Harry Gribbon

Harry Gribbon

Born: June 8, 1885
Died: July 28, 1961
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Harry Gribbon...

The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Title: The Golden Age of Comedy
Character: archive footage
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Wedding Yells
Title: Wedding Yells
Character: Chester Chesty
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
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Cactus Caballeros
Title: Cactus Caballeros
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
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Money on Your Life
Title: Money on Your Life
Character: Window Cleaner
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.
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Who's Crazy
Title: Who's Crazy
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man, police catch him climbing the fire escape and assume he's some kissing bandit. This leads to a visit with the police psychologist.
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Her Accidental Hero
Title: Her Accidental Hero
Character: Harry - The Professor
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring.
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The Blonde Bomber
Title: The Blonde Bomber
Character: Diner Manager
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
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Sleepless Hollow
Title: Sleepless Hollow
Character: Harry
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
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Rural Romeos
Title: Rural Romeos
Character: The Tramp
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.
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My Mummy's Arms
Title: My Mummy's Arms
Character: Harry
Released: June 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.
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Art Trouble
Title: Art Trouble
Character: Tall Painter
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.
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Corn on the Cop
Title: Corn on the Cop
Character: Tramp
Released: April 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
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Mushrooms
Title: Mushrooms
Character: Horace
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
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Suits to Nuts
Title: Suits to Nuts
Character: Lawyer
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Two incompetent lawyers attempt to protect a client accused of being a peeping Tom.
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Snug in the Jug
Title: Snug in the Jug
Character: Slug Mullins
Released: September 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Harry Daniels
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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Ma's Pride and Joy
Title: Ma's Pride and Joy
Character: Richard Vance
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
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Ride Him, Cowboy
Title: Ride Him, Cowboy
Character: Deputy Sheriff Clout
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
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High Hats and Low Brows
Title: High Hats and Low Brows
Character: Ham Hand McShelly
Released: July 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.
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Hatta Marri
Title: Hatta Marri
Character: Clarence Triplett
Released: July 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.
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Dumb Dicks
Title: Dumb Dicks
Character: Detective Harry Gribbon
Released: February 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
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The All-American Kickback
Title: The All-American Kickback
Character: Homer Bagwell
Released: November 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
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The Great Junction Hotel
Title: The Great Junction Hotel
Character: The House Detective
Released: October 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
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Ghost Parade
Title: Ghost Parade
Character: The Constable
Released: May 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
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Dance Hall Marge
Title: Dance Hall Marge
Character: James Parker
Released: January 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.
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A Hollywood Theme Song
Title: A Hollywood Theme Song
Character: Clarence Triplett
Released: December 7, 1930
Type: Movie
During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Mulligan
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
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Midnight Daddies
Title: Midnight Daddies
Character: Charlie Mason aka Charles De Maisone
Released: October 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
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The Lottery Bride
Title: The Lottery Bride
Character: Boris
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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Swell People
Title: Swell People
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
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Big Hearted
Title: Big Hearted
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, Oscar Black and his wife (Harry Gribbon and Vivien Oakland, who was billed as Vivian Oakland) move in
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Sugar Plum Papa
Title: Sugar Plum Papa
Character: Arthur
Released: February 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
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Uppercut O'Brien
Title: Uppercut O'Brien
Character: Uppercut O'Brien
Released: December 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ.
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The New Half Back
Title: The New Half Back
Character: Elmer Buckley - The New Halfback
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
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Clancy at the Bat
Title: Clancy at the Bat
Character: Speed
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Joe Casey
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
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A Hollywood Star
Title: A Hollywood Star
Character: Jack Marlowe
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.
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The Golfers
Title: The Golfers
Character: George Palooka
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Joe
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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The Bees' Buzz
Title: The Bees' Buzz
Character: Homer Ashcraft
Released: April 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
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Tide of Empire
Title: Tide of Empire
Character: O'Shea
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
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The Shakedown
Title: The Shakedown
Character: Dugan
Released: March 9, 1929
Type: Movie
The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Harry
Released: December 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Comedy Director
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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The Cameraman
Title: The Cameraman
Character: Cop
Released: September 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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Chinatown Charlie
Title: Chinatown Charlie
Character: Red Mike
Released: April 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
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The Smart Set
Title: The Smart Set
Character: Tommy's Valet
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
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Rose-Marie
Title: Rose-Marie
Character: Trooper Gray
Released: February 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
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Knockout Reilly
Title: Knockout Reilly
Character: Pat Malone
Released: April 16, 1927
Type: Movie
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
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The Tomboy
Title: The Tomboy
Character: Rugby Blood
Released: December 26, 1924
Type: Movie
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
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The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Title: The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Character: Phil McCavity
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
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One Spooky Night
Title: One Spooky Night
Character: The City Slicker
Released: January 27, 1924
Type: Movie
One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Title: Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Character: The Ribbon Clerk
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
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Inbad the Sailor
Title: Inbad the Sailor
Character: Jake's Pal
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short.
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The Dare-Devil
Title: The Dare-Devil
Character: The Movie Director
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
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The Extra Girl
Title: The Extra Girl
Character: Comedy Director
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
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Skylarking
Title: Skylarking
Character: Victor Edison
Released: September 8, 1923
Type: Movie
The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!
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Nip and Tuck
Title: Nip and Tuck
Character: Nip
Released: August 11, 1923
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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Her Circus Man
Title: Her Circus Man
Released: March 9, 1921
Type: Movie
A lost silent short comedy.
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Up in Mary's Attic
Title: Up in Mary's Attic
Character: Jack Langdon
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is compelled to keep the marriage a secret, but a baby adds to the complications. At first the young couple leaves it in the care of an Indian woman. Waldo Pennanink , the son of the school's headmaster, becomes suspicious of all the time the couple is spending with the Indian woman and the baby.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: The Rustic Sweetheart
Released: April 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
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Hearts and Flowers
Title: Hearts and Flowers
Character: Unwanted Visitor
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Title: Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Character: German Guard
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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Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Title: Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Character: Rip - the Tailor
Released: February 9, 1919
Type: Movie
Comedy Short
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The King of the Kitchen
Title: The King of the Kitchen
Character: The Chef
Released: October 30, 1918
Type: Movie
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Did She Do Wrong?
Title: Did She Do Wrong?
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
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Caught with the Goods
Title: Caught with the Goods
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
Caught With The Goods (1917) in a jealousy comedy starring Harry Gribbon, Alice Jorgens, and Joseph Callahan.
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A Social Cub
Title: A Social Cub
Character: The Man of the Hour
Released: July 16, 1916
Type: Movie
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson
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A Dash of Courage
Title: A Dash of Courage
Character: Silk Hat Charley - Gentleman Crook
Released: May 7, 1916
Type: Movie
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.
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Ye Olden Grafter
Title: Ye Olden Grafter
Character: The Gentleman Flirt
Released: February 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Title: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Character: Hula Show Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Title: Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Character: Hubby
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
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One Cylinder Love
Title: One Cylinder Love
Character: The Bachelor
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.