
Sammy Brooks
Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.012 |
Birthday | 1891-07-08 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Sam Brooks, Samuel Rockenberg , Simon Rottenberg, |

1918

It's a Wild Life
5/1
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
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It's a Wild Life

1920

An Eastern Westerner
6.9/38
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranc...
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An Eastern Westerner

1925

Sherlock Sleuth
0/0
House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel," w...
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Sherlock Sleuth

1926

A Punch in the Nose
0/0
A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
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A Punch in the Nose

1925

Looking for Sally
6.2/2
Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the d...
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Looking for Sally

1919

Ask Father
6.5/24
Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can...
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Ask Father

1919

Billy Blazes, Esq.
5.9/29
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
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Billy Blazes, Esq.

1921

Now or Never
6.1/21
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
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Now or Never

1919

Bumping Into Broadway
6.9/27
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he win...
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Bumping Into Broadway

1919

Captain Kidd's Kids
6.3/18
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasize...
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Captain Kidd's Kids

1918

The Non-Stop Kid
5.1/10
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
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The Non-Stop Kid

1917

We Never Sleep
0/0
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
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We Never Sleep

1917

All Aboard
4.9/4
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When...
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All Aboard

1917

Rainbow Island
5/1
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
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Rainbow Island

1917

By the Sad Sea Waves
5.8/6
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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By the Sad Sea Waves

1917

Bliss
4.3/5
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
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Bliss

1917

Clubs Are Trump
5.2/2
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
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Clubs Are Trump

1917

The Flirt
4.2/6
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
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The Flirt

1917

Birds of a Feather
0/0
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
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Birds of a Feather

1917

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
0/0
Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
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Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
0/0
Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up in a boxing match which again brings the law on h...
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Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley

1917

Luke's Trolley Troubles
0/0
Luke and his sidekick steal a trolley car and create havoc for passengers.
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Luke's Trolley Troubles

1917

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
0/0
Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.
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Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

1916

Luke's Speedy Club Life
0/0
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
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Luke's Speedy Club Life

1916

Luke, Rank Impersonator
0/0
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
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Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916

Luke and the Bang-Tails
0/0
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
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Luke and the Bang-Tails

1916

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
0/0
Luke, working in a fireworks factory.
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Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Luke, Patient Provider
0/0
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready s...
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Luke, Patient Provider

1916

Luke's Lost Lamb
0/0
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
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Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

Luke Locates the Loot
0/0
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
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Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Luke Does the Midway
0/0
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
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Luke Does the Midway

1916

Luke and the Mermaids
0/0
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
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Luke and the Mermaids

1916

Luke Rides Roughshod
0/0
Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
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Luke Rides Roughshod

1916

Luke, Crystal Gazer
0/0
Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
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Luke, Crystal Gazer

1918

Follow the Crowd
5.5/4
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved...
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Follow the Crowd

1919

Just Neighbors
6.4/15
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying...
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Just Neighbors

1917

Lonesome Luke, Messenger
4.5/2
While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
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Lonesome Luke, Messenger

1917

Over the Fence
5.9/4
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball pl...
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Over the Fence

1923

Oranges and Lemons
5.2/20
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with h...
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Oranges and Lemons

1916

Luke's Double
0/0
Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the consequences.
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Luke's Double

1919

Pay Your Dues
5/2
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal ord...
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Pay Your Dues

1919

Never Touched Me
5.6/5
At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."
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Never Touched Me

1919

A Jazzed Honeymoon
5.1/4
This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him m...
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A Jazzed Honeymoon

1919

Wanted - $5,000
0/0
Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.
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Wanted - $5,000

1919

Before Breakfast
0/0
A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny a...
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Before Breakfast

1919

Spring Fever
5.6/5
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping fro...
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Spring Fever

1919

Chop Suey & Co.
4.8/4
Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 American short comedy film
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Chop Suey & Co.

1919

His Only Father
0/0
An American short comedy film.
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His Only Father

1916

Luke's Movie Muddle
5/18
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectioni...
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Luke's Movie Muddle

1916

Luke's Late Lunchers
0/0
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
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Luke's Late Lunchers

1916

Luke's Shattered Sleep
0/0
Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bill Shakespeare Luke "blesses the man who first inve...
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Luke's Shattered Sleep

1916

Luke Laughs Last
0/0
Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
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Luke Laughs Last

1926

Say It with Babies
5/1
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expen...
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Say It with Babies

1918

An Ozark Romance
0/0
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
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An Ozark Romance

1923

Frozen Hearts
5.4/5
In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) righ...
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Frozen Hearts

1920

A London Bobby
0/0
Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-for-all battle is taking place. After the struggle i...
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A London Bobby

1919

Young Mr. Jazz
5.8/21
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead...
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Young Mr. Jazz

1918

Take a Chance
6/19
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the count...
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Take a Chance

1919

The Marathon
5.8/15
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
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The Marathon

1922

The Dumb-Bell
6/2
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the...
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The Dumb-Bell

1924

Short Kilts
5.3/14
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
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Short Kilts

1920

Fresh Paint
5/1
A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.
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Fresh Paint

1922

The Sleuth
0/0
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
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The Sleuth

1929

Movie Night
6/2
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
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Movie Night

1930

The Real McCoy
6.5/1
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
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The Real McCoy

1922

Shine 'Em Up
5/4
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train...
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Shine 'Em Up

1923

Under Two Jags
5/2
Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affect...
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Under Two Jags

1923

Scorching Sands
5.4/8
The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
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Scorching Sands

1924

Smithy
5.2/8
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where h...
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Smithy

1924

Postage Due
5.3/3
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that...
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Postage Due

1923

Jailed and Bailed
0/0
A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
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Jailed and Bailed

1919

Count Your Change
5/2
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
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Count Your Change

1931

Catch-As Catch-Can
1/1
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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Catch-As Catch-Can

1916

Luke Joins the Navy
5/2
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and...
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Luke Joins the Navy

1919

Don't Shove
5.5/6
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
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Don't Shove

1918

Hey There
6.9/7
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a...
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Hey There

1919

Looking for Trouble
5.2/2
Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight d...
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Looking for Trouble

1921

Whirl o' the West
0/0
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
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Whirl o' the West

1923

Post No Bills
5/1
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Sno...
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Post No Bills

1920

The Dippy Dentist
5.2/3
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 Llo...
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The Dippy Dentist

1925

Is Marriage the Bunk?
5/1
Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he...
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Is Marriage the Bunk?

1924

The Cowboy Sheik
5/1
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
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The Cowboy Sheik

1919

Be My Wife
0/0
Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.
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Be My Wife

1926

Thundering Fleas
5.6/8
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Thundering Fleas

1922

The Landlubber
3/1
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
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The Landlubber

1917

Pinched
5/2
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, the...
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Pinched

1919

Look Out Below
5.4/4
A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overl...
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Look Out Below

1924

Rupert of Hee-Haw
5.2/3
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Rupert of Hee-Haw

1924

The Poor Fish
5/1
Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the hou...
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The Poor Fish

1924

A Ten-Minute Egg
5/1
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a busines...
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A Ten-Minute Egg

1925

The Rat's Knuckles
6.8/2
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
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The Rat's Knuckles

1926

Wandering Papas
5.1/9
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the...
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Wandering Papas

1922

Take Next Car
0/0
In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the str...
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Take Next Car

1919

Pistols for Breakfast
8/1
A 1919 Comedy short.
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Pistols for Breakfast

1918

She Loves Me Not
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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She Loves Me Not

1919

Crack Your Heels
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Crack Your Heels

1919

Swat the Crook
0/0
The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
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Swat the Crook

1919

Off the Trolley
5.8/4
Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in l...
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Off the Trolley

1919

At the Old Stage Door
0/0
Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the deception is uncovered.
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At the Old Stage Door

1919

Heap Big Chief
5/1
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
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Heap Big Chief

1918

Kicked Out
0/0
Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner par...
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Kicked Out

1918

Hit Him Again
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Hit Him Again

1918

Pipe the Whiskers
5/1
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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Pipe the Whiskers

1918

Fireman Save My Child
5.5/4
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water...
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Fireman Save My Child

1918

Look Pleasant, Please
5/2
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
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Look Pleasant, Please

1918

The City Slicker
5/8
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
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The City Slicker

1926

Madame Mystery
5.6/4
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succee...
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Madame Mystery

1921

Big Game
0/0
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
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Big Game

1926

Bromo and Juliet
5.6/8
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesk...
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Bromo and Juliet

1920

His Royal Slyness
5.8/22
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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His Royal Slyness

1920

Haunted Spooks
6.3/35
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 s...
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Haunted Spooks

1919

All at Sea
0/0
Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
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All at Sea

1920

Any Old Port
0/0
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...
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Any Old Port

1920

All Lit Up
5/1
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 fa...
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All Lit Up

1920

Call a Taxi
0/0
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singi...
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Call a Taxi

1921

High Rollers
3.5/1
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 m...
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High Rollers

1922

Good Morning, Judge
0/0
Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.
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Good Morning, Judge

1923

It's a Joy!
0/0
'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
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It's a Joy!

1923

Take the Air
0/0
James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitati...
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Take the Air

1923

Tight Shoes
0/0
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of s...
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Tight Shoes

1923

Before the Public
5/1
'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.
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Before the Public

1926

Don't Butt In
0/0
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
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Don't Butt In

1924

Girl Shy
7/64
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young...
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Girl Shy

1923

Collars and Cuffs
5.6/7
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Collars and Cuffs

1923

The Smile Wins
0/0
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
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The Smile Wins

1929

Berth Marks
6.8/50
Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
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Berth Marks

1916

Luke's Society Mixup
0/0
Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then ma...
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Luke's Society Mixup

1923

Pick and Shovel
6/2
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Pick and Shovel

1924

Zeb vs. Paprika
5.5/4
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Zeb vs. Paprika

1923

A Man About Town
5.5/4
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
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A Man About Town

1924

Wide Open Spaces
5/2
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
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Wide Open Spaces

1924

Brothers Under the Chin
5.5/2
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." T...
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Brothers Under the Chin

1919

A Sammy in Siberia
5.2/6
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
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A Sammy in Siberia

1919

Next Aisle Over
5.4/5
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
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Next Aisle Over

1920

Alias Aladdin
0/0
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