Slim Summerville

Born: 1892-07-09

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.


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The Front Page

as Pincus
Released: 1931-04-04

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused...

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Jesse James

as Jailer
Released: 1939-01-14

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...

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All Quiet on the Western Front

as Tjaden
Released: 1930-04-29

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to...

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Tobacco Road

as Henry Peabody
Released: 1941-02-20

Shiftless 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)
Released: 1914-12-21

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large...

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The Property Man

as Man in Second Row Audience (uncredited)
Released: 1914-08-01

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who...

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Bride by Mistake

as Samuel
Released: 1944-07-26

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic...

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Mabel's Busy Day

as Policeman
Released: 1914-06-13

Mabel 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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Gentlemen of Nerve

as Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1914-10-29

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 Hoodlum Saint

as Eel
Released: 1946-04-04

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that...

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Laughing Gas

as Patient
Released: 1914-07-09

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much...

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Those Love Pangs

as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1914-10-10

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

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Dough and Dynamite

as Striking Baker
Released: 1914-10-26

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the...

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King of Jazz

as Automobile Owner ('Springtime') / Rear End of Horse / Charles
Released: 1930-04-20

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most...

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The Country Doctor

as Constable Jim Ogden
Released: 1936-03-12

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he...

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Are Waitresses Safe?

as Gang Leader Rival - Who Had Objections
Released: 1917-11-18

Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo...

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Western Union

as Herman, called "Cookie"
Released: 1941-02-21

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he...

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The Bad Sister

as Sam
Released: 1931-03-29

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's...

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Caught in the Rain

as Cop (uncredited)
Released: 1914-05-04

When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up...

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Life Begins at Forty

as T. Watterson Meriwether
Released: 1935-03-22

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...

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Out All Night

as Ronald Colgate
Released: 1933-04-08

A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.

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Anne of Windy Poplars

as Jabez Monkman
Released: 1940-06-28

Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job...

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One Hysterical Night

as Robin Hood
Released: 1929-10-05

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as...

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Gold Rush Maisie

as Fred Gubbins
Released: 1940-07-26

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Homer Busby
Released: 1938-03-18

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show...

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Many a Slip

as Hopkins
Released: 1931-03-02

Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.

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The Chinese Parrot

as Prospector
Released: 1927-10-23

The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all...

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Hey! Hey! Cowboy

as Spike Doolin
Released: 1927-04-03

A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is...

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Charlie Chan in Reno

as Sheriff Tombstone Fletcher
Released: 1939-06-16

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...

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Winner Take All

as Mike Muldoon
Released: 1939-03-29

When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him;...

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Their Big Moment

as Bill Ambrose (as 'Slim' Summerville)
Released: 1934-08-17

Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.

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The Knockout

as Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1914-06-11

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees,...

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Off to the Races

as Uncle George
Released: 1937-02-05

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family...

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Fifty Roads to Town

as Ed Henry
Released: 1937-06-03

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on...

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Captain January

as Captain Nazro
Released: 1936-04-17

A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents...

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The Last Warning

as Tommy Wall
Released: 1928-12-25

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of...

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See America Thirst

as Slim
Released: 1930-11-23

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

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A Dog Catcher's Love

as The Dog Catcher
Released: 1917-06-24

The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his...

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The Valley of Vanishing Men

as Missouri Benson
Released: 1942-12-17

Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.

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Lover's Luck

as Villager
Released: 1914-09-15

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.

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Her First Mate

as John Horner
Released: 1933-08-03

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

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Fatty and the Broadway Stars

as Striking Carpenter
Released: 1915-12-15

Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty...

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Way Down East

as Constable Seth Holcomb
Released: 1935-10-25

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...

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The Unexpected Father

as Jasper Jones
Released: 1932-01-03

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly...

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Troopers Three

as 'Sunny'
Released: 1930-02-23

Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny',...

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Sailor's Holiday

as Midway Photographer (uncredited)
Released: 1929-09-14

Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by...

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Up the River

as Slim Nelson
Released: 1938-12-09

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison...

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Air Mail

as 'Slim' McCune
Released: 1932-11-03

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather...

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Uncle Joe

as Joe Butterfield
Released: 1941-10-18

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her...

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Riding for Fame

as High-Pockets
Released: 1929-08-19

A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from...

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Highway West

as Gramps Abbott
Released: 1941-08-07

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

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Swing in the Saddle

as Northup 'Slim' Bayliss
Released: 1944-07-30

In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret...

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Tom Brown of Culver

as Elmer (Slim) Whitman
Released: 1932-06-30

Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.

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Five of a Kind

as Constable Jim Ogden
Released: 1938-10-14

Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

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Under Montana Skies

as Sunshine
Released: 1930-09-09

Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show....

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They Just Had to Get Married

as Sam Sutton
Released: 1933-01-05

Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they...

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Can This Be Dixie?

as Robert E. Lee Gurgle
Released: 1936-11-13

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an...

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That Little Band Of Gold

as Waiter / Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: 1915-03-14

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their...

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Cinders of Love

as The Police Chief
Released: 1916-02-26

Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Fortune Friendly
Released: 1935-07-05

A 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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Henry Goes Arizona

as Sheriff Parton
Released: 1939-12-08

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

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Heaven on Earth

as Merchant
Released: 1931-11-27

A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father,...

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Strong Boy

as Slim
Released: 1929-03-03

"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the...

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His Bread and Butter

as The Cafe Proprietor
Released: 1916-04-15

After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that...

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The Beloved Rogue

as Jehan
Released: 1927-03-12

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an...

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Submarine Patrol

as Ellsworth 'Spuds' Fickett, cook
Released: 1938-11-25

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...

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Villa of the Movies

as Mr. Hawk - a Boarder
Released: 1917-03-04

Here's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would...

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The Texas Streak

as Swede
Released: 1926-09-26

Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun...

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Free Love

as Gas Inspector
Released: 1930-12-01

A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to...

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Pepper

as Uncle Ben Jolly
Released: 1936-08-08

Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to...

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Miss Polly

as Slim Wilkins
Released: 1941-11-14

A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity...

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The Spoilers

as Slapjack Simms
Released: 1930-09-20

On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is...

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I'm from Arkansas

as Juniper Jenkins
Released: 1944-10-31

A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.

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The Plumber

as uncredited
Released: 1914-12-09

This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing...

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The Road Back

as Tjaden
Released: 1937-06-01

After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel...

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Painted Ponies

as Beanpole
Released: 1927-09-25

A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl...

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King of the Rodeo

as Slim
Released: 1929-01-06

A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.

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Love Birds

as Henry Whipple
Released: 1934-05-04

ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the...

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A Bedroom Blunder

as Counter Attendant
Released: 1917-10-07

A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of...

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Tiger Rose

as Heine
Released: 1929-12-21

A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.

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Love Is News

as Judge Hart
Released: 1937-02-26

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...

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Fatty's Magic Pants

as Cop (uncredited)
Released: 1914-12-13

'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be...

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Her Man

as Swede
Released: 1930-09-21

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

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Sing Me a Song of Texas

as Happy
Released: 1945-02-08

The two nieces of the deceased Charley Bronson arrive to learn that an unknown judge will...

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Puddin' Head

as Uncle Lem Goober
Released: 1941-06-25

On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president...

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Ambrose's First Falsehood

as Café Patron
Released: 1914-12-12

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's...

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Their Social Splash

as Harold - the Groom
Released: 1915-04-26

Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked...

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Kentucky Moonshine

as Hank Hatfield
Released: 1938-05-20

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

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Reunion

as Jim Ogden
Released: 1936-11-20

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought...

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Niagara Falls

as Sam Sawyer
Released: 1941-10-17

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

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Racing Youth

as Slim
Released: 1932-01-26

A young man is mistaken for his boss.

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The Denver Dude

as Slim Jones (as George Summerville)
Released: 1927-02-13

A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to...

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Happy Times and Jolly Moments

as (archive footage)
Released: 1943-01-01

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

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The Snow Cure

as Minor Role
Released: 1916-04-22

The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.

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White Fang

as Slats Magee
Released: 1936-07-17

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is...

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Little Accident

as Hicks
Released: 1930-08-03

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

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Gussle's Day of Rest

as The Park Girl's Boyfriend
Released: 1915-03-29

The disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal...

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His Hidden Purpose

as A Cop
Released: 1918-01-27

The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her...

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Her Painted Hero

as A Bill Poster
Released: 1915-11-20

A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill...

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A Bird's a Bird

as uncredited
Released: 1915-02-08

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.

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Those Country Kids

as uncredited
Released: 1914-08-19

Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and...

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The Home Breakers

as The Janitor
Released: 1915-02-01

Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.

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Cursed by His Beauty

as 2nd Model
Released: 1914-10-31

Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a...

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Horse Play

as Slim Perkins
Released: 1933-06-01

Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and...

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Fatty's New Role

as Bartender
Released: 1915-02-01

Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.

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Leading Lizzie Astray

as Dancing Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1914-11-30

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

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The Rivals

as uncredited
Released: 1923-12-31

A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther...

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