Mark Jones
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Biography: Mark Jones was born on December 9, 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Why Worry? (1923), Never Weaken (1921) and Family Life (1924). He was married to Edna Mae. He died on April 14, 1965 in Los Angeles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: December 08, 1889
Deathday: April 14, 1965
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Gender: Male
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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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Never Weaken
Overview: Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-22
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White Wings
Overview: Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-12
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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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Kill or Cure
Overview: Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this movie dates from 1923, the shank of Prohibition. During Prohibition, quite a lot of Americans purchased patent medicine if it had (ahem!) 'medicinal' properties, so -- if Knox-All contains alcohol.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-14
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Are Parents Pickles?
Overview: James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-07
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Strictly Modern
Overview: A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-11
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Family Life
Overview: The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-29
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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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Soft Pedal
Overview: An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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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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Short Orders
Overview: Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with dogs following Stan at the end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-01
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Save The Ship
Overview: 'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a run of the mill production to pay his bills and as a token by Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-17
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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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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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Hollywood Cavalcade
Overview: Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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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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Watch Your Wife
Overview: A James Parrott comedy short.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-07
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Pay the Cashier
Overview: The penniless tourist, "Appetite Andy" (Paul Parrott) stops by at the Hollywood Cafateria (sic) where the gullible boss (Mark Jones) welcomes him in to sample many of the soups and delicacies available to customers. After savoring many of the dishes, Andy refuses them all and attempts to leave, never intending to pay. The boss is having none of it and drags him back inside and puts him to work in the kitchen. The head chef (Charles Stevenson) is chopping food when the order comes in for chicken to be prepared. He instructs the new employee to grab a chicken (from a crate in the corner) and "prepare" it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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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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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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No Pets
Overview: James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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