Birthday: 1893-10-19
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biography: Charles Joseph Parrott (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940), known professionally as Charley Chase, was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Charley Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and started his career in films by working in film in 1912.
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two...
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Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the...
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Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed...
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Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He’s instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to t...
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A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to ca...
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Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when t...
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Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast...
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Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Ji...
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A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, ...
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Jimmy Jump appears as a female impersonator in an amateur show who is forced to wear his costume hom...
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Charley looks for a job position but is not anxious to find one. He ends up getting into all sorts o...
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A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a g...
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A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films....
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Jimmy Jump brings his bride to a new bungalow home, selected and furnished by him. All the neighbors...
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When Charley's wife buys a bulldog for his birthday present and has a special key made for the room ...
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Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other w...
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Jimmy Jump and his family go to the movies for their regular Saturday evening recreation. Jimmy like...
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Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to...
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Charley and his wife (Eugenia Gilbert) decide to teach a lesson to his brother (Eugene Pallette) who...
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For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suit...
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Following a jewelry store robbery, Charley becomes the prime suspect due to his flashy antics and ac...
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Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests....
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Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's siste...
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Charley and Edgar on shore leave in Mexico, fight for the affection of a pretty senorita....
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Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in wit...
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With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends...
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Locuras de amor is a comedy short from Charley Chase with all speaking Spanish...
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El príncipe del dólar is an American comedy short with all speaking Spanish...
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An expanded, Spanish-language version of the two-reel comedy Thundering Tenors (1931)....
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Garde la bombe is the French speaking version of a Charley Chase comedy short....
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Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen....
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Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court...
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A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is consi...
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Thus far Sophie has failed completely as a motion picture actress. She has spoiled every scene, but ...
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Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, the...
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Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by ...
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Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady u...
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It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet...
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This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues...
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Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show wh...
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Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sy...
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The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire estate if mar...
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Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of croo...
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Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair...
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A young married couple volunteer to take charge of several orphans after the asylum has burned down....
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Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of cont...
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Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman...
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Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum....
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The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which g...
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Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospe...
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Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of err...
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A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his ...
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...
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After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramari...
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A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire....
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After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's tak...
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Jamison has a very jealous wife. Mrs. Jamison has a very gossipy friend. When the friend spots Jamis...
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The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same...
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This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the ...
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Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood ch...
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The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure t...
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Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan....
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It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and h...
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Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of ...
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Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal....
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The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced ...
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Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a ...
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Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925....
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Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in lov...
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This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must fi...
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A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend gives him an anonymous note stating that th...
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Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by co...
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Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to...
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Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him....
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Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't...
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Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decide...
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Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid ge...
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A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks se...
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After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend f...
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Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While ...
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A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to imper...
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Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband...
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This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in ...
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A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events....
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It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her ...
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Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard....
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Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introd...
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On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets i...
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Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school....
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The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car...
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A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After...
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The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war....
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The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an ...
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Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned...
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A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety o...
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Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have ...
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Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for t...
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Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to hi...
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Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that....
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Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money....
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Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house....
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A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards h...
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A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other idea...
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Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher....
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Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic....
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Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car deal...
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A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban...
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To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying t...
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Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend ...
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A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to ...
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Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by...
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A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage,...
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Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production....
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Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Ch...
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Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble....
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Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain....
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Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes ou...
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Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welco...
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At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife....
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A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he ...
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Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection...
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Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and...
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Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, sa...
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Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce ...
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A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his weddi...
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Charley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when th...
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Two guys who own a restaurant get word of a sure thing at the races and bet all their money on that ...
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A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up w...
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To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pret...
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Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in....
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Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy....
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Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't reali...
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Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her....
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Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) h...
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When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospe...
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Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and ...
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After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with...
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Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch job...
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Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope bu...
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The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair i...
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Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him...
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Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club....
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A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a fo...
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Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father....
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Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. Wh...
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An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charle...
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Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel a...
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A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid....
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In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everythi...
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Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a r...
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Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, ...
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In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an impo...
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Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest....
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In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade a...
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Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on...
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While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently ...
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Charley/Jimmy is a car salesman who takes an unruly family of prospective buyers for a picnic in the...
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A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money....
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Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous....
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Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a th...
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A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for th...
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Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that ...
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Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet...
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents....
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Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage....
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Jimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red Ridi...
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A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac....
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Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letti...
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Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) and his wife find a baby left at their door. They happily take the baby i...
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A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise ...
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A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first....
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Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he...
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Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her law...
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'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly...
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Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help ...
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Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an ...
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Sent as a missionary to cannibals, Lloyd Hamilton boards a ship, but encounters many problems along ...
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Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord No...
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Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts....
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Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterpre...
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Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, ...
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Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share th...
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Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female...
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Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, ...
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Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail...
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A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty hig...
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Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disab...
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This movie is the Spanish language version of THE PIP FROM PITTSBURG...
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and...
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Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of ...
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Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality....
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James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that...
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Although the war is over, Charley still can't seem to find his way out of France....
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This here is the four-reel Spanish version of Charley Chase's Looser Than Loose....
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Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers t...
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Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-w...
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Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eve...
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A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loya...
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In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her bos...
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A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...
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Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop....
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Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew....
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When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banke...
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Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife...
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When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter....
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