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Dumb Dicks (1932)
Character: Detective Harry Gribbon
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
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Caught with the Goods (1917)
Character: N/A
Caught With The Goods (1917) in a jealousy comedy starring Harry Gribbon, Alice Jorgens, and Joseph Callahan.
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Big Hearted (1930)
Character: N/A
Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, Oscar Black and his wife (Harry Gribbon and Vivien Oakland, who was billed as Vivian Oakland) move in
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Swell People (1930)
Character: N/A
A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
Character: Hubby
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
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Skylarking (1923)
Character: Victor Edison
The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!
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Corn on the Cop (1934)
Character: Tramp
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
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The Bees' Buzz (1929)
Character: Homer Ashcraft
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
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Mushrooms (1934)
Character: Horace
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
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Art Trouble (1934)
Character: Tall Painter
Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.
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The All-American Kickback (1931)
Character: Homer Bagwell
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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My Mummy's Arms (1934)
Character: Harry
Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.
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The Golfers (1929)
Character: George Palooka
Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love.
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Ye Olden Grafter (1915)
Character: The Gentleman Flirt
Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.
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Snug in the Jug (1933)
Character: Slug Mullins
A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town.
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The Blonde Bomber (1936)
Character: Diner Manager
The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
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Ma's Pride and Joy (1932)
Character: Richard Vance
This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
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A Social Cub (1916)
Character: The Man of the Hour
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson
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A Dash of Courage (1916)
Character: Silk Hat Charley - Gentleman Crook
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.
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Did She Do Wrong? (1918)
Character: N/A
An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
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The Great Pie Mystery (1931)
Character: Homer Bagwell
A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss--and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies?
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Suits to Nuts (1933)
Character: Lawyer
Two incompetent lawyers attempt to protect a client accused of being a peeping Tom.
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Clancy at the Bat (1929)
Character: Speed
The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?
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A Hollywood Star (1929)
Character: Jack Marlowe
Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.
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Dance Hall Marge (1931)
Character: James Parker
Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.
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The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
Character: The House Detective
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
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Rural Romeos (1934)
Character: The Tramp
Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.
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Who's Crazy (1937)
Character: N/A
Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man, police catch him climbing the fire escape and assume he's some kissing bandit. This leads to a visit with the police psychologist.
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Sleepless Hollow (1936)
Character: Harry
Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
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The New Half Back (1929)
Character: Elmer Buckley - The New Halfback
Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
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Wedding Yells (1942)
Character: Chester Chesty
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
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Hatta Marri (1932)
Character: Clarence Triplett
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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Her Accidental Hero (1937)
Character: Harry - The Professor
Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring.
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One Cylinder Love (1923)
Character: The Bachelor
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
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Loops! My Dear (1933)
Character: The Sergeant
Harry joins the Army to meet girls, and ends up driving his drill sergeant nuts in the process. While in basic training, to flee an angry mob, he disguises himself as a Major and ace pilot.
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The Lunkhead (1929)
Character: Gilbert - the Lunkhead
Harry Gribbon (the lunkhead) is in love with beautiful Thelma Hill but she's in love with someone else.
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The Candid Camera (1932)
Character: Actor in Movie (uncredited)
Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has now means to negotiate.
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In Conference (1931)
Character: Romain Salisbury
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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Skirts (1921)
Character: N/A
Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.
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Ghost Parade (1931)
Character: The Constable
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
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Down on the Farm (1920)
Character: The Rustic Sweetheart
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
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The Lottery Bride (1930)
Character: Boris
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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So Long Letty (1929)
Character: Joe Casey
Uncle Claude goes on vacation with his granddaughters and meets and dislikes boisterous Letty. When he finds nephew Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife, unaware that he is married to Letty. To get a check from Uncle Claude, the two couples switch spouses.
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The Dare-Devil (1923)
Character: The Movie Director
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
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Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
Character: Deputy Sheriff Clout
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
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Honeymoon (1928)
Character: Harry
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
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The Cameraman (1928)
Character: Cop
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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Up in Mary's Attic (1920)
Character: Jack Langdon
Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is compelled to keep the marriage a secret, but a baby adds to the complications. At first the young couple leaves it in the care of an Indian woman. Waldo Pennanink , the son of the school's headmaster, becomes suspicious of all the time the couple is spending with the Indian woman and the baby.
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Money on Your Life (1938)
Character: Window Cleaner
This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.
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The Gorilla (1930)
Character: Mulligan
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919)
Character: German Guard
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
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Midnight Daddies (1930)
Character: Charlie Mason aka Charles De Maisone
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924)
Character: The Ribbon Clerk
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
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The Smart Set (1928)
Character: Tommy's Valet
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
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The Shakedown (1929)
Character: Dugan
The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.
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The Tomboy (1924)
Character: Rugby Blood
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
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Show People (1928)
Character: Comedy Director
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Nip and Tuck (1923)
Character: Nip
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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Knockout Reilly (1927)
Character: Pat Malone
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
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Chinatown Charlie (1928)
Character: Red Mike
A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
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On With the Show! (1929)
Character: Joe
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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You Said a Mouthful (1932)
Character: Harry Daniels
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
Character: archive footage
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Rose-Marie (1928)
Character: Trooper Gray
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
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Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Character: Bank Guard (uncredited)
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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Tide of Empire (1929)
Character: O'Shea
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
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Baby Face (1933)
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Character: Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Extra Girl (1923)
Character: Comedy Director
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
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