Rube Miller
Also Known As: Henry Miller Jr., Jack Miller, Henry Miller
Biography: Rube Miller was born on May 22, 1886 in Trottwood, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Shy Thirty Cents (1916), Someone in the House (1920) and Whitewashing William (1915). He died on April 1, 1927 in Mexico City, Mexico of a drug overdose.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Trotwood, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 21, 1886
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 01, 1927
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Tom's Little Star
Overview: A 1919 silent drama film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-23
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A Coat's Tale
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-08
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A Deaf Burglar
Overview: The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-13
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He Died and He Didn't
Overview: The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-29
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Love and Salt Water
Overview: In this farce Charley and Minta frolic by the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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Her Last Chance
Overview: Her Last Chance
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-29
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Hell's Hole
Overview: Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he discovers they have no tickets, and the two men swear revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-23
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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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Won in a Closet
Overview: Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-21
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The Gay Lord Quex
Overview: Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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The Desperate Hero
Overview: Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-07
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Bombs and Bangs
Overview: Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-17
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Passions, He Had Three
Overview: Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-05
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A Bandit
Overview: Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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Peeping Pete
Overview: This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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A Muddy Romance
Overview: Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-19
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Overview: Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-03
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A Quiet Little Wedding
Overview: The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-23
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His Sister's Kids
Overview: His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-13
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Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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His Favorite Pastime
Overview: A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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In the Clutches of the Gang
Overview: In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-17
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The Chicken Chaser
Overview: The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-01
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A Fishy Affair
Overview: A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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Bangville Police
Overview: A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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Shot in the Excitement
Overview: Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The Great Toe Mystery
Overview: A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-25
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The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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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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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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The Stolen Booking
Overview: Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-03
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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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The Gusher
Overview: Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-14
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A Blind Pig
Overview: A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-12
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The World's Champion
Overview: Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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Poultry à la Mode
Overview: Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Doctoring a Leak
Overview: Ben Turpin & Rube Miller trying to fix a leak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-17
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The Belles of Liberty
Overview: Monty Banks plays a paramour who starts all sort of silly highjinks with Eva Novak and Carolyne Wright
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-10
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His Chum the Baron
Overview: Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-28
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A Gambling Rube
Overview: A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-15
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Someone in the House
Overview: Alias "the Dancer," fashionable society crook Jimmy Burke is hot on the trail of the Brent diamonds. Upon learning that Molly Brent and her diamonds are the stars of an amateur play, Jimmy obtains the leading man's part and devises a plan to steal the jewels. Molly falls in love with her leading man, who plans to switch the gems with fakes during the performance. After the play, the police question the couple and Molly declares that the robbery was part of the drama. When she discovers Jimmy's deed, she begins to cry and "the Dancer," realizing that he is in love with his victim, renounces his profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-15
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Truxton King
Overview: An American seeking adventure in Graustark strikes up an acquaintance with six-year-old Prince Robin and his Aunt Lorraine. The next day, Truxton overhears a plot against the prince and is taken prisoner. He escapes to rescue both Prince Robin and Lorraine, and to prevent an attack on the castle. Truxton's love for Lorraine leads to marriage when she reveals that she, too, is American.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-18
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