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Leon Errol
Born: 2nd Jul 1881 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died 12th Oct 1951
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 141
Film: 141 (100%)
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Filmography
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To trick a judge who's trying him on a gambling charge, Leon poses as a famous British explorer. ... view
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Leon Errol
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Leon (Leon Errol) wants to spend quiet evenings at home but his wife, Dorothy (Dorothy Granger) wants to go dancing. Leon's twin brother berates him f ... view
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Leon Errol
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Leon Errol is an information wizard at the office but can't answer any of his son's homework questions. ... view
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Leon
1976
Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute coll ... view
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Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
1951
Leon Errol invites Lord Epping for dinner, then impersonates him when he expects his Lordship is otherwise engaged. ... view
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Leon Errol / Lord Epping
1951
A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years. ... view
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Leon Errol (segment "He Forgot To Remember") (archive footage)
1950
Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to ... view
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1950
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown. ... view
Character:
Knobby Walsh
1950
Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knob ... view
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Knobby Walsh
1949
Leon is a gadget inventor, but when he uses them to help his son marry the banker's daughter, the results are per Leon's usual happenings. Once everyt ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1949
Leon (Leon Errol) keeps making solo trips to Buffalo and his wife Dorothy (Dorothy Granger) suspicions that some hanky-panky is involved. The next tim ... view
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Leon Errol
1949
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne H ... view
Character:
Knobby Walsh
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Leon Errol
1949
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new. ... view
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(archive footage)
1949
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his ... view
Character:
Knobby Walsh
1949
To save expense, Leon Errol decides to get his daughter married. He picks a wealthy young man as the prospective groom, but his daughter's heart is se ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1948
Faced with a police raid ordered by Errol's wife, turned Reform League president, the manager of the local burleque theatre sends one of the girls ove ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1948
Leon forgets his wedding anniversary and is in the doghouse checking the date on his wedding certificate and learns that it wasn't signed, so conclude ... view
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Leon Errol
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Leon Errol (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
1948
Errol's secretary's husband, who happens to be a fencing champ, believes there is something going on between them besides dictation. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1948
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two ... view
Character:
Julius Caesar 'J.C.' McBride
1948
Errol has been splurging on his hobby of collecting antiques and must hide the actual prices he has paid for them from his wife. In the meantime, his ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1948
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up anoth ... view
Character:
Knobby Walsh
1948
Against his wishes, Leon Errol is forced to buy a sweepstakes ticket ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1947
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk h ... view
Character:
Knobby Walsh
1947
The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is dead set against divorce, the wife prevails upon E ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1947
Leon needs to make a business deal with Mr. Marshall but can't unless his son and Marshall's daughter straighten out their romantic problems. Leon, pr ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1947
Caught philandering (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple), Leon's wife (Dorothy Granger) announces (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple ... view
Character:
Leon
1947
Leon's boss and his wife aren't getting along together, so Leon asks them to visit his home and observe how he and Mrs. Errol manage to keep the old k ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1946
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign t ... view
Character:
Knobby Walsh
1946
Comedic mixups are inevitable when Leon Errol borrows a car. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1946
Rita informs Leon that, as a lark, he stole a valuable necklace at a dinner party the night before and she will return it, but Leon remembers nothing ... view
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1946
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. Fir ... view
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Knobby Walsh
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Leon Errol
1946
Leon, sight unseen, rents a room in his house to a professor, who turns out to be a beautiful blonde. This unforseen stroke of good fortune, to Leon's ... view
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Leon Errol
1946
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business. ... view
Character:
Matt Lindsay
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Leon Errol
1945
A beautiful redhead (Myrna Dell) comes knocking on Leon's door demanding the return of a compact dropped accidently in his pocket while they were danc ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1945
A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is ... view
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Wilbur Todd
1945
Leon suspects something between his wife (Dorothy Granger) - talk about the pot calling the kettle black - and the milkman, who are actually talking a ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1945
Leon, not willing to admit he had forgotten the birthday of his wife, tells her he left her present at the office, and she insists he go get it. On th ... view
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Leon Errol
1945
American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls. ... view
Character:
F. Farrington Fowler
1945
An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo). ... view
Character:
Willie Wells
1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer. ... view
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Officer Mulligan
1944
The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show. ... view
Character:
Malcolm Curtis
1944
Leon (Leon Errol) and his friend Harry (Harry Harvey) tell their wives they are going on a fishing trip, but end up doing a bit of partying. Leon come ... view
Character:
Leon
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Leon Errol
1944
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discover ... view
Character:
Herbert Higgins
1944
Errol is mistakenly involved in the raid of a burlesque show where he had innocently gone in order to hire some talent, including a fan dancer, for hi ... view
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Leon Errol
1944
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, t ... view
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Cactus (Ranch Foreman)
1944
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the ma ... view
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James P. Tuttle
1944
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely li ... view
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1944
When a hat-check girl writes a story based on the life of a famous comedian, she helps to reunite a father and son who haven't spoken to each other fo ... view
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'Happy' Dan Briggs
1944
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns f ... view
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Leon Errol
1943
A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante. ... view
Character:
Cyrus Drake
1943
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1943
Two Leon Errols, father and son, both get married without telling the other and end up at the same Niagara Falls hotel on their respective honeymoons. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol Sr.
1943
Documentary short film depicting ways in which Americans can assist the war effort by proper conservation around the home. ... view
Character:
The Father
1943
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens. ... view
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Uncle Matt Lindsay
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Cornelius Rensington lll
1943
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee. ... view
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Hank
1943
As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help o ... view
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Leon Errol
1943
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub. ... view
Character:
Big Mike O'Brien
1943
Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1942
Leon Errol plans to buy a doll as a gift for his wife; misunderstandings ensue. ... view
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Leon Errol
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Durham
1942
Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting trip, and then lapses into amnesia. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1942
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it pa ... view
Character:
Uncle Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
1942
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in or ... view
Character:
Uncle Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
Character:
Leon Errol sr.
1942
Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young ... view
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Leon Errol
1942
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy ... view
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Uncle Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
1942
Leon does his best to elude a process server by taking the day off work to help with the housework. Mrs. Errol meets the server in the street and, thi ... view
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Leon Errol
1941
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio spon ... view
Character:
McKenzie
1941
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman. ... view
Character:
Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
1941
Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leo ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1941
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little ... view
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His Rival
1941
Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto and her three nieces to Hawaii for a vacation. Be ... view
Character:
Walter Spencer
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Leon Errol
1941
Leon goes partying in Tijuana with a friend, but his wife gets wise and makes plans to teach him a lesson. She pretends to have a couple of lovers, in ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1941
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled. ... view
Character:
Daniel Jennings Boone
1941
Salesman Leon Errol joins a polo club to secure an order from a tough-sell member. He manages to gum up the deal for his company and gets fired. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1941
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana. ... view
Character:
Mike Clancy / Papa Alvarez
1941
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contra ... view
Character:
Alex MacDevin
1940
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but en ... view
Character:
Uncle Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
1940
Errol breaks the law once too often and comes up against a no nonsense judge. ... view
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1940
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters. ... view
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Uncle Waldo Burke
1940
Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1940
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy s ... view
Character:
Henry Brewster
1940
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniv ... view
Character:
Uncle Matt Lindsay / Lord Basil Epping
1939
Errol loses his job because he cannot tell a lie, and when he gets involved with kidnappers, nobody will believe he is telling the truth. ... view
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1939
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dan ... view
Character:
Sam "Pops" Marlow
1939
Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. A ... view
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Prof. Leon Errol
1939
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart wh ... view
Character:
Mudcat
1939
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, w ... view
Character:
Matthew Lindsay
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Leon Errol
1939
Errol, a real estate salesman, returns from his honeymoon and moves into a model home, where he is constantly bothered by prospective buyers. ... view
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1939
When a crime wave hits town, bank robbers find haven in Errol's home. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1938
Leon's wife and her fellow amateur actors decide to play a joke on Leon, which backfires when he doesn't realize they're acting. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1938
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1938
Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1938
Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabi ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1938
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of reco ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1937
While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
Character:
Leon Errol
1937
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest ope ... view
Character:
Brennan
1937
Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending ... view
Character:
The Drunk
1936
Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny, a lad in the household, makes a mess, and Henry's ... view
Character:
Henry Morton / Philpot (valet) / Ghost of Henry Morton
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Leon Errol
1935
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San ... view
Character:
Otto Wray
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Leon
1935
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience. ... view
Character:
Pirate
1935
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1935
Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew g ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1935
When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our he ... view
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Last Card Louie
1934
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle. ... view
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Character:
Leon Errol
1934
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until h ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1934
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are ... view
Character:
Layton
1934
Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden preparing their latest meal. After the meal, they take a stroll through time. They make a few stops along the w ... view
Character:
Adam
1934
Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run by chorus girls to his insurance agent. ... view
Character:
Walter Webb
1934
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police det ... view
Character:
Stubbs
1934
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to a ... view
Character:
Hubert
1934
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1934
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and ... view
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1933
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters. ... view
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Uncle Gilbert
1933
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate. ... view
Character:
Leon Errol
1931
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to br ... view
Character:
Baron von Schwarzdorf
1931
Bobby Jones instructs on the use of the Mashie Niblick. ... view
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1931
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wear ... view
Character:
Finley P. Haddock
1930
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star. ... view
Character:
Otto
1930
Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Erro ... view
Character:
James Wilson
1930
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors ... view
Character:
Himself / Master of Ceremonies / (In a Hospital)
1927
Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger for financial reasons. Only when the men in the whi ... view
Character:
Sam Smith
1926
A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real pira ... view
Character:
Tremble-at-Evil Tidd
1925
Sally works at a cafe resort in Paris. After dancing at the cafe, Otis, an American theatrical agent, convinces her to pose as a Russian dancer. After ... view
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Duke of Checkergovinia
1924
The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves ... view
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Innkeeper
1921
Leon Errol is a befuddled bridegroom about to get hitched to a pretty lass. If he can only get to the church on time. ... view
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