Wally Howe
Also Known As: Orlando Wallace Howe, Wallace "Wally" Howe, Wallace Howe
Biography: Wallace Howe (March 4, 1878, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts – November 23, 1957, in Los Angeles, California), born Orlando Wallace Howe, was an American film actor. He appeared in 104 films between 1918 and 1936, including many films with Harold Lloyd and Stan Laurel, and in short films with the original Our Gang.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 04, 1878
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 23, 1957
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Adventure's End
Overview: Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-05
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An Eastern Westerner
Overview: A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-02
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Why Worry?
Overview: A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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Call Again
Overview: Edward Everett Horton is scheduled to go on a date with Duane Thompson. She, being only 25, is a schoolgirl at Aileen Manning's girl's school. Horton becomes trapped in the school, trying to avoid headmistress and cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Now or Never
Overview: A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-27
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High and Dizzy
Overview: A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-11
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Ask Father
Overview: Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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Haunted Spooks
Overview: After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-14
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Dr. Jack
Overview: Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Si, Senor
Overview: Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-11
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Sold at Auction
Overview: This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! Also appearing is James Finlayson as a man who's items accidentally get sold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-26
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The Uncovered Wagon
Overview: Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-07
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The Whole Truth
Overview: A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who shows up very infrequently. For the defence (James Finlayson), he never did anything to be proud of - and was proud of it. He sits there smirking and sipping a glass of water before being momentarily distracted. He goes to take another sip of his drink but instead picks up a different glass containing something very different.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-03
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Blaze Away
Overview: Paul is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off and dressing his wounds. He then gets back on his 'saddle' and fires his gun again, this time in the direction of another man who has just entered the room. Paul leaves abruptly and rides into town on a horse, and straight through a crowded saloon. A town marshal sees this as act act of bravery and rewards Paul with a sheriff's badge immediately. A fearful rival makes his mark when he lights his cigarette by tossing it into the air and shooting at it to ignite it!
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-03
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Dogs of War!
Overview: The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Take a Chance
Overview: It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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Young Mr. Jazz
Overview: While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The Marathon
Overview: Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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The Dumb-Bell
Overview: The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-16
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Run 'Em Ragged
Overview: Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Jailed and Bailed
Overview: A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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It's a Gift
Overview: A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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Count Your Change
Overview: Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-10
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The Lucky Texan
Overview: Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Red River Valley
Overview: Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-02
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Don't Shove
Overview: Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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The Dippy Dentist
Overview: The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord (who is a dentist). Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives to work in an office across the hall. In a very funny scene, Pollard manages to steal all of Gaylord's patients from his waiting room. However, when it comes to dental work, Snub is highly unlikely to receive the American Dental Association's seal of approval. That's because he's incredibly rough and manages to toss a guy out the window when he pulls his tooth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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Headin' for the Rio Grande
Overview: Western - Singing cowboy Tex Saunders (Tex Ritter) finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of a lovely lady (Eleanor Stewart). As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner (Warner Richmond) for killing bad guy Red Dugan (James Mason) and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo (Syd Saylor), show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows? - Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, Eleanor Stewart
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Landlubber
Overview: Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-09
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Speedy
Overview: Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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Take Next Car
Overview: In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter; portrayed by Jobyna Ralston) try to save the day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-29
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Just Rambling Along
Overview: A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-03
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The City Slicker
Overview: Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-02
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Behind the Counter
Overview: Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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Pardon Me
Overview: Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-05
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His Royal Slyness
Overview: A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-08
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Safety Last!
Overview: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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Lawless Range
Overview: John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-04
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Cracked Wedding Bells
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-04
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On Location
Overview: Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about to throw some litter into the road and dashes over to catch it in his cart. He then tries to save a drunken man from falling into the road before stopping his cart to pick up a solitary leaf which has dared to fallen upon the ground. The eccentric and obsessed street sweeper meticulously disposes of the leaf but when he turns around he finds half the tree has shed its leaves at that very moment
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-06
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Good Morning, Judge
Overview: Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-18
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Before the Public
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-04
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The Freshman
Overview: Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Do Me a Favor
Overview: Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
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The Smile Wins
Overview: James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-08
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A Sammy in Siberia
Overview: A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Next Aisle Over
Overview: A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-30
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Punch the Clock
Overview: Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-04
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