Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Born: January 10, 1886
Died: October 11, 1971
in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA

Movies for Chester Conklin...

A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Title: A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Character: Old Man in Saloon
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
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Paradise Alley
Title: Paradise Alley
Character: Mr. Gregory
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: Movie
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of Hollywood magic!
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Apache Woman
Title: Apache Woman
Character: Dick Mooney
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.
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The Beast with a Million Eyes
Title: The Beast with a Million Eyes
Character: Ben Webber
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their eyes and control their actions.
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Private Hell 36
Title: Private Hell 36
Character: Murdered Man in Elevator (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1954
Type: Movie
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
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Title: Doc Corkle
Character: Grandfather Corkle
Released: October 5, 1952
Type: TV
Doc Corkle is an American Television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC on Sunday nights for three weeks from October 5 to October 19, 1952. The show's sponsor, Reynolds Metals, was so disappointed with the program that it was canceled and replaced by Mr. Peepers.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Son of Paleface
Title: Son of Paleface
Character: Bartender #2 (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Character: Counter Man (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
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Let's Dance
Title: Let's Dance
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Chet (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Never a Dull Moment
Title: Never a Dull Moment
Character: Albert (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Title: Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Character: Prentice
Released: June 4, 1950
Type: Movie
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
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The Good Humor Man
Title: The Good Humor Man
Character: Bush-Cutting Gardener (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
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The Golden Stallion
Title: The Golden Stallion
Character: Old Man
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mare. One of the smugglers is killed when the mare runs off. The sheriff blames Trigger for the death. To keep his horse from being destroyed, Roy confesses and goes to jail. The smugglers buy Trigger and put him to work smuggling diamonds. The mare, who had earlier heard a trist with Trigger, foals Trigger, Jr. who Roy, finally out of jail, uses to help capture the smugglers.
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My Friend Irma
Title: My Friend Irma
Character: Gypsy Tea Room Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Title: The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Character: Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Merton of the Movies
Title: Merton of the Movies
Character: Keystone Kop (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1947
Type: Movie
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
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Springtime in the Sierras
Title: Springtime in the Sierras
Character: Old-Timer
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered game are kept. But he is caught, tied up, and left to freeze.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Comic Chef
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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Song of the Wasteland
Title: Song of the Wasteland
Character: The Jailer
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.
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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Cop (uncredited)
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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Road to Utopia
Title: Road to Utopia
Character: Amateur Contestant Banjo Player (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1946
Type: Movie
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Betrayal from the East
Title: Betrayal from the East
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Character: Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
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Can't Help Singing
Title: Can't Help Singing
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Something for the Boys
Title: Something for the Boys
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Title: Hail the Conquering Hero
Character: Western Union Man (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
Title: A Fig Leaf for Eve
Character: Waiter
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
Title: Goodnight, Sweetheart
Character: Bottle Man
Released: June 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Pete (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Waiter
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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So This Is Washington
Title: So This Is Washington
Character: Inventor with Pocket Machine Gun (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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Three Little Twirps
Title: Three Little Twirps
Character: The Butcher
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
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Riders of the Rio Grande
Title: Riders of the Rio Grande
Character: Barfly
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
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The Avenging Rider
Title: The Avenging Rider
Character: Town Drunk
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Sagebrush Law
Title: Sagebrush Law
Character: Horse Owner (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
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His Wedding Scare
Title: His Wedding Scare
Character: Fireman
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
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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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Piano Mooner
Title: Piano Mooner
Character: Harry's Partner
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Vagrant (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Party Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Old-Timer
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Undetermined Minor Role
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Romance on the Range
Title: Romance on the Range
Character: Lynch Mob Member
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Soldier at Hitching Rail
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Honolulu Lu
Title: Honolulu Lu
Character: Comedian
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Sullivan's Travels
Title: Sullivan's Travels
Character: Old Bum (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Man Crying During Baptism (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Town Drunk (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Harmon of Michigan
Title: Harmon of Michigan
Character: Gasoline Chuck
Released: September 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Dutiful but Dumb
Title: Dutiful but Dumb
Character: Counterman (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Mayor Gurgle
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Barber's Customer
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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You're Next!
Title: You're Next!
Character: The Janitor
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Joe
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.
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Teacher's Pest
Title: Teacher's Pest
Character: Zeb
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Sheriff in Western
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Sagebrush Serenade
Title: Sagebrush Serenade
Character: Pop Mason
Released: June 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her son George (Sid Coke) acquire the ranch by marrying the owner's daughter (Jean Joyce).
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Farmer
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Mutiny on the Body
Title: Mutiny on the Body
Character: Mr. Van Asther
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and relaxation.
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Flat Foot Stooges
Title: Flat Foot Stooges
Character: Fire Chief Kelly
Released: December 5, 1938
Type: Movie
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts.
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Every Day's a Holiday
Title: Every Day's a Holiday
Character: Cabby
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: Sheriff Alec Grundy
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine, much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide. "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge.
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Cinema Circus
Title: Cinema Circus
Character: Himself
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
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Call of the Prairie
Title: Call of the Prairie
Character: Sandy McQueen
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Comedian
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Mechanic
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Title: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
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Keystone Hotel
Title: Keystone Hotel
Character: Mayor Carson
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Character: Sunday
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Her Majesty, Love
Title: Her Majesty, Love
Character: Emil
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Title: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Released: June 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
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Gents of Leisure
Title: Gents of Leisure
Released: May 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
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Cleaning Up
Title: Cleaning Up
Character: Chester
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1 criminal on the "Ten Most Wanted" list.
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The Love Trader
Title: The Love Trader
Character: Nelson
Released: September 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
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Swing High
Title: Swing High
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 18, 1930
Type: Movie
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Uncle 'Pa' Hughey
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
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Stairs of Sand
Title: Stairs of Sand
Character: Tim
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Title: The Studio Murder Mystery
Character: George (Studio Gateman)
Released: June 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
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House of Horror
Title: House of Horror
Character: Chester
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Windy
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
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Marquis Preferred
Title: Marquis Preferred
Character: Mr. Gruger
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
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Taxi 13
Title: Taxi 13
Character: Angus Mactavish
Released: November 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
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The Haunted House
Title: The Haunted House
Character: Mr. Rackham
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
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Varsity
Title: Varsity
Character: Pop Conlan
Released: October 27, 1928
Type: Movie
The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times, Nov. 1928)
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Fools for Luck
Title: Fools for Luck
Character: Samuel Hunter
Released: June 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: John Sloval
Released: March 25, 1928
Type: Movie
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Circus Owner
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Judge
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
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Two Flaming Youths
Title: Two Flaming Youths
Character: Sheriff Ben Holden
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.
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Rubber Heels
Title: Rubber Heels
Character: Tennyson Hawks
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
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Cabaret
Title: Cabaret
Character: Jerry Trask
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub, is admired by Tom Westcott, detective, and Sam Roberts, a gangster with whom her brother is involved. Andy, threatened by the gang, is forced to pay off, and in a showdown in Gloria's dressing room, Andy shoots Roberts in self-defense. Gloria helps her brother to leave on a South American liner, while Tom forces Roberts' girlfriend Blanche to admit to witnessing the crime. Blanche insists that it was murder, but Tom forces her to admit that Roberts had a gun by accusing her of the killing.
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A Kiss in a Taxi
Title: A Kiss in a Taxi
Character: Maraval
Released: February 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than farce. Ginette (Daniels) is a waitress at Pierre's café. She is in love with Lucien (Douglas Gilmore) and hates getting attention from anyone else. Whenever another man tries to kiss her, she angrily starts throwing glassware. The restaurant's patrons find this amusing, and Leon Lambert (Henry Kolker) makes a bet that he will be able to kiss her. (Janiss Garza)
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McFadden's Flats
Title: McFadden's Flats
Character: Jock McTavish
Released: February 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock, meets and falls in love with McFadden's daughter Mary Ellen. McFadden, having increased his store of worldly goods, sends his daughter to a finishing school, to young Jock's dismay. McFadden also provokes frequent outbursts from McTavish, whose outlook on life is the antithesis of his own. McFadden's ambition to complete a flat building is well underway when he suddenly finds himself in financial straits; when McTavish secretly helps him out, all eventually works out well for the friends and the young lovers.
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We're in the Navy Now
Title: We're in the Navy Now
Character: Navy Capt. Smithers
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship's Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship's radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up by a French ship, which sinks a German U-Boat. When the war ends they learn that Madelyn was an operative of the U.S. Secret Service.
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The Lady of the Harem
Title: The Lady of the Harem
Character: Ali
Released: November 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
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Midnight Lovers
Title: Midnight Lovers
Character: Moriarity
Released: October 25, 1926
Type: Movie
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
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The Nervous Wreck
Title: The Nervous Wreck
Character: Mort
Released: October 9, 1926
Type: Movie
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
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The Duchess of Buffalo
Title: The Duchess of Buffalo
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: September 4, 1926
Type: Movie
An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
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Say It Again
Title: Say It Again
Character: Prince Otto V
Released: May 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly shipped back home to America. Returning to Europe, he is mistaken as a Crown Prince traveling to be married to a Princess from another country. The Princess-bride, intended for another man, is his Elena.
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A Social Celebrity
Title: A Social Celebrity
Character: Johann Haber
Released: March 29, 1926
Type: Movie
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Chester Conklin
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
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Behind the Front
Title: Behind the Front
Character: Scottie
Released: February 22, 1926
Type: Movie
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
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A Woman of the World
Title: A Woman of the World
Character: Sam Poore
Released: December 28, 1925
Type: Movie
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
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The Pleasure Buyers
Title: The Pleasure Buyers
Character: Burke
Released: December 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
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The Masked Bride
Title: The Masked Bride
Character: Wine Waiter
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.
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The Winding Stair
Title: The Winding Stair
Character: Onery
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command will be left unguarded and defenseless.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Where Was I?
Title: Where Was I?
Character: Elmer
Released: August 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Released: February 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Popper Sieppe
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Another Man's Wife
Title: Another Man's Wife
Character: Rumrunner
Released: September 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken aboard, then sinks in a collision following a fight with the captain for his wife. Stars real life husband-wife James Kirkwood, Lila Lee.
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The Fire Patrol
Title: The Fire Patrol
Character: Fireman
Released: August 14, 1924
Type: Movie
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North of Nevada
Title: North of Nevada
Character: Lem Williams
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted foreman Tom Taylor as promised. The relatives, Reginald (Taylor Graves) and his sister Marion, arrive to take over the ranch, and Tom quickly falls for the lovely Marion. The weak Reginald, on the other hand, sells his part of the property to evil Indian Joe Deerfoot, who then kidnaps Marion to get her share as well.
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Battling Bunyan
Title: Battling Bunyan
Character: A Stranger
Released: February 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
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Anna Christie
Title: Anna Christie
Character: Tommy
Released: November 24, 1923
Type: Movie
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What neither knows is that she has a secret that could cause her to lose both of them.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actor in Commissary
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Step Lively, Please
Title: Step Lively, Please
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Step Lively, Please is a 1922 silent comedy
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Title: Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Character: Officer of Death's Head Hussars
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
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It Pays to Exercise
Title: It Pays to Exercise
Character: Little Giant
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: Albert Walrus - Who Lived by His Wits
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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The Village Chestnut
Title: The Village Chestnut
Character: Teacher
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
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An International Sneak
Title: An International Sneak
Character: A Foreign Spy
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.
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A Clever Dummy
Title: A Clever Dummy
Character: A Playful Property Man
Released: July 15, 1917
Type: Movie
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
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The Pullman Bride
Title: The Pullman Bride
Character: The Rejected Suitor
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Released: December 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
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Cinders of Love
Title: Cinders of Love
Character: The Fire Chief
Released: February 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
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Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts
Title: Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts
Character: Mr. A.C. Walrus
Released: December 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Rival spies on a train cross swords over a woman and an airplane shipment in this Keystone comedy.
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Saved by Wireless
Title: Saved by Wireless
Character: The Spy's Ally
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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When Ambrose Dared Walrus
Title: When Ambrose Dared Walrus
Character: Walrus
Released: July 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walrus gets a letter from his insurance broker Mr. Cinder demanding a payment. Short on cash, Walrus decides to get his tenants' money now. Ambrose and his wife are in the middle of a domestic squabble when Walrus pays a visit, and his presence only makes things worse. Mr. Cinder visits Walrus himself, and he carelessly throws his cigarette into a trash can. After he leaves, the hotel catches on fire and the rest of the film is a thrilling five-minute race to pay off the insurance!
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The Cannon Ball
Title: The Cannon Ball
Character: The Villain
Released: June 13, 1915
Type: Movie
An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he appears to be more interested in its female workers, an explosive situation results.
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A Hash House Fraud
Title: A Hash House Fraud
Character: The Chief of Police
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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Droppington's Family Tree
Title: Droppington's Family Tree
Character: Droppington
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees hubby and chases him around, he's also chased by another performer. The son calls a clergyman, Pa saves the girl and they marry at the end.
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Do-Re-Mi-Boom!
Title: Do-Re-Mi-Boom!
Character: The Suitor
Released: April 7, 1915
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fancies he's found his true love, and chats her up. Her boyfriend arrives for his music lesson and jealously dismisses the interloper, who swipes a grinder's organ (and monkey) to help him serenade the maid. Later he follows the boyfriend to a residence hotel and plants a bomb in the man's piano. The organ-grinder is gunning for the thief, and soon the piano, bomb, monkey, thief, and pistol-packing grinder are rolling down the road to the delight of maid and lover. It's ka-boom for some and a kiss for others.
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Droppington's Devilish Deed
Title: Droppington's Devilish Deed
Character: Droppington
Released: April 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Droppington's Devilish Deed
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A One Night Stand
Title: A One Night Stand
Character: The Property Man
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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Hearts and Planets
Title: Hearts and Planets
Character: Mr. Walrus - Visible Star
Released: February 20, 1915
Type: Movie
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.
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A Bird's a Bird
Title: A Bird's a Bird
Character: Mr. Walrus
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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The Home Breakers
Title: The Home Breakers
Character: Walrus
Released: February 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
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Love, Speed and Thrills
Title: Love, Speed and Thrills
Character: Mr. Walrus
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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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Mr. Whoozis (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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How Heroes Are Made
Title: How Heroes Are Made
Character: The Boy Friend's Rival
Released: November 14, 1914
Type: Movie
It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.
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'Curses!' They Remarked
Title: 'Curses!' They Remarked
Character: Blackheart Jr.
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Title: Gentlemen of Nerve
Character: Ambrose, Mabel's friend
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: Jacques
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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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: The Love Thief
Released: October 22, 1914
Type: Movie
The Love Thief
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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: Rival
Released: October 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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The Baggage Smasher
Title: The Baggage Smasher
Character: The Baggage Smasher
Released: September 3, 1914
Type: Movie
The Baggage Smasher is a 1914 Comedy short.
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The Masquerader
Title: The Masquerader
Character: Film actor
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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Such a Cook
Title: Such a Cook
Released: August 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Such a Cook
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Title: The Face on the Barroom Floor
Character: Drinker
Released: August 10, 1914
Type: Movie
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
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The Property Man
Title: The Property Man
Character: Man in 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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Mabel's New Job
Title: Mabel's New Job
Character: Boarder
Released: July 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A lost short film starring Mabel Normand.
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Mabel's Busy Day
Title: Mabel's Busy Day
Character: Police Sergeant
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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Caught in a Cabaret
Title: Caught in a Cabaret
Character: Waiter / Footman (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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Twenty Minutes of Love
Title: Twenty Minutes of Love
Character: Pickpocket
Released: April 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
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Mabel at the Wheel
Title: Mabel at the Wheel
Character: Mabel's Father (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1914
Type: Movie
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
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Tango Tangle
Title: Tango Tangle
Character: Guest in Police Costume
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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Between Showers
Title: Between Showers
Character: Policeman
Released: February 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Title: Mabel's Strange Predicament
Character: The Husband (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: Policeman / Bum (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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Double Crossed
Title: Double Crossed
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: January 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.