Sammy Brooks
Actor · 1891 – 1951 · New York City, New York, USA
Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Movie6.7ComedyA family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Movie Night
1929 · 3 votes
- Movie5.3Comedy
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
High Rollers
1921 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ComedyLloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
Ask Father
1919 · 26 votes
Movie6.9ComedyRomanceHarold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Girl Shy
1924 · 75 votes
Movie5.9ComedyThe misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
Scorching Sands
1923 · 9 votes
Movie6.1ComedyHarold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
Spring Fever
1919 · 8 votes
Movie6.4ComedyA meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Grandma's Boy
1922 · 52 votes
Movie5.7ComedyIn the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
Frozen Hearts
1923 · 6 votes
Movie6.9ComedyA young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Bumping Into Broadway
1919 · 29 votes
Movie6.1ComedyCharley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925 · 10 votes
Movie5.8ComedyA young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Bromo and Juliet
1926 · 9 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThe head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926 · 2 votes
Movie6.8ComedyStan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Berth Marks
1929 · 63 votes
Movie5.8ComedyOur vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917 · 8 votes
Movie6.5ComedyFinlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land, they take foolish chances and must dodge flying shells, falling down and losing their film repeatedly.
Unfriendly Enemies
1925 · 2 votes
- Movie6.5
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
The Landlubber
1922 · 2 votes
- MovieComedy
Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
Kicked Out
1918
MovieComedyLonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
MovieComedyA young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.
Before Breakfast
1919
Movie4.9ComedyLonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
Luke's Movie Muddle
1916 · 19 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThe adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
Swat the Crook
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
Big Game
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ComedyCharley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
The Rat's Knuckles
1925 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCharley impersonates his stunt double, a man named Bud Gordon, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.
Are Brunettes Safe?
1927 · 2 votes