Barney Hellum
Also Known As: Bjarne Fredrik Hellum
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Adult: No
Birthday: December 01, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 22, 1935
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Gold Digger of Weepah
Overview: Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-02
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The Girl from Everywhere
Overview: Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-11
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The Swim Princess
Overview: The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-26
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Smith's Restaurant
Overview: The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-19
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Motorboat Mamas
Overview: Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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Crazy to Act
Overview: Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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Musclebound Music
Overview: Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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A Prodigal Bridegroom
Overview: Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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Masked Mamas
Overview: A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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The Soapsuds Lady
Overview: The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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Hotsy-Totsy
Overview: Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-20
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Hot Cakes for Two
Overview: Hot Cakes for Two is a silent film comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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Her Actor Friend
Overview: Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Love's Last Laugh
Overview: Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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Should Husbands Marry?
Overview: Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-26
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A Harem Knight
Overview: A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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A Dozen Socks
Overview: A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Raspberry Romance
Overview: The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Giddap!
Overview: Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-22
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Butter Fingers
Overview: The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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Over Thereabouts
Overview: Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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The College Kiddo
Overview: The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-07
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The Bull Fighter
Overview: The Bull Fighter is a 1927 short comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-27
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Love in a Police Station
Overview: Love in a Police Station is a comedy short released in 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-25
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The Wild Goose Chaser
Overview: A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-17
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A Sweet Pickle
Overview: A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Galloping Bungalows
Overview: All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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The Pride of Pikeville
Overview: Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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A Rainy Knight
Overview: Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Hoboken to Hollywood
Overview: Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood office. He is going to drive there with his wife and mother. Along the way, they encounter Mr. Pinkney and his new bride, who too are heading west. Their misadventures together and meeting up with a band of marauding Indians may prevent any of them from reaching their intended destination. If Billy and Mr. Pinkney ever make it to Hollywood, they're both in a for a big surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Spanking Breezes
Overview: "Spanking Breezes" is a short Mack Sennett comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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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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Run, Girl, Run
Overview: A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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The Dentist
Overview: An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-09
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Riders of the Purple Cows
Overview: When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-18
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The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Overview: Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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Honeymoon Hardships
Overview: A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple are forced to sleep apart,The beds are rock hard, the food is inedible,and the farmhouse leaks in the middle of a fierce rainstorm. On top of everything else, a hick uncle with a large family pay a sudden visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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A Horse on Barney
Overview: A new batch of immigrants arrives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-21
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Boobs in the Wood
Overview: Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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Runnin' Through the Rye
Overview: Comedy short based on the comic strip "Barney Google" by Billy De Beck. A print survives with the Library of Congress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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Smith's Army Life
Overview: 19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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Sunshine's Dark Moment
Overview: Barney Hellum and Slim Summerville give policeman Kit Guard a rough time in this funny Barney Google short, which is based on the comic strip character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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Horsefeathers
Overview: Barney Google is returning to Kokomo with his menage: race horse Spark Plug, trainer-jockey Sunshine, and ostrich Rudy. The people turn out to greet him -- the race horse, that is, and Sunshine. Feelings about Google are less kind, and soon the four of them are on a train headed elsewhere, causing havoc to passengers and crew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-09
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T-Bone Handicap
Overview: FBO "Barney Google" short.with horses and ostriches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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