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Love, Oil and Grease (1914)
Character: Bud
Ham and Bud, working as mechanics, wreak havoc at a new car dealership, almost wrecking a big sale.
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All Wet (1921)
Character: N/A
A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.
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Fooling Casper (1928)
Character: Casper
Casper is going on vacation with his wife and ugly baby (I'm sorry, but the kid IS really creepy looking) and after about five minutes of unfunny shenanigans, he arrives home and gets ready to take off for the country. However, unexpectedly, his rich uncle, his aunt and their destructive and stupid son arrive and invite themselves along for the trip. The trip is anything but relaxing.
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Ham and the Jitney Bus (1915)
Character: Bud - the Conductor
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside. They use that money to buy a car, and then set up their own taxi company. The competition is fierce, and their clumsiness creates many problems. They even turn to transvestism and the kidnapping of passengers to boost their business.
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Stuck Up (1921)
Character: N/A
Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.
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Midnight at the Old Mill (1916)
Character: Bud
"Midnight at the Old Mill" has some nice "Guignol" touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.
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Tuning Up (1921)
Character: N/A
Bud is a piano tuner who is beginning at the bottom and working up.
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Some Romance (1915)
Character: Bud - Member of D.S.C.
Ham and Bud rescue a lady on a runaway horse, and Ham falls in love with her.
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The Paperhangers' Revenge (1918)
Character: N/A
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
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The Phoney Cannibal (1915)
Character: Bud
Ham fears he has accidentally killed his landlady so he and Bud go on the run, disguised as a missionary and a cannibal.
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Smile, Buttercup, Smile (1929)
Character: Casper
The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.
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Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942)
Character: Pvt. Snuffy Smith
Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."
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Ham's Whirlwind Finish (1916)
Character: Bud
Ham and Bud get jobs as cooks. They flirt with Bombino Souptureeno, and incur the wrath of her boyfriend, Tony Slambango, and his gang.
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The Blundering Blacksmiths (1917)
Character: Bud
It is Sunday in Cobweb Corners. The ring of hammer in our hero's blacksmith shop is silent. The melody of a hymn steals out of the village church. The village belle is flirting with the simple-hearted smith. It is Monday, and the village belle is plunged in sorrow. Hiram Hardheart demands her hand in marriage. He will foreclose the mortgage. Enter the smith. Exit the villain. Fate opens the way to pay off the mortgage. The smith challenges One Punch Murph. They fight for a purse of $1,000. The village belle in boy's clothing sits near the ring, to urge her sturdy champion on. Round one. Saved by the bell. Round two. The blacksmith knocks out everybody, including the referee. Hardheart gets the money and the smith gets the girl.
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Spooky Spooks (1920)
Character: N/A
Bud Duncan in a big guy/little guy comedy at the beach with a lot of girls.
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Casper's Week End (1928)
Character: Casper
Toots (Thelma Hill) and Casper (Bud Duncan) visit a college campus and get mistaken for freshmen.
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The Deadly Doughnut (1917)
Character: Bud
Baker John Doe develops a hole-less doughnut, but rival Henry Mudguard fears the success of his invention and desperately attempts to steal the secret.
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Red Hicks Defies the World (1913)
Character: Hick's Trainer
Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.
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The Great Detective (1916)
Character: Bud
Ham, with his 999 disguises, is called on by Mrs. Worry to keep an eye on her husband. Armed with a photograph of hubby, the two set out on a riotous sleuthing career which ends with a bang when they find hubby at dinner with another fair lady and send the news to wifey.
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Almost a Wild Man (1913)
Character: Fugg (of Guppy and Fugg) / Sideshow Patron
Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the management. A brilliant idea; one would play the wild man in the village square, a real live show of their own. Rooly and Pooly then basked in the society of fair country belles, but Dooly at length was rescued by Miss Smart, looking for excitement. She was not disappointed.
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The Widow's Kids (1913)
Character: The Minister
In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating traveling salesman, who won away their fickle Ma, did not, but through the widow's deception, the kids won the parent of their hearts.
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Movie Mania (1928)
Character: Mr. Cohen
Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio."
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Raskey's Road Show (1915)
Character: Bud - Ham's Assistant
A shabby troupe of vaudeville performers put on a show in a hick town theatre, where stage hands Ham & Bud incompetently miss cues, foul up props and ruin several acts on stage.
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Have a Heart (1928)
Character: N/A
In this lively late silent two-reeler, blundering blowhard Jimmy is "always looking for work; someday he'll find it, then he'll have to quit." But meanwhile he applies for a job at a newspaper whose editor really, really wants to solve the mystery of the "haunted" Klutz Mansion. So our hero and the boss' daughter go to investigate a spooky abode that may not have actual ghosts but does have an actual mad scientist in residence.
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Catch-As Catch-Can (1931)
Character: Ubiquitous Drunk (uncredited)
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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Private Snuffy Smith (1942)
Character: Snuffy Smith
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
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