Slim Summerville

Slim Summerville

Born: July 9, 1892
Died: January 5, 1946
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Slim Summerville (born George Joseph Somerville; July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946) was an American film actor and director best known for his work in comedies.

Movies for Slim Summerville...

The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Eel
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Sing Me a Song of Texas
Title: Sing Me a Song of Texas
Character: Happy
Released: February 8, 1945
Type: Movie
The two nieces of the deceased Charley Bronson arrive to learn that an unknown judge will determine which one of them will inherit his ranch. But Bronson is still alive and posing as the cook. Hilda learns of this and sets out to use this information to win the ranch from her cousin Laurie.
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I'm from Arkansas
Title: I'm from Arkansas
Character: Juniper Jenkins
Released: October 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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Swing in the Saddle
Title: Swing in the Saddle
Character: Northup 'Slim' Bayliss
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
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Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Samuel
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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Bachelor Daze
Title: Bachelor Daze
Character: Slim Winters
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
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Garden of Eatin'
Title: Garden of Eatin'
Character: Slim
Released: October 22, 1943
Type: Movie
After being falsely accused of kidnapping, Slim is thrown in jail. His troubles get worse when a lynch mob starts forming outside the jail.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Title: Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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The Valley of Vanishing Men
Title: The Valley of Vanishing Men
Character: Missouri Benson
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Slim Wilkins
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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Uncle Joe
Title: Uncle Joe
Character: Joe Butterfield
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Sam Sawyer
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Gramps Abbott
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Puddin' Head
Title: Puddin' Head
Character: Uncle Lem Goober
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Herman, called "Cookie"
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Henry Peabody
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Fred Gubbins
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Title: Anne of Windy Poplars
Character: Jabez Monkman
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: Sheriff Parton
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Title: Charlie Chan in Reno
Character: Sheriff Tombstone Fletcher
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Mike Muldoon
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Jailer
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Up the River
Title: Up the River
Character: Slim Nelson
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Ellsworth 'Spuds' Fickett, cook
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Five of a Kind
Title: Five of a Kind
Character: Constable Jim Ogden
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Hank Hatfield
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Homer Busby
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
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Fifty Roads to Town
Title: Fifty Roads to Town
Character: Ed Henry
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Tjaden
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Judge Hart
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Off to the Races
Title: Off to the Races
Character: Uncle George
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Jim Ogden
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
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Can This Be Dixie?
Title: Can This Be Dixie?
Character: Robert E. Lee Gurgle
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Uncle Ben Jolly
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Slats Magee
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Captain January
Title: Captain January
Character: Captain Nazro
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Constable Jim Ogden
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Constable Seth Holcomb
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Title: The Farmer Takes a Wife
Character: Fortune Friendly
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: T. Watterson Meriwether
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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Their Big Moment
Title: Their Big Moment
Character: Bill Ambrose (as 'Slim' Summerville)
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Love Birds
Title: Love Birds
Character: Henry Whipple
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Title: Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Character: Mark Reed
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.
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Her First Mate
Title: Her First Mate
Character: John Horner
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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Horse Play
Title: Horse Play
Character: Slim Perkins
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
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Out All Night
Title: Out All Night
Character: Ronald Colgate
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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They Just Had to Get Married
Title: They Just Had to Get Married
Character: Sam Sutton
Released: January 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
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Air Mail
Title: Air Mail
Character: 'Slim' McCune
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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Tom Brown of Culver
Title: Tom Brown of Culver
Character: Elmer (Slim) Whitman
Released: June 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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Racing Youth
Title: Racing Youth
Character: Slim
Released: January 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man is mistaken for his boss.
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The Unexpected Father
Title: The Unexpected Father
Character: Jasper Jones
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Merchant
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
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Reckless Living
Title: Reckless Living
Character: The Drunk
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Pincus
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Sam
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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Many a Slip
Title: Many a Slip
Character: Hopkins
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Gas Inspector
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
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See America Thirst
Title: See America Thirst
Character: Slim
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
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We! We! Marie!
Title: We! We! Marie!
Released: October 28, 1930
Type: Movie
In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly hate.Both have fallen for the same girl, and Slim seemingly can't compete when Gribbon gives her fancy lingerie. Gribbon has no problem belting Slim around, and giving him extended latrine-digging duties.
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Her Man
Title: Her Man
Character: Swede
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Slapjack Simms
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and disquiets her by his primitive nature. He arrives to find his partners, Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry, befuddled by a trio of no-gooders: Voorhees, the U. S. marshal, Judge Stillman, and McNamara, a politician. Their racket is to cloud title to the various mine claims, eject the miners, and make McNamara owner of the disputed properties.
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Under Montana Skies
Title: Under Montana Skies
Character: Sunshine
Released: September 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Hicks
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Tjaden
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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King of Jazz
Title: King of Jazz
Character: Automobile Owner ('Springtime') / Rear End of Horse / Charles
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.
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Troopers Three
Title: Troopers Three
Character: 'Sunny'
Released: February 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best. When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Heine
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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One Hysterical Night
Title: One Hysterical Night
Character: Robin Hood
Released: October 5, 1929
Type: Movie
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Midway Photographer (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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Riding for Fame
Title: Riding for Fame
Character: High-Pockets
Released: August 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his boss. He has to clear his name and find the real thieves.
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Strong Boy
Title: Strong Boy
Character: Slim
Released: March 3, 1929
Type: Movie
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
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King of the Rodeo
Title: King of the Rodeo
Character: Slim
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
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The Last Warning
Title: The Last Warning
Character: Tommy Wall
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
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The Chinese Parrot
Title: The Chinese Parrot
Character: Prospector
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
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Painted Ponies
Title: Painted Ponies
Character: Beanpole
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Title: Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Character: Spike Doolin
Released: April 3, 1927
Type: Movie
A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by a series of mystifying occurrences, and their relationship ultimately develops into a feud.
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The Beloved Rogue
Title: The Beloved Rogue
Character: Jehan
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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The Denver Dude
Title: The Denver Dude
Character: Slim Jones (as George Summerville)
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
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Oh, What a Kick!
Title: Oh, What a Kick!
Released: February 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Slim Summerville and Dick Sutherland fight over the pretty French girl. Then Summerville is is volunteered into No Man's Land, equipped with a pigeon in a cage, an alarm clock, and Fanny the Mule.
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The Texas Streak
Title: The Texas Streak
Character: Swede
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
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A Peaceful Riot
Title: A Peaceful Riot
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Sailor Slim Summerville saves a lady from nasty men.
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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: Slim
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Case Dismissed
Title: Case Dismissed
Released: May 26, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Rivals
Title: The Rivals
Released: December 31, 1923
Type: Movie
A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Ralston.
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A Schoolhouse Scandal
Title: A Schoolhouse Scandal
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)
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Her First Kiss
Title: Her First Kiss
Character: Chester Hardy
Released: August 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.
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It Pays to Exercise
Title: It Pays to Exercise
Character: A Flirt
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
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His Hidden Purpose
Title: His Hidden Purpose
Character: A Cop
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow. There is a genuinely funny scene where Marie is disguised as a man to go meet her boyfriend disguised as a widow, and slapstick happens which results in Chester being found in his underpants with the widow in a barn.
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Are Waitresses Safe?
Title: Are Waitresses Safe?
Character: Gang Leader Rival - Who Had Objections
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
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A Bedroom Blunder
Title: A Bedroom Blunder
Character: Counter Attendant
Released: October 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
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A Dog Catcher's Love
Title: A Dog Catcher's Love
Character: The Dog Catcher
Released: June 24, 1917
Type: Movie
The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck with women borders on the fantastic.
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Villa of the Movies
Title: Villa of the Movies
Character: Mr. Hawk - a Boarder
Released: March 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Here's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would co-star again with later, both with Fox Sunshine comedies in 1920 and a series for Universal in 1924. Glen Cavender also features...
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The Snow Cure
Title: The Snow Cure
Character: Minor Role
Released: April 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
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His Bread and Butter
Title: His Bread and Butter
Character: The Cafe Proprietor
Released: April 15, 1916
Type: Movie
After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that they're married, lest proprietor Slim Summerville fire them both. The trouble begins when both Summerville and headwaiter Bobby Dunn fall for Pierce, driving Mann into paroxysms of insane jealousy.
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Cinders of Love
Title: Cinders of Love
Character: The Police Chief
Released: February 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Title: Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Character: Striking Carpenter
Released: December 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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Saved by Wireless
Title: Saved by Wireless
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.
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Her Painted Hero
Title: Her Painted Hero
Character: A Bill Poster
Released: November 20, 1915
Type: Movie
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
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Their Social Splash
Title: Their Social Splash
Character: Harold - the Groom
Released: April 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.
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Droppington's Devilish Deed
Title: Droppington's Devilish Deed
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Droppington's Devilish Deed
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Gussle's Day of Rest
Title: Gussle's Day of Rest
Character: The Park Girl's Boyfriend
Released: March 29, 1915
Type: Movie
The disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal a lovely girl from her boyfriend.
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That Little Band Of Gold
Title: That Little Band Of Gold
Character: Waiter / Audience Member (uncredited)
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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A Bird's a Bird
Title: A Bird's a Bird
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
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Caught in a Park
Title: Caught in a Park
Character: The Boy Friend
Released: February 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl Friend, and Mack Swain as The Bartender.
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The Home Breakers
Title: The Home Breakers
Character: The Janitor
Released: February 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
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Fatty's New Role
Title: Fatty's New Role
Character: Bartender
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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Only a Farmer's Daughter
Title: Only a Farmer's Daughter
Character: The Father
Released: January 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Only a Farmer's Daughter
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Their Fatal Bumping
Title: Their Fatal Bumping
Character: The Sheriff
Released: December 24, 1914
Type: Movie
A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Keystone Kop / Guest in Restaurant (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's Magic Pants
Title: Fatty's Magic Pants
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1914
Type: Movie
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
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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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The Plumber
Title: The Plumber
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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Leading Lizzie Astray
Title: Leading Lizzie Astray
Character: Dancing Cafe Patron (uncredited)
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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Cursed by His Beauty
Title: Cursed by His Beauty
Character: 2nd Model
Released: October 31, 1914
Type: Movie
Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Title: Gentlemen of Nerve
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
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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Dough and Dynamite
Title: Dough and Dynamite
Character: Striking Baker
Released: October 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
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Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Title: Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Released: October 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
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The Anglers
Title: The Anglers
Released: October 12, 1914
Type: Movie
The Anglers
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Those Love Pangs
Title: Those Love Pangs
Character: Movie Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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Lover's Luck
Title: Lover's Luck
Character: Villager
Released: September 15, 1914
Type: Movie
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
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Those Country Kids
Title: Those Country Kids
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 Property Man
Title: The Property Man
Character: Man in Second Row Audience (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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Soldiers of Misfortune
Title: Soldiers of Misfortune
Released: July 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Soldiers of Misfortune
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Those Happy Days
Title: Those Happy Days
Character: Annoyed Neighbor
Released: July 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Those Happy Days is a 1914 Comedy short.
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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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Love and Bullets
Title: Love and Bullets
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1914
Type: Movie
Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
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Mabel's Busy Day
Title: Mabel's Busy Day
Character: Policeman
Released: June 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
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The Knockout
Title: The Knockout
Character: 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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Caught in the Rain
Title: Caught in the Rain
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1914
Type: Movie
When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.