James T. Kelley
Also Known As: James T Kelley, James Kelly, Jimmy Kelly, Jim Kelly
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
Birthday: July 10, 1854
Deathday: November 12, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Rink
Overview: After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-04
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The Pawnshop
Overview: A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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The Count
Overview: A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Hansel and Gretel
Overview: This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-26
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The Adventurer
Overview: The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him…
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Cyclone Bliss
Overview: Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, singlehanded, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-20
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Hot Sands
Overview: Monty Banks finds love and mischief at the amusement park, in this two-reel comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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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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The Nickel Snatcher
Overview: Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers to the beach at Venice in California, where the plot becomes involved with a bank robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Men of Daring
Overview: The story is set in the Black Hills of South Dakota circa 1876. While making their way through the Badlands, a religious cult is terrorized by a bandit known only as Black Roger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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Way Out West
Overview: Way Out West silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Mystic Mush
Overview: Mystic Mush silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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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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The Fireman
Overview: Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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The Cure
Overview: An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-16
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Triple Trouble
Overview: As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-11
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Among Those Present
Overview: An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-29
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The Red Card
Overview: Sam, an outsider in her high school, is finally invited to the most secretive party of the year, but when the party spirals out of control, Sam is confronted by a disturbing side of her date and her peers that she never expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-17
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Dr. Jack
Overview: Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Bowery Waltz
Overview: A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white sport coat and tie. Both have hats. On a small stage, she approaches him gingerly, leaning forward. He grabs her close, she leans into him, and he waltzes her around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1897-08-31
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A Foozle at the Tee Party
Overview: Luke lifts a wallet from a golfer and thereby gains entry to a golf course. Mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-08
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Pete, the Pedal Polisher
Overview: Pete is a discontented hostler. Hostlers are always discontented but Pete is a little more so. In fact, he is so sick and tired of his job as the mule's chambermaid that he is fast becoming desperate. He gives Maud her morning "Massage" and is interrupted by his "steady," a queen of the avenue, and a movie fan. She "coaches" and "wheedles" him in the naturally gentle, persuasive way of her class, in this wise: "Aw, loosen up. Separate. Give yourself another frisk," etc. As Pete finds himself unable to supply his "best" with the wherewithal to attend a movie, his discouragement becomes despair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-30
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Close-Cropped Clippings
Overview: Punctual Pete prepares the "Shaved in Silence" shop for the day's business. He is as handy as a man with five thumbs. Gertie, almost a soubrette, looking for a job, decides that she is willing to try anything once. Seeing a sign in the barber shop window advertising for a lady barber she beats it home and brushes up on the tonsorial art.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-30
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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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Nobody's Business
Overview: Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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A Mixup for Mazie
Overview: Maisie Orpe is a dispenser of victuals in a second rate "beanery," and is the light of the lives of several of the town "swells". But Luke de Fluke, an all-round gay lad, and Shorty Magee, the local tough nut, seem to lead the field in Maisie's blue orbs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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Behind the Screen
Overview: During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-13
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The Vagabond
Overview: A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-10
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The Immigrant
Overview: A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-17
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The Floorwalker
Overview: An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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Charity Ball
Overview: A Victorian couple dancing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1897-09-18
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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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Broken Bubbles
Overview: A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune teller. He chooses the latter, and gazing into a crystal globe, he is told to follow the horses. He is then shown working around a racing stable, and, of course, rides the heroine's horse to victory. That night they decide to celebrate in a cabaret, where several amusing complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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The Chaplin Revue
Overview: Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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A Dog's Life
Overview: The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-14
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When Spirits Move
Overview: A 1920 Silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Safety Last!
Overview: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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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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The Wages of Tin
Overview: aka Billy, the Ford Buster
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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Thundering Hoofs
Overview: A young woman returns to Kentucky after several years in boarding school, and discovers that a very valuable horse that is to be entered in the Derby is about to be forfeited due to the machinations of a rival. She determines to ride the horse in the Derby and win the race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-30
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Charlie's Triple Trouble
Overview: British comedian Tommy Handley makes funny commentary on speeded up and shortened version of Triple trouble (1918)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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The Kid Reporter
Overview: The 'secretary' of a busy newspaperman is revealed to be a cherubic small child, Baby Peggy. When a rich woman's pearl necklace is stolen, Baby Peggy's employer promises to make the reporter who cracks the case Editor-in-Chief. The little girl seizes the opportunity, and - several disguises and chases later, with the grudging aid of the office-boy - duly returns with the jewels to achieve promotion, with all the adults scurrying to serve her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-30
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