Rube Miller
Actor · 1886 – 1927 · Trotwood, Ohio, USA
Rube Miller was born on May 22, 1886 in Trottwood, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Shy Thirty Cents (1916), Someone in the House (1920) and Whitewashing William (1915). He died on April 1, 1927 in Mexico City, Mexico of a drug overdose.
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Movie4.4ComedyMoving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Won in a Closet
1914 · 5 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 · 86 votes
Movie6.0ComedyThis early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Peeping Pete
1913 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
His Sister's Kids
1913 · 1 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
Movie5.2ComedyIn a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Tango Tangles
1914 · 64 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceYoung William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
The World's Champion
1922 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Movie8.0ComedyWhen Mary Worthington will not sign a document absolving the executors of her late father's estate from the loss of money due to mismanagement, they lock her up to force her to comply. Meanwhile, Danny Abbott, a press agent for Mary's friend, Gloria Morning, and two East Side Jewish backers, worry that Gloria's failing musical, The Purple Pagoda , will ruin them. Danny persuades his friend Robert Garrison to kidnap Gloria and release her before showtime, thus creating a news item to attract ticket buyers. When Mary escapes and approaches Gloria's apartment, Garrison, thinking that she is Gloria, kidnaps her. Mary plays along to escape the executors and falls in love with him at his cabin where they fight off Gloria's would-be rescuers. After the executors find Mary and take her to an insane asylum, Garrison saves her, they marry, and Gloria's show becomes a success.
A Favor to a Friend
1919 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
The Great Toe Mystery
1914 · 2 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
Movie5.1ComedyCrimeTwo criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
A Thief Catcher
1914 · 37 votes
Movie9.0DramaHaving followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
The Gay Lord Quex
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
Alias "the Dancer," fashionable society crook Jimmy Burke is hot on the trail of the Brent diamonds. Upon learning that Molly Brent and her diamonds are the stars of an amateur play, Jimmy obtains the leading man's part and devises a plan to steal the jewels. Molly falls in love with her leading man, who plans to switch the gems with fakes during the performance. After the play, the police question the couple and Molly declares that the robbery was part of the drama. When she discovers Jimmy's deed, she begins to cry and "the Dancer," realizing that he is in love with his victim, renounces his profession.
Someone in the House
1920 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.
- Movie9.0Comedy
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
His Chum the Baron
1913 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
Movie5.3ComedyKeystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Shot in the Excitement
1914 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaA 1919 silent drama film
Tom's Little Star
1919 · 1 votes
MovieComedyIn the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
Movie5.5ComedyWilly is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
A Bandit
1913 · 2 votes
Movie5.1ComedyActionA young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
Bangville Police
1913 · 24 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
In this farce Charley and Minta frolic by the seaside.
Love and Salt Water
1914 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyA very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
His Favorite Pastime
1914 · 52 votes