Charlie the Elephant

Charlie the Elephant


in Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Charlie, sometimes Charley or Old Charlie, (b. unknown, d. 1923) was an elephant who lived at the Universal City Zoo in Universal City, California, United States, from approximately 1914 to 1923 and appeared in scores of silent-era films. He was executed in approximately August 1923 for his attack on trainer Curley Stecker.

Movies for Charlie the Elephant...

The Brass Bottle
Title: The Brass Bottle
Character: Elephant (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
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A Monkey Hero
Title: A Monkey Hero
Character: As Himself
Released: April 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Here's a surefire number if ever there was one. Filled with innumerable original gags and laugh-getting animal stuff, it forms an offering that's good enough to bill just as heavily as the feature. You can't go wrong with a Joe Martin comedy and this is one of his best!
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A Prohibition Monkey
Title: A Prohibition Monkey
Character: Charles Bullephant
Released: September 13, 1920
Type: Movie
The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
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Monkey Stuff
Title: Monkey Stuff
Released: July 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin
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Man and Beast
Title: Man and Beast
Character: The Elephant
Released: June 25, 1917
Type: Movie
During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle spring. Nevertheless, a romance grows between Gretel von Haagan and Ned Townsend, who, to escape their families' opposition, marry and leave for the interior.
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Love Aflame
Title: Love Aflame
Character: An Elephant (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
Title: The Adventures of Kathlyn
Character: Elephant (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.