Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Born: December 20, 1912
Died: July 24, 1989
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.

Movies for Sunshine Sammy Morrison...

The Our Gang Story
Title: The Our Gang Story
Character: Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Scruno (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Horrible Horror
Title: Horrible Horror
Character: Scruno in 'Ghosts on the loose'
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Title: Good Times
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: TV
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.
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Ghosts on the Loose
Title: Ghosts on the Loose
Character: Scruno
Released: July 30, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Clancy Street Boys
Title: Clancy Street Boys
Character: Scruno
Released: April 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Scruno Jackson
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Title: 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Character: Scruno
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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Let's Get Tough
Title: Let's Get Tough
Character: Scruno
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Spooks Run Wild
Title: Spooks Run Wild
Character: Scruno
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
Title: Bowery Blitzkrieg
Character: Scruno
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Scruno
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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Pride of the Bowery
Title: Pride of the Bowery
Character: Scruno
Released: December 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Title: Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Character: Chuckles
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
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That Gang of Mine
Title: That Gang of Mine
Character: Scruno
Released: September 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Scruno
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Character: Joe
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
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Gang War
Title: Gang War
Character: Gang Member (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.
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Soft Pedal
Title: Soft Pedal
Character: Wary
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
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Don't Butt In
Title: Don't Butt In
Released: January 17, 1926
Type: Movie
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
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Between Meals
Title: Between Meals
Character: In Need
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, but not released until 1926.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Ernie
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters a rich boy waiting at a station for his mom and as they get to talking they trade places since Mickey has never seen the inside of a hotel and the rich kid just wants to play. When the rich kid returns to the gang with the goat-pulling wagon, however, they resolve to go where Mickey is which is where the fun really begins...
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It's a Bear
Title: It's a Bear
Character: Ernie
Released: July 27, 1924
Type: Movie
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while so they decide to try and track a bear. Soon the bear is stalking them!
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Cradle Robbers
Title: Cradle Robbers
Character: Ernie
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them that her little sister just won a prize at the baby show.
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Commencement Day
Title: Commencement Day
Character: Ernie
Released: May 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in Amish communities and such. We get kid-centric amusement as various skills of music are performed by youngsters who were probably coaxed by parents to take up the instruments used.
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Seein' Things
Title: Seein' Things
Character: Ernie
Released: April 5, 1924
Type: Movie
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so much he sneaks out of the house and ends up eating several chickens. That night she puts him to bed and sure enough he begins to have nightmares that the other kids are chasing him. Basing a kids comedy around one kid having nightmares and being stalked by other kids might seem rather bizarre but this was 1924 we're talking about.
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The 'Fraidy Cat
Title: The 'Fraidy Cat
Character: Member of the Gang (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their father. He is terrified of Lem Tucker, who is his rival for the heart of Dorothy. Only when he mistakenly believes he is about to die does Jimmy find courage. But will it last?
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The Buccaneers
Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Ernie
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Sunshine Sammy
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Mohawk! Scenes involving close calls with sharp scissors might make some viewers wince, while the manicurist uses a device that looks like a wire-cutter.
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Tire Trouble
Title: Tire Trouble
Character: Ernie
Released: January 12, 1924
Type: Movie
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own makeshift car with Mary, Joe, and Jackie in tow. Among the unusual gadgets: a boxing glove attached to the outside front that knocks out any passersby! When they stop where Sunshine Sammy and Farina are standing, Sammy gets punched by that glove twice and also gets hit by the front grille that moves! He's making a delivery to a rich man named J. William McAllister. This man believes he's very sick because of what his doctor and wife says but after the gang come in uninvited, they look at him and think otherwise.
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Sunday Calm
Title: Sunday Calm
Character: Ernie
Released: December 15, 1923
Type: Movie
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Ernie 'Sammy'
Released: November 17, 1923
Type: Movie
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Ernie
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. They are completely unable to remember their lines, and struggle with maintaing their composure during the more serious moments of the melodrama. Finally, Jackie sets off a slew of firecrackers as the finale, scaring all involved.
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July Days
Title: July Days
Character: Ernie
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of Mary. In the interim, the village blacksmith, "Dad" Anderson, receives a lucrative contract to produce a creation of his: a sail-propelled scooter. The gang is lucky enough to get a hold of a few of these scooters, and happily sail down the city streets.
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Lodge Night
Title: Lodge Night
Character: Ernie
Released: July 28, 1923
Type: Movie
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing racist about their lodge, which includes member Sunshine Sammy Morrison. The film ends with a chase. The gang gets tangled up with bank robbers. Sunshine Sammy gets his uncle and his pals to chase the bank robbers with the gang riding along.
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Dogs of War!
Title: Dogs of War!
Character: Ernie
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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Back Stage
Title: Back Stage
Character: Ernie
Released: June 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
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Giants vs. Yanks
Title: Giants vs. Yanks
Character: Ernie
Released: May 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant home, which they proceed to destroy.
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Boys to Board
Title: Boys to Board
Character: Ernie
Released: April 7, 1923
Type: Movie
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
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A Pleasant Journey
Title: A Pleasant Journey
Character: Ernie
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Booker T.
Released: February 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
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The Cobbler
Title: The Cobbler
Character: Ernie
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
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The Champeen
Title: The Champeen
Character: Sammy Johnson
Released: January 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
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A Quiet Street
Title: A Quiet Street
Character: Booker T.
Released: December 30, 1922
Type: Movie
The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.
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Saturday Morning
Title: Saturday Morning
Character: Sorghum
Released: December 3, 1922
Type: Movie
The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.
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Young Sherlocks
Title: Young Sherlocks
Character: Ernie
Released: November 25, 1922
Type: Movie
The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
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Our Gang
Title: Our Gang
Character: Sunshine Sammy
Released: November 4, 1922
Type: Movie
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
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Fire Fighters
Title: Fire Fighters
Character: Booker T. Bacon
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
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One Terrible Day
Title: One Terrible Day
Character: Booker T.
Released: September 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.
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The Sleuth
Title: The Sleuth
Character: Prince’s aid
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 Non-Skid Kid
Title: The Non-Skid Kid
Released: June 11, 1922
Type: Movie
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Full o' Pep
Title: Full o' Pep
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he dreams that he has become an ape and is forced to swing upon the chandeliers and walk up the sides of the buildings. He wakes up just before the operation is performed and takes the chance to beat it out of the hospital. The horror of the dream gives him more pep than monkey glands.
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Penrod
Title: Penrod
Character: Herman
Released: February 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Protective Association) and through it disrupts a number of local social events. The townspeople are pretty fed up with Penrod and his gang, but when a couple of outlaws come to town, Penrod shows his mettle.
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The Pickaninny
Title: The Pickaninny
Character: Little Casino
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
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Name the Day
Title: Name the Day
Character: Goofy
Released: August 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the usual gag-filled Pollard one-reeler, with William Gillespie pointing out that if she wants to get married, he has a marriage license too.
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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
Character: Assistant
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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Rush Orders
Title: Rush Orders
Character: Narcissus
Released: April 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotive muscle). When there it's all about the hustle for food with rivals and advertisement in the café business..
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Whirl o' the West
Title: Whirl o' the West
Character: Sammy
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
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Number, Please?
Title: Number, Please?
Character: Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1920
Type: Movie
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
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Park Your Car
Title: Park Your Car
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with their wives.
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Cash Customers
Title: Cash Customers
Released: December 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake up at 6am and prepare breakfast with two eggs which are taken out of Snub's jacket pocket and put into a coffee perculator. The landlady (Vera White) storms up the stairs when she smells the coffee being made and demands that the janitor (Earl Mohan) break down the tenants' door with a pick-axe.
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Get Out and Get Under
Title: Get Out and Get Under
Character: Small Boy (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1920
Type: Movie
The comic adventures of a new car owner.
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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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Live and Learn
Title: Live and Learn
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Snub Pollard comedy
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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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Don't Rock the Boat
Title: Don't Rock the Boat
Released: July 4, 1920
Type: Movie
Don't Rock the Boat
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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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Grab the Ghost
Title: Grab the Ghost
Character: Servant's Child
Released: May 30, 1920
Type: Movie
As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows revenge on the new bride. The wedding limo pulls off leaving the groom (Snub Pollard) behind, who then has to chase it down the street. He catches it up but is made to sit on the back of the car "as ballast". The car comes to a halt where the groom mistakes a policeman's gesturing of traffic as an offer of a handshake. Finally, the groom arrives at his house where his servant greets him, but unbeknownst to him, the servant's child (Ernest Morrison) has set up a scare in the shape of an "angora" bird in a cage under the dinner table before they get there.
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Drink Hearty
Title: Drink Hearty
Character: George Washington Tarfoot Lee
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers.
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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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Haunted Spooks
Title: Haunted Spooks
Character: Little Boy (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1920
Type: Movie
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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Waltz Me Around
Title: Waltz Me Around
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
Delivery man 'Snub' Pollard and his assistant Sunshine Sammy nearly run over Marie Mosquini in the street and ends up at dance school.
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Getting His Goat
Title: Getting His Goat
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
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All Lit Up
Title: All Lit Up
Character: The Kid
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.
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The Dippy Dentist
Title: The Dippy Dentist
Character: Messenger Boy
Released: January 25, 1920
Type: Movie
The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord (who is a dentist). Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives to work in an office across the hall. In a very funny scene, Pollard manages to steal all of Gaylord's patients from his waiting room. However, when it comes to dental work, Snub is highly unlikely to receive the American Dental Association's seal of approval. That's because he's incredibly rough and manages to toss a guy out the window when he pulls his tooth.
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Why Go Home?
Title: Why Go Home?
Released: January 11, 1920
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
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Red Hot Hottentotts
Title: Red Hot Hottentotts
Released: January 4, 1920
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard stars in this 1920's comedy short.
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Tough Luck
Title: Tough Luck
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
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Call for Mr. Caveman
Title: Call for Mr. Caveman
Character: Little Henry Hercules
Released: November 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.
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Giving the Bride Away
Title: Giving the Bride Away
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard
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Daddy Number Two
Title: Daddy Number Two
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Marie attempts to select a new husband for her mother and a father for herself.
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Start Something
Title: Start Something
Released: October 7, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short featuring Mildred Davis.
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The Sawdust Doll
Title: The Sawdust Doll
Character: Sambo
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the place of a real mother.
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The Old Maid's Baby
Title: The Old Maid's Baby
Character: George Washington Joffre Foch Pershing Johnson
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.
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Dolly Does Her Bit
Title: Dolly Does Her Bit
Character: Sambo
Released: April 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has been naughty, and finds her aunt in the act of making a Red Cross costume for a huge mechanical doll. The doll can walk and talk and excites Dolly's interest intensely.
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Captain Kiddo
Title: Captain Kiddo
Released: August 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr. Cross , whom Marie doesn't like -- she much prefers Jack Laird, a secret service man. Laird's investigation of opium smugglers leads him to suspect that Cross is involved, but Marie's mother refuses to let him be searched.