George Bickel
Actor · 1863 – 1941 · Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Movies21
Movie7.0ComedyComedy short.
In Holland
1929 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Series 2, episode 8 of 'The Mishaps of Musty Suffer' series of one-reel comedies, where Harry Watson gets a make-over.
Active Service
1916
Movie5.0ComedyMusty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.
Hold Fast!
1916 · 1 votes
MovieComedyMusty holds down a job as general factotum at the Busy Bee Amusement Arcade, one of his chief duties being that of taking tickets at the entrance to the moving stairway which leads to the cinema theater on the second floor.
Coming Down
1916
- MovieComedy
Musty gets a job in a grocery store. Through a series of very bad encounters with various customers it becomes clear he is ill-suited to the job and ultimately he goes his own way.
Keep Moving
1915
Movie5.7DramaA bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
Dancers in the Dark
1932 · 6 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.
Actors' Fund Field Day
1910 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceMr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Soup to Nuts
1930 · 16 votes
- MovieComedy
Detective Ruby Swift is on the trail of crooked politicos McQuire and Olson and traces them to the small hamlet Hicktown. Once there she finds that they are attempting to steal the election of the mayor in order to “trim” the town. Ruby, as secretary to the politicians, causes both to fall in love with her, hoping their rivalry will part them and reveal the hidden ballot boxes. Jealous over Ruby, the politicians quarrel, and not even the suffragette Chief of Police can reconcile them. How Ruby takes advantage of the quarrel and brings them to justice is the climax of this five-reel comedy.
The Politicians
1915
MovieComedyMusty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.
Going Up
1916
Movie5.2RomanceComedyA college flirt lures the nation's best football players to join her school's team.
Maybe It's Love
1930 · 6 votes
Movie7.5DramaA young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
Broken Lullaby
1932 · 47 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
In this Educational Pictures short, the boss' secretary is in love with the boss' son and they are planning on getting married. But before this, they plan on having the boss over for dinner to meet her mother. Unfortunately, earlier on that same day, the father and mother have a nasty altercation...not realizing who the other person is.
Leave It to Dad
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaIn this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.
Recaptured Love
1930 · 2 votes
Movie4.0ComedyWhen Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor dinner. And the dinner degenerated into a quiet game with sugar for dice until constable Zack arrived with sleuths galore and landed them everyone safe and sound in the local calaboose. This was an early five-reeler that featured the famous George Bickel and Harry Watson duo.
The Fixer
1915 · 1 votes
MovieComedyMusty Suffer as a bell-boy.
Bells and Belles
1916
MovieComedyMusty and his friend, Willie Work, after a comfortable night's rest in a convenient henhouse, set out in search of adventure. They select a mansion with the intention of burglary, but are frightened away by a militant sawbuck. They are summoned by Mme. Cayenne, a jealously guarded wife, who promises them a fine lunch if they will mail a letter to her lover. They agree and the lunch is served. Just as they begin to eat, Senor Cayenne returns. Musty dives out of the second-floor window and hangs from the sill. Willie, who fails to escape, is introduced to Senor as Madame's brother from Kokomo, and royally entertained.
Look Out Below
1916
MovieComedyMusty Suffer as a golf caddy.
- MovieComedy
Musty Suffer gets a job as a bell hop at a cheap little hotel, the Outside Inn.
- Movie7.0Comedy
A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
Pop's Pal
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyMusty Suffer dreams of being subjected to psychological experiments by unethical doctors.
Just Imagination
1916 · 1 votes