Kewpie Morgan

Kewpie Morgan

Born: January 31, 1892
Died: September 24, 1956
in Anna, Texas, USA

Movies for Kewpie Morgan...

The Golden Age of Comedy
Title: The Golden Age of Comedy
Character: archive footage
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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The Count Takes the Count
Title: The Count Takes the Count
Character: Henry - the Sheriff
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into thinking she's a detective in pursuit of herself, there's no shortage of great laughs.
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The Devil Is a Woman
Title: The Devil Is a Woman
Character: Coachman (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
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Babes in Toyland
Title: Babes in Toyland
Character: King Cole
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Title: Cockeyed Cavaliers
Character: Andrew - the Jailer
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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The Aviator
Title: The Aviator
Character: Sam Robinson
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
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The Spieler
Title: The Spieler
Character: Butch
Released: December 20, 1928
Type: Movie
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
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Beggars of Life
Title: Beggars of Life
Character: Skinny
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
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A Home Made Man
Title: A Home Made Man
Character: The Manager
Released: July 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
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Say Ah-h!
Title: Say Ah-h!
Released: February 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and turns that foil his every attempt.
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Flying Luck
Title: Flying Luck
Character: The Sergeant
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
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Spuds
Title: Spuds
Character: Sergeant
Released: April 10, 1927
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
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The Better 'Ole
Title: The Better 'Ole
Character: Gen. Stein (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
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Love's Last Laugh
Title: Love's Last Laugh
Character: Baron Kimmel
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.
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Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Rotund Conductor (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Ice Cold Cocos
Title: Ice Cold Cocos
Character: Bull Dozer
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
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Musclebound Music
Title: Musclebound Music
Character: Horace Reddish - The Wrestler
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Title: Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Character: Noah Fish - Tailor / Sgt. Major
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
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Wandering Willies
Title: Wandering Willies
Character: 'Rough' Rufus
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
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Circus Today
Title: Circus Today
Character: Steve Skinner
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Two circus hands create chaos.
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Trimmed in Gold
Title: Trimmed in Gold
Character: Cactus Cal
Released: February 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Trimmed in Gold is a silent comedy short.
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Whispering Whiskers
Title: Whispering Whiskers
Character: Madame Murino's Associate
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.
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From Rags to Britches
Title: From Rags to Britches
Character: Adam Benedict
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
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Butter Fingers
Title: Butter Fingers
Character: Daisy's Husband
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
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Sneezing Beezers
Title: Sneezing Beezers
Character: Gumboilski - Henchman
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short.
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Hooked
Title: Hooked
Character: Captain Kewpie
Released: February 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Lloyd Hamilton goes fishing.
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Just a Good Guy
Title: Just a Good Guy
Character: Landlord
Released: December 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
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Stupid, but Brave
Title: Stupid, but Brave
Character: Barber
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Impoverished "bum" gets a close shave from a menacing barber, then gets tangled up with a banana king, escaped convicts and marathon runners.
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Sherlock Jr.
Title: Sherlock Jr.
Character: Conspirator (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1924
Type: Movie
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Title: The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Character: Referee
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
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Picking Peaches
Title: Picking Peaches
Character: The Customer's Detective Husband
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
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The Dare-Devil
Title: The Dare-Devil
Character: The Leading Man's Chief Support
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
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Asleep at the Switch
Title: Asleep at the Switch
Character: The Baggage Smasher
Released: October 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.
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Three Ages
Title: Three Ages
Character: The Emperor / Cave Man / Roman Thug
Released: September 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
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Skylarking
Title: Skylarking
Character: Eddie
Released: September 8, 1923
Type: Movie
The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!
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Nip and Tuck
Title: Nip and Tuck
Character: Tuck
Released: August 11, 1923
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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The Shriek of Araby
Title: The Shriek of Araby
Character: Cop on Horse
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
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When Summer Comes
Title: When Summer Comes
Character: The Guardian
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
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Gymnasium Jim
Title: Gymnasium Jim
Character: Jim's Assistant
Released: May 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
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Step Forward
Title: Step Forward
Character: The Salesman's Assistant
Released: April 13, 1922
Type: Movie
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
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On Patrol
Title: On Patrol
Character: The Police Captain
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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The Duck Hunter
Title: The Duck Hunter
Character: The Sportsman's Boss
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 comedy short.
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Be Reasonable
Title: Be Reasonable
Character: An Officer of the Law
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collection agents either want Billy to pay for this necklace or return it. Well, she naturally doesn't want to give up the pearls, so Billy decides to break in to her house to steal them (and a few other items while he's at it).
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Love and Doughnuts
Title: Love and Doughnuts
Character: The Baker's Assistant
Released: September 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
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The Scuttlers
Title: The Scuttlers
Character: The Cook
Released: December 12, 1920
Type: Movie
The Scuttlers is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. William Farnum and Jackie Saunders star in this adventure.
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His Noisy Still
Title: His Noisy Still
Released: October 25, 1920
Type: Movie
If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.
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Drag Harlan
Title: Drag Harlan
Character: Red Linton
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold.
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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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The Cup of Fury
Title: The Cup of Fury
Character: Jake
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.
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Back to God's Country
Title: Back to God's Country
Character: Bully in Bar
Released: October 27, 1919
Type: Movie
After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While they're at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain, who is the man who killed her father. The captain causes an 'accident' to happen to Peter, so Dolores is all alone and defenceless as they drop anchor in a remote harbour.
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A Beach Nut
Title: A Beach Nut
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A Beach Nut
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Hell-Roarin' Reform
Title: Hell-Roarin' Reform
Character: Bartender (as Cupid Morgan)
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays Tim, a goodhearted cowpuncher who, while riding down a trail, gets robbed of the money he was carrying for the Belgian Babies' Milk Fund.
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The Poor Rich Cleaners
Title: The Poor Rich Cleaners
Character: M.T. Dome
Released: October 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Gorilla Gulden
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
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The Paperhangers' Revenge
Title: The Paperhangers' Revenge
Character: Mulligatowny
Released: April 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
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A Pirate Bold
Title: A Pirate Bold
Character: The Flunky
Released: June 17, 1917
Type: Movie
The Pirate Chief and his Flunky are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.
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A Capable Lady Cook
Title: A Capable Lady Cook
Character: The Husband
Released: November 17, 1916
Type: Movie
A Capable Lady Cook
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Wanted- A Home
Title: Wanted- A Home
Character: Cal Morgan (as Horace 'Kewpie' Morgan)
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Mina Rogers (Mary MacLaren) is unfairly cast out into the cruel, cruel world by her crotchety old uncle. She searches for a new home, resorting to deception so that she will be taken in. Along the way she meets a doctor, certain mysteries surrounding her are solved, and the doctor asks her to marry him.