Ethel Marie Burton
Actor
Movies10
Movie4.2ComedyShort King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
The Scholar
1918 · 2 votes
Movie5.5ComedyThe Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
The Hero
1917 · 2 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. Trouble starts when the new acts arrive. The Wiggle sisters, a Hawaiian act, demand the star dressing room but Props turns them down, but relents when Babe, the strong man, and his beautiful wife, Ethel Burton because he is smitten. Once the show begins Props is forever getting in the way of the performers and his bibulous assistant has an unfortunate propensity for dropping the curtain at the wrong moments. Things only get crazier from there.
Back Stage
1917 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Playmates
1918 · 1 votes
Movie3.9ComedyIn this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by trade, our tramp serves his boorish clientele with similarly bad manners before the whole crowd attends a swanky Barbers' Ball.
His Day Out
1918 · 4 votes
MovieShifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs' window. Instead, Pokes blows himself up.
Ups and Downs
1915
- MovieComedy
A very early Pokes & Jabbs with Billy Ruge filling in for the absent Walter Stull. Pokes and Runt try to impress a couple of girls at Palisades Park.
A Pair of Birds
1915
- Movie
Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.
MovieComedyA comedy involving tiger skins.
A Pair of Skins
1916
Movie5.0ComedyA bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
Cupid's Rival
1917 · 2 votes