Marcel Perez

Marcel Perez

Born: January 29, 1884
Died: February 8, 1929
in Madrid
Trained initially as a clown, Perez became a comedic star in the Nickelodeon era in France, working at Pathe, Eclair, and Ambrosio studios. Moving to the United States during the First World War, Perez continued writing, directing and starring in short comedies until an amputated leg forced him to work behind the camera.

Movies for Marcel Perez...

Lash of the Law
Title: Lash of the Law
Released: February 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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Friday the 13th
Title: Friday the 13th
Character: Tweedy
Released: February 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A short comedy
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Sweet Daddy
Title: Sweet Daddy
Character: Tweedy
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Perez plays a henpecked husband who is chained at the neck by his wife in the kitchen and when he tries to stand up for himself, she throws him out of the window where he is dangling for dear life.Once she sends him to the store, Tweedy becomes smitten by a stage actress and tries to woo her with great success until his wife shows up on the scene and all hell breaks loose with cartoon gags.
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Pinched
Title: Pinched
Character: Tweedy
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A short comedy
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Wild
Title: Wild
Character: Tweedy
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A short comedy
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Can You Beat It?
Title: Can You Beat It?
Character: Twede-Dan
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Twede-Dan is aggressively courted, and courts, in a park.
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Chickens in Turkey
Title: Chickens in Turkey
Character: Twede-Dan
Released: March 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Marcel Perez is taken aboard an all-female crewed boat where he has to dress as a woman so the female captain won't claim him as her own.
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You're Next
Title: You're Next
Character: Twede-Dan
Released: February 9, 1919
Type: Movie
A hapless nitwit sets up his living space in the middle of a street, then moves to a police station, then gets a job in a movie studio, with calamitous results.
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Camouflage
Title: Camouflage
Character: Twede-Dan
Released: November 9, 1918
Type: Movie
A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.
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Oh! What a Day
Title: Oh! What a Day
Character: Twede-Dan
Released: August 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A short comedy
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A Bath Tub Elopement
Title: A Bath Tub Elopement
Character: Tweedledum
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 short comedy starring Marcel Perez
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
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A Scrambled Honeymoon
Title: A Scrambled Honeymoon
Character: Tweedledum-the Bridegroom
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
A Short Comedy
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Some Hero
Title: Some Hero
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.
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A Busy Night
Title: A Busy Night
Character: Nearly Everyone
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A disgruntled man imagines what the world would be like if everyone were like him.
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Robinet Pescatore
Title: Robinet Pescatore
Character: Robinet
Released: January 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Nilde Baracchi sends Marcel Perez out fishing, armed .... I mean "equipped" with a long, sturdy bamboo fishing pole and a line and hook. However, what he catches is not fish in this funny late 'Robinet' short.
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Robinet chauffeur miope
Title: Robinet chauffeur miope
Character: Robinet
Released: May 12, 1914
Type: Movie
A Italian short comedy with Robinet.
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Robinet è Geloso
Title: Robinet è Geloso
Character: Robinet
Released: May 6, 1914
Type: Movie
Robinet is jealous, with comedic results.
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Pedestrian Love
Title: Pedestrian Love
Character: Robinet
Released: March 5, 1914
Type: Movie
The story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in smart shoes prepares to go out. His maid gives him his coat, he dusts off his shoes and leaves. As he leaves the building an elegant woman drops her purse. He returns it to her and follows her home.
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The Destruction of Carthage
Title: The Destruction of Carthage
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall. Cato, a Roman Senator, appealed to the Senate to conquer Carthage, and under a pretext that she had failed to keep faith, the Romans began a new war. The Roman army embarked for Africa and landed near Carthage.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola
Title: The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola
Character: Saturnino Farandola
Released: November 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
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Tweedledum as a Cycling Policeman
Title: Tweedledum as a Cycling Policeman
Character: Robinet
Released: June 16, 1913
Type: Movie
A short comedy for the actor Marcel Perez
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Robinet Reporter
Title: Robinet Reporter
Character: Robinet
Released: April 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Marcel Perez is, as you might guess from the title of this movie, a reporter. He's been assigned a new story: a general is in town to review the troops. Get an interview! The general does not wish to give an interview, so Perez has to resort to subterfuge. Good thing he's a comic and can raid the studio's wardrobe department for disguises.
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Robinet boxeur
Title: Robinet boxeur
Released: March 28, 1913
Type: Movie
Robinet gets punched by a boxer in the ring and decides to challenge him for a match. To win, he needs to train as much as he can.
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Tweedledum a Rich Man for Ten Minutes
Title: Tweedledum a Rich Man for Ten Minutes
Character: Robinet
Released: December 31, 1912
Type: Movie
Marcel Perez is so poor he can't even tip the janitor for some service or other. However, a messenger arrives with a telegram from a notary. An uncle is dead and has left Marcel a hundred thousand francs! With a huzzah and skips and falls and smashing of his old junk, Marcel is off to equip himself in the latest and most expensive fashion, waving the telegram like Mark Twain's Million-Pound Note to gain the instant obsequiousness of tailors, haberdasher and hatters. But wait, why is that messenger following on Marcel's trail? Could it be another telegram? What could it possibly say?
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Una Dichiarazione Impossibile di Robinet
Title: Una Dichiarazione Impossibile di Robinet
Character: Robinet
Released: December 31, 1912
Type: Movie
Marcel Perez meets Nilde Baracchi at a party and falls instantly in love. How much comedy short subjects have contributed to the 'falling in love at first sight' trope might make an interesting paper. Anyway, he falls in love, but things go wrong at the party, then again when he waits outside her apartment -- today we would say he was stalking her. Back then it was considered cute, particularly given the indignities of Italian slapstick -- and when he finally meets her again on a train.
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Miss Tweedledum
Title: Miss Tweedledum
Character: Robinet
Released: December 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Robinet disguises himself as a woman to get away from his girlfriend’s husband, and discovers the unexpected pleasures of public drag amidst mobs of flirtatious men. (MoMA)
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La nuova cameriera è troppo bella
Title: La nuova cameriera è troppo bella
Character: Robinet
Released: November 16, 1912
Type: Movie
The new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her toiletries.]... She is dismissed and the lady advertises for a new maid. The new maid arrives at the front gate and the bemused gate keeper lets her in. The page boy sees her walking up to the house and admires her beauty. She is shown in to meet her new master, who also admires her, and mistress.
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Robinet in vacanza
Title: Robinet in vacanza
Character: Robinet
Released: October 31, 1912
Type: Movie
Marcel Perez arrives at the holiday resort wearing a pith helmet and carrying enough luggage to hold supplies for a monthlong journey through hostile territory. It's a good idea for a comic who never met a flight of stairs he didn't fall down.
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Robinet: Cyclist
Title: Robinet: Cyclist
Character: Robinet
Released: July 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Italian slapstick actor Robinet riding a bicycle.
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Tweedledum's Sweet Wife
Title: Tweedledum's Sweet Wife
Released: May 31, 1912
Type: Movie
Robinet escapes from his wife’s smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.
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Robinet ricattatore
Title: Robinet ricattatore
Character: Robinet
Released: February 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Marcel Perez and Nilde Baracchi are blackmailers engaged in the badger game: each gets a member of the opposite sex into compromising positions, the other partner takes a photo and snap! Pay up or we tell your spouse.
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Robinet padre e figlio
Title: Robinet padre e figlio
Character: Robinet
Released: January 31, 1912
Type: Movie
Tweedledum goes out dining with a girl. He discovers that his worthy father is out on a little lark and is in the next booth to him. Many amusing complications result and in the end the old man buys his son's silence by paying both checks.
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Tweedledum in Love with a Singer
Title: Tweedledum in Love with a Singer
Character: Robinet
Released: December 1, 1911
Type: Movie
Robinet brings down the house when he unleashes himself on Mimi Kratzfuss , an attractive opera singer, during a music hall performance.
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L'auto di Robinet
Title: L'auto di Robinet
Released: October 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Tweedledum gets chased by police on bicycles.
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Tweedledum's Auto-Skates
Title: Tweedledum's Auto-Skates
Character: Robinet
Released: September 27, 1911
Type: Movie
Tweedledum tries out his roller skates down a slope. As he picks up speed he grabs a long pole, which causes him to destroy everything in sight. The townspeople chase after him as he crashes into everything.
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Tweedledum's White Suit
Title: Tweedledum's White Suit
Character: Robinet
Released: August 10, 1911
Type: Movie
In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)
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Le furberie di Robinet
Title: Le furberie di Robinet
Character: Robinet
Released: July 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Tweedledum wears his sister's new slit-skirt, and with a handsome wig and beautiful hat, causes a stir on the boulevard. His many admirers follow him around from place to place and even invade his parlor when he gets home. His sister puts them to rout with a stout broom and she and Tweedledum enjoy a hearty laugh over the joke.
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Tweedledum as Aviator
Title: Tweedledum as Aviator
Character: Robinet
Released: February 16, 1911
Type: Movie
Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone slapstick look like drawing-room comedy by contrast.
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Tweedledum on His First Bicycle
Title: Tweedledum on His First Bicycle
Character: Robinet
Released: December 31, 1910
Type: Movie
Tweedledum's attempts to master the bicycle lead him into situations both thrilling and comical, and the ride proves most adventurous. He barely escapes with his life, and causes a mad scramble on the part of pedestrians who cross his path.
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Tweedledum Wants to Be a Jockey
Title: Tweedledum Wants to Be a Jockey
Character: Robinet
Released: October 26, 1910
Type: Movie
Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.
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Il duello di Robinet
Title: Il duello di Robinet
Character: Robinet
Released: October 5, 1910
Type: Movie
Robinet is challenged to a duel, but owing to an overpowering fear, ludicrously depictd, the weapons are discarded, one by one, and two bottles of champagne subistituted. (Moving Picture world Synopsis)
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Tweedledum's Itching Powder
Title: Tweedledum's Itching Powder
Character: Robinet
Released: August 24, 1910
Type: Movie
Fricot finds his father asleep and takes advantage of the opportunity to pour down his parent's hack a handful of itching powder. The poor man's antics in attempting to relieve himself of his distress are ludicrous and finally result in incurring the wrath of his wife and her mother, who set upon him and beat him until exhausted. To his amazement he discovers that the blows have a salutary effect and he submits to the thrashing. When the women finally leave him alone he arises well pleased, as his affliction has been overcome.
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Police in the Year 2000
Title: Police in the Year 2000
Released: January 1, 1910
Type: Movie
From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)
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The Short-Sighted Cyclist
Title: The Short-Sighted Cyclist
Released: June 26, 1907
Type: Movie
The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure follows misadventure with great frequency, but the cyclist comes up smiling every time, mounts his machine, and again resumes his journey. Accidents which would maim or kill an ordinary mortal serve only to spur him on to fresh exertions in a mad search for physical inconveniences and dangers, which always present themselves. (Picture World)