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Caught in a Park (1915)
Character: The Girl Friend
Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl Friend, and Mack Swain as The Bartender.
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A Bear Affair (1915)
Character: The Lodgekeeper's Daughter
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
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That Springtime Feeling (1915)
Character: The Nursemaid
The old saying goes that "In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love", but when one young man tries to turn his "fancy" in a local park, he runs up against a cop who is determined to stop him.
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Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
Character: Dancing Cafe Patron (uncredited)
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
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Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914)
Character: Ambroses's Buddy's Girlfriend
After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
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Gussle's Day of Rest (1915)
Character: The Park Girl
The disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal a lovely girl from her boyfriend.
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Ambrose's Lofty Perch (1915)
Character: N/A
King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper (1915)
Character: The Proprietress' Daughter
Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.
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Ambrose's Fury (1915)
Character: N/A
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
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Gussle's Wayward Path (1915)
Character: Gussle's Sweetheart
Gussle (Syd Chaplin) comes home with a cute little dog but doesn't want the wife to see it--leading up to a rather funny bit you'll have to see for yourself. The marriage, at first, seems ideal and Gussle and his wife seem devoted. However, it soon seems that this is an act for Syd and it's obvious he's quite the philanderer. Eventually, the wife catches on and sets out to catch him--leading to a rather cute and unexpected ending.
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His Second Childhood (1914)
Character: The Suitor's Sweetheart
This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.
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His Luckless Love (1915)
Character: The Maid
His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.
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The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
Character: Madeleine
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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His Musical Career (1914)
Character: Mrs. 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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The Rounders (1914)
Character: Hotel Guest in Lobby (uncredited)
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
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Dough and Dynamite (1914)
Character: Waitress
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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A Submarine Pirate (1915)
Character: A Peach at the Hotel (uncredited)
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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Her Nature Dance (1917)
Character: The Entomologist's Wife
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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Getting Acquainted (1914)
Character: Pretty Blonde in Park (uncredited)
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
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The Property Man (1914)
Character: Goo Goo Sister (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: Cavewoman
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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The Masquerader (1914)
Character: Actress
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
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