Paddy McGuire
Also Known As: Paddy McQuire
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ireland
Birthday: December 31, 1883
Deathday: November 16, 1923
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Tramp
Overview: The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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The Champion
Overview: Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-11
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A Jitney Elopement
Overview: Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-01
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A Night in the Show
Overview: Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-20
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By the Sea
Overview: It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-29
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Work
Overview: Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-21
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Shanghaied
Overview: A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-04
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Police
Overview: Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-27
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Sticky Fingers
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-04
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Picture Pirates
Overview: Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the place Rube and Ben try to pick his pockets, and admonishing them as amateurs, he tells them to join in with him and try to steal the picture. They take the art collector's wife with them to the same café wherein their wives are waitresses. Ben and Rube leave her there and hasten to her home to steal a copy of the picture, the owner having hidden the original. They also drink some poisoned whiskey left for them and fall into a fit. Later the "picture pirate" pays Rube and Ben for the picture, thinking it is the original.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-12
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Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Overview: Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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A Sanitarium Scandal
Overview: The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart is in need of repairs and her nephew (Earle Rodney) is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beauties) while having to deal with the arrival of his own fiancée (Myrtle Lind) and her parents (the formidable Blanche Payson and Baldy Belmont) who between them provide most of what few laughs there are and a sheriff (Fritz Schade) with a debt to collect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-17
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She Loved Him Plenty
Overview: “ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-11
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The Haunted House
Overview: A bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-21
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