Phyllis Allen
Actor · 1861 – 1938 · Staten Island, New York, USA
Phyllis Allen (November 25, 1861 – March 26, 1938) was an American vaudeville and silent screen comedian. She worked with Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Mack Sennett during a film career spanning 74 movies in the decade between 1913 and 1923. Due to her imposing demeanour and perennially haughty expression, she was quite similar in appearance to fellow screen comedian Marie Dressler. [biography from Wikipedia]
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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 · 168 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
Movie6.9ComedyWesternThe Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
The Pilgrim
1923 · 161 votes
Movie6.9ComedyAdventureThe daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him…
The Adventurer
1917 · 158 votes
Movie6.1ComedyPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Dough and Dynamite
1914 · 55 votes
Movie6.8ComedyA tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.
The Vagabond
1916 · 138 votes
Movie5.2ComedyA fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
The Star Boarder
1914 · 51 votes
Movie4.8ComedyA jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
A Busy Day
1914 · 59 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCharlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
The Property Man
1914 · 43 votes
Movie6.2ComedyOn his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
His Trysting Places
1914 · 52 votes
Movie5.8ComedyMabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914 · 49 votes
Movie5.1ComedyCrimeTwo criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
A Thief Catcher
1914 · 37 votes
Movie5.6ComedyFour bad men have kidnapped Fatty's girlfriend and plan to kill her. Fatty's dog knows where she is, but Fatty doesn't and he was crying. However the dog came back to get Fatty, and they and the Keystone Cops went to rescue her.
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
1915 · 9 votes
Movie6.1ComedyTwo drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
The Rounders
1914 · 73 votes
Movie5.5Comedy'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Fatty's Magic Pants
1914 · 10 votes
Movie5.4ComedyCharlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Getting Acquainted
1914 · 50 votes
Movie3.9ComedyA Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Lover's Luck
1914 · 4 votes
Movie5.3ComedyFatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
1915 · 13 votes
- MovieComedy
Fatty's Finish is a 1914 comedy short.
Fatty's Finish
1914
Movie5.0ComedyGussle (Syd Chaplin) comes home with a cute little dog but doesn't want the wife to see it--leading up to a rather funny bit you'll have to see for yourself. The marriage, at first, seems ideal and Gussle and his wife seem devoted. However, it soon seems that this is an act for Syd and it's obvious he's quite the philanderer. Eventually, the wife catches on and sets out to catch him--leading to a rather cute and unexpected ending.
Gussle's Wayward Path
1915 · 1 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
MovieComedyFatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.