Fanny Simpson
Actor
Movies18
- MovieComedy
Indian Summer
1912
- Movie8.0Comedy
Billy takes his friend Tom out for a drive in his new car. Tom asks Billy to wait while he makes a purchase. Along comes the beautiful Marian who assumes he is a public chauffeur and hires him. Billy goes along with the misunderstanding and tells Marian that she may always have his car at cut rates if she phones him at the garage. This leads to comic adventures and eventual love for the couple.
Auto Suggestion
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Economical Brown
1912 · 1 votes
Movie10.0AdventureDramaBased on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.
Fra Diavolo
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
The Equine Spy
1912 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaBeasts of the Jungle
1913 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
The good people of the Solax community realize that they have cause to make merry before the New Year because the Almighty has guided their breadwinning footsteps toward the Solax Studio's happy atmosphere, bank together like the big happy family they are, to give expression to their happiness in the form of a gift to the immediate cause of their good fortune and sunshine.
- Movie10.0Drama
Child of the Tenements
1912 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
In the Year 2000
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Old Betsey Older lives in a boarding house in which money-loving Bud Doolittle and wise Tom Dear are also unfortunate boarders. Poor Betsey loses her heart to both of these gentlemen. Betsey tries hard to win the love of these gentlemen, but the harder she tries the less progress she makes. In fact, she gets so tangled up that before long she thinks she "sees things." Bud and Tom try to stake her to each other, for they are both victims of flirting Marian. Tom finally gets Bud to propose to Betsey, misleading him with a phantom legacy. Bud learns the truth of the heiress' real financial position and then leaves her at the altar.
The Boarding House Heiress
1912 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Love's Railroad
1912
- Movie8.0Comedy
Hubby Does the Washing
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Cobbler’s daughter May has beautiful, long blond hair. Her fiancée Billy, her father's youthful apprentice, loves both May and her hair. But Billy has a weakness for long hair and is ensnared by Madge, who wears an elaborate wig. Billy wants May to fix her hair as prettily as Madge does, but when Madge’s hairdresser demands payment for the wigs she refuses because the hairdresser has turned her hair green. The case lands in court with Billy summoned to serve on the jury. When Madge pulls off her wig Billy runs back to May ready and willing to eat his humble pie.
A Question of Hair
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Billy's Shoes
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Billy Quirk starts out in the morning for his office. Billy has important papers in his valise (grip) and important matters on his mind. The trouble starts when Billy takes a streetcar and, in his hurry, he grabs not his but a similar valise which happens to belong to a woman with a bad temper. When Billy discovers that his valise, instead of containing valuable papers, contains lingerie and false hair, he panics. Billy tries to get his back before his wife misinterprets the situation, but she finds it just as the rightful owner enters the scene and the two clash, Billy runs for dear life complicating things still more.
Billy's Troublesome Grip
1912 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
- Movie8.0Comedy
Billy's Insomnia
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Anxious to be a detective Billy buys a “how to” book and thinks he’s stumbled on a case when he finds the diary belonging to Dora Burns. Seeing an entry about buying a revolver and a hatchet for killing Edward, Billy shadows Dora to her home. She discovers him and forcibly convinces him that he should skidoo. Billy runs to get the police, but when they arrive, finding blood spots on her apron Dora takes the police to the kitchen and shows them a bleeding rooster. Billy's career as a detective ends at once.
Billy, the Detective
1912 · 1 votes