
Birthday:
08-18-1874
Deathday:
05-16-1939 (64 years)
Birthplace:
Port Huron, Michigan, USA
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Young April
Act like Hans (as Baldy Belmont)
event1926 star_border 9
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Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Lady Killer
event1933 star_border 6.7
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An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
The Joke on Yellentown
Act like Ike of the Bar X Ranch
event1914
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The new minister en route to a new western town to preach loses one of his suitcases containing his clerical robes. It is found on the road by Pete and Ike, cowboys of the Bar X Ranch, who decide to play a huge joke on the boys of their town.
Pearl's Dilemma
Act like Tony
event1913
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Pearl mistakes a janitor for a member of the Black Hand.
Derby Day
event1922
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Very hungry Monty chases a garbage truck all around town to retrieve a box lunch thrown away by a picky young lady.
The Hall-Room Girls
Act like Joe
event1913 star_border 5
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Pearl White & Chester Barnett want to go on a date and have nothing to wear, so they borrow some clothes....
The Mystery Man
event1923
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An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his girlfriend's father. Along the way, absurd things happen like he's tricked into trailing a cow and he enters a cross-country foot race.
Back to the Kitchen
Act like The Count
event1914
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The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes on their lovemaking and rudely separates them. Following an idea which he worked on during a visit to New York, Pa writes to a Frenchman, a lawyer there, and tells him he will marry his daughter to a count the lawyer will provide. The lawyer accordingly looks up an Italian cook, decks him out with a red sash, etc., and sends him west for the easy money.
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Act like Von Tirpitz
event1919 star_border 5.3
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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.
Don't Weaken!
Act like Reilly's Daughter's Beau
event1920 star_border 5.5
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A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
No Children
Act like Smitty's Father
event1929
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Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
Hearts and Flowers
Act like Piccolo Player / Minister
event1919 star_border 5.2
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A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
A Clever Dummy
Act like Bald Husband in Audience
event1917 star_border 5
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An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
Down on the Farm
Act like The Minister
event1920 star_border 5.5
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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.
The Dentist
Act like Mr. Benford - Man Hit by a Golf Ball
event1932 star_border 5.9
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An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
The Sock Exchange
Act like Father
event1928
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Bobby Vernon must contend with an angry Eddie Baker in this funny Al Christie production.
Where Is My Wife?
event1921
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Lovable buffoon Monty Banks tries to relax, but ultimately spends his day worrying about who is keeping company with his wife.
Trailin' West
Act like Old Man (uncredited)
event1936
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A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
Wife and Auto Trouble
Act like The Wife's Brother
event1916 star_border 5
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A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
Will Power
Act like Pearl’s Pa
event1913 star_border 5
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Chester is Pearl's sweetheart. Her father dislikes Chester. He reads in a book of the great superiority of mind over matter, by the proper exercise of the will and determines to try it on Chester. This he does and wills that Chester leave his house. In the middle of a conversation with Pearl, Chester suddenly rushes from the room. This state of affairs continues on and off, until Pearl by accident came across the book and understands her beau's strange actions. The next time Chester calls, Pa again wills that he go, but Pearl wills that he remain and Chester is kept running in and out of the house until Pearl's superior and stronger will wins and he remains. Pa sinks exhausted and consents to allowing Chester's attentions to Pearl
Dollars and Sense
Act like Hetty's Sweetheart
event1916
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A country girl and a foppish Englishman are to inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided: The two must get married, and if one refuses, then the other gets the entire estate. The girl schemes with her twin brother to trick the Englishman out of his part of the inheritance. The girl's corn-fed crush helps out, while the twins' father dreams of being force-fed dog sausage.
A Sanitarium Scandal
event1917
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The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart is in need of repairs and her nephew (Earle Rodney) is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beauties) while having to deal with the arrival of his own fiancée (Myrtle Lind) and her parents (the formidable Blanche Payson and Baldy Belmont) who between them provide most of what few laughs there are and a sheriff (Fritz Schade) with a debt to collect.
The Black Pearl
Act like Wiggenbottom
event1928
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A pearl stolen from an Indian idol results in nothing but trouble for its owner. After he receives death threats by note pinned to a dagger, he decides to gather his relatives in his old mansion for a reading of his will. Unfortunately, the family members are being mysteriously bumped off one by one. The butler and an heiress set out to discover what's going on.
The Phantom of the Opera
Act like Stage Manager (uncredited)
event1925 star_border 7.1
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The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Blondes by Choice
Act like Everett Hollingsworth
event1927
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Bonnie and Cliff meet cute when she gives him a lift after his car has broken down. Turns out she’s getting ready to open a beauty parlor and bleaches her hair platinum blonde to drum up business much to the chagrin of a local woman’s group. However, when Cliff’s wealthy mother invites Bonnie to be guest of honor at her yacht party things turn around both business and personally for the pair.
Pearl As A Clairvoyant
Act like Jo
event1913
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Released as a split reel along with the comedy Almost a Winner (1913)
Up Romance Road
Act like Thomas Millbanke
event1918
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An engaged couple, whose two fathers are millionaire ship owners, is determined to put a little life in their engagement by writing a threatening letter.
Prowlers of the Night
Act like Sheriff Brandon
event1926
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Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.
Dog Gone It
event1926
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Walter Lantz as himself Baldy Belmont as the old man and Pete the pup as himself.
A Lucky Disappointment
Act like Mr. Fairley
event1914
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Hoping to elope, farmer's daughter Myrtle Fairley and her beau Jack Holt are forced to return home after finding the minister not at home. Upon arrival they discover a pair of incompetent safe crackers trying to force Mr. Fairley to give up his money, leading to a tense resolution.
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