Frank J. Coleman
Also Known As: Frank Coleman
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newburgh, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 29, 1948
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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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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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Sheriff Nell's Tussle
Overview: A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent, the while his confederates crack the safe and make off with the town's wealth. Nell, with her faithful but brainless lover, journeys to the city in pursuit of the loot and the looter
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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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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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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His Musical Sneeze
Overview: A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-22
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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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Easy Street
Overview: A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-22
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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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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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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 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 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 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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A Fresh Start
Overview: Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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The Vagrant
Overview: Pursued by a cop, Lloyd tries desperately to demonstrate that he has a job so he won't be pinched as a bum, including posing as a peanut vendor, shoe shiner and toy balloon man.He helps corn remedy sales by hitting passers-by's feet with a hammer, and eventually he and the cop accidentally get high when opium is burned during a raid on Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-24
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Love and Sour Notes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-18
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The First 100 Years
Overview: A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old friend, Roland Stone, bluff and portly. Roland befriends our newly-wed's wife, and this friendship deepens after the husband hires a new cook, the lovely Miss Gainsborough, who gives her boss a little too much friendly attention. That night, a prowler skulks, Miss Gainsborough faints, the newly-wed husband comes to her rescue, and she grabs him and holds on. His wife is offended and determines to leave with Roland. Is the marriage over?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-16
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The Luck o' the Foolish
Overview: Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to being a beat cop and Marcie works as a seamstress. One evening, she delivers a dress to a party; a Lothario asks the hostess to get Marcie to stay. Outside the same house, Harry the cop is investigating strange noises. Thieves, bombs, a wallet, a swimming pool, and misunderstandings figure in the luck of our foolish but winsome pair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-13
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The Cave Girl
Overview: Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes of living, finds it difficult to find food in the winter wilderness and resorts to pilfering from the Bates's winter camp. Divvy, engaged to a girl he does not love, meets Margot on one of her raids and falls in love with her. Baptiste, a half-breed employed by the Bates family, is discharged for stealing and burns the camp, driving the family to refuge with Margot. Elsie, hoping to regain Divvy's affections, dresses in boyish clothes similar to Margot's. Joining forces with Baptiste, they capture Margot, and Baptiste takes her in a canoe downstream. Realizing her mistake, Elsie warns Divvy, who bests the half-breed and then rescues Margot from the falls. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-26
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Jerry the Giant
Overview: Trying to catch a $25,000 runaway kid called Jerry the Giant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-22
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A Convict’s Happy Bride
Overview: Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The Charlie Chaplin Festival
Overview: Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, and Easy Street, presented with music and sound effects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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The Show
Overview: A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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The House of Flickers
Overview: The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Napoleon, Jr.
Overview: Jerry flirts with a young miss whose parents are fighting for her custody in a divorce court. Jerry settles the argument by inviting the lady out for a ride in his speed bus with dog power. Pal is all six of the cylinders. The kids later wind up aboard a boat bound for Europe, shipped aboard in a case containing a litter of young leopards. There is considerable helter-skelter business when the animals break loose but young Jerry saves the day by coaxing them all back to their cages. Jerry is also the means of bringing about the reunion of his little girl friend's parents. —The Film Daily, October 31, 1926
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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The Punch of the Irish
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-20
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A Game Lady
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-27
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Nonsense
Overview: A farmer's daughter, Little Nell, is abducted and it's up to two of her faithful admirers to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-26
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