Sunshine Sammy Morrison

AKA: Sammy Morrison, Little Sambo, Smiling Sambo

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1912-12-20

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography

Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {87}

Chuckles

1940-10-05 0

Fugitive from a Prison Camp

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean enviro ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Scruno

1941-10-24 4.9

Spooks Run Wild

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house. ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror

Scruno

1941-08-01 5.75

Bowery Blitzkrieg

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)

1994-01-01 0

The Our Gang Story

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood ...

Genre :Documentary

Sorghum

1922-12-03 6.167

Saturday Morning

The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Booker T.

1922-12-30 6.167

A Quiet Street

The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike. ...

Genre :Comedy

Booker T.

1923-02-24 5.8

The Big Show

The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-08-01 0

Live and Learn

Snub Pollard comedy ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-07-04 0

Don't Rock the Boat

Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair stranded on a nearby island where comic situations ensue. ...

Genre :Comedy

In Need

1926-01-03 0

Between Meals

James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, but not released until 1926. ...

Genre :Comedy

Scruno

1943-07-30 4.2

Ghosts on the Loose

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Horror

George Washington Joffre Foch Pershing Johnson

1919-02-23 0

The Old Maid's Baby

Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant. ...

Genre :Drama

Sambo

1919-04-20 0

The Sawdust Doll

Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the place of a real mother. ...

Genre :Drama

Scruno (archive footage)

1991-01-01 10

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods. ...

Genre :Documentary, Horror

Scruno

1943-04-23 5.75

Clancy Street Boys

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, howe ...

Genre :Comedy

1917-08-05 0

Captain Kiddo

Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr. Cross , whom Marie doesn't like -- she much prefers Jac ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Small Boy (uncredited)

1920-09-26 6.3

Get Out and Get Under

The comic adventures of a new car owner. ...

Genre :Comedy

1922-06-11 5

The Non-Skid Kid

Genre :Comedy

Sambo

1918-04-29 0

Dolly Does Her Bit

Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has been naughty, and finds her aunt in the act of making a Red Cross costume for a huge mechanical doll. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Little Henry Hercules

1919-11-19 4.5

Call for Mr. Caveman

A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes. ...

Genre :Comedy

George Washington Tarfoot Lee

1920-05-02 0

Drink Hearty

Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers. ...

Genre :Comedy

1922-04-23 0

Full o' Pep

The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he dreams that he has become an ape and is forced to s ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-02-22 4.5

Waltz Me Around

Delivery man 'Snub' Pollard and his assistant Sunshine Sammy nearly run over Marie Mosquini in the street and ends up at dance school. ...

Genre :Comedy

Prince’s aid

1922-07-16 0

The Sleuth

Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik ...

Genre :Comedy

Wary

1926-01-31 0

Soft Pedal

An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-08-01 5

Run 'Em Ragged

Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-12-19 4

Park Your Car

A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with their wives. ...

Genre :

Assistant

1921-05-22 0

Big Game

While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist. ...

Genre :Comedy

Joe

1940-05-01 6

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the s ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Ernie

1923-03-25 6.1

A Pleasant Journey

Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Ernie

1923-02-18 6

The Cobbler

A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Sammy Johnson

1923-01-27 6.5

The Champeen

Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Sammy

1921-01-23 0

Whirl o' the West

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time. ...

Genre :Western, Comedy

Little Casino

1921-12-04 0

The Pickaninny

The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino. ...

Genre :Comedy

Gang Member (uncredited)

1940-03-28 5.8

Gang War

Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Ernie

1924-01-12 5.833

Tire Trouble

This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own makeshift car with Mary, Joe, and Jackie in tow. Among ...

Genre :Comedy

Goofy

1921-08-20 0

Name the Day

Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the usual gag-filled Pollard one-reeler, with William Gillespie pointing out that if she wants to get mar ...

Genre :Comedy

Ernie

1923-06-02 6.5

Back Stage

The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck. ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

Scruno Jackson

1943-02-05 6.6

Kid Dynamite

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, onl ...

Genre :Comedy

Ernie

1924-04-05 5.833

Seein' Things

At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so much he sneaks out of the house and ends up eating se ...

Genre :Comedy

Sunshine Sammy

1922-11-04 6.389

Our Gang

An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ernie

1922-11-25 7.125

Young Sherlocks

The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ernie

1923-04-07 5

Boys to Board

A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Ernie

1923-12-15 6.167

Sunday Calm

The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang. ...

Genre :Comedy

Scruno

1942-11-20 6.35

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The ki ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

Ernie

1924-07-27 6.125

It's a Bear

The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while so they decide to try and track a bear. Soon the ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Scruno

1940-07-15 5

Boys of the City

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Ernie

1923-05-12 5.875

Giants vs. Yanks

The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant home, which they proceed to destroy. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Ernie

1923-07-01 5.5

Dogs of War!

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Booker T. Bacon

1922-10-08 6

Fire Fighters

The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine. ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

Scruno

1940-12-15 6.1

Pride of the Bowery

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Ernie

1924-03-09 6.25

The Buccaneers

This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off t ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Ernie

1924-06-01 5.833

Cradle Robbers

The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them t ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

Narcissus

1921-04-07 0

Rush Orders

A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotive muscle). When there it's all about the hustle fo ...

Genre :

Booker T.

1922-09-09 5

One Terrible Day

Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Ernie

1923-10-20 6.167

Stage Fright

Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. Th ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Ernie

1924-11-15 5.833

Fast Company

Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters ...

Genre :Comedy

Sunshine Sammy

1924-02-09 6.167

Big Business

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable ...

Genre :Comedy

Ernie 'Sammy'

1923-11-17 5.625

Derby Day

After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own. ...

Genre :Comedy

Member of the Gang (uncredited)

1924-03-29 6.8

The 'Fraidy Cat

Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their father. He is terrified of Lem Tucker, who is his ri ...

Genre :Comedy

Scruno

1940-09-23 5.6

That Gang of Mine

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ernie

1924-05-03 5.833

Commencement Day

Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in ...

Genre :Comedy

Messenger Boy

1920-01-25 5.2

The Dippy Dentist

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord (who is a dentist). Shortly ...

Genre :Comedy

Ernie

1923-07-28 6.25

Lodge Night

This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing raci ...

Genre :Comedy

Scruno

1941-03-10 5.9

Flying Wild

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents. ...

Genre :Thriller, Action, Comedy, Drama

Ernie

1923-08-26 6.375

July Days

The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of Mary. In the interim, the village blacksmith, "Dad" ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Scruno

1942-05-29 5.1

Let's Get Tough

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The Kid

1920-02-01 5

All Lit Up

Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-06-27 0

Any Old Port

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-07-25 0

Call a Taxi

After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and ta ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-04-04 0

Cracked Wedding Bells

'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-12-06 0

Cash Customers

Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake up at 6am and prepare breakfast with two eggs which are taken out of Snub's jacket pocket and put in ...

Genre :Comedy

Servant's Child

1920-05-30 0

Grab the Ghost

As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows revenge on the new bride. The wedding limo pulls off leaving the groom (Snub Pollard) behind, who then h ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror

1921-06-26 3.5

High Rollers

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 cr ...

Genre :Comedy

1926-01-17 0

Don't Butt In

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work. ...

Genre :Comedy

Little Boy (uncredited)

1920-03-14 6.297

Haunted Spooks

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The i ...

Genre :Comedy

Herman

1922-02-20 0

Penrod

Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Pro ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Black Man in Jail (uncredited)

1942-05-08 6.8

In This Our Life

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)

1920-12-26 6.442

Number, Please?

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. ...

Genre :Comedy

1919-10-07 0

Start Something

Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist. ...

Genre :Comedy

1919-11-16 0

Giving the Bride Away

A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard ...

Genre :Comedy

1919-12-21 0

Tough Luck

A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-01-04 0

Red Hot Hottentotts

Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into difficulties with man-eating cannibals. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-02-08 0

Getting His Goat

Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by Charley Chase. ...

Genre :Comedy

1920-01-11 0

Why Go Home?

'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short. ...

Genre :Comedy

1919-10-12 0

Daddy Number Two

Marie attempts to select a new husband for her mother and a father for herself. ...

Genre :

1974-02-08 7.956

Good Times

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman ...