Ford Sterling
Ford Sterling (born George Stitch; November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.
Alice in Wonderland
as White KingIn Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called...
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He Who Gets Slapped
as TricaudAfter a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in...
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Between Showers
as Mr. Snookie, a ThiefMr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the...
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Tango Tangles
as Band LeaderIn a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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The Knockout
as Spectator (uncredited)To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees,...
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A Film Johnnie
as Self (uncredited)The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Gus EismanGold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands....
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The Golden Age of Comedy
as archive footageA compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy,...
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Wild Oranges
as Paul HalvardMillie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as Kaiser BillBehind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of...
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A Thief Catcher
as Suspicious JohnTwo criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
as Sam OtisBroadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy...
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Hollywood
as Ford SterlingAngela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa....
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
as uncreditedJulian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their...
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Why Beaches Are Popular
as Ford SterlingThis short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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The Show Off
as Aubrey PiperA blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a...
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Black Sheep
as MatherOn an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man...
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Stage Struck
as BuckDaydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality...
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
as Actor / Onscreen VillainA young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects...
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Her Torpedoed Love
as Reginald Scuttle - the Conniving ButlerA wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets...
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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
as The VillainWhen Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her...
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Don't Weaken!
as Professor Yonson - the Dancing MasterA dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
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Bride of the Regiment
as TangyAs they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess...
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The Trouble With Wives
as Al HennesseyWilliam Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace...
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So Big
as Jacob HoogenduckAfter graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina...
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The Fall of Eve
as Mr. MackTom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr.,...
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Court House Crooks
as The District AttorneyA farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on...
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Spring Is Here
as Peter BraleyMusical about two sisters in love with the same man.
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A Bandit
as The BanditWilly is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the...
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A Muddy Romance
as The VillainTwo rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them...
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Cohen Collects a Debt
as CohenAfter second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was...
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A Life in the Balance
as The LandlordA Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
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Behind the Green Lights
as Max Schultz, German JanitorA police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked...
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The American Venus
as Hugo NilesA lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles,...
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That Little Band Of Gold
as Gassy Gotrox - TattletaleA happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their...
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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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Casey at the Bat
as O'DowdCasey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable...
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The Girl in the Show
as Ed BondellIn this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed...
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In the Clutches of the Gang
as Chief TehiezelIn the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
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Hearts and Flowers
as Orchestra LeaderA flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Everybody's Acting
as Michael PooleDoris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of...
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The Gusher
as Oil Well BuyerMabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown...
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Keystone Hotel
as Sterling, Chief of PoliceThe Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents...
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Sally
as 'Pops' ShendorffSally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In...
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The Galloping Fish
as George FitzgeraldFreddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her...
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For the Love of Mabel
as (uncredited) (unconfirmed)A presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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The Day of Faith
as Montreal SammyJane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a...
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Oh Kay!
as Shorty McGeeOn the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out...
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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
as LandlordA Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
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The Speed Kings
as PapaRace-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
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Kismet
as AmruHajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter...
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On His Wedding Day
as Krause - the BridegroomWhen some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks...
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The Headline Woman
as Hugo MeyerWhen the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her...
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An Interrupted Elopement
as uncreditedThis is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again,...
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The Spoilers
as 'Slapjack' SimmsBased on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Love and Rubbish
as Mr. FickleLove and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
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Double Crossed
as SchemerFord Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and...
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The Mistaken Masher
as GeorgeGeorgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His...
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A Fishy Affair
as PerkinsA man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the...
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The Waiters' Picnic
as Louis - the ChefLouis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The...
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Stranded in Paris
as Count PasadaAmerican shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van...
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The Strangers' Banquet
as Al NortonIn managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems...
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Hoffmeyer's Legacy
as HoffmeyerHoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy...
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A Grocery Clerk's Romance
as Grocery ClerkFord arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and...
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Wife Savers
as Tavern KeeperWhile stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel...
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Many Unhappy Returns
as C.C. aka Henry MorganFord Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In...
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Mabel’s Adventures
as The MagicianMabel poses as "Cousin Jack" in a scheme to test her two quarreling suitors who decide to take...
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The New Neighbor
as uncreditedWhen a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands;...
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as Otmar von WellingenThe wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles...
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At Coney Island
as married flirtMack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out...
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For the Love of Mike
as Herman SchultzThree men join forces to raise an adopted son.
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Chicken à la King
as Horace TrundleA married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy.
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Stolen Glory
as Captain WarnerVeteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals...
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Peeping Pete
as Neighbor's HusbandThis early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes...
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The Brass Bottle
as RapkinHorace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks...
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Drums of the Desert
as PerkinsJohn Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from...
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Cohen Saves the Flag
as Sgt. CohenCohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg...
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Safe in Jail
as The ConstableSafe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
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Her Birthday Present
as The Police ChiefTwo thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves,...
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Hide and Seek
as The Police ChiefA banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the...
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Figures Don't Lie
as 'Howdy' JonesFigures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one...
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Miss Brewster's Millions
as Ned BrewsterPolly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her...
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century...
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The Fatal Taxicab
as Egbert ThrockmortonThe Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
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Hogan's Romance Upset
as Fight SpectatorCharles Murray out romancing in the park.
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
as Keystone PerformerFatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty...
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My Lady's Lips
as SmikeA newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A...
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Some Nerve
as The HusbandSome Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
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Sporting Goods
as Mr. JordanSports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in...
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A Strong Revenge
as MeyerCobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance...
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Good and Naughty
as Bunny WestFour middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
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The Water Nymph
as Mack's FatherMabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.
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Mabel's Lovers
as Black, another suitorAt a summer resort, Mabel puts ugly bumps under her bathing suit to discourage fair-weather...
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The Road to Glory
as James AllenMay McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
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Riley and Schultze
as SchultzA constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to...
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The Woman on the Jury
as JurorThe story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but...
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Oh, Mabel Behave
as Squire PeachemSquire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem...
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Sergeant Hofmeyer
as Sgt. HofmeyerA police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.
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Love and Glory
as Emile PompaneauDuring an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and...
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