Ben Turpin

AKA: Bernard Turpin, Bernhard Turpin
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1869-09-18

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {155}

Dickie, the pianist

1917-02-11 4.5

The Musical Marvel

Genre :Comedy

The Lifeguard

1921-05-08 0

She Sighed by the Seaside

Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and ...
Genre :Comedy

Honest Eyed Jack - Still After Her

1918-03-11 0

Sheriff Nell's Tussle

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 ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

The Gambler

1916-10-29 0

He Died and He Didn't

The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Ringside vendor

1915-03-11 6.5

The Champion

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie p ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-07-13 0

Sweedie the Swatter

Mrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram from some friends that they will arrive in the city in time for luncheon. Jim, the hired man, tells he ...
Genre :Comedy

The Waiter

1914-11-16 0

Countess Sweedie

Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works. Sweedie finds the card. Next day an invitation to a ball to be given by Mr. Weal ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain of the Police

1914-11-23 0

Sweedie at the Fair

Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it. He raids the house in an effort to get his money, and as a result Sweedie is fired. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Tightwad

1914-12-28 0

Sweedie Collects for Charity

Mrs. Goodheart, a charity worker, comes home one evening very much discouraged as she is unable to get even a small donation from Mr. Tightwad, the millionaire. She tells Sweedie, the cook, of her fai ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain of the Police

1914-11-09 0

Sweedie the Trouble Maker

Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German. Sweedie is then determined to wed the other suitor. ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Captain

1914-10-05 0

The Fickleness of Sweedie

Henry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Sweedie. One day while Danny is peeking in the window at Sweedie, he sees her reading a letter and immed ...
Genre :Comedy

The Bellboy

1915-05-20 0

Sweedie's Hero

Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry. Arrived at the hotel, she is given two pails and a mop and she starts ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-12-21 0

Their Cheap Vacation

The Newlyweds read in the newspaper of an ideal automobile trip which only costs $12. Mr. Newlywed decides to take a few days' vacation and enjoy the outdoor air, not feeling that he can afford a more ...
Genre :Comedy

The Hypnotist

1914-12-07 0

Sweedie and the Hypnotist

Sweedie is the scrub lady in the theater. She makes eyes at the stage manager and the hypnotist and is put out of the theater for being so impertinent. Next day while she is out feeding her chickens, ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Von Crooks Jr.

1914-12-14 0

Madame Double X

Mr. Von Crooks and his son are in love with Madame Double X. One night Von Crooks, Jr., elopes with her and then writes to his father to forgive them. He refuses and cuts his son off without a cent. ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain of the Dog Catchers

1915-01-18 0

Sweedie and Her Dog

Mr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog "Skinny" and her parrot along. Mr. Dingy dislikes dogs, but rather than lose Sweedie he consents. ...
Genre :Comedy

Swipes, her husband

1915-01-04 0

Sweedie and the Sultan's Present

Sweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff Puff, has sent her a present in the form of a servant. She refuses to accept the slave, telling the ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Captain

1915-01-11 0

Sweedie's Suicide

Sweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police department. After writing a note to him, she calmly makes ready for the end. About this time the trick ...
Genre :Comedy

1915-01-25 0

Two Hearts That Beat as Ten

Mildred refuses Archie's proposal of marriage. Shortly after Fred arrives and she accepts him as her future husband. As he is leaving the house, his attention is attracted by a young lady who has a ci ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-08-17 0

Sweedie and the Double Exposure

The boy has a camera and snaps Sweedie, the cook, while sitting on the bench in the back yard. Later he takes a picture of his father while sitting on the same bench. He forgets to turn the film in hi ...
Genre :Comedy

The Captain

1914-10-02 0

Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie

"Chick" Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the cook for a family of "get-rich-quicks" and treated very roughly until she receives a letter telling h ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Prim

1914-08-24 0

Sweedie Springs a Surprise

Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself. He decides to discharge her, but finds it rather difficult. After being h ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-06-27 0

Sweedie and the Lord

Mr. and Mrs. Skidoo receive a letter from Lord Bunkum, saying he is coming to pay them a visit. They decide they do not wish to see the Lord, so they leave, telling Sweedie to inform his Lordship they ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-08-05 0

The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in

The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But the Napoleon of finance reckons not with the Man wit ...
Genre :Comedy

The Chief of Police

1914-10-19 0

She Landed a Big One

Sweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it all. ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain

1914-09-21 0

Sweedie's Skate

Sweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is the most popular lady on the floor. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Chief of Police

1914-09-28 0

Sweedie's Clean-Up

Sweedie's father is the owner of a grocery store, and Sweedie takes care of the trade while father plays checkers all day. She is in love with a member of the police department, and at every possible ...
Genre :Comedy

Sweedie's Romeo

1915-03-22 0

Sweedie Learns to Ride

Sweedie, with her arms splattered by dough, looks out the window and sees her mistress just mounting he horse for her morning ride. The simple, toilsome life straightway becomes monotonous and Sweedie ...
Genre :Comedy

Sweedie's Beau

1915-03-15 0

Love and Trouble

Sweedie holds a clandestine meeting with her beau in the kitchen of her employers, a young married couple. Her love affair influences her cooking and the bread she serves that evening is a little hard ...
Genre :Comedy

The Grocery Boy

1915-03-01 0

Sweedie's Hopeless Love

Sweedie has fallen in love with the grocery boy, and in order to gaze upon his smiling face orders groceries at every possible opportunity. ...
Genre :Comedy

1915-06-10 0

Sweedie's Finish

Sweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The fireman escapes her caresses and gains the firehouse and loses her seven hours later when a fire breaks o ...
Genre :Comedy

1915-05-13 0

Sweedie in Vaudeville

Sweedie, the theater's scrubwoman, in love with the unappreciative props, become enamored with the idea of a stage career. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-12-16 0

That Night

There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home ...
Genre :Comedy

Secondary Role

1913-11-19 0

The Usual Way

The Usual Way ...
Genre :Comedy

The Lunatic

1915-03-29 0

Curiosity

"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness." This note, received by the girl, is shown to her aunt. Her aunt drops the note and it is found ...
Genre :Comedy

Justice of the Peace

1931-05-16 7.014

Our Wife

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elop ...
Genre :Comedy

1928-02-18 0

A Woman's Way

Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

The Tramp

1909-02-19 0

Tag Day

The custom of young women "tagging" men on the public streets (on a day specially set aside and called "Tag Day") to secure funds for various charitable purposes is the basis for this Comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

1909-05-05 1.5

A Mexican's Gratitude

A sheriff saves a Mexican from being hanged for horse theft. In a gesture of thanks, the Mexican writes the word "gratitude" upon a card. After rending the card in two, he gives one half to the sherif ...
Genre :Western

Bartender in Western

1939-10-13 5.1

Hollywood Cavalcade

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent star ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, History

Film Extra, in Anteroom

1915-02-01 5.7

His New Job

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he ...
Genre :Comedy

Fellow Reveller

1915-02-15 5.7

A Night Out

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

Remendados

1915-12-18 5.8

A Burlesque on Carmen

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run. ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-10-28 0

The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer'

The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk. They didn't want a regular guy to get "stepped on," so they started out to find a Fish. They found a nice man ...
Genre :Comedy

Jackson Snood

1942-03-07 0

Wedding Yells

Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920). ...
Genre :Comedy

1915-08-13 0

Broncho Billy Steps In

Because he believes in education, a ranch owner hires a school teacher from the east and opens a school for his cowboys. The teacher is admired by all of the cowboys, and by one in particular, an outl ...
Genre :Western

The Neighbor

1915-11-09 0

Too Much Turkey

Frank Potter cannot afford to buy a turkey for Thanksgiving. He conceives the idea of pawning his dress suit, and at the same time his wife decides to pawn her ring, both keeping silent as to their pl ...
Genre :Drama

1915-11-26 0

Broncho Billy's Love Affair

Broncho Billy becomes engaged. A month later the engagement is broken when the girl's father comes into a fortune. She moves to the city with her parents, where she lives surrounded by luxury. ...
Genre :Western

Loafer

1915-12-18 0

A Christmas Revenge

Broncho Billy becomes enraged when a stranger comes to town and wins the affections of his sweetheart. On the night of the wedding Broncho Billy "shoots up" the church, wounding the bridegroom. He the ...
Genre :Western

Ben Turpin

1923-08-19 7

Hollywood

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing ma ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Rodney St. Clair

1923-09-02 0

Pitfalls of a Big City

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy ...
Genre :Comedy

Rodney St. Clair

1923-07-08 0

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923 ...
Genre :Comedy

The Station Agent

1923-10-14 0

Asleep at the Switch

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rodney St. Clair

1925-03-01 0

The Raspberry Romance

The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rodney St. Clair

1925-04-12 0

The Marriage Circus

The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)

1960-03-29 6.7

When Comedy Was King

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Documentary

Mysterious Man

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

1928-04-29 0

The Eyes Have It

A beautiful young woman is rescued by Ben and gives him her photo. When it is found in his pocket, his henpecking wife and shrewish mother-in-law immediately jump to the wrong conclusion and go on the ...
Genre :

Ben

1932-07-01 5.5

Make Me a Star

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

1915-04-01 0

A Coat Tale

When a peddler offers to sell Margie Reiger a coat for $100, husband Ben Turpin is so irate he throws the peddler and the coat out the door. Miss Reiger is inconsolable, so Ben buys her a stylish $7 c ...
Genre :Comedy

Donald Drake

1927-04-23 5.5

Broke in China

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a sma ...
Genre :Comedy

Rodney St. Clair

1926-11-06 0

A Harem Knight

A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long ...
Genre :Comedy

Henry

1934-09-04 5

The Law of the Wild

Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense. Meantime, Fran ...
Genre :Adventure

Dancer

1954-08-28 0

Big Farewell

An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends. ...
Genre :Drama

(archive footage)

1951-03-23 0

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Senne ...
Genre :Comedy

Rodney St. Clair

1925-01-17 3

The Wild Goose Chaser

A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin. ...
Genre :Comedy

Count Drewa Blanc

1935-09-21 8

Keystone Hotel

The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pi ...
Genre :Comedy

Suffern Phatt

1917-04-21 0

Masked Mirth

Right now while everyone is thinking of war, comes this two reel comedy whose plot is based on an invention to revolutionize warfare. A torpedo-bomb, which, upon exploding in the camp of the enemy, ca ...
Genre :Comedy

Tramp

1909-01-06 0

The Haunted Lounge

A tramp in his haste to escape from the clutches of the law, rushes into a second-hand store and hides in a folding lounge. The lounge changes hands several times with each owner believing it is haunt ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-04-16 5

When Ben Bolted

Ben and his pal Paddy, a couple of drifting loafers and con-men, arrive in town via a "side-door Pullman" - a free ride in a boxcar. They set up a printing press, and start printing counterfeit money, ...
Genre :

Vic

1917-03-01 5

A Studio Stampede

In this movie Ben Turpin plays Vic Vacuum, who is in love with a movie star and ends up working at her studio when he hangs around and people at the studio mistakingly think he has money, which can he ...
Genre :

1926-06-25 4

A Prodigal Bridegroom

Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Smith

1921-02-13 6

A Small Town Idol

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the tow ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill Poster - The Sheik

1923-03-04 5.2

The Shriek of Araby

An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

1928-04-29 0

She Said No

A thief steals a $10,000 string of pearls from the star of a show. The thief runs into Ben (literally), and in the ensuing chaos the thief ends up with Bens suitcase. Ben discovers he has the stars su ...
Genre :

Benjamin Turps

1928-04-29 2

Idle Eyes

The film begins with Ben Turpin looking for some food. He's a hobo and is resorting to trying to steal food from a baby. That 'baby' is actually four year-old midget, Billy Barty. After spending some ...
Genre :Comedy

1928-04-29 4

Seein' Things

"Some folks think married men live longer. They don't — it only seems longer!" The opening inter-title to "Seein' Things" (1928) sums up the life of Joe Grubb (Ben Turpin), who is married to the shrew ...
Genre :Comedy

Joe Magee

1923-11-25 5

The Dare-Devil

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cr ...
Genre :Comedy

Sheriff Cyclone Bill

1924-06-07 3.7

Yukon Jake

Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

The Soda Clerk

1924-01-06 4.5

Ten Dollars or Ten Days

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having commit ...
Genre :Comedy

Servant

1909-01-06 0

The Neighbors' Kids

A neighbor visits her friend, taking with her her child, a little girl about the same age as the friend's little girl. Both children being full of mischief, they immediately put into execution a numbe ...
Genre :Comedy

1910-09-05 0

You Saved My Life

An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is observed making love to the make-believe sweetheart o ...
Genre :Comedy

1935-01-16 0

Any Day in Hollywood

This very strange film features old silent footage with added audio commentary to give you a comedic look at a typical day in Hollywood. Featuring some Ben Turpin footage. Edited together by Robert O. ...
Genre :Comedy

Gerald Montague

1926-12-19 1

A Blonde's Revenge

Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self - Guest Host

1930-03-24 0

The Voice of Hollywood No. 8

This time it's Ben Turpin as the nominal announcer, and several well known performers appear, including Myrna Loy. Madge Bellamy sings "The Last Rose of Summer" in a very sweet voice, and there are a ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Self

1924-04-19 5.3

The Hollywood Kid

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws! ...
Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

1942-01-01 0

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to ...
Genre :Documentary

Traffic Cop

1932-01-27 0

Running Hollywood

Running Hollywood is a comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Flip

1909-05-12 3.7

Mr. Flip

Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ben Muggs

1928-05-22 3

Holding His Own

After a fight with his neighbor over their Model Ts, Ben's tuxedo is ruined. Unfortunately, the suit he gets as a replacement doesn't hold up too well. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

Prince Nikolo

1926-08-15 0

When a Man's a Prince

The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, ac ...
Genre :Comedy

The Butcher

1931-11-13 5.7

Ambassador Bill

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is ...
Genre :Comedy

Baron Bonamo

1927-06-05 0

The Pride of Pikeville

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies. ...
Genre :Comedy

Vigil Vancourt

1927-03-13 0

The Jolly Jilter

Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin ...
Genre :Comedy

Bartender

1930-05-18 6.5

Swing High

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, ...
Genre :Music, Drama

A Prussian Guardsman

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

Hotel Desk Clerk

1917-10-07 5

A Bedroom Blunder

A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

A Romantic Janitor

1917-07-15 5

A Clever Dummy

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Faithful Wife's Husband

1920-04-17 5.5

Down on the Farm

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an oppor ...
Genre :Comedy

The Stranger

1925-12-12 0

Hogan's Alley

Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's A ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Luke Larson the Oil Magnate

1921-12-24 0

Bright Eyes

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Baker

1921-09-14 0

Love and Doughnuts

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1932-06-05 3

Hollywood on Parade

A short featuring many stars ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Cross-Eyed Plumber

1940-04-29 6.8

Saps at Sea

Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Grand Ruin

1917-05-05 0

Bucking the Tiger

Squire Laurie, the village skinflint, takes a circus tiger as security for a loan. Arthur, who loves Lillian, the old man's daughter, hates tigers, having bucked them, but when Laurie's tiger dies of ...
Genre :Comedy

1908-08-22 0

Oh! What Lungs

Genre :Comedy

Ben

1916-09-03 0

The Stolen Booking

Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train t ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain of Life Savers

1914-10-11 5

Sweedie Learns to Swim

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the class after fighting with several of the members and ...
Genre :Comedy

Baron Sergius Rodney St. Clair

1924-09-13 0

Three Foolish Weeks

A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way with her. She's actually the queen traveling incognit ...
Genre :Comedy

Superintent of the Union Squar Fish Ball Co

1917-05-19 1

Caught in the End

A businessman's jealous wife suspects he is running around with other women. The tables are turned when a friend of the family involves her in a stock scheme. Her husband begins to suspect that she an ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

2nd Ne'er-Do-Well

1916-11-12 0

Picture Pirates

Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the ...
Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

1961-03-21 5.5

Days of Thrills and Laughter

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. ...
Genre :Documentary

Rodney St. Clair / Romeo

1924-08-03 0

Romeo and Juliet

A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Freeloading Customer

1919-07-05 0

Trying to Get Along

Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation. ...
Genre :Comedy

1920-01-01 5.7

Charlie Butts In

A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finally does, he cannot make it to his bed. ...
Genre :Comedy

1928-01-01 0

Why Babies Leave Home

After many years as a vagabond, Ronald comes home to his family who are about to be evicted from their home. He saves their home and, while chasing a runaway pancake, saves a kidnapped girl as well. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bloggie

1915-12-16 0

Snakeville’s Champion

Hatch, the world's greatest wrestler, arrives in Snakeville and stands ready to defend his title against all comers. Bloggie meets him on the street, and not knowing who he is, starts a fight. The res ...
Genre :

The Janitor

1927-11-27 4.3

The College Hero

A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

1929-11-21 5.5

Show of Shows

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty ...
Genre :Music

1917-03-10 0

His Bogus Boast

The gentlemen of a fashionable social club become annoyed when their guest, Ben, has their wives entranced with stories of his bravery battling outlaws in the wild west. They decide to teach him a les ...
Genre :Comedy

Puddlefoot Pete

1912-11-30 0

The Hidden Treasure

Bill Binks sold his ranch and came home in high glee, carrying the currency, for Bill didn't believe in banks. Bill tried to think of an unusual place to hide that currency and finally hit upon an old ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Amos Gillig

1928-07-10 4

The Cockeyed Family

Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bartender

1934-04-28 0

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many oth ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

His Assistant

1914-11-02 5

The Laundress

Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man. ...
Genre :

The Count's Valet

1915-09-01 5

Versus Sledge Hammers

A count shows up in Snakeville to deliver a letter telling matronly Margaret Joslin that she has inherited a lot of money, so of course he wants to romance and marry her. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cross-Eyed Lackey (uncredited)

1930-01-18 6.7

The Love Parade

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

(archive footage)

1960-01-01 0

Lifetime of Comedy

Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cossack Guard (uncredited)

1930-03-17 0

A Royal Romance

A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with he ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Self

1935-09-28 5

Starlit Days at the Lido

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and wou ...
Genre :Documentary

1st Plumber

1916-09-17 0

Doctoring a Leak

Ben Turpin & Rube Miller trying to fix a leak. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ben

1916-10-01 0

Poultry à la Mode

Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Butcher

1917-02-24 5

The Butcher's Nightmare

Ben, the butcher, is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his affections. He falls asleep and has a dream in which he threatens to foreclose the mortgage on the home of the girl he loves. He a ...
Genre :Comedy

The Justice of the Peace

1920-07-04 0

The Quack Doctor

In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rodney Robbin

1922-04-13 0

Step Forward

The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time. ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-05-20 0

Taking the Count

A dubious count comes on a visit. ...
Genre :Comedy

(archive footage)

1943-01-01 0

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ralph - Who Loved Her So

1917-11-18 5

Are Waitresses Safe?

Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up ...
Genre :Comedy

archive footage

1957-12-26 6.9

The Golden Age of Comedy

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

The Russian Prince

1932-05-06 0

Lighthouse Love

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol. ...
Genre :Comedy

Oswald Planter - Mortician

1919-10-12 0

Up in Alf's Place

Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cross-eyed Ben

1931-04-18 7

Cracked Nuts

To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tri ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Russian Prince

1932-05-06 5.5

Lighthouse Love

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ben

1918-04-08 6

Chase Me Charlie

Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank. The 1918 film-- ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Smith

1939-02-11 0

A Small Town Idol

In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a publicity still that Sam sent away for against him to show ...
Genre :Comedy

Cross-Eyed Plumber

1982-01-01 0

Dance of the Cookoos

Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action ...
Genre :Comedy

The Hobo

1907-07-31 1

An Awful Skate; or, The Hobo on Rollers

A hobo on roller skates creates havoc in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood ...
Genre :Comedy

Sweedie's Romeo

1915-02-08 0

Sweedie Goes to College

Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

2017-01-20 0

Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films. ...
Genre :Documentary

1951-03-01 10

A Burlesque on the Opera Carmen

Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915). ...
Genre :Comedy

(archive footage)

1949-08-01 0

Down Memory Lane

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film. ...
Genre :Comedy, History, Music

1918-08-11 5

She Loved Him Plenty

“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben i ...
Genre :Comedy

1st Shoe Salesman

1919-01-12 0

Cupid's Day Off

Genre :Comedy

The Pawnshop Janitor

1917-08-19 0

The Pawnbroker's Heart

Genre :Comedy

Pest Guest

1917-08-12 0

Lost: A Cook

Genre :Comedy

Honest Eyed Jack - a Poor Butterfly

1917-10-21 0

Roping Her Romeo

The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran), who keeps Triggerville in line with an iron fist. But her heart is set on Jack, the saloon barman, and Black Pete, a notorious cro ...
Genre :Comedy, Western