Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Born: 1912-12-20

Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.


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The Dippy Dentist

as Messenger Boy
Released: 1920-01-25

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to...

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In This Our Life

as Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
Released: 1942-05-08

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining...

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Ghosts on the Loose

as Scruno
Released: 1943-07-30

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted"...

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Lodge Night

as Ernie
Released: 1923-07-28

This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan...

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The Buccaneers

as Ernie
Released: 1924-03-09

This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship...

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Pride of the Bowery

as Scruno
Released: 1940-12-15

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in...

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Commencement Day

as Ernie
Released: 1924-05-03

Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room...

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Haunted Spooks

as Little Boy (uncredited)
Released: 1920-03-14

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is...

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The Cobbler

as Ernie
Released: 1923-02-18

A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car...

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It's a Bear

as Ernie
Released: 1924-07-27

The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they...

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July Days

as Ernie
Released: 1923-08-26

The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual,...

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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

as Joe
Released: 1940-05-01

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who...

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Spooks Run Wild

as Scruno
Released: 1941-10-24

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

as Scruno
Released: 1942-11-20

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered....

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The 'Fraidy Cat

as Member of the Gang (uncredited)
Released: 1924-03-29

Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the...

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Fugitive from a Prison Camp

as Chuckles
Released: 1940-10-05

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into...

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Big Business

as Sunshine Sammy
Released: 1924-02-09

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets...

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Flying Wild

as Scruno
Released: 1941-03-10

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an...

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Penrod

as Herman
Released: 1922-02-20

Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the...

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Get Out and Get Under

as Small Boy (uncredited)
Released: 1920-09-26

The comic adventures of a new car owner.

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Bowery Blitzkrieg

as Scruno
Released: 1941-08-01

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and...

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The Champeen

as Sammy Johnson
Released: 1923-01-27

Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.

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Horrible Horror

as Scruno in 'Ghosts on the loose'
Released: 1986-01-01

A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.

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That Gang of Mine

as Scruno
Released: 1940-09-23

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a...

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Fast Company

as Ernie
Released: 1924-11-15

Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal...

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Dogs of War!

as Ernie
Released: 1923-07-01

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when...

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Grab the Ghost

as Servant's Child
Released: 1920-05-30

As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows...

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Scruno (archive footage)
Released: 1991-01-01

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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Seein' Things

as Ernie
Released: 1924-04-05

At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells...

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Gang War

as Gang Member (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-28

Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.

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Number, Please?

as Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)
Released: 1920-12-26

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the...

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Kid Dynamite

as Scruno Jackson
Released: 1943-02-05

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ...

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Let's Get Tough

as Scruno
Released: 1942-05-29

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by...

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The Our Gang Story

as Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)
Released: 1994-01-01

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a...

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Back Stage

as Ernie
Released: 1923-06-02

The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them...

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Derby Day

as Ernie 'Sammy'
Released: 1923-11-17

After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.

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A Pleasant Journey

as Ernie
Released: 1923-03-25

Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches...

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The Pickaninny

as Little Casino
Released: 1921-12-04

The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.

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Cradle Robbers

as Ernie
Released: 1924-06-01

The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters....

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Boys to Board

as Ernie
Released: 1923-04-07

A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up...

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Boys of the City

as Scruno
Released: 1940-07-15

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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Giants vs. Yanks

as Ernie
Released: 1923-05-12

The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an...

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Tire Trouble

as Ernie
Released: 1924-01-12

This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little...

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The Sawdust Doll

as Sambo
Released: 1919-04-20

Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the...

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The Big Show

as Booker T.
Released: 1923-02-24

The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a...

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Park Your Car

as uncredited
Released: 1920-12-19

A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with...

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A Quiet Street

as Booker T.
Released: 1922-12-30

The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind...

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Sunday Calm

as Ernie
Released: 1923-12-15

The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten...

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Run 'Em Ragged

as uncredited
Released: 1920-08-01

Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top...

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Young Sherlocks

as Ernie
Released: 1922-11-25

The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from...

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Saturday Morning

as Sorghum
Released: 1922-12-03

The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and...

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Whirl o' the West

as Sammy
Released: 1921-01-23

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

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Stage Fright

as Ernie
Released: 1923-10-20

Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The...

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One Terrible Day

as Booker T.
Released: 1922-09-09

Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing,...

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Clancy Street Boys

as Scruno
Released: 1943-04-23

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he...

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Fire Fighters

as Booker T. Bacon
Released: 1922-10-08

The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet...

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Dolly Does Her Bit

as Sambo
Released: 1918-04-29

Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she...

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Captain Kiddo

as uncredited
Released: 1917-08-05

Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her...

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Good Times

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-02-08

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1,...

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