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For Better - But Worse (1915)
Character: The Police Chief
Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.
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A Muddy Romance (1913)
Character: Wedding Guest / Land Policeman
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
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Fatty's New Role (1915)
Character: Saloon Customer (uncredited)
Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
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Those Country Kids (1914)
Character: Cop
Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
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Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)
Character: The Janitor
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
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A Hash House Fraud (1915)
Character: The 'Chef'
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
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Love in Armor (1915)
Character: Baron Von Hassenfeffer
Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...
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Settled at the Seaside (1915)
Character: Husband
Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?
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Peanuts and Bullets (1915)
Character: The Strong Man
A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.
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A Lucky Leap (1915)
Character: The Grocery Boy
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
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His Luckless Love (1915)
Character: The Husband
His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.
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A Sanitarium Scandal (1917)
Character: N/A
The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart is in need of repairs and her nephew (Earle Rodney) is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beauties) while having to deal with the arrival of his own fiancée (Myrtle Lind) and her parents (the formidable Blanche Payson and Baldy Belmont) who between them provide most of what few laughs there are and a sheriff (Fritz Schade) with a debt to collect.
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Dangers of a Bride (1917)
Character: The Convict
Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.
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Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
Character: Plump Female Crook
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
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The Surf Girl (1916)
Character: The Lifeguard Captain
Many different people go swimming at a pool at Coney Island.
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The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
Character: Drinker
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
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Those Love Pangs (1914)
Character: Movie Patron (uncredited)
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
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A Submarine Pirate (1915)
Character: Chef (uncredited)
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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The Rent Jumpers (1915)
Character: The Young Boarder's Roommate
The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. But neither the landlord nor the owner of the wallet are the central figures here, for The Rent Jumpers is primarily a love story between the landlord's daughter, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, and the lodger's roommate, young Charley Chase.
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His Musical Career (1914)
Character: Mr. Rich
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
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Laughing Gas (1914)
Character: Dr Pain, the dentist
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
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Dough and Dynamite (1914)
Character: Monsieur la Vie
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
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Her Nature Dance (1917)
Character: Fritz O'Brien
An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.
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The Property Man (1914)
Character: Temperamental Singer (uncredited)
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
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His Prehistoric Past (1914)
Character: Ku-Ku aka Cleo
Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Character: Waiter in First Restaurant / Station Cop / Prisoner / Guest in Second Restaurant / Kitchen Hand in Second Restaurant (uncredited)
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
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