El Brendel
Birthday: 1890-03-24
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: El Brendel (March 24, 1890 - April 9, 1964); born Elmer Goodfellow Brendel), nicknamed "The Synthetic Swede", was an American stage, film, and television actor. Although of German and Irish parentage, he adopted the comedic persona of a Swede who speaks fractured English.
Movies
Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with ...
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Man of the Forest
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) ...
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Wings
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fig...
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The Big Trail
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get...
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The She-Creature
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monst...
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Happy Landing
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to Ame...
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Just Imagine
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food,...
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Sunny Side Up
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Moll...
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God's Country and the Woman
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve ...
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Mr. Lemon Of Orange
A fast and uproarious farce of gunmen, gun molls, and the Swedish boy's night out....
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Women of All Nations
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sw...
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Delicious
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles....
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Happy Days
In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing ...
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West of Broadway
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry h...
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Machine Gun Mama
Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. ...
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The Spider
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening...
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Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to fin...
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Paris Model
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other....
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Hot Pepper
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when th...
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New Movietone Follies of 1930
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in ...
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The Meanest Gal in Town
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town....
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Little Miss Broadway
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The ...
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Disorderly Conduct
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence le...
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Call a Messenger
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he ...
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I'm from Arkansas
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets....
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Defective Detectives
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but the...
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Risky Business
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been...
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You Never Know Women
On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling gird...
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Hot for Paris
Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that ...
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My Lips Betray
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden fo...
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The Cock-Eyed World
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl....
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The House of Fear
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during th...
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Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments t...
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up ...
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Six Cylinder Love
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for ...
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She...
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Captain Caution
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British d...
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Valley of the Giants
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive e...
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Code of the Streets
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap....
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs....
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What, No Men?
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-femal...
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Love at First Fright
A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative....
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Career Woman
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds he...
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The Last Trail
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti...
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The Super Snooper
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company....
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I Spied for You
Ole discovers Nazi spies planning to take over the ship he's working on....
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The Blitz Kiss
Gardeners El and Tom find themselves drafted in the army and struggle to make good....
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Olaf Laughs Last
El tries to save his girlfriend, disinterested in him, from a gang of kidnappers....
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Ready, Willing but Unable
El accidentally hits a mannequin with his automobile; believing he's killed a man, he and Tom set ou...
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Phoney Cronies
Three klutzy moving men end up in a museum that may or may not be haunted - slapstick hijinks ensue....
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His Wedding Scare
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her form...
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Boobs in the Night
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad ...
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A Rookie's Cookie
El, a rookie cop, falls for a girl who is being hounded by a racketeer....
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Snooper Service
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl....
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The Golden Calf
In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes....
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If I Had My Way
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his ...
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Handle with Care
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallor...
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Frozen Justice
The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alas...
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show....
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The Holy Terror
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for...
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Too Many Crooks
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by ...
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The Campus Flirt
A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, wh...
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Rolled Stockings
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy...
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Arizona Bound
Dave Saulter, a rambling young cowboy drifts into a small western town the day a big gold shipment i...
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Radio Scout
A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses ...
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Help Yourself
A hungry man enters a cafeteria hoping to get a bite to eat, and finds love instead....
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Mother's Helper
Fox Film’s promotional short subject for the Federal Government’s National Recovery Act, in which wo...
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