Mack Swain
Actor · 1876 – 1935 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mack Swain (born Moroni Swain, February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an early American film actor, who appeared in many of Mack Sennett's comedies at Keystone Studios, including the Keystone Cops series. He also appeared in major features by Charlie Chaplin. In the early 1900s Swain had his own stock theater company, which performed in the western and midwestern United States. Swain worked in vaudeville before starting in silent film at Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. While with Keystone, he was teamed with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as "Ambrose" and Conklin as the grand mustachioed "Walrus", they performed these roles in several films including The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus and Love, Speed and Thrills, both made in 1915. Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, 26 all told, and they also appeared separately and/or together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players. Swain later took his Ambrose character with him to the L-KO Kompany. Having already worked with Charles Chaplin at Keystone, Swain began working with him again at First National in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class, Pay Day, and The Pilgrim. He is also remembered for his large supporting role as Big Jim McKay in the 1925 film The Gold Rush, for United Artists, written by and starring Chaplin. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mack Swain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street.
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Movie8.0AdventureComedyA gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
The Gold Rush
1925 · 1.9K votes
MovieComedyTwo marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
Lighthouse Love
1932
Movie5.8ComedyCharlie 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 she has a jealous fiancé.
Caught in a Cabaret
1914 · 62 votes
Movie7.4ComedyThree Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
The Chaplin Revue
1959 · 40 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
Pay Day
1922 · 167 votes
Movie6.9ComedyWesternThe Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
The Pilgrim
1923 · 161 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceRebecca (Sally O'Neil) is a salesgirl who gets a chance at a Broadway show; there, she attracts and is ultimately rejected by a society playboy.
Becky
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyHello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.
Hello, Mabel
1914 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyGold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
The Girl from Everywhere
1927 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryThe careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyA 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.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · 85 votes
Movie6.3AdventureRomanceVladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
The Eagle
1925 · 58 votes
Movie5.8ComedyWhen a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
Caught in the Rain
1914 · 50 votes
Movie6.8ComedyAt an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.
The Idle Class
1921 · 117 votes
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Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1 criminal on the "Ten Most Wanted" list.
Cleaning Up
1930 · 4 votes
Movie7.8ComedyKiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
Kiki
1926 · 4 votes
Movie5.7ComedySet mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
His Prehistoric Past
1914 · 54 votes
Movie5.1ComedyA 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. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
That Little Band Of Gold
1915 · 10 votes
Movie4.4ActionRomanceThe sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
The Sea Bat
1930 · 12 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
Movie5.8ComedyTo show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
The Knockout
1914 · 57 votes
Movie7.5ComedyDramaAn unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
Bad Boy
1935 · 2 votes
Movie6.9DramaActionFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
The Beloved Rogue
1927 · 17 votes