Post No Bills
Character: The Groom
Released: August 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.
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No Danger
Title: No Danger
Released: July 31, 1923
Type: Movie
An Arrow comedy directed by Eddie Lyons from Aug 1923, co-starring Glen Cavender, Ruth Hiatt and Art Rowlands.
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The Uncovered Wagon
Title: The Uncovered Wagon
Released: July 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.
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Collars and Cuffs
Title: Collars and Cuffs
Character: Pedestrian
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Pick and Shovel
Title: Pick and Shovel
Character: Miner
Released: June 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Under Two Jags
Title: Under Two Jags
Released: June 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affections.
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White Wings
Title: White Wings
Character: Cross-Eyed Man
Released: May 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
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The Smile Wins
Title: The Smile Wins
Released: April 8, 1923
Type: Movie
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
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Shoot Straight
Title: Shoot Straight
Released: March 10, 1923
Type: Movie
SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.
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Before the Public
Title: Before the Public
Character: On Lantern Slide
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.
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Tight Shoes
Title: Tight Shoes
Released: February 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.
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Jailed and Bailed
Title: Jailed and Bailed
Character: Theodore Turkletwister
Released: February 11, 1923
Type: Movie
A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
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Watch Your Wife
Title: Watch Your Wife
Released: January 7, 1923
Type: Movie
A James Parrott comedy short.
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Shine 'Em Up
Title: Shine 'Em Up
Character: Safecracker
Released: November 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
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The Golf Bug
Title: The Golf Bug
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
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The Old Sea Dog
Title: The Old Sea Dog
Character: Passenger
Released: October 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Snub Pollard comedy directed by Charley Chase and produced by Hal Roach.
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The Landlubber
Title: The Landlubber
Released: September 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
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The Sleuth
Title: The Sleuth
Character: Man eating fruit
Released: July 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
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The Dumb-Bell
Title: The Dumb-Bell
Character: Cameraman
Released: July 16, 1922
Type: Movie
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
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Hale and Hearty
Title: Hale and Hearty
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
A couple of old guys remembering the old days when courting Marie Mosquini.
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In the Movies
Title: In the Movies
Released: May 28, 1922
Type: Movie
In the Movies is a silent comedy short
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The Pickaninny
Title: The Pickaninny
Character: Officer Snoopey
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
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On Location
Title: On Location
Character: The Cameraman
Released: November 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about to throw some litter into the road and dashes over to catch it in his cart. He then tries to save a drunken man from falling into the road before stopping his cart to pick up a solitary leaf which has dared to fallen upon the ground. The eccentric and obsessed street sweeper meticulously disposes of the leaf but when he turns around he finds half the tree has shed its leaves at that very moment
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Trolley Troubles
Title: Trolley Troubles
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
A guy has troubles on a trolley
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Dodge Your Debts
Title: Dodge Your Debts
Character: Policeman
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.
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High Rollers
Title: High Rollers
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
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Big Game
Title: Big Game
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
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Beat It
Title: Beat It
Released: January 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Snooky the Chimpanzee help out a melancholy little girl and her guardian.
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The One Best Pet
Title: The One Best Pet
Released: November 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Snooky lives with a family where the henpecked husband does the washing and takes care of his wife while she rests up in a hammock and his children play with various pets. When one of the children is carried off by an escaped bunch of balloons Snooky goes about rescuing the baby from multiple dangerous situations.
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Run 'Em Ragged
Title: Run 'Em Ragged
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
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Call a Taxi
Title: Call a Taxi
Released: July 25, 1920
Type: Movie
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.
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Any Old Port
Title: Any Old Port
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards the ship.
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Cracked Wedding Bells
Title: Cracked Wedding Bells
Released: April 4, 1920
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
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Tough Luck
Title: Tough Luck
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.