Spencer Bell
Also Known As: G. Howe Black
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 25, 1887
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 18, 1935
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The Outlaw Dog
Overview: When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows. He gets a chance to clear his name by helping Bill trap a pair of outlaws who plan to blow up a mail train and abscond with the loot.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-22
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The Cloudhopper
Overview: The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-06
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Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Overview: Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-23
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Kid Speed
Overview: Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-16
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Passing the Buck
Overview: Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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The Perfect Clown
Overview: A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-14
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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The Peacock Fan
Overview: A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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Blue Blood
Overview: Blue Blood is an extant 1925 American silent comedy drama film
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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Ice Cold Cocos
Overview: Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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The Rodeo
Overview: The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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You Said a Mouthful
Overview: Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Below Zero
Overview: Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-11
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Deaf, Dumb and Blonde
Overview: Poodles Hanneford comedy produced and distributed by the Weiss Brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-11
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Oh, What a Man!
Overview: A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to infiltrate her gang in order to get the goods on her, but things don't turn out exactly the way he expected them to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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The Barnyard
Overview: Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-11
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The Dome Doctor
Overview: The proprietors of a hairdressing and beauty emporium and the neighboring delicatessen battle over everything including the hairdresser's love of the deli owner's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-18
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Her Boy Friend
Overview: Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-12
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Mickey's Wildcats
Overview: Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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Mickey's Rebellion
Overview: A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-23
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Mickey's Thrill Hunters
Overview: Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Mickey's Race
Overview: Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-13
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Mickey's Minstrels
Overview: In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-10
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Mickey's Rescue
Overview: When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Mickey's Medicine Man
Overview: The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-17
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Mickey's Disguises
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-17
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Mickey's Covered Wagon
Overview: Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-29
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That's the Spirit
Overview: Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-01
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Creeps
Overview: Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the property for herself and, with several hired-henchmen, sends "ghost" after "ghoul" through the house after the boys arrive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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Matrimony Blues
Overview: Short film about the title subject played for laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Cheap Skates
Overview: Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-20
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The Midnight Taxi
Overview: The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Overview: In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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Up on the Farm
Overview: "Lee [Moran] is a city chap who loves to go to the pace and is chagrined when an uncle leaves him his money provided he engages in farming. He has an inspiration and starts a farm on the roof of his apartment house, with a barn, farm vehicles, a donkey, a got and a lot of chickens." - Synopsis from Moving Picture World
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-11
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Lightning Love
Overview: The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-22
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The Prince of Broadway
Overview: "The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he is through. His sweetheart, actress Nancy Lee rescues him from the gutter and asks her admirer, Wade Turner to take him to his ranch to get back in shape. Wade, jealous of George, tells his foreman, Buck Marshall, to hinder George's comeback. Wade’s neighbor, former champ Jim Jeffries offers to help George get back into condition. Trying for the advantage Wade tells Nancy that George is not training, but when she goes out to the ranch, she uncovers the conspiracy. George regains the championship and wins Nancy's hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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No Wedding Bells
Overview: Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-01-09
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