Phyllis Allen
Also Known As: Phyllis J. Allen
Biography: Phyllis Allen (November 25, 1861 – March 26, 1938) was an American vaudeville and silent screen comedian. She worked with Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Mack Sennett during a film career spanning 74 movies in the decade between 1913 and 1923. Due to her imposing demeanour and perennially haughty expression, she was quite similar in appearance to fellow screen comedian Marie Dressler. [biography from Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Staten Island, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1861
Age: 163 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 26, 1938
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Dough and Dynamite
Overview: Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The Adventurer
Overview: The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him…
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Caught in a Cabaret
Overview: Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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Zip, the Dodger
Overview: Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady under a parasol he gets a friend to substitute for him while he pretends to be a young man of leisure. Trouble starts when the girl happens along later and discovers what Zip's job really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-17
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A Busy Day
Overview: A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-07
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Getting Acquainted
Overview: Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-05
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Overview: Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-29
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The Property Man
Overview: Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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The Rounders
Overview: Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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His Trysting Places
Overview: On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-09
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Pay Day
Overview: A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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Fatty's Finish
Overview: Fatty's Finish is a 1914 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-02
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Fatty and the Heiress
Overview: Fatty hopes to marry for money but thanks to many slapstick complications his plan doesn't go as smoothly as he intended.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-25
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Fatty Again
Overview: Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-03
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Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Overview: Four bad men have kidnapped Fatty's girlfriend and plan to kill her. Fatty's dog knows where she is, but Fatty doesn't and he was crying. However the dog came back to get Fatty, and they and the Keystone Cops went to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-27
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Lover's Luck
Overview: A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-15
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Fatty at San Diego
Overview: Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-03
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Rebecca's Wedding Day
Overview: Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-24
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Where Hazel Met the Villain
Overview: Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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Her First Flame
Overview: Thirty years in the future (when women are primary income-earners and men are stay-at-home housekeepers) Miss Hap is elected Fire Chief and leads her crew of firefighters to rescue a couple trapped in a burning building.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-21
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A Movie Star
Overview: The star of a film attends a public showing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-26
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A Lover's Lost Control
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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Gussle's Day of Rest
Overview: The disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal a lovely girl from her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-29
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A Lover's Lost Control
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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A Submarine Pirate
Overview: A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-26
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The Star Boarder
Overview: A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-04
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Overview: Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-17
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Leading Lizzie Astray
Overview: A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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The Vagabond
Overview: A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-10
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Caught in a Park
Overview: Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl Friend, and Mack Swain as The Bartender.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-06
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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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The Pilgrim
Overview: The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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The Chaplin Revue
Overview: Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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Murphy's I.O.U.
Overview: Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and reports the matter to the police lieutenant. Amusing complications result in which Murphy's duplicity is exposed, and his wife administers punishment for his offense.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-17
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Gussle's Wayward Path
Overview: Gussle (Syd Chaplin) comes home with a cute little dog but doesn't want the wife to see it--leading up to a rather funny bit you'll have to see for yourself. The marriage, at first, seems ideal and Gussle and his wife seem devoted. However, it soon seems that this is an act for Syd and it's obvious he's quite the philanderer. Eventually, the wife catches on and sets out to catch him--leading to a rather cute and unexpected ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-09
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Gussle Rivals Jonah
Overview: Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-25
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Fatty's Magic Pants
Overview: 'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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A Thief Catcher
Overview: Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-19
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Fickle Fatty's Fall
Overview: Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
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The Rent Dodgers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-07
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Footprints
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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