Joe Murphy
Also Known As: Joseph J. Murphy, Joseph Murphy
Biography: Joseph Murphy (May 16, 1877 – July 31, 1961) was an American comic stage actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 16, 1877
Age: 148 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 31, 1961
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Andy Takes a Flyer
Overview: Part of the Gumps 2-reel comedy series of shorts
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-07
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Any Old Count
Overview: The Gumps spend time at a hotel
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-23
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The Play House
Overview: After waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-26
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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Dynamite
Overview: Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-20
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Andy's Stump Speech
Overview: Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-03
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Andy's Stump Speech
Overview: Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-03
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Oh! What a Day!
Overview: In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering comedienne-producer Fay Tincher as Min, and Jack Morgan as the rascally Chester. In this episode, the comedy begins with the announcement of Min’s tenth anniversary gift from Uncle Bim—a “tin” flivver. Primping for a family outing in the new car, Min breaks a mirror due to her son’s shenanigans. “That’s seven more years of bad luck, Chester,” she scolds. The rest of the action—in a hotel, on the road, and at the beach—proves her right. Angelinos will take delight in the scenes filmed at Ocean Park’s Lick Pier, just months before it was destroyed by fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-13
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I'm the Sheriff
Overview: Eleventh episode, third series, of The Gumps 2-reel series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Trouble
Overview: A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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The Heart Snatcher
Overview: A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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Cold Hearts and Hot Flames
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-20
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Mooching Through Georgia
Overview: Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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We The People 2.0
Overview: American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the only way to survive and save their communities is to challenge the system head-on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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The Cat and the Canary
Overview: Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-20
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Overview: Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-11
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Overview: Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-30
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The Red Lily
Overview: Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-08
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Open All Night
Overview: Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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A Little Princess
Overview: Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-05
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