Minta Durfee

AKA: Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee, Araminta Estelle Durfee

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1889-09-30

Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

The Lady

1914-03-26 5.1

Cruel, Cruel Love

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend ...

Genre :Comedy

Leading Lady

1914-08-27 5.7

The Masquerader

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film. ...

Genre :Comedy

Cabaret Patron / Girl in Park (uncredited)

1914-04-27 5.6

Caught in a Cabaret

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately s ...

Genre :Comedy

Guest

1970-01-01 5.3

Savage Intruder

An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard. While the rest of the house sta ...

Genre :Thriller, Horror

Pheney

1941-11-14 5

The Miracle Kid

A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring. ...

Genre :Comedy

1914-06-11 0

Love and Salt Water

In this farce Charley and Minta frolic by the seaside. ...

Genre :Comedy

Girl with Parasol

1914-10-17 0

Zip, the Dodger

Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady under a parasol he gets a friend to substitute for him while he pretends to be a young man of leisure ...

Genre :Comedy

The Star

1915-04-05 0

Droppington's Devilish Deed

Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show when he turns the full strength of the hose on what he supposes to be a fire in the theater. The fact ...

Genre :Comedy

Hubby's Wife

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

Guest

1914-03-09 5.1

Tango Tangles

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl. ...

Genre :Comedy

Pug's Sweetheart (uncredited)

1914-06-11 5.69

The Knockout

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters. ...

Genre :Comedy

Landlady (uncredited)

1914-04-04 5.1

The Star Boarder

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder. ...

Genre :Comedy

Edgar's Girl

1914-04-20 5.6

Twenty Minutes of Love

Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't sto ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Fuller

1914-09-07 6.1

The Rounders

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker. ...

Genre :Comedy

Elsie Drake

1918-08-01 6.5

Mickey

Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Scrubwoman (uncredited)

1957-07-29 6.7

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

(uncredited)

1914-02-02 5.7

Making a Living

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper. ...

Genre :Comedy

Wife (uncredited)

1914-01-12 5.4

A Flirt's Mistake

When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue. ...

Genre :Comedy

Nursemaid

1913-11-23 5.4

Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be! ...

Genre :Comedy

Lizzie, the Farm Boy's Fiancée

1914-11-30 4.2

Leading Lizzie Astray

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Sky Gazer's Daughter

1915-02-20 0

Hearts and Planets

A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright. ...

Genre :

The Laundry Owner's Daughter

1915-07-19 5

Dirty Work in a Laundry

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press. ...

Genre :Comedy

Minor Role (uncredited)

1916-02-20 0

Bright Lights

The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities. His effort is ludicrous because of the fact that his talent is all re ...

Genre :Comedy

Minnie - Charlie's Sweetheart

1914-07-04 0

Love and Bullets

Charlie is trying to impress Minnie, who is interested in another fellow, but having trouble with his flirting, so he goes to see a 'Trouble Mender'. The trouble mender-a man who spends his time movin ...

Genre :Comedy

1914-05-09 0

A Suspended Ordeal

Screwball slapstick with Fatty and Minta mixed up in zany adventures. ...

Genre :Comedy

Fatty's Wife

1914-08-24 0

Fatty's Gift

Fatty's Gift is a 1914 Comedy short. ...

Genre :Comedy

1914-06-25 0

Fatty and the Heiress

Fatty hopes to marry for money but thanks to many slapstick complications his plan doesn't go as smoothly as he intended. ...

Genre :Comedy

(unconfirmed)

1914-09-26 0

Fatty's Debut

Fatty's Debut is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Proprietor's Daughter

1914-10-03 0

Fatty Again

Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is ...

Genre :Comedy

1914-09-05 0

A Brand New Hero

Tramp Roscoe Arbuckle saves a girl from drowning in a pond and is given a job on the police force. A jealous officer dopes him causing him to sleep through a robbery, but afterwards wakes up and captu ...

Genre :Comedy

Sam Bernard's Leading Lady

1915-12-15 0

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ...

Genre :Comedy

1916-04-16 0

The Other Man

Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage. Father and mother are willing, but decide to give Roscoe a scare before ...

Genre :Comedy

Citizen (uncredited)

1968-09-19 7.2

Funny Girl

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gamble ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Fatty's Sweetheart

1914-12-13 5.4

Fatty's Magic Pants

'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready. ...

Genre :Comedy

Pickpocket's Girlfriend

1915-03-07 5.5

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets. ...

Genre :Comedy

Fatty's Sweetheart

1915-03-19 5.7

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires. ...

Genre :Comedy

1918-06-10 0

The Cabaret

Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, loses her job after his death. She then is hired as a portrait model by four artists--Jaffrey Darrel, Ne ...

Genre :Drama

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

1957-12-17 8.2

Witness for the Prosecution

An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of confusion. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

1955-10-09 6.352

Illegal

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Minta

1914-12-20 5

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. I. Steele

1916-04-02 5.2

His Wife's Mistakes

Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I. Steele. The broker is out, but his wife, who knows ...

Genre :Comedy

The Girl

1914-09-15 4.5

Lover's Luck

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mabel's Mother

1913-11-19 4.8

A Muddy Romance

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soo ...

Genre :Comedy

Fatty's Fiancée

1913-10-23 0

A Quiet Little Wedding

The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, ...

Genre :Comedy

The Girl at the Carnival

1913-11-03 0

Fatty at San Diego

Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into t ...

Genre :Comedy

Minta

1913-12-18 0

Fatty's Flirtation

Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Diner's Sweetheart

1913-11-13 0

Wine

Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Doctor's Sister

1913-12-13 0

His Sister's Kids

His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Sheriff's Wife

1914-01-08 0

The Under-Sheriff

The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols. ...

Genre :Comedy

1914-01-01 0

A Misplaced Foot

A Misplaced Foot is a 1914 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle. ...

Genre :Comedy

Wedding Guest

1914-01-24 0

Rebecca's Wedding Day

Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert. ...

Genre :Comedy

Fatty's Wife

1914-04-12 0

A Bath House Beauty

Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a ...

Genre :Comedy

Marathon Spectator (Uncredited)

1969-12-10 7.606

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusiona ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Ambrose

1914-12-12 4.2

Ambrose's First Falsehood

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Walrus

1915-02-08 5

A Bird's a Bird

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry. ...

Genre :Comedy

Juror (uncredited)

1962-04-13 6.74

The Notorious Landlady

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)

1914-04-18 5.6

Mabel at the Wheel

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place. ...

Genre :Comedy

Self / Audience Member (uncredited)

1914-03-02 5.4

A Film Johnnie

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there. ...

Genre :Comedy

Bit (uncredited)

1914-08-10 5.3

The Face on the Barroom Floor

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally ...

Genre :Comedy

Maid (uncredited)

1914-12-21 6.1

Tillie's Punctured Romance

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. ...

Genre :Comedy

Neighbor's Wife

1915-03-04 4.7

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, lead ...

Genre :Comedy

Jealous Husband's Wife (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

Woman in Front Row (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

Audience Spectator (uncredited)

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

Mrs. Tuller

1942-02-05 6

The Man Who Returned to Life

An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Ship Passenger (uncredited)

1957-07-11 7.352

An Affair to Remember

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Josie Hunkapillar

1940-12-30 0

Rollin' Home to Texas

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The ...

Genre :Western

Landlady (uncredited)

1945-04-12 5.2

Eve Knew Her Apples

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

The Judge's Wife

1915-07-05 4

Court House Crooks

A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a mirror lead to the DA's undoing. ...

Genre :Comedy

Miss Pettywood

1956-12-06 6.1

Hollywood or Bust

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Tryi ...

Genre :Comedy

Ambrose's Wife

1915-01-18 5

Love, Speed and Thrills

After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. T ...

Genre :Comedy, Action

Actress on Stage (uncredited)

1958-12-04 7

Auntie Mame

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Frozen Therapy Patient (uncredited)

1940-04-18 6.2

The Man with Nine Lives

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the offic ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Extra (uncredited)

1956-10-17 6.64

Around the World in 80 Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

1915-03-24 2.333

Ambrose's Fury

A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives. ...

Genre :Comedy

Denver Party Guest (uncredited)

1964-06-11 5.5

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Peter P. Snitz - the Wife

1915-02-02 0

He Wouldn't Stay Down

A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money. ...

Genre :Comedy

Matron (uncredited)

1940-09-27 4.25

Glamour for Sale

A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls. ...

Genre :Drama

Elevator Lady #1 (uncredited)

1972-06-19 4.333

Portnoy's Complaint

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Fatty's Wife

1915-11-14 0

Fickle Fatty's Fall

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

Genre :Comedy

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1935-03-29 5.4

Naughty Marietta

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love. ...

Genre :Music, Romance

Woman in Hallway (Uncredited)

1943-10-26 6.2

The Chance of a Lifetime

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Customer (uncredited)

1941-04-11 7.7

The Devil and Miss Jones

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the empl ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Neighbor's Maid

1914-11-12 0

An Incompetent Hero

Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him. ...

Genre :Comedy

Fatty's Wife

1914-11-23 0

The Sea Nymphs

Fatty, his wife and mother-in-law are on a ferry to Catalina Island for an outing. So are Mabel and her father. Mabel and Fatty flirt with each other, and Fatty tosses her father overboard, thinking h ...

Genre :Comedy

Fatty's Sweetheart

1914-11-02 0

Lovers' Post Office

A short comedy in which two lovers post their letters in a box in a tree. The old man gets wise and sets a snare, by which he catches Fatty's hand. The girl releases the snare and Fatty hooks the old ...

Genre :Comedy

1914-05-28 0

The Alarm

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedy short. The film is considered lost. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Nursemaid

1914-02-11 5

The Water Dog

The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ...

Genre :Comedy

Airline Passenger (uncredited)

1964-10-16 6.6

Fate Is the Hunter

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason. ...

Genre :Drama

The Mayor's Wife

1915-05-09 5.5

Our Dare-Devil Chief

A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling Chief of Police as the culprit. The Chief's very friendly relationship with the Mayor's wife doesn't ...

Genre :Comedy

Boarder (uncredited)

1957-05-01 4.9

The Buster Keaton Story

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1914-07-18 0

The Sky Pirate

The Sky Pirate is a 1914 Comedy short. ...

Genre :Comedy

Townswoman (uncredited)

1959-03-27 6.6

The Sound and the Fury

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect. ...

Genre :Drama

Party Guest (uncredited)

1926-04-18 6.7

Skinner's Dress Suit

Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his con ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

1952-10-01 6.4

This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and procee ...