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Those Bitter Sweets (1915)
Character: The Suitor
Harry takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors.
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Her First Kiss (1919)
Character: N/A
Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.
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For Better - But Worse (1915)
Character: The Married Man
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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High & Dry (1921)
Character: Ferdie
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.
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A Bear Affair (1915)
Character: The Lodgekeeper's Daughter's Sweetheart
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
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Put and Take (1921)
Character: N/A
The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."
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Stick Around (1925)
Character: Dr. Brown
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
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The Great Toe Mystery (1914)
Character: The Police Chief (uncredited)
A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
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The Noise of Bombs (1914)
Character: 1st Desperado
Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.
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Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
Character: Pianist / Drunk / Bouncer (uncredited)
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
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Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915)
Character: The Laundry Truck Driver
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
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Hello, Mabel (1914)
Character: Mabel's Boyfriend
Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.
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Fatty's Magic Pants (1914)
Character: Fatty's Rival
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
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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: Hired Kidnapper
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: drunk
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
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A One Night Stand (1915)
Character: Audience Spectator (uncredited)
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
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That Little Band Of Gold (1915)
Character: Man in Front Row (uncredited)
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
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Fatty’s Reckless Fling (1915)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
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Fatty’s Faithful Fido (1915)
Character: Pianist (uncredited)
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
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Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
Character: Barfly
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
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Peanuts and Bullets (1915)
Character: The Fruit Vendor
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: Second Prowler
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
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His Second Childhood (1914)
Character: The Rival Suitor
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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The Doctored Affair (1913)
Character: N/A
Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out of the house. Tillie is locked up in her room, and to regain her liberty feigns illness and apparently swoons. Dad is troubled and telephones for a doctor. Harry, who is hovering around the corner, sees the doctor coming and bribes him to help him in a scheme to see Tillie.
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Hubby’s Job (1913)
Character: N/A
Hubby is out of work, and wifey is working as a stenographer, posing as a single woman, in an employment agency. The boss is in love with the pretty typist. He tells her he wants a man right away, and she telephones her husband to come down. He gets the job, which is that of porter. While hubby sweeps the floors and cleans the cuspidors, the boss is holding wifey's hand in the private office. Another suitor, who, also, does not know the stenographer is married, tries to see her and is kicked out by the boss. He tells his troubles to the porter, and then rushes off to tell the boss's wife, for revenge. Hubby listens at the door and is caught by the boss, who tips him to stop spying. The boss's wife, a two-hundred-pounder, arrives just as hubby has gotten up his courage to heat up the boss, and a lively scrimmage ensues.
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A Tangled Affair (1913)
Character: N/A
Two young men are aspirants for the hand of Mabel, Henry and Ned, Ned, walking through the park, accidentally bumps into a gouty old gentleman who furiously resents the shock, and Ned amuses himself by tapping the gouty foot with his cane and keeping out of reach of the lunges of the old man. When he calls at Mabel's home he finds to his consternation that the old gentleman is Mabel's father.
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Mabel’s Nerve (1914)
Character: Mabel's Sweetheart
Mabel attempts to master a bucking horse as it speeds towards a cliff with Mack hot on her trail!
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How Heroes Are Made (1914)
Character: The Boy Friend
It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.
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Taming the West (1919)
Character: N/A
The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and Ferdie (Neely Edwards) buy themselves a couple of cowboy suits, then head out west. They flirt with the pretty bar maids, knock out the local banditos with golf balls and play some poker. It's slight, low-key and amusing.
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Saved by Wireless (1915)
Character: Minister of War's Daughter's Lover
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.
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After the Dough (1921)
Character: Ferdie
The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking one, they finally get another, and preparing to drink it they run afoul of a policeman.
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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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Heads Up (1925)
Character: Biff
Bored with his daily routine, Breckenridge Gamble accepts a secret mission from some oil magnates to deliver a message to President Losada of the South American Republic of Centralia. Upon his arrival, Gamble learns from Angela, the president's daughter, that her father has been imprisoned by Cortez, the leader of the revolutionaries. Gamble also is imprisoned but frees all the prisoners as well as himself by impersonating the prison comandante. After forming an army, Gamble delivers the message--a large money draft sufficient to pay the army and secure President Losada's government--and is rewarded with Angela's love.
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A Hoosier Romance (1918)
Character: John
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law.
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Her Birthday Present (1913)
Character: N/A
Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leading to a shootout.
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Fair Enough (1918)
Character: Frederick Pierson
Ann Dickson's newly wealthy parents become obsessed with breaking into society, but the young misfit is more interested in studying modern slang and wearing outrageous outfits. She tolerates but does not love "Freddie" Pierson, the useless young playboy her parents have selected for her. On a downtown jaunt, Ann slightly injures a newsboy in a car accident and in this way meets policeman Carey Phelan. She invites him to an outing she has organized for the boy and his pals, and the two fall in love. Ann's parents follow her to the picnic, and after a series of misunderstandings, everyone winds up in jail. Carey reveals to Ann that he is a millionaire's son who, tired of wasting his life, had joined the police force. The chief of police, an old friend of the Phelan family, holds the outraged parents in custody while Ann and Carey sneak away to get married.
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The Fatal Mistake (1924)
Character: N/A
After being fired from his job on the Evening Star newspaper, cub reporter Jack Darwin (William Fairbanks) , with the help of an undercover police woman, Ethel Bennett (Eva Novak), prevents the theft of the valuable Riko jewels. Jack gets his job back...and marries Ethel.
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Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
Character: Hot Dog Thief (uncredited)
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
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The Garage (1920)
Character: The Dude
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
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The Star Boarder (1914)
Character: Boarder Assisting with Magic Lantern Show (uncredited)
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
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A Village Scandal (1915)
Character: Chair Warmer
Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain the populace by wonderful feats of magic and sleight-of-hand. His plans are all set awry by his sudden infatuation for Flora Zabelle, who plays the hotel waitress and sweetheart of Fatty Arbuckle.
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Tango Tangles (1914)
Character: Piano Player (uncredited)
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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Woman Wanted (1935)
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Mabel's Married Life (1914)
Character: Man in Bar
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
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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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The Knockout (1914)
Character: Society Piano Player (uncredited)
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
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Cinders of Love (1916)
Character: The Town Drunk
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
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Mabel at the Wheel (1914)
Character: Mabel's Boyfriend (uncredited)
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
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Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)
Character: Mabel's Sweetheart (uncredited)
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
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Mabel's Blunder (1914)
Character: Harry
Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
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The Regeneration (1915)
Character: Owen at 17 (as H. McCoy)
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
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His Favorite Pastime (1914)
Character: Bar Patron
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Adams' Assistant (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Getting Acquainted (1914)
Character: Flirt 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: Drunk in Audience (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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A Film Johnnie (1914)
Character: Fireman / Audience Member Next to Charlie (uncredited)
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
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The Masquerader (1914)
Character: Actor
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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Her Torpedoed Love (1917)
Character: The Drunk
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Character: Singer, Pianist / Prisoner / Various Others (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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Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
Character: Mabel's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
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