Rube Miller

Rube Miller

Born: May 21, 1886
Died: April 1, 1927
in Trotwood, Ohio, USA

Movies for Rube Miller...

Hell's Hole
Title: Hell's Hole
Character: Prisoner
Released: September 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he discovers they have no tickets, and the two men swear revenge.
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The World's Champion
Title: The World's Champion
Character: George Burrooughs
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
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The Desperate Hero
Title: The Desperate Hero
Character: Alan Moss
Released: June 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
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The Gay Lord Quex
Title: The Gay Lord Quex
Character: Jack Eden
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
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Tom's Little Star
Title: Tom's Little Star
Released: August 23, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 silent drama film
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The Belles of Liberty
Title: The Belles of Liberty
Character: Silass Patts
Released: July 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Monty Banks plays a paramour who starts all sort of silly highjinks with Eva Novak and Carolyne Wright
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A Blind Pig
Title: A Blind Pig
Released: June 12, 1918
Type: Movie
A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.
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Picture Pirates
Title: Picture Pirates
Character: 1st Ne'er-Do-Well
Released: November 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the place Rube and Ben try to pick his pockets, and admonishing them as amateurs, he tells them to join in with him and try to steal the picture. They take the art collector's wife with them to the same café wherein their wives are waitresses. Ben and Rube leave her there and hasten to her home to steal a copy of the picture, the owner having hidden the original. They also drink some poisoned whiskey left for them and fall into a fit. Later the "picture pirate" pays Rube and Ben for the picture, thinking it is the original.
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He Died and He Didn't
Title: He Died and He Didn't
Character: The Prospector
Released: October 29, 1916
Type: Movie
The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.
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Poultry à la Mode
Title: Poultry à la Mode
Character: Rube
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.
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Doctoring a Leak
Title: Doctoring a Leak
Character: 2nd Plumber
Released: September 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Ben Turpin & Rube Miller trying to fix a leak.
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The Stolen Booking
Title: The Stolen Booking
Character: Rube
Released: September 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Tillie's Visitor (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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Shot in the Excitement
Title: Shot in the Excitement
Character: The Suitor's Rival
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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Bombs and Bangs
Title: Bombs and Bangs
Released: September 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.
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Her Last Chance
Title: Her Last Chance
Released: August 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Her Last Chance
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A Coat's Tale
Title: A Coat's Tale
Character: The Pawnbroker
Released: August 8, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Great Toe Mystery
Title: The Great Toe Mystery
Character: Shoe Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1914
Type: Movie
A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
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A Gambling Rube
Title: A Gambling Rube
Character: Heckler
Released: June 15, 1914
Type: Movie
A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.
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The Knockout
Title: The Knockout
Character: Obnoxious Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1914
Type: Movie
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
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Love and Salt Water
Title: Love and Salt Water
Released: June 11, 1914
Type: Movie
Love and Salt Water
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The Star Boarder
Title: The Star Boarder
Character: Boarder (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1914
Type: Movie
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
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The Chicken Chaser
Title: The Chicken Chaser
Character: Cop
Released: April 1, 1914
Type: Movie
The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
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His Favorite Pastime
Title: His Favorite Pastime
Character: Bar Patron
Released: March 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
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Tango Tangle
Title: Tango Tangle
Character: Guest Pushed Away (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1914
Type: Movie
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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A Thief Catcher
Title: A Thief Catcher
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
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Won in a Closet
Title: Won in a Closet
Character: A Farmhand
Released: January 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
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In the Clutches of the Gang
Title: In the Clutches of the Gang
Character: Cop
Released: January 17, 1914
Type: Movie
In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
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The Gusher
Title: The Gusher
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
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His Sister's Kids
Title: His Sister's Kids
Character: Old Man
Released: December 13, 1913
Type: Movie
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
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A Muddy Romance
Title: A Muddy Romance
Character: Land Policeman
Released: November 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
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A Quiet Little Wedding
Title: A Quiet Little Wedding
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: October 23, 1913
Type: Movie
The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Title: Rastus and the Game Cock
Character: Dice Player
Released: July 3, 1913
Type: Movie
Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
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A Bandit
Title: A Bandit
Character: Villager
Released: June 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
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Peeping Pete
Title: Peeping Pete
Character: Villager / Cop
Released: June 22, 1913
Type: Movie
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
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Passions, He Had Three
Title: Passions, He Had Three
Released: June 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.
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His Chum the Baron
Title: His Chum the Baron
Character: Butler
Released: April 28, 1913
Type: Movie
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
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A Fishy Affair
Title: A Fishy Affair
Character: 2nd Cop
Released: April 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
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Bangville Police
Title: Bangville Police
Character: 2nd Deputy
Released: April 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
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A Deaf Burglar
Title: A Deaf Burglar
Character: A Neighbor
Released: March 13, 1913
Type: Movie
The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.