Josef Swickard

Josef Swickard

Born: June 24, 1866
Died: March 1, 1940
in Koblenz, Germany

Movies for Josef Swickard...

The Pal from Texas
Title: The Pal from Texas
Character: Texas Malden
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Pal From Texas features the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal from being swindled by an unscrupulous tavern owner.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Hamilton McGlen Sr. (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Presidente Huenemo Mendoza
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Gonzales
Released: March 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Old Man
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Professor
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: Jonesy
Released: September 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
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The Sheik Steps Out
Title: The Sheik Steps Out
Character: Mohammedan Priest
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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Sandflow
Title: Sandflow
Character: Banker Porter
Released: February 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Title: The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Character: Lafe Turner
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Amigo (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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The Black Coin
Title: The Black Coin
Character: Don Pedro Navarro
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
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Lash of the Penitentes
Title: Lash of the Penitentes
Character: Dr. Andrew Robert Taylor
Released: April 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Fact and fiction collide in this exploitation flick that employs documentary footage depicting the bizarre self-flagellation rituals of the fanatical Catholic sect known as the Penitentes. Mixed with those truly disturbing sequences is a story concerning a killing in New Mexico, itself inspired by the murder of real-life reporter Carl Taylor as he worked on an article on the Penitentes.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Maj. Henry Trent MD
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand.
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Caryl of the Mountains
Title: Caryl of the Mountains
Character: Jean Foray
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!
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The Millionaire Kid
Title: The Millionaire Kid
Character: The Tutor
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs away from home. The private detective assigned to watch him tells Mrs. Neville he has been kidnapped. She immediately suspects her husband. Meanwhile, Tommy is selling newspapers in another city. He is attacked by a bully, and is rescued by gangster Terry Mallon and his daughter Kitty. Unaware of his identity, they take him to their beach home. Reporter Breezy Benson is sent to interview Mrs. Neville about the divorce, and is fired when she won't talk to him. He meets Kitty at the beach and is intrigued by her. He meets her father, who is curious but not suspicious as news of the alleged kidnapping has not been reported.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Major Henry Trent MD
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
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The Lost City
Title: The Lost City
Character: Dr. Manyus
Released: March 6, 1935
Type: Movie
An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in Africa.
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Chandu on the Magic Island
Title: Chandu on the Magic Island
Character: Tyba, the White Magician
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless.
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The Return of Chandu
Title: The Return of Chandu
Character: Tyba, The White Magician [Chs. 8-12]
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
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Cross Streets
Title: Cross Streets
Character: Dean Todd
Released: July 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Revolutionist
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Perils of Pauline
Title: Perils of Pauline
Character: Haggins, Foreign Consul
Released: November 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
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Narcotic
Title: Narcotic
Character: Federal narcotics agent
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
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The Narrow Corner
Title: The Narrow Corner
Character: Dutch Constable
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.
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Phantom of the Desert
Title: Phantom of the Desert
Character: Colonel Van Horn
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out to find who's behind it.
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Song of the Caballero
Title: Song of the Caballero
Character: Manuel
Released: June 29, 1930
Type: Movie
After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the wedding of Anita and his son Don Jose. But Conchita is at the wedding and recognizes him putting his life in danger.
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Mamba
Title: Mamba
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
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The Lone Defender
Title: The Lone Defender
Character: Juan Valdez
Released: March 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.
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The Phantom of the North
Title: The Phantom of the North
Character: Colonel Rayburn
Released: May 27, 1929
Type: Movie
In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation.
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Frozen River
Title: Frozen River
Character: Hazy
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Jane from the villains, a gang of cutthroats and thieves.
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The Veiled Woman
Title: The Veiled Woman
Character: Col. De Selincourt
Released: April 14, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.
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The Eternal Woman
Title: The Eternal Woman
Character: Ovaldo
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
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The Devil's Chaplain
Title: The Devil's Chaplain
Character: The King
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray.
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The Toy Shop
Title: The Toy Shop
Character: The toymaker (as Joseph Swickard)
Released: December 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Cinematographer Ray Rennahan utilized the two-strip Technicolor process for this film, but either surviving prints have faded or the color palette was limited in the first place, for generally we see only muddy reds, dim greens, and occasional splashes of blue. The film was shot silent and then dubbed with synchronized music consisting of seasonal tunes such as "Jingle Bells," "O Holy Night," and "March of the Wooden Soldiers."
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Eagle of the Night
Title: Eagle of the Night
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some pieces are no longer extant (half of chapters 3&6, all of 7, 8, and 9, and the beginning of the 10th and final chapter), but the beginning and end are there as well as enough to follow the action adequately. The surviving Grapevine print is beautifully restored and tinted in spots, although you can tell the print is deteriorated in some of the surviving sections. Basically, an inventor (Josef Swickard, in a role not unlike the one he later played in THE LOST CITY) has created a silencer/muffler for planes to silence any engine sounds, and the bad guys are out to steal the invention and put it to evil use.
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Turn Back the Hours
Title: Turn Back the Hours
Character: Colonel Torreon
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
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Sharp Shooters
Title: Sharp Shooters
Character: Grandpère
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.
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Get Your Man
Title: Get Your Man
Character: Duke of Albin
Released: December 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
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Old San Francisco
Title: Old San Francisco
Character: Don Hernandez de Vasquez
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
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Time to Love
Title: Time to Love
Character: Elvire's father
Released: June 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all by jumping into the Seine. Instead, he lands in a passing boat owned by the Countess Elvire. Falling in love with his savior, Alfred returns the compliment by rescuing the Countess from a precipitous waterfall.
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Senorita
Title: Senorita
Character: Don Francisco Hernandez
Released: April 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Golden Stallion
Title: The Golden Stallion
Character: John Forsythe
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fury.
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One Increasing Purpose
Title: One Increasing Purpose
Character: Old Gand
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
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The Border Whirlwind
Title: The Border Whirlwind
Character: Señor Jose Cordova
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
A film directed by John P. McCarthy
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The Unknown Cavalier
Title: The Unknown Cavalier
Character: Lingo
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs (James Mason), heretofore considered a pillar of the community.....
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Don Juan
Title: Don Juan
Character: Duke Della Varnese
Released: August 6, 1926
Type: Movie
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
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Senor Daredevil
Title: Senor Daredevil
Character: Juan Estrada
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of a supply-wagon train destined for the miners in Sonora. Tiger is being terrorized by Jesse Wilks (J.P. McGowan), who hopes to starve the miners out of their claims. Falling in love with Tiger's ward, Sally (Dorothy Devore), Don Luis manages to turn the tables on Wilks, who is killed attempting to rob the supply train.
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Sebastian Castaneda
Released: March 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Desert Gold is a 1926 silent American Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film. Portions of the film were shot near Palm Springs, California.
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Three Pals
Title: Three Pals
Character: Col. Girard
Released: January 5, 1926
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money.
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The Keeper of the Bees
Title: The Keeper of the Bees
Character: Bee Master
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
A bee keeper does his best to help the army.
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The Mysterious Stranger
Title: The Mysterious Stranger
Character: Raoul Lesage
Released: July 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.
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Playing with Souls
Title: Playing with Souls
Character: Monsieur Jomier
Released: April 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents, and is taunted by his schoolmates, who doubt the legitimacy of his childhood. By the time he is 20, Matt wants to find out about his parentage, so he travels to Paris, leaving behind his sweetheart, Margo.
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Fifth Avenue Models
Title: Fifth Avenue Models
Character: Josef Ludant
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: Prime Minister Kruel
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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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Eugene Craig
Released: September 7, 1924
Type: Movie
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and executed, and is afterward taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity. .
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Defying the Law
Title: Defying the Law
Character: Michelo Brescia
Released: June 3, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film starring Lew Cody and Renée Adorée directed by Bertram Bracken
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Men
Title: Men
Character: Cleo's Father
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
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Pal o' Mine
Title: Pal o' Mine
Character: Verdugo Montford
Released: March 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
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North of Nevada
Title: North of Nevada
Character: Mark Ridgeway
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted foreman Tom Taylor as promised. The relatives, Reginald (Taylor Graves) and his sister Marion, arrive to take over the ranch, and Tom quickly falls for the lovely Marion. The weak Reginald, on the other hand, sells his part of the property to evil Indian Joe Deerfoot, who then kidnaps Marion to get her share as well.
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The Shadow of the East
Title: The Shadow of the East
Character: John Locke
Released: January 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
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Maytime
Title: Maytime
Character: Colonel Van Zandt
Released: November 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
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The Eternal Struggle
Title: The Eternal Struggle
Character: Pierre Grange
Released: October 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.
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The Age of Desire
Title: The Age of Desire
Character: Marcio
Released: September 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue.
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Bavu
Title: Bavu
Character: Prince Markoff
Released: May 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance on all who cross him, and incites the peasantry to burn the city.
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Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Title: Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Character: Estaban Juárez
Released: March 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.
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My American Wife
Title: My American Wife
Character: Don Fernando DeContas
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: Narada - the Mystic
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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Another Man's Shoes
Title: Another Man's Shoes
Character: Gouret
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to impersonate him for a month.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Released: September 4, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Title: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Released: March 27, 1922
Type: Movie
An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1. The Sea Raiders 2. Shipwrecked 3. The Cannibals' Captives 4. Hidden Gold 5. The Ship of Despair 6. Friday's Faith 7. The Swamp of Terror 8. Marooned 9. The Jaguar Trap 10. A Prisoner of the Sun 11. No Greater Love 12. The Island of Happiness 13. The Sword of Courage 14. The Buccaneers 15. The Jolly Roger 16. The Idol's Bride 17. When the Heart Calls 18. Back to the Primitive
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The Golden Gift
Title: The Golden Gift
Character: Leonati
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
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Across the Dead-Line
Title: Across the Dead-Line
Character: Abel
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
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Cheated Hearts
Title: Cheated Hearts
Character: Colonel Fairfax Gordon
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their guardian's daughter. Barry also loves her but feels rejected. Three years later, after extended travels, Barry learns that Tom, having been sent to Morocco by Mr. Beekman, has been captured by desert marauders and is being held for ransom. He begins a search for him and in Tangiers encounters the Beekmans and Kitty Van Ness. Barry and Muriel discover their love for each other, but he refuses to commit himself while Tom is still alive.
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No Woman Knows
Title: No Woman Knows
Character: The Great Schabelitz
Released: September 19, 1921
Type: Movie
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.
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Opened Shutters
Title: Opened Shutters
Released: August 12, 1921
Type: Movie
When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: Domingo Maticas
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother.
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Sowing the Wind
Title: Sowing the Wind
Character: Petworth
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petworth's gambling house, her ideals are shattered and she denounces her mother's life.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Marcelo Desnoyers
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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Trumpet Island
Title: Trumpet Island
Character: Jacques de Merincourt
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
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The Heart Snatcher
Title: The Heart Snatcher
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
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A Woman of Pleasure
Title: A Woman of Pleasure
Character: Reverend Goddard
Released: November 9, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Padre Marcos
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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When a Woman Sins
Title: When a Woman Sins
Character: Mortimer
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for. Due to a misunderstanding between the two, Lilian leaves after her fiance's death. Years later, Lilian becomes known around town for her "loose morals," but what happens when she runs into Michael again?
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The White Man's Law
Title: The White Man's Law
Character: Suliman Ghengis (as Joseph Swickard)
Released: May 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
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His Mother's Boy
Title: His Mother's Boy
Character: Tom Glenny (as Joseph Swickard)
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Dr. Alexandre Manette
Released: March 10, 1917
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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Haystacks and Steeples
Title: Haystacks and Steeples
Character: The Minister
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
A farm boy falls for a glamorous society girl who is engaged to another man.
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The Danger Girl
Title: The Danger Girl
Character: Old Man in Lobby (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie.
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A Social Cub
Title: A Social Cub
Character: The Knight of Old
Released: July 16, 1916
Type: Movie
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson
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A Submarine Pirate
Title: A Submarine Pirate
Character: Surplus Store Owner (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1915
Type: Movie
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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A Favorite Fool
Title: A Favorite Fool
Character: The Farmer
Released: November 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, ignorant of her flock, makes love to her and is accepted.
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Only a Messenger Boy
Title: Only a Messenger Boy
Character: The Chief of Police
Released: August 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Keystone silent comedy.
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A Lover's Lost Control
Title: A Lover's Lost Control
Character: Customer
Released: August 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Title: Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Character: The Photographer
Released: July 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
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Dirty Work in a Laundry
Title: Dirty Work in a Laundry
Character: The Police Chief
Released: July 19, 1915
Type: Movie
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
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A Versatile Villain
Title: A Versatile Villain
Character: The Sheriff
Released: May 29, 1915
Type: Movie
After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.
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Love, Loot and Crash
Title: Love, Loot and Crash
Character: Mary's Father, a Banker
Released: April 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Title: Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Character: Police Chief
Released: April 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.
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Droppington's Family Tree
Title: Droppington's Family Tree
Character: Justice of the Peace / Diner in Booth
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees hubby and chases him around, he's also chased by another performer. The son calls a clergyman, Pa saves the girl and they marry at the end.
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The Rent Jumpers
Title: The Rent Jumpers
Character: Restaurant Manager
Released: April 7, 1915
Type: Movie
The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. But neither the landlord nor the owner of the wallet are the central figures here, for The Rent Jumpers is primarily a love story between the landlord's daughter, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, and the lodger's roommate, young Charley Chase.
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Willful Ambrose
Title: Willful Ambrose
Character: O. Schmidt - Stein Dealer
Released: March 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he tries to replace it.
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Hearts and Planets
Title: Hearts and Planets
Character: The Sky Gazer
Released: February 20, 1915
Type: Movie
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.
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Hogan's Romance Upset
Title: Hogan's Romance Upset
Character: The Rival
Released: February 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Charles Murray out romancing in the park.
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Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Title: Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Character: Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Released: February 10, 1915
Type: Movie
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Title: Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
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Love, Speed and Thrills
Title: Love, Speed and Thrills
Character: Police Chief
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
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Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Title: Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Character: Mabel's Father
Released: January 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Movie Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1914
Type: Movie
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
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Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
Title: Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
Character: Minta's Father
Released: December 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
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Ambrose's First Falsehood
Title: Ambrose's First Falsehood
Character: Funeral Director
Released: December 12, 1914
Type: Movie
After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
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The Plumber
Title: The Plumber
Character: Mr. Felix - Home Owner
Released: December 9, 1914
Type: Movie
This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar with Keystone in this period, or, indeed, with the works of the Three Stooges, who often played inept plumbers. It is, nonetheless, very nicely performed, especially by Charles Murray who mugs it up freely and ineptly, as well as the pretty girl who plays the house's maid.
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The Noise of Bombs
Title: The Noise of Bombs
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: November 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.
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An Incompetent Hero
Title: An Incompetent Hero
Character: The Police Chief
Released: November 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him.
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Shot in the Excitement
Title: Shot in the Excitement
Character: The Father
Released: October 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
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Zip, the Dodger
Title: Zip, the Dodger
Character: Ball Toss Operator
Released: October 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Zip, the Dodger
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He Loved the Ladies
Title: He Loved the Ladies
Released: September 21, 1914
Type: Movie
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Lover's Luck
Title: Lover's Luck
Character: The Girl's Father
Released: September 15, 1914
Type: Movie
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
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Those Country Kids
Title: Those Country Kids
Character: Grandfather
Released: August 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Title: The Face on the Barroom Floor
Character: Drinker (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1914
Type: Movie
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
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The Property Man
Title: The Property Man
Character: Old Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
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Laughing Gas
Title: Laughing Gas
Character: Patient
Released: July 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
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A Rowboat Romance
Title: A Rowboat Romance
Character: (unconfirmed)
Released: July 6, 1914
Type: Movie
A Rowboat Romance is a 1914 Comedy short.
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Caught in a Cabaret
Title: Caught in a Cabaret
Character: Mabel's Father (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
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Twenty Minutes of Love
Title: Twenty Minutes of Love
Character: Victim
Released: April 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
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Their First Execution
Title: Their First Execution
Released: May 14, 1913
Type: Movie
A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard for their feelings, makes his escape from the prison. The sleuth goes in pursuit, and finding the discarded convict's garb dons it as a disguise, hoping to meet the hunted man and ingratiate himself. Prison guards capture the sleuth, and disliking to disappoint the waiting crowd, decide to execute him. He is placed in the chair and the current turned on, but he stubbornly resists death. The current is doubled and trebled, to no avail. Meanwhile the real criminal has been captured, and he is brought back in time to save the sleuth from his perilous position.
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Cupid in a Dental Parlor
Title: Cupid in a Dental Parlor
Character: Ethel's Father
Released: April 21, 1913
Type: Movie
Harold is in love with Ethel Parks, but finds scant favor with her father, Parks always manages to get his daughter away from her admirer, but one day Harold makes bold to call at the house.