Slim Summerville
Slim Summerville (born George Joseph Somerville; July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946) was an American film actor and director best known for his work in comedies.
All Quiet on the Western Front
as TjadenWhen a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are...
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Western Union
as Herman, called "Cookie"When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he...
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The Front Page
as PincusHildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused...
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Jesse James
as JailerAfter railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...
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Tobacco Road
as Henry PeabodyShiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Keystone Kop / Guest in Restaurant (uncredited)A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large...
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Captain January
as Captain NazroA little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents...
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Charlie Chan in Reno
as Sheriff Tombstone FletcherMary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...
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The Beloved Rogue
as JehanFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an...
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Laughing Gas
as PatientAlthough only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much...
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Air Mail
as 'Slim' McCuneA group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather...
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Dough and Dynamite
as Striking BakerPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the...
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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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The Hoodlum Saint
as EelA former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Homer BusbyRebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show...
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Those Love Pangs
as Movie Patron (uncredited)Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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King of Jazz
as Automobile Owner ('Springtime') / Rear End of Horse / CharlesMade during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most...
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Her Man
as SwedeA prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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The Last Warning
as Tommy WallA producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of...
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The Property Man
as Man in Second Row Audience (uncredited)Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who...
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Gentlemen of Nerve
as Spectator (uncredited)Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Fortune FriendlyA farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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Mabel's Busy Day
as PolicemanMabel 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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Bride by Mistake
as SamuelThe staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic...
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Caught in the Rain
as Cop (uncredited)When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up...
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Henry Goes Arizona
as Sheriff PartonA New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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Villa of the Movies
as Mr. Hawk - a BoarderHere's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would...
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The Bad Sister
as SamMarianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's...
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Highway West
as Gramps AbbottA young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Can This Be Dixie?
as Robert E. Lee GurgleA young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an...
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Uncle Joe
as Joe ButterfieldA pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her...
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Way Down East
as Constable Seth HolcombA family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...
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Strong Boy
as Slim"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the...
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Off to the Races
as Uncle GeorgeThe Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family...
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Under Montana Skies
as SunshineClay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show....
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The Country Doctor
as Constable Jim OgdenA doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he...
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Niagara Falls
as Sam SawyerThe nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Tom Brown of Culver
as Elmer (Slim) WhitmanBoy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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A Dog Catcher's Love
as The Dog CatcherThe dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his...
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Gold Rush Maisie
as Fred GubbinsMaisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet...
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Out All Night
as Ronald ColgateA "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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The Spoilers
as Slapjack SimmsOn a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is...
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Troopers Three
as 'Sunny'Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny',...
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White Fang
as Slats MageeA woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is...
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Swing in the Saddle
as Northup 'Slim' BaylissIn this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret...
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That Little Band Of Gold
as Waiter / Audience Member (uncredited)A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their...
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Miss Polly
as Slim WilkinsA small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity...
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Cursed by His Beauty
as 2nd ModelMarried ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a...
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Their Social Splash
as Harold - the GroomPretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked...
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I'm from Arkansas
as Juniper JenkinsA town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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The Road Back
as TjadenAfter the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel...
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The Chinese Parrot
as ProspectorThe plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all...
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Their Big Moment
as Bill Ambrose (as 'Slim' Summerville)Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
as Spike DoolinA longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is...
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Love Birds
as Henry WhippleZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the...
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The Plumber
as uncreditedThis Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing...
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Puddin' Head
as Uncle Lem GooberOn the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president...
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Fatty's New Role
as BartenderFatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
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Anne of Windy Poplars
as Jabez MonkmanSentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job...
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The Unexpected Father
as Jasper JonesA wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly...
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Her First Mate
as John HornerA camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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Reunion
as Jim OgdenNewspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought...
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Horse Play
as Slim PerkinsRanchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and...
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Pepper
as Uncle Ben JollyYoung Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to...
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One Hysterical Night
as Robin HoodThe scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as...
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Life Begins at Forty
as T. Watterson MeriwetherA small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...
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The Valley of Vanishing Men
as Missouri BensonProspector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
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Sing Me a Song of Texas
as HappyThe two nieces of the deceased Charley Bronson arrive to learn that an unknown judge will...
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Her Painted Hero
as A Bill PosterA stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill...
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Gussle's Day of Rest
as The Park Girl's BoyfriendThe disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal...
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Kentucky Moonshine
as Hank HatfieldThe Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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His Bread and Butter
as The Cafe ProprietorAfter arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that...
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The Denver Dude
as Slim Jones (as George Summerville)A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to...
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Love Is News
as Judge HartWhen a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...
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Heaven on Earth
as MerchantA young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father,...
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Fatty's Magic Pants
as Cop (uncredited)'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be...
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Are Waitresses Safe?
as Gang Leader Rival - Who Had ObjectionsChaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo...
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Those Country Kids
as uncreditedThose Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and...
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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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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
as Striking CarpenterFatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty...
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Leading Lizzie Astray
as Dancing Cafe Patron (uncredited)A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
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Submarine Patrol
as Ellsworth 'Spuds' Fickett, cookA naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...
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The Texas Streak
as SwedeChad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun...
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Sailor's Holiday
as Midway Photographer (uncredited)Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by...
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See America Thirst
as SlimTwo men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
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Free Love
as Gas InspectorA wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to...
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Fifty Roads to Town
as Ed HenryA man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on...
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Little Accident
as HicksOn the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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They Just Had to Get Married
as Sam SuttonMolly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they...
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Riding for Fame
as High-PocketsA champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from...
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Many a Slip
as HopkinsComedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
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Up the River
as Slim NelsonA group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison...
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Cinders of Love
as The Police ChiefChester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
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Five of a Kind
as Constable Jim OgdenRival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
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Ambrose's First Falsehood
as Café PatronAfter running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's...
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King of the Rodeo
as SlimA Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
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The Rivals
as uncreditedA comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther...
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A Bird's a Bird
as uncreditedMr. 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 A CopThe movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her...
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The Home Breakers
as The JanitorBankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
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as BeanpoleA rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl...
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A Bedroom Blunder
as Counter AttendantA henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of...
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Winner Take All
as Mike MuldoonWhen a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him;...
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