Bobby Dunn

AKA: Robert P. Dunn
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1890-08-27

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {98}

Gimpy Lamb

1930-06-01 0

The Canyon of Missing Men

Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him. ...
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Percival Givens

1929-01-01 0

'Neath Western Skies

Ranch owner Tex McCloud is convinced there is oil under his property and brings in a drilling rig and equipment to drill for it. But a gang who wants the property wage a sabotage and theft war against ...
Genre :Western

Bar Patron (uncredited)

1931-09-14 0

The Hot Spot

In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime. ...
Genre :Comedy

Deputy Shorty

1930-09-30 0

Trails of Danger

During a rescue of Mary and her father, Bob Bartlett finds a good horse, which later causes him to be mistaken for Butch Coleson, a wanted outlaw. Wounded by a posse, Bob heads for Poker Flats hoping ...
Genre :Western

1931-05-09 0

Gents of Leisure

Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates ...
Genre :Comedy

Shorty (as Bobbie Dunn)

1930-11-12 0

Breed of the West

There is a feud on the Colonel's ranch between his foreman Longrope and some of the hands. The Colonel is firing those that don't get along with Longrope and it looks like Wally will be next. But thin ...
Genre :Western

Wild West Show Member

1929-02-17 0

The Royal Rider

Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowbo ...
Genre :Western

(uncredited)

1918-09-15 6.293

The Cook

In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

1929-03-16 0

Turn Him Loose

A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy ...
Genre :Comedy

Soldier

1926-04-18 0

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Fashion Show Spectator (uncredited)

1925-12-13 0

From Rags to Britches

Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

Waiter

1926-03-28 0

Wandering Willies

Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to im ...
Genre :Comedy

Trainer

1927-03-12 8

A Dozen Socks

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cameraman

1925-04-09 0

The Lion's Whiskers

Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Secon ...
Genre :Comedy

Cop

1927-12-25 0

Love in a Police Station

Love in a Police Station is a comedy short released in 1927 ...
Genre :Comedy

Bad-Eye Pete

1930-12-26 0

Under the Cock-eyed Moon

Horace and Chester search for peace and quiet in the Arizona desert, with Lizzy, their personalized jalopy. Arriving in a small town they befriend two girls, a crack-pot prospector, and attract the ir ...
Genre :Comedy

Spud

1930-05-02 0

Half Pint Polly

Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race. ...
Genre :Comedy

1923-07-30 0

Oh! Shoot

Short silent comedy starring Chaplin imitator Bobby Dunn. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man in Shower

1915-11-14 0

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

3rd Unruly Student

1915-06-20 5.7

The Little Teacher

The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé. ...
Genre :Comedy

Porter

1932-06-03 1

Jimmy's New Yacht

A young lady is wooed by two men ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-02-01 0

So Simple

A Bobby Ray comedy for Arrow. ...
Genre :Comedy

Holy Man

1938-07-07 5

Religious Racketeers

A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Train Station Extra

1931-01-03 4.3

Reducing

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor. ...
Genre :Comedy

Shorty

1928-06-03 0

The Upland Rider

The honest John Graham and the crooked Ross Cheswick battle for supremacy. Despite Cheswick's unscrupulous methods, Dan and his handsome bronco Tarzan win the Big Race for Graham. Dan's prize: Graham ...
Genre :Western

Shorty

1930-01-19 0

Parade of the West

Bud Rand, a cowboy who is charged with the care of Little Billy Rand, accepts an offer to appear with Copeland's Wild West Show to ride a horse called "Mankiller." Dude, Copeland's righthand man, rese ...
Genre :Western

Buckeye Pete

1929-09-08 0

The Wagon Master

Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch (Tom Santschi) on food prices in the mining camps. The Rambler (Ken Maynard) joins the train when i ...
Genre :Western

Uncle Hiram

1926-10-20 0

When the Wife's Away

Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impr ...
Genre :Comedy

Ticket Seller

1933-02-10 6

Too Many Highballs

Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ...
Genre :Comedy

Dentist's Caddy

1932-12-09 5.846

The Dentist

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion. ...
Genre :Comedy

Laughing Man (uncredited)

1915-07-26 5.6

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench wh ...
Genre :Comedy

Grocer (uncredited)

1915-02-01 5.2

Fatty's New Role

Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Village Cop

1915-01-17 5.2

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find ...
Genre :Comedy

Ice Cream Vendor / Sideshow Game Operator (uncredited)

1915-05-01 4.9

Mabel’s Wilful Way

Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors. ...
Genre :Comedy

Audience Member (uncredited)

1915-03-14 5.1

That Little Band Of Gold

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother ...
Genre :Comedy

Cabbie (uncredited)

1932-08-13 1

What Price Taxi

Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Actor in Dressing Room

1915-03-22 5

A One Night Stand

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production. ...
Genre :Comedy

Shorty

1930-08-25 1

Canyon Hawks

Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep are on his land. Attracted to Mildred, he not only lets her stay, he deeds part of his land to her. Th ...
Genre :Western

Shorty Gordon

1929-11-01 0

Code of the West

Leary is using the Express Agent's liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance. Railroad Agent Hartley is sent to investigate and suspecting Leary, he ...
Genre :Western

1920-03-01 5.8

The Heart Snatcher

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. ...
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Street Cleaner

1932-11-05 4.5

The Big Flash

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at t ...
Genre :Comedy

Bum

1935-02-15 5.8

One More Spring

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Bidder at Horse Auction

1931-07-10 4.5

Sweepstakes

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race. ...
Genre :Drama

Little Man

1931-09-19 5

Side Show

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Bobby

1924-09-28 5

Hello, 'Frisco

A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville. ...
Genre :Comedy

Another messenger boy

1915-08-23 0

Only a Messenger Boy

Keystone silent comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Head Waiter

1916-04-15 5

His Bread and Butter

After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that they're married, lest proprietor Slim Summerville fire them both. The trouble begins when both Summervi ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-11-15 0

Hold Tight

The baddies want Alyce Ardell's mine, which they know -- but she doesn't -- has just struck a rich vein. They will stick at naught, but she is protected by Bobby Dunn in this good thrill comedy direct ...
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1923-07-31 0

No Danger

An Arrow comedy directed by Eddie Lyons from Aug 1923, co-starring Glen Cavender, Ruth Hiatt and Art Rowlands. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Landlord

1917-03-04 0

Villa of the Movies

Here's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would co-star again with later, both with Fox Sunshine comedies in 1920 and a series for Universal in 1924. Gle ...
Genre :

1923-11-15 0

All Is Lost

Arrow comedy with Bobby Dunn. In this one he tries to get married and then attempt suicide. ...
Genre :

1924-08-14 0

The Dumbwaiter

A comedy short starring Bobby Dunn & Eddie Lyons. ...
Genre :

1924-03-01 0

Unmounted Policemen

In this one, Bobby Dunn shaves his beard off (!) and then gets involved with the Mounties. ...
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Minor Role (uncredited)

1922-02-13 0

The Duck Hunter

A 1922 comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sailor

1933-11-29 5

Son of a Sailor

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

1929-10-19 6.3

Bacon Grabbers

Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio. ...
Genre :Comedy

Railroad Man at Bonfire

1929-10-19 4.3

Oh, Yeah!

A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the freight-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hardrock

1930-03-01 0

Call of the Desert

Tod Walker takes Rex Carson's map to a gold mine and leaves him in the desert. Carson recuperates at Jean Walker's ranch and she takes a liking to him. But when her uncle Tod arrives, he claims Carson ...
Genre :Western

Tough (uncredited)

1928-04-07 7.3

Speedy

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1936-04-09 7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for ever ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bemused Sailor

1927-07-17 5.368

Why Girls Love Sailors

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captai ...
Genre :Comedy

Moonshiner

1934-07-21 7.5

Them Thar Hills

Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their ...
Genre :Comedy

The Kleptomaniac

1935-01-05 6.849

Tit for Tat

Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the grocery right next door is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). S ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-05-26 5

The Plumber's Helper

A Bobby Dunn comedy short for Arrow Film Corporation. ...
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Minor Role

1919-03-02 5.3

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself. ...
Genre :Comedy, War

1923-06-29 0

Hot Foot

Bobby Dunn and his girl enters a marathon dance contest. ...
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Desk Clerk

1915-02-08 0

Hogan the Porter

A porter works hard in an understaffed hotel. ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-05-29 0

Captain Cowboy

Story of a Cowboy who met challenges with action! He matched his fists against another man's diabolical brain! ...
Genre :Western

Hotel patron

1918-04-17 0

Adventurous Ambrose

Ambrose and his wife are going to take charge of a seabeach hotel. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cross-eyed Sailor

1933-04-14 6

Terror Aboard

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened. ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Hogan's Bum Chum

1915-03-06 0

From Patches to Plenty

A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications... ...
Genre :Comedy

Milkman (uncredited)

1929-11-11 6.6

The Trespasser

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ...
Genre :Drama

Crew Member

1937-06-16 4.5

Slave Ship

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Gangster

1934-04-03 9

The Undie-World

A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician. ...
Genre :Comedy

Billy's Butler

1932-10-22 0

Honeymoon Beach

Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of ...
Genre :Comedy

Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)

1932-07-08 6.6

Million Dollar Legs

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. ...
Genre :Comedy

Shorty - the Chauffeur

1931-11-01 3.882

The Phantom

An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Hogan's Rival

1915-02-27 0

Hogan Out West

After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attracti ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Weary Willie

1915-02-13 5

Hogan's Romance Upset

Charles Murray out romancing in the park. ...
Genre :Comedy

Butler

1930-02-02 3.833

Loose Ankles

A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Taxi Driver

1928-10-30 6.2

The Power of the Press

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove ...
Genre :Drama

Man on Street

1915-03-15 5

Ambrose's Little Hatchet

Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including ...
Genre :Comedy

The Rat (as Bobbie Dunn)

1929-11-09 4.9

The Racketeer

A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1923-12-31 0

The Rivals

A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Ralston. ...
Genre :Comedy

Father of the Wife

1921-12-11 7.3

Be Reasonable

Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collect ...
Genre :

1916-05-06 0

Sunshine

A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bobby

1924-05-26 0

Case Dismissed

Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bailiff. The reel deals with three or four different cases that come up, one a female bootlegger, the ot ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-03-15 0

The House of Flickers

The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cop in Front Seat of Car

1915-06-13 1

The Cannon Ball

An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he appears to be more interested in its female workers, an explosive situation results. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man on tricycle

1919-08-30 4.5

Her First Kiss

Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering ...
Genre :

2nd Crook

1917-08-26 0

Two Crooks

Genre :Comedy

Ball player (uncredited)

1935-02-22 3.9

One Run Elmer

Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Crony (uncredited)

1935-08-30 7.3

Here Comes Cookie

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and he ...
Genre :Comedy

Shorty, Texas Ranger

1931-03-07 0

Hell's Valley

In Hell's Valley, Texas Ranger Captain Wally kills Jose Valdez, leading Jose's brothers, Carlos and Manuel, to seek revenge at the Flores ranch. Wally is wounded pursuing them but is saved by Rosita F ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Cockeyed Violinist (uncredited)

1933-10-07 5

The Bowery

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Prop Man

1931-04-26 0

In Conference

Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested w ...
Genre :Comedy

Man Outside Hotcake Harry's

1929-03-03 0

Ladies Must Eat

Daphne and Thelma want their husbands to take them somewhere nice for dinner. But husbands Johnny and Vernon leery of the expense try a variety of slapstick ways to get them to eat at Hotcake Harry's ...
Genre :Comedy

1921-04-10 0

Skirts

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the ...
Genre :Comedy