Joe Martin
Also Known As: Joe Martin the Chimp, Charlie Chimpanzee
Biography: Joe Martin (born between 1911 and 1913 – died after 1931) was a captive orangutan who appeared in at least 50 American films of the silent era, including approximately 20 comedy shorts, several serials, two Tarzan movies, Rex Ingram's melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Indonesian Archipelago
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Seven Years Bad Luck
Overview: After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck, but in doing so causes himself the worst luck imaginable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-06
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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Black Orchids
Overview: Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Spangles
Overview: At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a wanted man, Dick Radley, who uses the circus as a hideout. The show's owner Big Bill Bowman also falls in love with Spangles-- But only one man can have her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-07
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Man and Beast
Overview: During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle spring. Nevertheless, a romance grows between Gretel von Haagan and Ned Townsend, who, to escape their families' opposition, marry and leave for the interior.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Overview: This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politicians in a clever manner and beats Lady Baffles at her own game. (Moving Picture World Synopsis)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-14
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Trifling Women
Overview: Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he tells her the story of Zareda, an attractive fortune teller who is having an affair with Ivan de Maupin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-06
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Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose
Overview: An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is shipping her share of the inheritance in a box. When the box arrives, the old maid discovers it contains a full-sized orangoutang, which escapes from the box and causes her no end of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-15
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Hungry Happy's Dream
Overview: H. Oboe Rhodes, a "knight of the road," limps into a large city with the idea of appeasing his hunger. His first quest is the welcoming doors of a saloon in which a large free lunch is advertised.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-06
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The Black Box
Overview: Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-08
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What Darwin Missed
Overview: Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by Darwin and is pondering especially on the idea that there is a "missing link." One night he dreams that he is an explorer and that he has just landed upon a foreign shore; he secures the aid of a mahout and an elephant to move his tent and belongings to the jungle, where he will take up the study of trying to find the "missing link."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-12
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Merry-Go-Round
Overview: A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Hollywood
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Looney Lions and Monkey Business
Overview: The adventures of an escaped convict.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-23
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The Evil Eye
Overview: This serial, starring boxer Leslie King, is presumed lost.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-30
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King of the Circus
Overview: Eddie King goes up against a villainous circus owner in this action adventure which was directed by genre specialist J.P. McGowan and released in 18 chapters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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A Monkey Hero
Overview: Here's a surefire number if ever there was one. Filled with innumerable original gags and laugh-getting animal stuff, it forms an offering that's good enough to bill just as heavily as the feature. You can't go wrong with a Joe Martin comedy and this is one of his best!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-19
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A Monkey Movie Star
Overview: Joe dreams he has become a high-salaried, temperamental movie star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-04
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A Prohibition Monkey
Overview: The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-13
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A Baby Doll Bandit
Overview: Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight, but one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties teaching school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-12
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Monkey Stuff
Overview: Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-07
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Making Monkey Business
Overview: Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "The Flea" comes to rob her, bringing his accomplice, the ape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-12
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