Marcel Perez
Actor · 1884 – 1929 · Madrid
Trained initially as a clown, Perez became a comedic star in the Nickelodeon era in France, working at Pathe, Eclair, and Ambrosio studios. Moving to the United States during the First World War, Perez continued writing, directing and starring in short comedies until an amputated leg forced him to work behind the camera.
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Movie5.0ComedyPerez plays a henpecked husband who is chained at the neck by his wife in the kitchen and when he tries to stand up for himself, she throws him out of the window where he is dangling for dear life.Once she sends him to the store, Tweedy becomes smitten by a stage actress and tries to woo her with great success until his wife shows up on the scene and all hell breaks loose with cartoon gags.
Sweet Daddy
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRobinet gets punched by a boxer in the ring and decides to challenge him for a match. To win, he needs to train as much as he can.
Robinet boxeur
1913 · 6 votes
- MovieComedy
Marcel Perez is, as you might guess from the title of this movie, a reporter. He's been assigned a new story: a general is in town to review the troops. Get an interview! The general does not wish to give an interview, so Perez has to resort to subterfuge. Good thing he's a comic and can raid the studio's wardrobe department for disguises.
Robinet Reporter
1913
MovieComedyWhen Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.
Some Hero
1916
- MovieComedy
Nilde Baracchi sends Marcel Perez out fishing, armed .... I mean "equipped" with a long, sturdy bamboo fishing pole and a line and hook. However, what he catches is not fish in this funny late 'Robinet' short.
- Movie4.0
Marcel Perez and Nilde Baracchi are blackmailers engaged in the badger game: each gets a member of the opposite sex into compromising positions, the other partner takes a photo and snap! Pay up or we tell your spouse.
Robinet ricattatore
1912 · 1 votes
MovieComedyA short comedy
Wild
1921
MovieComedyA detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.
Camouflage
1918
MovieComedyA short comedy
Pinched
1921
- Movie6.5Comedy
Italian slapstick actor Robinet riding a bicycle.
Movie5.5RomanceComedyThe story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in smart shoes prepares to go out. His maid gives him his coat, he dusts off his shoes and leaves. As he leaves the building an elegant woman drops her purse. He returns it to her and follows her home.
Movie5.8AdventureScience FictionSaturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola
1913 · 15 votes
Movie6.9ComedyRobinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone slapstick look like drawing-room comedy by contrast.
Movie6.7ComedyThe new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her toiletries.]... She is dismissed and the lady advertises for a new maid. The new maid arrives at the front gate and the bemused gate keeper lets her in. The page boy sees her walking up to the house and admires her beauty. She is shown in to meet her new master, who also admires her, and mistress.
La nuova cameriera è troppo bella
1912 · 3 votes
Movie5.5ComedyIn this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)
- Movie4.0Comedy
Tweedledum goes out dining with a girl. He discovers that his worthy father is out on a little lark and is in the next booth to him. Many amusing complications result and in the end the old man buys his son's silence by paying both checks.
Robinet padre e figlio
1912 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRobinet is jealous, with comedic results.
Robinet è Geloso
1914 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRobinet brings down the house when he unleashes himself on Mimi Kratzfuss , an attractive opera singer, during a music hall performance.
Movie4.0RomanceComedyRobinet escapes from his wife’s smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.
- Movie10.0Crime
Jim Stanley becomes an ally to Mona and Phil in their dispute with the stepfather. Phil is wrongly accused of murder and Jim assists him in proving his innocence. Ultimately, the stepfather is arrested for the murder of Phil and Mona's father, bringing him to justice resolving the central conflict.
Lash of the Law
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyA 1916 short comedy starring Marcel Perez
A Bath Tub Elopement
1916 · 1 votes
- Movie4.0Comedy
Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.
- Movie6.0
Tweedledum gets chased by police on bicycles.
L'auto di Robinet
1911 · 3 votes
- MovieComedy
A short comedy for the actor Marcel Perez