Frank Alexander
Also Known As: Fatty Alexander, 'Tiny' Alexander, Frank "Fatty" Alexander, Frank Dwight Alexander, Фрэнк Александр, Фрэнк Александер
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Olympia, Washington, USA
Birthday: May 24, 1879
Deathday: September 08, 1937
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mickey's Rebellion
Overview: A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-23
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Old Tin Sides
Overview: This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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All Out
Overview: The Ton of Fun -- aka The Three Fatties -- go out to a Wyoming ranch, where their enormous weight is about the sum total of the jokes, as in the others in this series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-12
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Honeymoon Feet
Overview: Ton of Fun out in the desert with a mule and a lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Overview: Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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The Heavy Parade
Overview: Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-15
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3 Missing Links
Overview: A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Albert Herman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-11
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Three Of A Kind
Overview: A young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-12
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Three Wise Goofs
Overview: A heavyweight slapstick comedy with "A Ton Of Fun".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-03
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The Sawmill
Overview: A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Hop to It!
Overview: Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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Tailoring
Overview: A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-04
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Kid Speed
Overview: Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-16
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The Simple Life
Overview: The Simple Life is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-04
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Dunces and Dangers
Overview: Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and everything and eventually chase the pair up onto the room—where various stunts occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-04
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Between the Acts
Overview: Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-07
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Passing the Buck
Overview: Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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Figures Do Lie
Overview: A comedy short with Frank Alexander, Jack Cooper & Violet Palmer from the J.R. Bray Studios.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-01
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The Suitor
Overview: Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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The Perfect Clown
Overview: A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-14
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Aladdin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-16
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Her Boy Friend
Overview: Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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Cyclone Jones
Overview: Young cowboy Cyclone Jones falls for pretty Sylvia Billings, who with her sheep-rancher father has just come to town. However, his pursuit of Sylvia runs into some roadblocks, mainly the hostility of the local cattle ranchers to "sheepmen" like her father, whose sheep they believe ravage the range and leave it unusable for their cattle to graze on and who are determined to drive the new arrivals out of town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-01
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The Bargain of the Century
Overview: Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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The Kick-Off!
Overview: Gangsters kidnap the team's football coach in order to throw the game; Grady and Mickey try to win the game.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-05
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The Shrimp
Overview: A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs
Overview: A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-22
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The Star Boarder
Overview: Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail. Exchanging clothes with a lookalike escaped prisoner, he goes back, only to find he's to be hung. Now desperate to leave again, he joins other cons in a jailbreak.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-26
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The Fly-Cop
Overview: Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-28
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Romans and Rascals
Overview: The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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A Submarine Pirate
Overview: A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-26
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Overview: Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Standing Pat
Overview: Ton O' Fun comedy produced by Larry Darmour.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-08
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Cheer Up
Overview: CHEER UP - starring Cliff Bowes, with Virginia Vance, Eddie Boland, and Frank Alexander. Cliff vies for Virginia's affections with Eddie, but ultimately she chooses Cliff to be her groom. The newlyweds move in to their new home, but the spurned rival makes a shambles out of the house in retaliation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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The Bell Hop
Overview: A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-17
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How High Is Up?
Overview: "Ton of Fun" comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
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Back Fire
Overview: Fat, Fatty and Fatter are seen rescuing their old Ford from the scrap wagon that is hauling it away. And then report to work, where they have a dyspeptic boss. With the help of a monkey they manage to wreck the office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-07
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Chop Suey Louie
Overview: Joe Rock short comedy, also featuring Billie Rhodes and Frank Alexander.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-26
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Bath Tub Perils
Overview: In this classic comedy, a hotelier continues to find himself in promiscuous situations involving a newlywed bride on her honeymoon much to the chagrin of his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-14
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The Dome Doctor
Overview: The proprietors of a hairdressing and beauty emporium and the neighboring delicatessen battle over everything including the hairdresser's love of the deli owner's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-18
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Madame Q
Overview: An attractive young woman on trial for murder employs her feminine wiles to charm the judge and jury.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-08
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Scamps and Scandals
Overview: Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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His Home Sweet Home
Overview: Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-12
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Mickey's Thrill Hunters
Overview: Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Campus Romeos
Overview: A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-28
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Gussle Rivals Jonah
Overview: Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-25
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Heavy Love
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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Galloping Ghosts
Overview: A comic frightfest featuring Ton o' Fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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From Patches to Plenty
Overview: A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-06
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School Days
Overview: Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-03
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S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
Overview: S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia Pictures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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Well, I'll Be
Overview: Larry Semon goes out west.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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The Cloudhopper
Overview: The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-06
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The Stage Hand
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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Bears and Bad Men
Overview: Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-07
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The Bakery
Overview: Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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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 Fall Guy
Overview: Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
Genres: Western Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-15
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The Rent Collector
Overview: The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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Mickey's Busy Day
Overview: A Mickey McGuire short comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-13
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You're Next
Overview: The three fat boys make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-04
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