Dell Henderson

Born: 1877-07-04

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film. Born in the Southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas, Dell Henderson started his acting career on the stage, but appeared in his first movie Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court already in 1908. Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D.W. Griffith since 1909 and appeared in numerous of his early shorts in Hollywood. He also acted on a less prolific basis in the movies of producer Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios. In addition to acting, Henderson also directed nearly 200 silent films between 1911 and 1928. Most of those films are forgotten or lost, but he also directed movies with silent stars like Harry Carey and Roscoe Arbuckle. Henderson also worked as a writer on numerous screenplays. After retiring from directing in 1927, Henderson turned to acting full-time and played important supporting roles in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) and as General Marmaduke Pepper in Show People (1928). The advent of sound film damaged his acting career, and he often had to play smaller roles. In the 1930s, the comedic character actor appeared on several occasions as a comic foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, W. C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. He often played somewhat pompous figures like judges, businessmen, detectives or mayors. Modern audiences will remember Henderson as annoyed hospital president Dr. Graves in The Three Stooges film Men in Black and the put-upon chaperone in the Little Rascals film Choo-Choo!. He also appeared as a Night Court Judge in Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations (1936) and as a friendly Car salesman in Leo McCarey's drama Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). Henderson ended his film career after numerous small roles in 1950. Henderson died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 79. He was married with actress Florence Lee until his death, they made several silent films together.


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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

as Extra (uncredited)
Released: 1916-09-04

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...

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Love Affair

as Cafe Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-07

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They...

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The Awful Truth

as Vance's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-21

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start...

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Make Way for Tomorrow

as Ed Weldon - Auto Salesman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-09

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed....

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Stranger on the Third Floor

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-16

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence"...

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The Major and the Minor

as Doorman (uncredited)
Released: 1942-09-16

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the...

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The Crowd

as Dick
Released: 1928-03-03

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They...

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Undercurrent

as Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1946-11-11

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of...

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Once Upon a Honeymoon

as American Attaché (uncredited)
Released: 1942-11-27

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

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Ruggles of Red Gap

as Sam
Released: 1935-03-08

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a...

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The Champ

as The Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1931-11-21

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

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Du Barry was a Lady

as Flunky
Released: 1943-08-13

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with...

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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: 1930-08-08

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich...

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It's a Gift

as Mr. Abernathy
Released: 1934-11-30

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the...

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Fifth Avenue Girl

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-22

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his...

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The Patsy

as Pa Harrington
Released: 1928-04-22

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him...

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The Lonedale Operator

as A Tramp
Released: 1911-03-23

A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and...

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-22

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham...

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Show People

as Colonel Pepper
Released: 1928-11-20

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great...

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The Missing Juror

as Train Conductor (Uncredited)
Released: 1944-11-16

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

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The Power of the Press

as Bill Johnson
Released: 1928-10-30

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his...

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Young People

as Eddie's Father
Released: 1940-08-30

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They...

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The Massacre

as In Wagon Train
Released: 1912-12-19

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

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Ramona

as Man at Burial
Released: 1910-05-23

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love...

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Main Street After Dark

as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: 1945-01-12

A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle)...

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Men in Black

as Dr. Graves (uncredited)
Released: 1934-09-28

The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years....

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The Last Drop of Water

as Undetermined Role
Released: 1911-07-26

A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by...

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Riley the Cop

as Judge Coronelli
Released: 1928-11-25

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down...

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The Texas Rangers

as Citizen (uncredited)
Released: 1936-08-28

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned...

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Steamboat Round the Bend

as Salesman
Released: 1935-09-06

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying...

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Millionaires in Prison

as Dell, Deputy Taking Vander to Prison (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-12

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick...

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3 Kids and a Queen

as Reporter
Released: 1935-10-21

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She...

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Wells Fargo

as Customer
Released: 1937-12-31

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...

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Night of Goblins

as Housekeeper
Released: 1930-10-16

Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.

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Slightly Dangerous

as Doorman (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-01

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents...

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The Unchanging Sea

as The Rescuer
Released: 1910-05-05

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young...

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Rainbow Over Broadway

as Bowers
Released: 1933-12-01

Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her...

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Men with Wings

as Chairman
Released: 1938-07-16

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,...

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Frontier Marshal

as Dave Hall
Released: 1939-07-28

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

as Benson (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-05

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony...

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We Who Are About to Die

as Blake's Associate (uncredited)
Released: 1937-01-08

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and...

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Goldie Gets Along

as Mr. Moon
Released: 1933-01-27

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

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The Notorious Sophie Lang

as House Detective
Released: 1934-07-20

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful,...

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Wrong Again

as Painting owner
Released: 1929-02-23

Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear...

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The Girl of the Golden West

as Stagecoach Passenger
Released: 1938-03-18

A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.

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Over Silent Paths

as The Wanderer
Released: 1910-05-15

In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young...

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The Mystery Man

as Mr. Clark, Hotel Manager
Released: 1935-02-12

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating...

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The Sins of the Children

as Ted Baldwin
Released: 1930-06-27

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier...

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The Great Morgan

as Film Character (uncredited)
Released: 1945-01-01

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does...

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The Usurer

as First Mover
Released: 1910-08-15

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

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For His Son

as Dopokoke Factory Employee (uncredited)
Released: 1912-01-21

A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called...

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Getting Gertie's Garter

as Barry Scott
Released: 1927-02-28

Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives...

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Free Eats

as Mr. Moran
Released: 1932-02-13

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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Help! Help!

as Office Worker
Released: 1912-04-10

A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND...

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Little Big Shot

as Policeman
Released: 1935-09-07

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

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The Primal Call

as The Creditor
Released: 1911-06-21

A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a...

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You're Telling Me!

as Mayor (as Del Henderson)
Released: 1934-04-06

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only...

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Artists & Models

as Lord (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-04

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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His Trust

as Col. Frazier
Released: 1911-01-16

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of...

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The Chump Takes a Bump

as Elias J. Smart
Released: 1939-05-05

At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.

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The Brave Hunter

as The Brave Hunter's Rival
Released: 1912-04-21

Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover....

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In the Border States

as Union Officer
Released: 1910-06-13

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he...

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The Sunbeam

as The Bachelor
Released: 1912-02-26

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour...

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His Trust Fulfilled

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-18

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's...

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The Mender of Nets

as The Rival's Brother
Released: 1912-02-15

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an...

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Haunted at Midnight

as Housekeeper
Released: 1931-05-21

Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". ...

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The Grand Bounce

as Harry Briggs (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-22

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have...

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Helen's Marriage

as Friend
Released: 1912-05-22

The movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon...

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Arsène Lupin Returns

as Plainclothes Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1938-02-25

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the...

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Whispering Whoopee

as Mr. Henderson
Released: 1930-03-08

Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.

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Too Much Harmony

as Small Town Theatre Manager
Released: 1933-09-23

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

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Thundering Tenors

as Senator D.H. Henderson
Released: 1931-02-07

Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act,...

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Won by a Fish

as The Woman's Father
Released: 1912-04-22

Papa becomes so miserable over his bad luck as a fisherman, it causes him to reject Harry, his...

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Bottoms Up

as Lane Worthing
Released: 1934-04-12

Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda...

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A Child of the Ghetto

as The Proprietor
Released: 1910-06-06

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers...

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Chiselers of Hollywood

as uncredited
Released: 1930-12-29

Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in...

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You Can't Fool Your Wife

as Ritz Amsterdam Manager
Released: 1940-05-21

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in...

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The Broken Locket

as uncredited
Released: 1909-09-16

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal...

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The Engagement Ring

as Redmond
Released: 1912-03-10

Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich...

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Rebellious Daughters

as Mr. Stanley - First Victim
Released: 1938-07-01

Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed...

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Wilful Peggy

as uncredited
Released: 1910-08-24

Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a...

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The Adventures of Billy

as Rich Man
Released: 1911-10-18

Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up...

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Lone Cowboy

as Mr. Burton (uncredited)
Released: 1933-12-02

Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family...

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Once More, My Darling

as Hotel Clerk
Released: 1949-09-10

An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole...

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The Long Road

as Wedding Guest
Released: 1911-10-26

Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him...

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Arizona Terrors

as President McKinley
Released: 1942-01-13

A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court...

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Helping Grandma

as Henderson
Released: 1931-01-03

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The...

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The Furs

as The Husband
Released: 1912-05-12

Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along...

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The Song of the Wildwood Flute

as A Suitor
Released: 1910-11-21

Her trademarked curls hidden under a black wig, Mary Pickford stars as a wide-eyed Indian...

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Mr. Bride

as J. P. Henderson
Released: 1932-12-24

Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.

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The Lesson

as Policeman
Released: 1910-12-19

Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".

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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit

as Dick
Released: 1912-08-14

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.

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The Making of a Man

as Leading Man
Released: 1911-10-04

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She...

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The Speed Demon

as Racing Official
Released: 1912-07-14

An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.

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Newly Rich

as Director
Released: 1931-07-02

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing...

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That Chink at Golden Gulch

as Gentleman Jim Dandy
Released: 1910-10-10

In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his...

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The Modern Prodigal

as At Post Office
Released: 1910-08-28

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires,...

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A Gold Necklace

as In Cafe
Released: 1910-10-06

Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her...

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The Clinging Vine

as B. Harvey Doolittle
Released: 1926-09-06

When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an...

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Little Orvie

as Mr. Brown
Released: 1940-03-11

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to...

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Diamond Jim

as Gambler
Released: 1935-09-01

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

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Thunder in the Night

as Ambassador - Party Guest
Released: 1935-09-16

Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet....

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Hitch Hike Lady

as Williams
Released: 1935-12-28

Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to...

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The Daring Young Man

as Mayor
Released: 1935-07-17

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...

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Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

as uncredited
Released: 1931-05-02

A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he...

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Fast Work

as Old Faithful
Released: 1930-06-28

Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by...

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Hit the Deck

as Admiral
Released: 1929-12-25

A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

as House Manager
Released: 1934-10-28

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew,...

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The Baron

as The Baron / A Waiter
Released: 1911-08-30

A Mack Sennett comedy short for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The...

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Muggsy Becomes a Hero

as A Tramp
Released: 1910-09-01

Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is...

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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

as The Masque
Released: 1933-07-13

When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only...

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A Plain Song

as The Manager
Released: 1910-11-28

Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing...

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When a Man Loves

as Mr. Bach
Released: 1911-01-05

Mr. Bach, a wealthy man, visits the scenes of his boyhood days in his auto and meets farmer...

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Choo-Choo!

as Mr. Henderson
Released: 1932-05-07

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

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Hot Stuff

as Cigar Drummer
Released: 1912-03-21

Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides...

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Is Everybody Happy?

as uncredited
Released: 1928-09-29

Is Everybody Happy? is a silent movie short.

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The Two Brothers

as Manuel
Released: 1910-05-12

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel....

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Skip the Maloo!

as Mr. Benson
Released: 1931-09-03

Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and...

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On Your Guard

as Detective Calvin Carter - aka O'Hara
Released: 1933-01-31

An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in...

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All Teed Up

as Judge Quirt
Released: 1930-04-16

Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.

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The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary

as Aunt Mary's Sweetheart
Released: 1916-03-15

The first time that Jack was threatened with expulsion from college his Aunt Mary was much...

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Hot Tip

as Sheriff
Released: 1935-08-20

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing...

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Looser Than Loose

as Mr. Henderson
Released: 1930-11-15

Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.

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Something Simple

as Tanhauser
Released: 1934-09-08

Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a...

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Slightly Static

as Mr. Campbell (as Del Henderson)
Released: 1935-09-07

Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.

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In Walked Charley

as Delbert Henderson
Released: 1932-04-22

Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic.

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