Charles Avery
Oyuncu · 1873 – 1926 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Film4.4KomediMoving 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
Film6.0KomediThis 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
Film7.0TV MovieAileIn this one-hour special taped between March 9-17, 1981, Lily Tomlin and Dudley Moore join the Muppets in a tribute to film classics. Kermit the Frog hosts the program, which begins with an all-cast rendition of "Hey a Movie!" from The Great Muppet Caper.
The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981 · 12 votes
Film5.8KomediA villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Mabel at the Wheel
1914 · 47 votes
Film5.7KomediMabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Mabel's Busy Day
1914 · 45 votes
Film4.6DramA contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves.
The Violin Maker of Cremona
1909 · 8 votes
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His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
His Sister's Kids
1913 · 1 votes
Film5.8KomediTo 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
Film5.2KomediIn a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Tango Tangles
1914 · 64 votes
Film5.5DramA man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.
A Drunkard's Reformation
1909 · 10 votes
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Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Film5.3KomediFatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Fatty Joins the Force
1913 · 13 votes
Film3.7DramA royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest.
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
1909 · 3 votes
Film4.9RomantikKomediBased on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
The Taming of the Shrew
1908 · 6 votes
Film4.4DramA girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar. Her faith is real, and strong, and her former love doesn't like this.
The Salvation Army Lass
1909 · 5 votes
Film4.7A strong wind blows a city slicker and a local girl together. A Joe Rock Comedy
The Whirlwind
1922 · 3 votes
FilmKomediFatty 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.
Film5.6KomediA young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913 · 9 votes
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Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the bathing beauty has a husband with pistols...
A Bath House Beauty
1914 · 1 votes
Film5.6DramA son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.
The Son's Return
1909 · 9 votes
Film5.5KomediMabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
A Noise from the Deep
1913 · 2 votes
Film6.4SuçDramTwo thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall for the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
The Blackbird
1926 · 24 votes
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A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.
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Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch by a thief with a soft hat and a frock coat and Algie goes out looking for the thief. He meets the chief of police and arrests him after a chase and a fight, and handcuffs his prisoner to a telegraph pole while he goes for assistance. The Captain's consternation can be imagined when he arrives with his men and finds his chief a prisoner.
Algy on the Force
1913 · 1 votes