Al Ernest Garcia

Al Ernest Garcia

Born: March 11, 1887
Died: September 4, 1938
in San Francisco, California, USA
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Al Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887 – 4 September 1938) was an American actor, best known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. He acted with Chaplin in six films between 1921 and 1936, cast mostly in clinical or villainous supporting roles. Garcia portrayed the brutal circus director in The Circus (1928), the snobbish butler of the millionaire in City Lights (1931), and the factory owner in Modern Times (1936). He was also a casting director for Chaplin on The Circus, City Lights, and Modern Times.

Garcia was co-founder of the Motion Picture Extras and Supporting Players Association, founded in 1933.

Movies for Al Ernest Garcia...

In Old Mexico
Title: In Old Mexico
Character: Don Carlos Gonzalez
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Escaped criminal "The Fox" hates Hoppy and a Rurales colonel for imprisoning him and lures Cassidy to Mexico in order to exact his vengeance.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Opera Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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I'll Take Romance
Title: I'll Take Romance
Character: Allan Garcia
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
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The Gay Desperado
Title: The Gay Desperado
Character: Police Captain
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: President of the Electro Steel Corp.
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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The California Trail
Title: The California Trail
Character: Sgt. Florez (as Allan Garcia)
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
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One Way Passage
Title: One Way Passage
Character: Honolulu Cigar Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Bandit
Released: February 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: (as Capt. Garcia) Felipe Anunciado Menendez Gonzales Rodriguez
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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The Cisco Kid
Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sally’s children, he risks life and limb in order to save her little one.
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City Lights
Title: City Lights
Character: The Millionaire's Butler James
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Morgan's Last Raid
Title: Morgan's Last Raid
Character: Morgan
Released: January 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
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The Circus
Title: The Circus
Character: The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master
Released: January 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
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The Gold Rush
Title: The Gold Rush
Character: Prospector (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
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The Power God
Title: The Power God
Character: Weston Dore
Released: May 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
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Pay Day
Title: Pay Day
Character: Drinking Companion and Policeman
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
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The Idle Class
Title: The Idle Class
Character: Cop in Park / Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: Jean the Half-Breed
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
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The Trail of the Octopus
Title: The Trail of the Octopus
Character: Wang
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
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Six Feet Four
Title: Six Feet Four
Character: Ben Broderick
Released: September 13, 1919
Type: Movie
A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy again. However, he discovers that the actual culprits are a local gang headed by the sheriff. He sets out to capture the robbers and clear his name.
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A Gentleman's Agreement
Title: A Gentleman's Agreement
Character: Manager of Mine
Released: July 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard, who falls in love with him while nursing him to recovery, jealously intercepts his fiancée's letters and then writes Theresa that Allen is dead.
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Title: Baree, Son of Kazan
Character: 'Bush' McTaggart (as Al Garcia)
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.
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Restitution
Title: Restitution
Character: Lucifer and Satan
Released: May 12, 1918
Type: Movie
The story of the perfect man and woman in Eden, and the temptation of Mother Eve by Lucifer. Many episodes are then presented showing how Satan, from the time of Eden until now, has sought to thwart God's purposes and how, ultimately, Satan will be overthrown, and how restitution blessings will then come to mankind.
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Her Atonement
Title: Her Atonement
Released: September 20, 1915
Type: Movie
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Rockingham (as Al E. Garcia)
Released: July 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion.
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The Unafraid
Title: The Unafraid
Character: Joseph
Released: April 1, 1915
Type: Movie
In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in love.
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Young Romance
Title: Young Romance
Character: Spagnoli (as Al Garcia)
Released: January 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Two young clerks in a department store meet and fall in love during a seaside vacation in Maine, but part as strangers because, unknown to each other, both had been masquerading as upper-class 'swells', just to see how the better half lives.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Henchman
Released: November 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
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The Flight of the Crow
Title: The Flight of the Crow
Character: Philip Moore - the Legal Advisor (as Al Garcia)
Released: August 11, 1913
Type: Movie
Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son is waylaid near the railroad yards, stripped of a big "roll" and thrown unconscious into a box car.
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Jim
Released: May 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.
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Pierre of the North
Title: Pierre of the North
Character: Baptiste
Released: February 10, 1913
Type: Movie
Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter. Both men propose to the girl, both are refused. Baptiste, mad with jealous rage, abducts the girl and carries her off to a lonely cabin in the wilderness. She defies him, throws his proffered ring at him and is chained to the floor to change her mind.
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Shipwrecked
Title: Shipwrecked
Character: Pierre Binbeau
Released: September 21, 1911
Type: Movie
Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wanted by her uncle, for his choice for his niece's hand is John Runyon. So when Annie returns to her home, and is told to marry Runyon, she refuses. In the meantime, Kingdon leaves for Honolulu. The vessel is wrecked. Kingdon, cast into the sea, clings half exhausted to a spar. By a trick of Fate, the wreck occurs on the rocks of Val Dez Island, and Annie sees the spar, rows out and succeeds in dragging it to shore, where Kingdon is recognized. The young people declare their love for each other, but Runyon plans to get Kingdon out of his way. The "best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," and so Kingdon escapes the trap laid for him, and taking Annie with him to the mainland, they get married.
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Their Only Son
Title: Their Only Son
Released: August 10, 1911
Type: Movie
The parents of a young man who is wrongly accused of theft eventually find their son on a ship, where he is working as a sailor.
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The Still Alarm
Title: The Still Alarm
Character: William Manley
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners