Frank J. Coleman
Actor · 1888 – 1948 · Newburgh, New York, USA
Movies24
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceA European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
The Immigrant
1917 · 327 votes
Movie7.1ComedyActionA derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.
Easy Street
1917 · 188 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceDuring the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.
Behind the Screen
1916 · 100 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 · 157 votes
Movie6.3ComedyFirefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.
The Fireman
1916 · 113 votes
Movie6.6ComedyAfter amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
The Rink
1916 · 153 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 · 137 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.
The Pawnshop
1916 · 121 votes
Movie7.4ComedyFour Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, and Easy Street, presented with music and sound effects.
The Charlie Chaplin Festival
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…
The Count
1916 · 89 votes
Movie6.8ComedyAn alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
The Cure
1917 · 146 votes
Movie6.4ComedyAn impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
The Floorwalker
1916 · 116 votes
Movie5.0ComedyAlice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
A Convict’s Happy Bride
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
A Game Lady
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyActionA harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
The Show
1922 · 12 votes
MovieComedyWesternA slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent, the while his confederates crack the safe and make off with the town's wealth. Nell, with her faithful but brainless lover, journeys to the city in pursuit of the loot and the looter
Movie6.6ThrillerComedyA man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old friend, Roland Stone, bluff and portly. Roland befriends our newly-wed's wife, and this friendship deepens after the husband hires a new cook, the lovely Miss Gainsborough, who gives her boss a little too much friendly attention. That night, a prowler skulks, Miss Gainsborough faints, the newly-wed husband comes to her rescue, and she grabs him and holds on. His wife is offended and determines to leave with Roland. Is the marriage over?
The First 100 Years
1924 · 9 votes
Movie9.0DramaMargot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes of living, finds it difficult to find food in the winter wilderness and resorts to pilfering from the Bates's winter camp. Divvy, engaged to a girl he does not love, meets Margot on one of her raids and falls in love with her. Baptiste, a half-breed employed by the Bates family, is discharged for stealing and burns the camp, driving the family to refuge with Margot. Elsie, hoping to regain Divvy's affections, dresses in boyish clothes similar to Margot's. Joining forces with Baptiste, they capture Margot, and Baptiste takes her in a canoe downstream. Realizing her mistake, Elsie warns Divvy, who bests the half-breed and then rescues Margot from the falls. A lost film.
The Cave Girl
1921 · 1 votes
MovieComedyThe troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.
- Movie9.0Comedy
Jerry flirts with a young miss whose parents are fighting for her custody in a divorce court. Jerry settles the argument by inviting the lady out for a ride in his speed bus with dog power. Pal is all six of the cylinders. The kids later wind up aboard a boat bound for Europe, shipped aboard in a case containing a litter of young leopards. There is considerable helter-skelter business when the animals break loose but young Jerry saves the day by coaxing them all back to their cages. Jerry is also the means of bringing about the reunion of his little girl friend's parents. —The Film Daily, October 31, 1926
Napoleon, Jr.
1926 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Love and Sour Notes
1915 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe Punch of the Irish
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
His Musical Sneeze
1919 · 4 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA farmer's daughter, Little Nell, is abducted and it's up to two of her faithful admirers to rescue her.
Nonsense
1920 · 2 votes