Chester Conklin
Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 – October 11, 1971) was an early American film comedian who started at Keystone Studios as one of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops, often paired with Mack Swain. He appeared in a series of films with Mabel Normand and worked closely with Charlie Chaplin, both in silent and sound films.
The Great Dictator
as Barber's CustomerDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid...
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Modern Times
as MechanicA bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Reporter (uncredited)After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his...
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I Married a Witch
as Party Bartender (uncredited)A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch...
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The Phantom of the Opera
as Orderly (uncredited)The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to...
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
as Pete (uncredited)A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild...
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Greed
as Popper SieppeA lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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The Palm Beach Story
as Sixth Member Ale and Quail ClubA New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife,...
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Sullivan's Travels
as Old Bum (uncredited)Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Counter Man (uncredited)As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
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Hangmen Also Die!
as Cook (uncredited)During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot,...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Old Man in SaloonA naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area,...
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Knock on Any Door
as Barber (uncredited)An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the...
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Road to Utopia
as Amateur Contestant Banjo Player (uncredited)While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had...
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
as The Husband (uncredited)A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel,...
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Caught in a Cabaret
as Waiter / Footman (uncredited)Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He...
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The Wizard of Oz
as uncreditedA farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Hail the Conquering Hero
as Western Union Man (uncredited)Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action,...
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Newsboy (uncredited)Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on...
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Tango Tangles
as Guest in Police CostumeIn a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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Never a Dull Moment
as Albert (uncredited)Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Mr. Whoozis (uncredited)A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large...
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Betrayal from the East
as (uncredited)A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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Making a Living
as Policeman / Bum (uncredited)A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is...
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The Masquerader
as Film actorCharlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly...
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Springtime in the Sierras
as Old-TimerJean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself...
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My Friend Irma
as Gypsy Tea Room Waiter (uncredited)Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love...
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Private Hell 36
as Murdered Man in Elevator (uncredited)In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills...
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Between Showers
as PolicemanMr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the...
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Mabel at the Wheel
as Mabel's Father (uncredited)A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides...
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Zenobia
as FarmerA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming...
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The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Ben WebberAt a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of...
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Something for the Boys
as Minor Role (uncredited)The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita...
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Son of Paleface
as Bartender #2 (uncredited)Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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Twenty Minutes of Love
as PickpocketCharlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks...
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Song of Scheherazade
as SailorA beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Brewster's Millions
as Stage Doorman (uncredited)Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns...
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In Old California
as Undetermined Minor RoleBoston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss...
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Jesse James at Bay
as Town Drunk (uncredited)When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money...
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Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actor in CommissaryA young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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X Marks the Spot
as Vagrant (uncredited)A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police...
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The Virginian
as Uncle 'Pa' HugheyA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he...
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Dough and Dynamite
as JacquesPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as Officer of Death's Head HussarsBehind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of...
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The Hoodlum Saint
as Cop (uncredited)A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that...
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Little Giant
as Hotel Valet (uncredited)Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the...
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as SelfLa Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was...
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Li'l Abner
as Mayor GurgleLi'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to...
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Show of Shows
as Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see...
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Those Love Pangs
as RivalCharlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
as DrinkerA painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy...
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Shakedown
as Chet (uncredited)Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the...
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Two Sisters from Boston
as Street Cleaner (uncredited)Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in...
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
as PrenticeA crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in...
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The Property Man
as Man in Audience (uncredited)Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who...
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
as SundayA New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a...
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Sons of the Pioneers
as Old-TimerA singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes)...
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Gentlemen of Nerve
as Ambrose, Mabel's friendMabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's...
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Chip of the Flying U
as JoeChip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the...
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Mabel's Busy Day
as Police SergeantMabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down...
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The Remarkable Andrew
as ShopkeeperWhen Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city...
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Flat Foot Stooges
as Fire Chief KellyThe stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who...
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Henry Goes Arizona
as Bus Driver (uncredited)A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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Three Little Twirps
as The ButcherThe Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their...
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The Good Humor Man
as Bush-Cutting Gardener (uncredited)Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl...
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Merton of the Movies
as Keystone Kop (uncredited)In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth...
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Call of the Prairie
as Sandy McQueenHoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look...
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The Perils of Pauline
as Comic ChefFunloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for...
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One Foot in Heaven
as Man Crying During Baptism (uncredited)Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Around the World
as WaiterBandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl...
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Let's Dance
as Watchman (uncredited)Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as JudgeGold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands....
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Dutiful But Dumb
as Counterman (uncredited)The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent...
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A Hash House Fraud
as The Chief of PoliceA swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all...
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Midnight Lovers
as MoriarityDuring World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called...
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Can't Help Singing
as Townsman (uncredited)With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young...
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
as Messenger Boy (uncredited)Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around....
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Swing High
as SheriffTo avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
as ComedianThe star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the...
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
as WaiterA nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair...
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A Clever Dummy
as A Playful Property ManAn inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to...
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The Winding Stair
as OneryPaul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a...
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Romance on the Range
as Lynch Mob MemberFur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one...
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Song of the Wasteland
as The JailerIn Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.
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Valley of the Sun
as Soldier at Hitching RailAn Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Apache Woman
as Dick MooneyA government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of...
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Brimstone
as Drunk (uncredited)A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the...
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Honolulu Lu
as ComedianWhile in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with...
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Harmon of Michigan
as Gasoline ChuckA former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play...
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Love, Speed and Thrills
as Mr. WalrusAfter Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting...
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The Studio Murder Mystery
as George (Studio Gateman)Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his...
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A Woman of the World
as Sam PooreA European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle...
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McFadden's Flats
as Jock McTavishIrish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son...
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Every Day's a Holiday
as CabbyWhen a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest,...
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The Pleasure Buyers
as BurkeJoan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects,...
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So This Is Washington
as Inventor with Pocket Machine Gun (uncredited)Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think...
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You're Next!
as The JanitorTwo goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad...
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The Haunted House
as Mr. RackhamFour heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of...
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Rubber Heels
as Tennyson HawksA European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
as Sheriff in WesternStarting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...
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The Spellbinder
as Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending...
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The Nervous Wreck
as MortHenry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of...
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Paradise Alley
as Mr. GregoryAn elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the...
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Cabaret
as Jerry TraskGloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's...
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The Village Chestnut
as TeacherComedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
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Keystone Hotel
as Mayor CarsonThe Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents...
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Teacher's Pest
as ZebCharley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile...
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Anna Christie
as TommyA troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A...
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The Golden Stallion
as Old ManDiamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino...
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Fascinating Youth
as Chester ConklinPlayboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry...
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Riders of the Rio Grande
as BarflyA banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is...
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Stairs of Sand
as TimAn outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in...
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We're in the Navy Now
as Navy Capt. Smithers"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight...
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North of Nevada
as Lem WilliamsWhen old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead...
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Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts
as Mr. A.C. WalrusRival spies on a train cross swords over a woman and an airplane shipment in this Keystone comedy.
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Do-Re-Mi-Boom!
as The SuitorA man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music,...
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The Soft Boiled Yegg
as uncreditedSilent film directed by Harry Edwards
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Two Flaming Youths
as Sheriff Ben HoldenSheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man...
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The Galloping Fish
as JonahFreddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her...
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The Avenging Rider
as Town DrunkWrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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Say It Again
as Prince Otto VBob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess...
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Forlorn River
as Sheriff Alec Grundy"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang....
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The Lady of the Harem
as AliRafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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House of Horror
as ChesterHouse of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen....
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A Social Celebrity
as Johann HaberSmall-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated...
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Behind the Front
as ScottieDuring World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit,...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Circus OwnerThe ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take...
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Her Majesty, Love
as EmilThe wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles...
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
as Bottle ManA journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a...
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Marquis Preferred
as Mr. GrugerMenjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and...
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The Masked Bride
as Wine WaiterAn American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.
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Battling Bunyan
as A StrangerA young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the...
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The Big Noise
as John SlovalJohn Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at...
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Varsity
as Pop ConlanThe story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance...
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Piano Mooner
as Harry's PartnerHarry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he...
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The Love Thief
as uncreditedThe Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
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Sunset Pass
as WindyThis Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret...
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Cinders of Love
as The Fire ChiefChester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
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The Pullman Bride
as The Rejected SuitorThe Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and...
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Another Man's Wife
as RumrunnerVengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and...
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Double Crossed
as Desk SergeantFord Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and...
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Where Was I?
as ElmerA young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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The Love Trader
as NelsonA woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea...
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Sagebrush Law
as Horse Owner (uncredited)Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the...
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A One Night Stand
as The Property ManTwo clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
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A Kiss in a Taxi
as MaravalBebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was...
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A Bird's a Bird
as Mr. WalrusMr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
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His Hidden Purpose
as Albert Walrus - Who Lived by His WitsThe movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her...
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Fools for Luck
as Samuel HunterWealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There...
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The Home Breakers
as WalrusBankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
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His Wedding Scare
as FiremanEl and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her...
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
as SelfThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...
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This Is Your Life
as SelfThis Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...
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