
Birthday:
01-25-1890
Deathday:
01-12-1970 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
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Are Waitresses Safe?
Act like A Steady Customer
event1917 star_border 5
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Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
Dangers of a Bride
Act like The Station Agent
event1917
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Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.
Crazy to Act
Act like Screen Villain
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Smile Please
Act like Dudley Somerset - Otto's Rival
event1924 star_border 5
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Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her...
Scarem Much
Act like Bert Bermuda - the Rival
event1924
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Scarem Much is a 1924 comedy short.
His New Mamma
Act like The Heiress's Guardian
event1924 star_border 4.6
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The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where he sees dad's fiancée with another man. The lad and his lassie follow the woman and try to prevent her from marrying yet another rich man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
The Raspberry Romance
Act like Dick Seymour - Lawyer
event1925
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The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.
The Wild Goose Chaser
Act like Attorney Harold Raskall
event1925 star_border 3
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A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
Figures Do Lie
Act like Hamond Egg
event1928
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A comedy short with Frank Alexander, Jack Cooper & Violet Palmer from the J.R. Bray Studios.
Danger Ahead
Act like Relentless Rudolph
event1926 star_border 5
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Greedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhile, Hairbreadth Harry observes the whole scene, and he hides the money for Belinda. But while Rudolph keeps Harry and Belinda occupied, his henchmen are already going about the job of stealing the money.
Raisin' Trouble
Act like The Husband
event1926
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This silent comedy short stars Jack Cooper--not to be confused with the child actor, Jackie Cooper. Cooper and his friend are making a batch of homemade beer--something illegal during the days of Prohibition. However, the bottles are poorly made so Jack has to get some more. Later, after the new bottles arrive, the cops come to the door.
Taxi Spooks
Act like Dan the Taxi Man
event1929 star_border 6
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Jack Cooper has a taxi inspector on his heels, and later confuses the inspector's wife for a theater automaton. Each section is highlighted by a major set piece of a gag and they are well done.
Daily Dozens
Act like The Janitor
event1926
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The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert Tansey. Producer Billy West was himself a silent film comedian, and was the best-known and most successful Charlie Chaplin imitator.
When Summer Comes
Act like The Paleface
event1922
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Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
The Hollywood Kid
Act like The Cameraman
event1924 star_border 5.3
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A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Midnight Daddies
Act like Lord Rumsberry - Modiste Shop Owner
event1930
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Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Taxi for Two
Act like Dan Doolittle
event1928
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Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan is asked by the boss to drive Dolly to the taxi depot, Dan believes he can make his millions instead by buying a cab and starting his own taxi company. Interactions with Dolly's visiting brother - a hosiery salesman - who Dan mistakenly believes is Dolly's boyfriend, a pair of inflatable legs, and an angry foreman who was fired because of Dan's mistakes in the garage lead to one misadventure after another for Dan.
Gymnasium Jim
Act like Man in Top Hat
event1922 star_border 4.5
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Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
The Fatal Glass of Beer
Act like Officer (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.9
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The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
The Campus Vamp
Act like Handyman
event1928 star_border 5
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Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
The Rodeo
Act like Helpful Motorist
event1929
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The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
An All American Toothache
Act like (uncredited)
event1936
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Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
The Heart Snatcher
event1920 star_border 5.8
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A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
Picking Peaches
Act like Beauty Contest Emcee
event1924 star_border 4.2
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A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
A Schoolhouse Scandal
event1919
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A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)
The Duck Hunter
Act like Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
event1922
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A 1922 comedy short.
Mooching Through Georgia
Act like Confederate Soldier
event1939 star_border 6
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Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
The Yellow Dog Catcher
Act like The Dogcatcher
event1919
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The misadventures of a dog catcher
General Spanky
Act like Bit
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Act like Charlie Horse
event1924
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Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Flip Flops
Act like Welland Strong - the Rival
event1923 star_border 5
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An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
Sunshine
event1916
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A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.
Rodeo Rhythm
Act like Joe Stegge
event1942
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Fred Scott tries to keep crooks from taking over his sister's orphanage.
A Truthful Liar
Act like The Prince
event1924
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Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle returns to his small town, fielding questions about Washington politics and his adventures. He regales them with stories that may be slightly exaggerated.
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