Frank Alexander

Frank Alexander

Born: May 24, 1879
Died: September 8, 1937
in Olympia, Washington, USA

Movies for Frank Alexander...

The Bargain of the Century
Title: The Bargain of the Century
Character: Elmer - Customer
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
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The Kick-Off!
Title: The Kick-Off!
Character: Large Man in Stands
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Gangsters kidnap the team's football coach in order to throw the game; Grady and Mickey try to win the game.
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Title: Catch-As Catch-Can
Character: Fat man in audience
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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Mickey's Rebellion
Title: Mickey's Rebellion
Character: Fat Man
Released: June 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
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The Shrimp
Title: The Shrimp
Character: Fat Lodger
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
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Madame Q
Title: Madame Q
Character: Fat Juror
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
An attractive young woman on trial for murder employs her feminine wiles to charm the judge and jury.
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Standing Pat
Title: Standing Pat
Released: July 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Ton O' Fun comedy produced by Larry Darmour.
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Figures Do Lie
Title: Figures Do Lie
Character: Mr. Newlywed
Released: April 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A comedy short with Frank Alexander, Jack Cooper & Violet Palmer from the J.R. Bray Studios.
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3 Missing Links
Title: 3 Missing Links
Character: Fattie
Released: December 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Albert Herman.
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How High Is Up?
Title: How High Is Up?
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
"Ton of Fun" comedy short.
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Old Tin Sides
Title: Old Tin Sides
Character: Frank
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar.
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Back Fire
Title: Back Fire
Character: Alec
Released: August 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Fat, Fatty and Fatter are seen rescuing their old Ford from the scrap wagon that is hauling it away. And then report to work, where they have a dyspeptic boss. With the help of a monkey they manage to wreck the office.
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Three Of A Kind
Title: Three Of A Kind
Character: Fattie
Released: June 12, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar.
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The Heavy Parade
Title: The Heavy Parade
Character: Fattie
Released: May 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy!
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Honeymoon Feet
Title: Honeymoon Feet
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Ton of Fun out in the desert with a mule and a lady.
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Heavy Love
Title: Heavy Love
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
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Galloping Ghosts
Title: Galloping Ghosts
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A comic frightfest featuring Ton o' Fun.
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The Perfect Clown
Title: The Perfect Clown
Character: Tiny Tott
Released: December 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
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S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
Title: S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia Pictures.
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Three Wise Goofs
Title: Three Wise Goofs
Character: Egbert
Released: October 3, 1925
Type: Movie
A heavyweight slapstick comedy with "A Ton Of Fun".
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Tailoring
Title: Tailoring
Released: September 4, 1925
Type: Movie
A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced!
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Hop to It!
Title: Hop to It!
Character: Hotel guest
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
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The Cloudhopper
Title: The Cloudhopper
Character: Holden Jack
Released: June 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
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All Out
Title: All Out
Released: May 12, 1925
Type: Movie
The Ton of Fun -- aka The Three Fatties -- go out to a Wyoming ranch, where their enormous weight is about the sum total of the jokes, as in the others in this series.
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The Dome Doctor
Title: The Dome Doctor
Character: Fuller Hulkinbulk
Released: April 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A Larry Semon comedy short.
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: Uncle Henry / Prince of Whales
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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Kid Speed
Title: Kid Speed
Character: Mr. Avery DuPoys
Released: November 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
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Her Boy Friend
Title: Her Boy Friend
Character: Slim Chance
Released: September 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
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Cheer Up
Title: Cheer Up
Released: September 27, 1924
Type: Movie
CHEER UP - starring Cliff Bowes, with Virginia Vance, Eddie Boland, and Frank Alexander. Cliff vies for Virginia's affections with Eddie, but ultimately she chooses Cliff to be her groom. The newlyweds move in to their new home, but the spurned rival makes a shambles out of the house in retaliation.
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Cyclone Jones
Title: Cyclone Jones
Character: Fatty Wirthing
Released: September 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Young cowboy Cyclone Jones falls for pretty Sylvia Billings, who with her sheep-rancher father has just come to town. However, his pursuit of Sylvia runs into some roadblocks, mainly the hostility of the local cattle ranchers to "sheepmen" like her father, whose sheep they believe ravage the range and leave it unusable for their cattle to graze on and who are determined to drive the new arrivals out of town.
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Chop Suey Louie
Title: Chop Suey Louie
Character: Shy Won Lung
Released: March 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Joe Rock short comedy, also featuring Billie Rhodes and Frank Alexander.
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Aladdin
Title: Aladdin
Released: October 16, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Ballet dancer / Wife of Man with Family
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
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The Sawmill
Title: The Sawmill
Character: Mill Owner
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
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The Bell Hop
Title: The Bell Hop
Character: A government official
Released: September 17, 1921
Type: Movie
A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
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The Fall Guy
Title: The Fall Guy
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 15, 1921
Type: Movie
Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
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The Bakery
Title: The Bakery
Character: Bakery Owner
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
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The Rent Collector
Title: The Rent Collector
Character: A thug
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
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The Suitor
Title: The Suitor
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
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The Stage Hand
Title: The Stage Hand
Character: The Stage Manager
Released: September 20, 1920
Type: Movie
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School Days
Title: School Days
Released: May 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
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The Fly-Cop
Title: The Fly-Cop
Character: The Cabaret Owner
Released: March 28, 1920
Type: Movie
Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!
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Between the Acts
Title: Between the Acts
Character: The Manager
Released: September 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.
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The Simple Life
Title: The Simple Life
Character: A Farmer
Released: August 4, 1919
Type: Movie
The Simple Life is a silent comedy short.
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The Star Boarder
Title: The Star Boarder
Character: The Warden
Released: May 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail. Exchanging clothes with a lookalike escaped prisoner, he goes back, only to find he's to be hung. Now desperate to leave again, he joins other cons in a jailbreak.
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Passing the Buck
Title: Passing the Buck
Character: The Fat Crook
Released: May 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
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Well, I'll Be
Title: Well, I'll Be
Released: April 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Larry Semon goes out west.
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Bears and Bad Men
Title: Bears and Bad Men
Character: Paw Slawson
Released: October 7, 1918
Type: Movie
Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.
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Dunces and Dangers
Title: Dunces and Dangers
Released: August 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and everything and eventually chase the pair up onto the room—where various stunts occur.
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Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs
Title: Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs
Character: Fatty
Released: July 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
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Romans and Rascals
Title: Romans and Rascals
Character: Rotund senator
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Title: By the Sad Sea Waves
Character: Bather
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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Bath Tub Perils
Title: Bath Tub Perils
Character: The Porter
Released: May 14, 1916
Type: Movie
In this classic comedy, a hotelier continues to find himself in promiscuous situations involving a newlywed bride on her honeymoon much to the chagrin of his wife.
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A Submarine Pirate
Title: A Submarine Pirate
Character: Man on Crutches (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1915
Type: Movie
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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Gussle Rivals Jonah
Title: Gussle Rivals Jonah
Character: Blonde's Boyfriend
Released: April 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy
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From Patches to Plenty
Title: From Patches to Plenty
Character: Headwaiter
Released: March 6, 1915
Type: Movie
A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...