Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 23, 1886
Deathday: November 19, 1954
Popularity:
1912-01-19
Overview: A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. But the cowboys fight back and mortally wound the great chief.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-19
Popularity:
1912-04-12
Overview: Ernest Bourbon is introduced to a young lady, object matrimony. Unfortunately for him, he slips the ring on the other girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-12
Popularity:
1912-08-31
Overview: Ernest Bourbon, with his idiotic smile perpetually plastered on his face, invites the miners into his apartment, which they accidentally destroy. Miners, as we know, always carry their shovels and pickaxes with them, and never wash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-31
Popularity:
1912-10-03
Overview: When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each other, which involves a thrilling episode on a train.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-10-03
Popularity:
1911-12-31
Overview: An early Gaumont short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-12-31
Popularity:
1912-01-01
Overview: While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
Popularity:
1912-01-01
Overview: His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-01
Popularity:
1913-01-01
Overview: While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering waltz on a mandolin, and he starts dancing with his lady. Everyone, from the kitchen hands to the chef, dance until their out of breath.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-01
Popularity:
1913-01-01
Overview: Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, who has the voice of a barrel salesman, sings like the pulley in a well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-01
Popularity:
1913-01-19
Overview: Users of the postal service aren't very happy that Onésime spends his work time writing love letters to a lovely lady. Understandably, the woman's husband doesn't take it very well either. To escape his wrath, Onésime can think of nothing better than slipping into the mail duct. And it's pneumatic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-19
Popularity:
1913-01-01
Overview: When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
Popularity:
1912-09-27
Overview: Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-09-27
Popularity:
1913-01-24
Overview: When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-24
Popularity:
1912-11-01
Overview: In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-11-01
Popularity:
1912-10-04
Overview: When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-10-04
Popularity:
1911-06-10
Overview: Calino wants to live the cowboy life and travels to America to see the West.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-06-10
Popularity:
1911-03-31
Overview: A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-03-31
Popularity:
1911-06-10
Overview: A French comedy short with Zigoto.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-10
Popularity:
1912-08-23
Overview: Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-08-23
Popularity:
1913-12-31
Overview: An early Gaumont short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-12-31
Popularity:
1914-12-31
Overview: Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-12-31
Popularity:
1913-12-31
Overview: Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-12-31
Popularity:
1913-12-31
Overview: Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-12-31
Popularity:
1913-12-31
Overview: Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house. Detective Onésime is called in to help, and is soon tangling with some criminals after the treasure too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-12-31
Popularity:
1912-12-31
Overview: Onésime short
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-31
Popularity:
1912-12-31
Overview: Onésime short
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-31
Popularity:
1912-12-31
Overview: Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-12-31
Popularity:
1912-09-02
Overview: Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road with a magnifying glass, putting a straw hat on a horse, climbing a high gate, and duckwalking across a parapet. Nothing will stop him in his quest to.... well, whatever it is he's doing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-02
Popularity:
1913-01-01
Overview: Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-01
Popularity:
1912-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-01
Popularity:
1913-05-01
Overview: Ernest Bourbon -- that's Onesime -- has decided to learn to box, for some reason, and also fight an American fighter who's touring France.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-01
Popularity:
1940-10-20
Overview: Ernest Bourbon discovers that a shower of gold coins fall from his donkey's hindquarters -- I've phrased that as politely as I can. Now rich, he moves to the city, dresses well and hires servants. Unlike the one about the goose that lays the golden eggs, he treats his benefactor well, even though the donkey doesn't seem to enjoy the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-20
Popularity:
1913-01-19
Overview: Ernest Bourbon gets a bust delivered. Eduoard Grissolet visits him and rhapsodizes over it. Then Bourbon is taken to the loony bin, where they perform some extreme slapstick on him. He escapes, heads home, crawls into bed. The police break in. They take him to an interrogation room and push him out a window.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-19
Popularity:
1914-04-09
Overview: Seated comfortably in the green pastures near his home, Batty Bill is suddenly presented with a baby, but with his usual dull wits he is slow to realize the catastrophe that has befallen him. When he does so, the giver of this great gift has disappeared. Poor Batty Bill endeavors to leave the baby everywhere, but without success. Ultimately he is, as he thinks, more successful, and is able to give the baby over to the police. A little later he is about to be married, when the police come and insist upon him taking his child. The indignation of his prospective wife is very amusing, and the whole thing causes a great joke from end to end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-09
Popularity:
1913-10-16
Overview: The fact that the Four Arts Club were organizing an international competition of modern dances was welcome news to Simple Simon. When he ascertained that the dances would include the Cake Walk, Serpentine Crawl. Piccadilly Flop, Tango, the Wriggly Wriggle, and the Bear Dance, he selected the latter. Simon resolved to seek a teacher in its native haunts. He wandered up the mountainside and chanced upon a strolling Bruin, which he decided to capture. Learning to dance in the ordinary way holds sufficient excitement for most people. Simon, however, found that the bear dance provided unsuspected thrills. He made rapid progress, so much so in fact he won the prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-10-16
Popularity:
1914-03-26
Overview: Batty Bill has some bachelor apartments. He also has a friend, who has fallen in love. These lovers adjourn to Batty Bill's apartments, where unfortunately for Batty Bill, they are traced by the wrathful father, who spites his wrath on the furniture and contents. While doing this, he is discovered by Batty Bill, who, in his humble endeavors to stop the damage, becomes himself the object of the father's fury and is chased through all sorts of ridiculous mix-ups, from roof to roof and through shops alike.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-26
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