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White Wings (1923)
Character: Cop
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
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The Golf Bug (1922)
Character: N/A
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
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No Kidding (1928)
Character: N/A
Snub and Loback try to hide a baby they’re watching from their landlord.
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Gymnasium Jim (1922)
Character: Kid Ryan
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
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Smithy (1924)
Character: Worker
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
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Bashful Jim (1925)
Character: Homer Watts
Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.
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A Prodigal Bridegroom (1926)
Character: Pete - the Hired Man
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
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Mitt The Prince (1927)
Character: N/A
The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made for the Weiss Brothers) want to make a few bucks. The film begins with them doing some maintenance sort of work--with Fat on a ladder and Snub sweeping outside. When this doesn't work out, a random stranger just happens to walk up to them and offer them HIS MOTHER'S CAR and asks them to make a delivery.
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Double Trouble (1927)
Character: N/A
"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord.
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Thick and Thin (1928)
Character: N/A
Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food.
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Here Comes a Sailor (1928)
Character: N/A
Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by one they end up in the lake.
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The All-American Kickback (1931)
Character: Referee
Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
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Jailed and Bailed (1923)
Character: N/A
Tired of being constantly nagged by "Paul" and another suitor, their shared romantic interest (referred to as Paul's inamorata) purposely has herself arrested for speeding. She vows to marry whichever man is able to get her released from jail. Both men make various, often bumbling, attempts to join her in jail to facilitate her release. After both suitors successfully manage to get themselves locked up, they discover that the woman has already been freed by her father. The film concludes with the two suitors facing actual prison terms while the woman remains free.
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A Studio Rube (1922)
Character: N/A
Al attempts to sneak inside the studio to keep a date with an actress. He finally exchanges places with a dummy and lands within the walls of the studio, finds the girl and is promptly thrown out when he spoils several scenes and nearly causes a riot.
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It's a Wild Life (1918)
Character: N/A
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
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Join the Circus (1923)
Character: N/A
'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
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Heavy Seas (1923)
Character: N/A
Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
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Off His Trolley (1924)
Character: Cornelius Bauer - Motorman
Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
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Once Over (1928)
Character: Fat
A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.
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Sock and Run (1929)
Character: N/A
Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.
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Smith's Customer (1927)
Character: Fat Customer
Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
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Speed in the Gay Nineties (1932)
Character: Mayor
It's 1890. Inventor Ed Martin has long believed and has openly stated that man will someday be able to fly. As such, many people, including the mayor, believe Ed is crazy and want to have him committed. Ed plans to prove them wrong about his mental capacity by winning the upcoming horseless carriage race at the speedway using his 2-cylinder engine machine which he predicts can travel 15mph, twice the speed of other machines. But for Ed to be able to do so, he has to elude the mayor and his gang and get to the speedway in time for the race. And there still is the small matter of whether his prediction will come true, all his other predictions which have not come to fruition... yet.
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Hot Cakes for Two (1926)
Character: J. Cecil Larger - Director
Country girl Alice responds to an advertisement for a "movie school" that promises to transform her into a shining star in record time. Upon arriving at the school, Alice is immediately taken advantage of by the operators, who take her "bank roll". The school staff immediately begins a screen test to see how she "registers" in front of a camera, ordering her to perform various poses and emotional expressions to prove her potential.
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Meet My Girl (1926)
Character: Felix Butterworth
Ralph is the poor inventor of an automobile motor with revolutionary claims. Marvin is the wealthy and one time college pal. Unknown to either of them, they both seek the hand of a charming young lady whose creditor-hounded parents' desires are for a well-to-do son-in-law. However, the girl's affection leans toward Ralph. In the meantime Ralph enlists the aid of his wealthy pal in the matter of financing the motor factory. Thus assured of success, he hastens to his sweetheart with matrimonial plans all set. All is well until the four meet at a restaurant party.
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Peaches and Plumbers (1927)
Character: The Plumber's Helper
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921)
Character: The Belle's Sweetheart
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
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Here We Go Again (1952)
Character: The Belle's Sweetheart
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
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Hatta Marri (1932)
Character: Hassa Ben Soba
Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.
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He Who Gets Smacked (1925)
Character: Archie Widener
Jimmie poses as a fighter to impress the boss' daughter and finds himself booked at a charity boxing match for the department store where he works.
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In Conference (1931)
Character: The King
Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested within Hollywood and part of an expensive silent film production, only for Bovine Productions to switch to sound production and reveal to them for the first time, Romaine's real all-talking, all-singing voice.
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Love, Honor and Behave (1920)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.
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Married Life (1920)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.
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Hands Off! (1921)
Character: Jumbo
Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awarded a job on the Wadley ranch. The obligatory showdown features Pete and the gang.
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Holding His Own (1928)
Character: Fat
After a fight with his neighbor over their Model Ts, Ben's tuxedo is ruined. Unfortunately, the suit he gets as a replacement doesn't hold up too well.
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Springtime Saps (1929)
Character: N/A
Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback find comic situations as bums, night cops and seance attendees in this silent short.
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The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
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A Rainy Knight (1925)
Character: Adolph Brock
Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
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The Hollywood Kid (1924)
Character: Felix Katz - Rival Studio Boss
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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Speedy (1928)
Character: Fat Man (uncredited)
A hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
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Hey There (1918)
Character: N/A
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
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On Patrol (1922)
Character: Cop / Thug
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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Flickering Youth (1924)
Character: Barber Party Guest
A wealthy, timid young man who is frequently bullied. He attempts to stand up for himself and win the affection of a girl, overcoming his meek nature in the process.
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A Harem Knight (1926)
Character: The Rajah of Barbaria
A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
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Sing, Bing, Sing (1933)
Character: Barnes
After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
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Black Oxfords (1924)
Character: Convict
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
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Uncivil Warriors (1935)
Character: Colonel (uncredited)
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Good Morning, Nurse (1925)
Character: Davenport Ward
Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
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Nip and Tuck (1923)
Character: Fat Cop
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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Breaking the Ice (1925)
Character: Charley Duncan
Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.
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The Cat's Meow (1924)
Character: Bartender
Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
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