Joe Martin
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Place of Birth: Indonesian Archipelago
Biography: Joe Martin (born between 1911 and 1913 – died after 1931) was a captive orangutan who appeared in at least 50 American films of the silent era, including approximately 20 comedy shorts, several serials, two Tarzan movies, Rex Ingram's melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round.
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Seven Years Bad Luck
After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring b...
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and C...
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Black Orchids
Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father ...
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Spangles
At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a w...
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Trifling Women
Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to di...
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the tempe...
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Man and Beast
During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and To...
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Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose
An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is...
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Hungry Happy's Dream
H. Oboe Rhodes, a "knight of the road," limps into a large city with the idea of appeasing his hunge...
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What Darwin Missed
Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by D...
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Merry-Go-Round
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, eve...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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King of the Circus
Eddie King goes up against a villainous circus owner in this action adventure which was directed by ...
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A Monkey Movie Star
Joe dreams he has become a high-salaried, temperamental movie star....
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A Monkey Hero
Here's a surefire number if ever there was one. Filled with innumerable original gags and laugh-gett...
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A Prohibition Monkey
The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, an...
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A Baby Doll Bandit
Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight, but one day the town was brightened consid...
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Monkey Stuff
Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin...
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Making Monkey Business
Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "T...
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