Sammy Brooks
Also Known As: Sam Brooks, Samuel Rockenberg , Simon Rottenberg
Biography: Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 08, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 16, 1951
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It's a Wild Life
Overview: Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-21
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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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Sherlock Sleuth
Overview: House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel," who is on the loose in the hotel, assisted by a sultry vamp. Plenty of hilarious gags along the way; including the operator taking a call from an irate lodger, so hot that it makes the switchboard steam. Taking advantage of the situation, she pulls out the offending plug and curls her bangs. The MGM lion even puts in a guest appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-12
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A Punch in the Nose
Overview: A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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Looking for Sally
Overview: Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-10
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Bumping Into Broadway
Overview: A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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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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Billy Blazes, Esq.
Overview: Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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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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Captain Kidd's Kids
Overview: After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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The Non-Stop Kid
Overview: Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-12
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All Aboard
Overview: In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-25
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We Never Sleep
Overview: Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-02
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The Flirt
Overview: A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-11
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Bliss
Overview: A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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Clubs Are Trump
Overview: In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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Rainbow Island
Overview: After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-28
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Overview: Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Birds of a Feather
Overview: Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-07
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Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
Overview: Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Overview: Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up in a boxing match which again brings the law on his tail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-15
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Luke's Trolley Troubles
Overview: Luke and his sidekick steal a trolley car and create havoc for passengers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-04
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Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
Overview: Luke, working in a fireworks factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-17
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Luke and the Mermaids
Overview: Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-18
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Luke Locates the Loot
Overview: As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-24
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Luke's Speedy Club Life
Overview: Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Luke, Rank Impersonator
Overview: Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-10
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Luke and the Bang-Tails
Overview: Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-15
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Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
Overview: Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-18
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Luke, Patient Provider
Overview: When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-19
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Luke's Lost Lamb
Overview: A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-07
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Luke, Crystal Gazer
Overview: Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-24
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Luke Rides Roughshod
Overview: Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-10
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Luke Does the Midway
Overview: Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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Follow the Crowd
Overview: A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-07
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Just Neighbors
Overview: Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Overview: While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-05
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Over the Fence
Overview: Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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Oranges and Lemons
Overview: After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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Luke's Double
Overview: Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-12
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Pay Your Dues
Overview: While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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Never Touched Me
Overview: At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-26
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A Jazzed Honeymoon
Overview: This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-02
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Wanted - $5,000
Overview: Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-12
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Before Breakfast
Overview: A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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Spring Fever
Overview: Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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Chop Suey & Co.
Overview: Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 American short comedy film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
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His Only Father
Overview: An American short comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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Luke's Shattered Sleep
Overview: Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bill Shakespeare Luke "blesses the man who first invented sleep." After a screamingly comical search for slumber he finally hits the hay and sleeps without moving to Brooklyn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-31
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Luke's Late Lunchers
Overview: Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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Luke Laughs Last
Overview: Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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Luke's Movie Muddle
Overview: Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-03
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Say It with Babies
Overview: Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-16
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An Ozark Romance
Overview: Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-06
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Frozen Hearts
Overview: In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-27
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A London Bobby
Overview: Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-for-all battle is taking place. After the struggle is snuffed out by a particularly belligerent chap who wades into the crowd and sends its members into the land of twittering birdies with an assortment of right and left-handed blows, Snub steps forth and accepts credit for the feat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-22
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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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Short Kilts
Overview: As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-03
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Fresh Paint
Overview: A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-07
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The Sleuth
Overview: Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-16
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Movie Night
Overview: A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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The Real McCoy
Overview: Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Shine 'Em Up
Overview: Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-04
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Under Two Jags
Overview: Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affections.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-02
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Scorching Sands
Overview: The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-09
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Postage Due
Overview: Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-17
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Smithy
Overview: After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-19
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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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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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Catch-As Catch-Can
Overview: Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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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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Luke Joins the Navy
Overview: The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Hey There
Overview: In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-28
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Looking for Trouble
Overview: Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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Whirl o' the West
Overview: A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-23
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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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Post No Bills
Overview: Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-05
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Is Marriage the Bunk?
Overview: Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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The Cowboy Sheik
Overview: A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-03
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Be My Wife
Overview: Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-07
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Thundering Fleas
Overview: The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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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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Pinched
Overview: Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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Look Out Below
Overview: A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Los Angeles streets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-16
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Rupert of Hee-Haw
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-07
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The Poor Fish
Overview: Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos, something his mother-in-law was expecting...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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The Rat's Knuckles
Overview: Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-03
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A Ten-Minute Egg
Overview: The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-19
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Wandering Papas
Overview: A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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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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Swat the Crook
Overview: The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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Kicked Out
Overview: Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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Off the Trolley
Overview: Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in love with a female collector who doesn't care much about him and he also annoys the trolley conductor. But it seems that odds and luck will be on his favor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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Heap Big Chief
Overview: Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-24
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She Loves Me Not
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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Crack Your Heels
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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Pistols for Breakfast
Overview: A young man goes out to eat breakfast with his friend. As a restaurant "regular" with a pistol threatens to eat everyone's bacon, the two friends flee.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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At the Old Stage Door
Overview: Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the deception is uncovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-20
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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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Pipe the Whiskers
Overview: Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-14
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Look Pleasant, Please
Overview: A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Hit Him Again
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-17
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Fireman Save My Child
Overview: In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-25
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Madame Mystery
Overview: A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-03-12
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Big Game
Overview: While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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Bromo and Juliet
Overview: A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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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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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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All at Sea
Overview: Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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Any Old Port
Overview: Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards the ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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All Lit Up
Overview: Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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Call a Taxi
Overview: After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-25
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High Rollers
Overview: An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-26
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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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It's a Joy!
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Tight Shoes
Overview: The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-25
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Take the Air
Overview: James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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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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Don't Butt In
Overview: James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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Girl Shy
Overview: Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Collars and Cuffs
Overview: Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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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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Berth Marks
Overview: Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Luke's Society Mixup
Overview: Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-26
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A Man About Town
Overview: A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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Pick and Shovel
Overview: Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-16
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Zeb vs. Paprika
Overview: Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-16
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Wide Open Spaces
Overview: Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-06
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Brothers Under the Chin
Overview: Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra hand. It does not develop until the end that the well dressed man he has abducted is his own brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-13
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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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Alias Aladdin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-17
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