Harry Gribbon

AKA: Harry Peter Gribbon, Harry Gribbons, Silk Hat Harry
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1885-06-08

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {85}

1930-08-24 0

Swell People

A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner. ...
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Clarence Triplett

1930-12-07 0

A Hollywood Theme Song

During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn. ...
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Cop

1928-09-10 7.835

The Cameraman

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1938-05-27 0

Cactus Caballeros

Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Red Mike

1928-04-15 0

Chinatown Charlie

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown. ...
Genre :Comedy

Hubby

1915-01-18 3.875

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a ...
Genre :Comedy

Deputy Sheriff Clout

1932-08-27 4.7

Ride Him, Cowboy

John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudul ...
Genre :Action, Western, Romance

Chester Chesty

1942-03-07 0

Wedding Yells

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

Jake's Pal

1923-12-30 0

Inbad the Sailor

Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

The City Slicker

1924-01-27 0

One Spooky Night

One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short ...
Genre :Comedy

Lawyer

1933-12-01 0

Suits to Nuts

Two incompetent lawyers attempt to protect a client accused of being a peeping Tom. ...
Genre :Comedy

Homer Ashcraft

1929-04-06 4

The Bees' Buzz

Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tramp

1934-04-28 5

Corn on the Cop

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, ...
Genre :Comedy

Boris

1930-09-29 4.7

The Lottery Bride

Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway. ...
Genre :Romance, Music

Detective Harry Gribbon

1932-02-08 0

Dumb Dicks

Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers. ...
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Ham Hand McShelly

1932-07-10 0

High Hats and Low Brows

Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Speed

1929-11-03 0

Clancy at the Bat

The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surp ...
Genre :Comedy

Jack Marlowe

1929-10-13 0

A Hollywood Star

Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment an ...
Genre :Comedy

James Parker

1931-01-18 0

Dance Hall Marge

Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to ...
Genre :Comedy

Horace

1934-02-14 0

Mushrooms

Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms. ...
Genre :Comedy

Charlie Mason aka Charles De Maisone

1930-10-03 0

Midnight Daddies

Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Arthur

1930-02-16 0

Sugar Plum Papa

Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive. ...
Genre :Comedy

Window Cleaner

1938-05-13 0

Money on Your Life

This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can t ...
Genre :Comedy

The Tramp

1934-11-16 0

Rural Romeos

Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-ha ...
Genre :Comedy

Tall Painter

1934-06-23 6.3

Art Trouble

Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris. ...
Genre :Comedy

The House Detective

1931-10-26 0

The Great Junction Hotel

A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief susp ...
Genre :Comedy

1937-08-20 0

Who's Crazy

Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when H ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Daniels

1932-12-08 5

You Said a Mouthful

Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1936-05-08 0

Sleepless Hollow

Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law. ...
Genre :Comedy

Homer Bagwell

1931-11-29 0

The All-American Kickback

Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1934-06-28 8

My Mummy's Arms

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt. ...
Genre :Comedy

O'Shea

1929-03-23 5.9

Tide of Empire

California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits. ...
Genre :Western

Rip - the Tailor

1919-02-09 0

Rip & Stitch: Tailors

Comedy Short ...
Genre :Comedy

Joe

1929-07-13 5.2

On With the Show!

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be sav ...
Genre :Romance, Music

Joe Casey

1929-10-16 5.889

So Long Letty

Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Clarence Triplett

1932-07-10 0

Hatta Marri

Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her de ...
Genre :Comedy

Unwanted Visitor

1919-06-22 5.2

Hearts and Flowers

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Rustic Sweetheart

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

Comedy Director

1923-10-28 5.9

The Extra Girl

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywoo ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

The Movie Director

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

Hula Show Audience Member (uncredited)

1915-01-23 5.9

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition. ...
Genre :Comedy

Elmer Buckley - The New Halfback

1929-11-24 0

The New Half Back

Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team. ...
Genre :Comedy

George Palooka

1929-09-21 0

The Golfers

Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's gre ...
Genre :Comedy

Mulligan

1930-11-02 0

The Gorilla

A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film) ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Horror

Harry - The Professor

1937-05-21 0

Her Accidental Hero

Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket rin ...
Genre :Comedy

The Bachelor

1923-11-04 0

One Cylinder Love

A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Chef

1918-10-30 5

The King of the Kitchen

A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box. ...
Genre :Comedy

1930-06-22 0

Big Hearted

Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having n ...
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1921-03-09 0

Her Circus Man

A lost silent short comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Gentleman Flirt

1915-02-18 5

Ye Olden Grafter

Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners. ...
Genre :Comedy

Comedy Director

1928-11-20 7.1

Show People

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Rugby Blood

1924-12-26 0

The Tomboy

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

German Guard

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

Tommy's Valet

1928-03-24 5.6

The Smart Set

A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England. ...
Genre :Comedy

Nip

1923-08-11 0

Nip and Tuck

Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-03-11 5

Caught with the Goods

Caught With The Goods (1917) in a jealousy comedy starring Harry Gribbon, Alice Jorgens, and Joseph Callahan. ...
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Slug Mullins

1933-09-19 1

Snug in the Jug

A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town. ...
Genre :Comedy

Diner Manager

1936-11-28 0

The Blonde Bomber

The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next ...
Genre :Comedy

Phil McCavity

1924-02-24 0

The Half-Back of Notre Dame

Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix. ...
Genre :Comedy

Richard Vance

1932-10-14 0

Ma's Pride and Joy

This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jack Langdon

1920-07-01 0

Up in Mary's Attic

Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1928-12-29 0

Honeymoon

Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a weddin ...
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

Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1964-09-02 6.3

The Big Parade of Comedy

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Doorman (uncredited)

1933-07-13 7.223

Baby Face

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness. ...
Genre :Drama

Victor Edison

1923-09-08 6

Skylarking

The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the i ...
Genre :Comedy

Pat Malone

1927-04-16 0

Knockout Reilly

A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man wa ...
Genre :Drama

The Man of the Hour

1916-07-16 0

A Social Cub

A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson ...
Genre :Comedy

Trooper Gray

1928-02-11 5

Rose-Marie

Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of ...
Genre :Drama

The Constable

1931-05-23 7

Ghost Parade

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

The Ribbon 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

Dugan

1929-03-09 5.5

The Shakedown

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan. ...
Genre :Drama

Silk Hat Charley - Gentleman Crook

1916-05-07 0

A Dash of Courage

A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the ...
Genre :Comedy

Uppercut O'Brien

1929-12-22 0

Uppercut O'Brien

Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-03-10 0

Did She Do Wrong?

An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bank Guard (uncredited)

1933-02-04 6.1

Ladies They Talk About

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1918-02-10 0

Wronged by Mistake

Genre :Comedy

1st Crook

1917-08-26 0

Two Crooks

Genre :Comedy

Homer Bagwell

1931-10-25 0

The Great Pie Mystery

A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss--and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies? ...
Genre :Comedy

The Sergeant

1933-01-06 0

Loops! My Dear

Harry joins the Army to meet girls, and ends up driving his drill sergeant nuts in the process. While in basic training, to flee an angry mob, he disguises himself as a Major and ace pilot. ...
Genre :Comedy

Gilbert - the Lunkhead

1929-09-01 0

The Lunkhead

Harry Gribbon (the lunkhead) is in love with beautiful Thelma Hill but she's in love with someone else. ...
Genre :Comedy

Actor in Movie (uncredited)

1932-06-19 0

The Candid Camera

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has ...
Genre :Comedy

Romain Salisbury

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

Homer

1931-03-29 0

Just a Bear

Andy Clyde & Harry Gribbon go hunting. ...
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