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White Wings (1923)
Character: Dental Patient
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
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Kill or Cure (1923)
Character: N/A
Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this movie dates from 1923, the shank of Prohibition. During Prohibition, quite a lot of Americans purchased patent medicine if it had (ahem!) 'medicinal' properties, so -- if Knox-All contains alcohol.
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The Uncovered Wagon (1923)
Character: N/A
Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.
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Pay the Cashier (1926)
Character: N/A
The penniless tourist, "Appetite Andy" (Paul Parrott) stops by at the Hollywood Cafateria (sic) where the gullible boss (Mark Jones) welcomes him in to sample many of the soups and delicacies available to customers. After savoring many of the dishes, Andy refuses them all and attempts to leave, never intending to pay. The boss is having none of it and drags him back inside and puts him to work in the kitchen. The head chef (Charles Stevenson) is chopping food when the order comes in for chicken to be prepared. He instructs the new employee to grab a chicken (from a crate in the corner) and "prepare" it.
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Oranges and Lemons (1923)
Character: Worker
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
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Save The Ship (1923)
Character: Father-in-law
'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a run of the mill production to pay his bills and as a token by Hal Roach.
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Post No Bills (1923)
Character: N/A
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.
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A Man About Town (1923)
Character: Cross-eyed Barber
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
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Short Orders (1923)
Character: Customer
Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with dogs following Stan at the end.
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It's a Gift (1923)
Character: Swindler
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.
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Are Parents Pickles? (1925)
Character: N/A
James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.
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Family Life (1924)
Character: Mr. Duff
The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
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Soft Pedal (1926)
Character: Worried
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
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Run 'Em Ragged (1920)
Character: N/A
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
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High Rollers (1921)
Character: N/A
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
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On Location (1921)
Character: N/A
Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about to throw some litter into the road and dashes over to catch it in his cart. He then tries to save a drunken man from falling into the road before stopping his cart to pick up a solitary leaf which has dared to fallen upon the ground. The eccentric and obsessed street sweeper meticulously disposes of the leaf but when he turns around he finds half the tree has shed its leaves at that very moment
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Punch the Clock (1922)
Character: N/A
Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.
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No Pets (1923)
Character: N/A
James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.
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Tight Shoes (1923)
Character: N/A
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.
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Take the Air (1923)
Character: N/A
James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.
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Do Me a Favor (1922)
Character: The Musical Cop
Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.
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Strictly Modern (1922)
Character: Hotel Proprietor
A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.
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The Sleuth (1922)
Character: Hotel manager
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
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High and Dizzy (1920)
Character: Hotel Bellboy Number 2 (uncredited)
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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Why Worry? (1923)
Character: Mounted Captain
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
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Haunted Spooks (1920)
Character: Kitchen Staff Member (uncredited)
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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Never Weaken (1921)
Character: The Acrobat
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
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Now or Never (1921)
Character: Passenger who throws shoe (uncredited)
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
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Scorching Sands (1923)
Character: Arab leader
The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
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An Eastern Westerner (1920)
Character: (uncredited)
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Character: Keystone Kop
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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