Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Birthday: 1912-12-20
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography: Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.
Movies
Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in...
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Spooks Run Wild
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house....
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and beco...
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The Our Gang Story
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s...
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Saturday Morning
The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a v...
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A Quiet Street
The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up ...
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The Big Show
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever s...
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Don't Rock the Boat
Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair...
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Between Meals
James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, bu...
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Ghosts on the Loose
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by my...
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The Old Maid's Baby
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends m...
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The Sawdust Doll
Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the pla...
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods....
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Clancy Street Boys
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had...
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Captain Kiddo
Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. M...
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The Non-Skid Kid
After his car runs out of gasoline, the son of a rich man takes his vehicle to a garage run by women...
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Dolly Does Her Bit
Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has b...
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Call for Mr. Caveman
A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have ...
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Drink Hearty
Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the pl...
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Full o' Pep
The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pe...
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Waltz Me Around
Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run...
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The Sleuth
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik...
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Soft Pedal
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail....
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Run 'Em Ragged
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up...
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Park Your Car
A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with thei...
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Big Game
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently ...
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abd...
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The Champeen
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals....
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A Pleasant Journey
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places...
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The Cobbler
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car sta...
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The Dippy Dentist
The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her ...
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Whirl o' the West
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time....
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Rush Orders
A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railr...
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Name the Day
Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the u...
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The Pickaninny
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino....
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One Terrible Day
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, muc...
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Fire Fighters
The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet anima...
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Boys of the City
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house....
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That Gang of Mine
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poo...
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Pride of the Bowery
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape....
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Flying Wild
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ...
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing...
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Kid Dynamite
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but j...
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Big Business
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt,...
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The 'Fraidy Cat
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood ch...
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Our Gang
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established ...
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Young Sherlocks
The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidn...
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Boys to Board
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a...
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Giants vs. Yanks
The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant ho...
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Back Stage
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to h...
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Dogs of War!
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they...
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Lodge Night
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Th...
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July Days
The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mick...
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Stage Fright
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang a...
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Derby Day
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own....
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Sunday Calm
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, m...
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Tire Trouble
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascal...
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The Buccaneers
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits...
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Seein' Things
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him ...
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Commencement Day
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room sch...
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Cradle Robbers
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After ...
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It's a Bear
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to...
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Fast Company
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Ma...
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Let's Get Tough
Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwi...
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All Lit Up
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a caf...
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Any Old Port
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns...
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Call a Taxi
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks,...
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Cash Customers
Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake ...
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Grab the Ghost
As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows reven...
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High Rollers
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the vario...
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Haunted Spooks
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking...
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Penrod
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name o...
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In This Our Life
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l...
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Number, Please?
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl ...
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Start Something
Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl mot...
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Red Hot Hottentotts
Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into diff...
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Getting His Goat
Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by...
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Daddy Number Two
Marie attempts to select a new husband for her mother and a father for herself....
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Classic Comedy Teams
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis...
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