
Birthday:
09-07-1881
Deathday:
05-15-1958 (76 years)
Birthplace:
White Clay Creek Hundred, Delaware, USA
Biography
Born Hampton Price Ruth on 7 September 1881 near Christiana, Delaware.
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His Favorite Pastime
Act like Drinker with Moustache
event1914 star_border 5.2
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A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
A Film Johnnie
Act like Lead Actor (uncredited)
event1914 star_border 5.4
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The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Act like Tall Banks Secretary Searching for Tillie (uncredited)
event1914 star_border 6.1
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A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
The Soapsuds Lady
Story
event1926
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The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
A Simple Sap
Director
event1928 star_border 5
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A bumbling grocery-store employee must deal with such job-related problems as a conniving boss, unruly customers, a baby alligator and an escaped lunatic, all of which culminates in a wild melee involving hurled cakes, pies, buckets of jam and bags of flour.
Midnight Daddies
Writer
event1930
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Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Sugar Plum Papa
Screenplay
event1930
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Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Scotch
Writer
event1930
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Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Air Eagles
Writer
event1931 star_border 5
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Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
She Loved Him Plenty
Director
event1918 star_border 5
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“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
A Bedroom Blunder
Director
event1917 star_border 5
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A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
Defenders of the Law
Writer
event1931 star_border 6
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A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
Just a Good Guy
Director
event1924
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A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
An International Sneak
Director
event1917
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A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.
Sheriff Nell's Tussle
Story
event1918
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A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent, the while his confederates crack the safe and make off with the town's wealth. Nell, with her faithful but brainless lover, journeys to the city in pursuit of the loot and the looter
Kiss Me Quick
Director
event1920
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Kipling had a prevision of this bird, when he wrote that famous line "HE'S A INDIA-RUBBER IDOT ON A SPREE!" Silent comedy short starring Clyde Cook.
The Mystery Train
Story
event1931 star_border 4.4
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A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
That Night
Director
event1917
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There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.
The Thief of Bagdad
Special Effects
event1924 star_border 7.3
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A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
A Truthful Liar
Director
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.
Are Waitresses Safe?
Director
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.
The Invisible Fear
Story
event1921
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A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances.
The Bees' Buzz
Writer
event1929 star_border 4
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Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
Good-bye Love
Writer
event1933 star_border 5.5
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A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
The Bookworm Turns
Production Manager
event1917 star_border 5
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At the start of his career Harry Depp appeared often in short comedies, and was employed by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Company in 1916-17. Very little information is available on The Bookworm Turns but, as Depp was particularly well-known for appearing in movies that required him to don female clothing, we might expect to see him in drag at some point in this one.
Blondes by Choice
Director
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.
Her Nature Dance
Assistant Production Manager
event1917
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An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.
It Pays to Exercise
Co-Director
event1918
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short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
The Telephone Belle
Assistant Production Manager
event1917
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early comedy short by Triangle Film Corporation
A Strange Adventure
Director
event1932 star_border 5
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A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
Transcontinental Limited
Writer
event1926 star_border 6
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War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some army mates hatch a plot. For the railway safe to be utilized. A rival though robs the safe and the money is taken by the pals. A train journey later involving high speed the money is needed before the rival can send the hero to prison.
The Grab Bag Bride
Assistant Production Manager
event1917 star_border 6
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A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but the husky young man who is supposed to be Arbuckle is pretty much of a nullity. Al is a money-hungry villain, up to no good and achieving no good end.
The Prince of Broadway
Supervisor of Production Resources
event1926
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"The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he is through. His sweetheart, actress Nancy Lee rescues him from the gutter and asks her admirer, Wade Turner to take him to his ranch to get back in shape. Wade, jealous of George, tells his foreman, Buck Marshall, to hinder George's comeback. Wade’s neighbor, former champ Jim Jeffries offers to help George get back into condition. Trying for the advantage Wade tells Nancy that George is not training, but when she goes out to the ranch, she uncovers the conspiracy. George regains the championship and wins Nancy's hand.
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