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Don't Weaken! (1920)
Character: Dance Pupil (uncredited)
A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
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A Deep Sea Panic (1924)
Character: N/A
A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.
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The Quack Doctor (1920)
Character: Midget - the Rich Father's Wife
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
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A Million to Burn (1923)
Character: Nickoli Rubnov
The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a result of his mismanagement, the hotel loses several thousand dollars. Tom inherits a million and buys the hotel to continue his experimental management, which is to give the employees time and opportunity for self-expression--to do what they like best to do.
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Up in Alf's Place (1919)
Character: Romanoff Awfulitchy the Demon Bolshevik
Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
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Call a Cop (1921)
Character: The Butler
Wacky shenanigans ensue when our gang of merrymakers "Call a Cop"!
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The House of Flickers (1925)
Character: N/A
The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.
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Wandering Waistlines (1924)
Character: Captain Bert Bacardi
The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921)
Character: The Referee (uncredited)
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
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Trying to Get Along (1919)
Character: Harry - the Brother-in-Law
Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation.
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Love, Honor and Behave (1920)
Character: The Lawyer's Right-Hand Man
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.
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Married Life (1920)
Character: Bashful Husband
Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.
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The Dove (1927)
Character: The Comandante
Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caballero and menaced by a Villa-like brute of a dictator, played by Noah Beery.
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Heads Up (1925)
Character: Malofich
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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Rose of the Tenements (1926)
Character: Willofsky
Rose Rosetti, the orphaned daughter of a New York gangster, and Danny Lewis, another orphan, have been brought up by Sara and Abraham Kamisnsky, an elderly Jewish couple with an artificial-flower shop on the lower East Side. Rose works in the shop and Danny, after defeating the ward-bully in a fight, joins the political gang.
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A Good Scout (1922)
Character: Terrible Turk
A snappy young book agent reforms and becomes a cook for a group of Boy Scouts.
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One More Chance (1931)
Character: Brown/Kelly the Wrestler
Bing Bangs (Crosby) is a salesman for "Magic" washing machines and his demonstration of the machine at the beginning of the film results in disaster. Crosby later gains a transfer from Hoboken to California and he drives his wife Ethel and her Uncle Joe (who dislikes Bing) in an open car on the journey having many adventures en route. Uncle Joe presses Ethel to divorce Bing and marry a more desirable suitor called Percy Howard. Ethel, Joe and Percy are dining in a California night club when the announcer refers to the sponsor, the Magic Washing Machine Company and introduces their singer. It is Crosby and he sings "Just One More Chance" and he and Ethel reunite.
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Down on the Farm (1920)
Character: Mailman
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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West of Zanzibar (1928)
Character: Babe
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
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On Patrol (1922)
Character: The Thug
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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Hollywood (1923)
Character: Kalla Pasha
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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His Supreme Moment (1925)
Character: Pasha in Play (uncredited)
John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Carla King, and he falls in love with the actress.
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The Dictator (1922)
Character: General Campos
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
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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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When a Man Loves (1927)
Character: Officer on Prisoner Ship (uncredited)
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
Character: Herr Schwitz
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Yukon Jake (1924)
Character: Yukon Jake
Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
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Shanghaied Lovers (1924)
Character: Captain Applesauce
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
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Scaramouche (1923)
Character: Keeper of the Paris Gate (uncredited)
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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Racing Hearts (1923)
Character: Mechanic
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
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Show People (1928)
Character: Comic Chef (uncredited)
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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Black Oxfords (1924)
Character: Greenback's Accomplice
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
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The Devil Dancer (1927)
Character: Toy
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
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Bright Eyes (1921)
Character: The Chef
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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Hotsy-Totsy (1925)
Character: Pete Bosco - King of the Shoplifters
Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.
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Thirty Days (1922)
Character: Warden
John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
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Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Character: Prof. von Viede
Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies. The couple are kidnapped and held prisoner at a mysterious, creepy house. Strange things are afoot at Satan's house.
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The Cat's Meow (1924)
Character: Bull Dakota
Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
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Don Juan's 3 Nights (1926)
Character: Monsieur de Courcy
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
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