Billy Gilbert

Billy Gilbert

Born: September 15, 1891
Died: April 29, 1961
in Hollywood, California, USA
*** FYI: NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH ACTOR BILLY GILBERT (born William Gilbert Barron) WHO LIVED FROM 1894 TO 1971. ***

Billy Gilbert (born William V. Campbell; September 15, 1891—April 29, 1961) was involved in more than 150 American films between 1913 and 1936, working as either an actor, extra, or director. Gilbert spent his entire career working almost exclusively in shorts, often uncredited.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Movies for Billy Gilbert...

Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Leader of Clacque
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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The Bees' Buzz
Title: The Bees' Buzz
Character: Country Club Drinker, Farmer
Released: April 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
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The Rodeo
Title: The Rodeo
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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Motorboat Mamas
Title: Motorboat Mamas
Character: Boat Officer
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
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Movie Mania
Title: Movie Mania
Character: Tim Murphy
Released: February 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio."
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Fiddlesticks
Title: Fiddlesticks
Character: Bystander
Released: November 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
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For Sale, a Bungalow
Title: For Sale, a Bungalow
Character: The Gas Man
Released: October 30, 1927
Type: Movie
For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
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Smith's Pony
Title: Smith's Pony
Character: Ship's Purser
Released: September 17, 1927
Type: Movie
The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
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The Pride of Pikeville
Title: The Pride of Pikeville
Character: Hawkins House Guest
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
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Smith's Fishing Trip
Title: Smith's Fishing Trip
Character: The Fisherman
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.
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Crazy to Act
Title: Crazy to Act
Character: Projectionist
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
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A Small Town Princess
Title: A Small Town Princess
Character: Gateman
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
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The Jolly Jilter
Title: The Jolly Jilter
Character: Short Servant
Released: March 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
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Peaches and Plumbers
Title: Peaches and Plumbers
Character: The Attorney
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
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Flirty Four-Flushers
Title: Flirty Four-Flushers
Character: Soup Drinking Customer / Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
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The Soapsuds Lady
Title: The Soapsuds Lady
Character: Grandpa Tucker
Released: November 22, 1926
Type: Movie
The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
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Smith's Uncle
Title: Smith's Uncle
Character: Messenger
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.
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Smith's Landlord
Title: Smith's Landlord
Character: Small Mover
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.
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Smith's Baby
Title: Smith's Baby
Character: Mabel's Father, Jimmy's Father-in-Law
Released: July 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
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Ice Cold Cocos
Title: Ice Cold Cocos
Character: Ice Rink Usher
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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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Title: Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Character: Doctor
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
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Whispering Whiskers
Title: Whispering Whiskers
Character: Indian
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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A Sweet Pickle
Title: A Sweet Pickle
Character: Bakery Chef
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Title: Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Character: Customer with Cane
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
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Stuck Up
Title: Stuck Up
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.
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All Wet
Title: All Wet
Released: March 8, 1921
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.
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Dynamite Allen
Title: Dynamite Allen
Character: 'Simp' Hallett
Released: February 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
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His Bitter Pill
Title: His Bitter Pill
Character: Barfly
Released: April 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.
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A Submarine Pirate
Title: A Submarine Pirate
Character: Torpedo Loader (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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Fickle Fatty's Fall
Title: Fickle Fatty's Fall
Character: Man at Test-of-Strength Concession
Released: November 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.
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A Hash House Fraud
Title: A Hash House Fraud
Character: Freeloading Customer
Released: June 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
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Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Title: Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Character: Bellhop
Released: May 14, 1915
Type: Movie
When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle). The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in; An hilarious rescue effort ensues.
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Mabel’s Wilful Way
Title: Mabel’s Wilful Way
Character: Blackface Man in Sideshow Game / Man Going Down Slide
Released: May 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
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Wished on Mabel
Title: Wished on Mabel
Character: Police Chief
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
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A One Night Stand
Title: A One Night Stand
Character: Audience Spectator
Released: March 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
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That Little Band Of Gold
Title: That Little Band Of Gold
Character: Audience Member
Released: March 14, 1915
Type: Movie
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
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Hogan Out West
Title: Hogan Out West
Character: The Cowboy
Released: February 27, 1915
Type: Movie
After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attractive one apart from its comic attributes. In this film Charles Murray as Hogan is his usual comical self." -The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915.
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Fatty's New Role
Title: Fatty's New Role
Released: February 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
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Love, Speed and Thrills
Title: Love, Speed and Thrills
Character: Cop
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: The Groom
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: Policeman (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: Short Man
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: Café Patron
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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His Prehistoric Past
Title: His Prehistoric Past
Character: Caveman Masher (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
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Leading Lizzie Astray
Title: Leading Lizzie Astray
Character: Cafe Waiter
Released: November 30, 1914
Type: Movie
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
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His Trysting Places
Title: His Trysting Places
Character: Diner in Overalls
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
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His Musical Career
Title: His Musical Career
Character: Piano Store Salesman
Released: November 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Title: Gentlemen of Nerve
Character: Spectator
Released: October 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
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Those Love Pangs
Title: Those Love Pangs
Character: Movie Patron
Released: October 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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The Rounders
Title: The Rounders
Character: Doorman in Blackface
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
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The Masquerader
Title: The Masquerader
Character: Cameraman
Released: August 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
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Those Country Kids
Title: Those Country Kids
Character: Man whose Carriage is Stolen
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 Knockout
Title: The Knockout
Character: Society Singer
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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A Busy Day
Title: A Busy Day
Character: Policeman
Released: May 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
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Caught in a Cabaret
Title: Caught in a Cabaret
Character: Cabaret Patron (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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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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Cruel, Cruel Love
Title: Cruel, Cruel Love
Character: Short Ambulance Attendant
Released: March 26, 1914
Type: Movie
This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
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His Favorite Pastime
Title: His Favorite Pastime
Character: Shoeshine Boy
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 in Cowboy Hat (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 Film Johnnie
Title: A Film Johnnie
Character: Theater Usher (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1914
Type: Movie
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Title: Mabel's Strange Predicament
Character: Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1914
Type: Movie
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
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Making a Living
Title: Making a Living
Character: Jealous Husband (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1914
Type: Movie
A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
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Rebecca's Wedding Day
Title: Rebecca's Wedding Day
Character: The Thief
Released: January 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.
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He Would a Hunting Go
Title: He Would a Hunting Go
Character: Villager
Released: December 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
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Fatty Joins the Force
Title: Fatty Joins the Force
Character: Fighter
Released: November 23, 1913
Type: Movie
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
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Fatty at San Diego
Title: Fatty at San Diego
Character: Theatre Patron / Man on Dock
Released: November 3, 1913
Type: Movie
Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.
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The Speed Kings
Title: The Speed Kings
Character: Man Ford Bumps into
Released: October 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
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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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Mother's Boy
Title: Mother's Boy
Character: Mug
Released: September 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Title: Mabel's Dramatic Career
Character: Audience Member
Released: September 8, 1913
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.