Mack Swain
Birthday: 1876-02-15
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mack Swain (born Moroni Swain, February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an early American film actor, who appeared in many of Mack Sennett's comedies at Keystone Studios, including the Keystone Cops series. He also appeared in major features by Charlie Chaplin. In the early 1900s Swain had his own stock theater company, which performed in the western and midwestern United States. Swain worked in vaudeville before starting in silent film at Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. While with Keystone, he was teamed with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as "Ambrose" and Conklin as the grand mustachioed "Walrus", they performed these roles in several films including The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus and Love, Speed and Thrills, both made in 1915. Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, 26 all told, and they also appeared separately and/or together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players. Swain later took his Ambrose character with him to the L-KO Kompany. Having already worked with Charles Chaplin at Keystone, Swain began working with him again at First National in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class, Pay Day, and The Pilgrim. He is also remembered for his large supporting role as Big Jim McKay in the 1925 film The Gold Rush, for United Artists, written by and starring Chaplin. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mack Swain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street.
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The Gold Rush
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
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Laughing Gas
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anest...
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The Fatal Mallet
Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty....
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban...
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Hands Up!
Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is compl...
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The Idle Class
At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, ...
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Love and Gasoline
A short comedy directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. believed to be a lost film....
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Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...
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The Locked Door
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character...
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Mabel’s Nerve
Mabel attempts to master a bucking horse as it speeds towards a cliff with Mack hot on her trail!...
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f...
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A Gambling Rube
A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is consi...
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Hello, Mabel
Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by ...
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The Girl from Everywhere
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese....
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The Girl from Nowhere
Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and...
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A Busy Day
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pr...
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Caught in the Rain
When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when h...
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His Trysting Places
On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in ...
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His Musical Career
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospe...
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Mabel's Married Life
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes of...
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Getting Acquainted
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted ...
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His Prehistoric Past
Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arriv...
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Gentlemen of Nerve
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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The Pilgrim
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church....
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A Thief Catcher
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime....
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A Texas Steer
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't rea...
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Mockery
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is ...
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Torrent
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's hear...
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Leading Lizzie Astray
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire....
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Fatty's New Role
Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat....
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Ambrose's First Falsehood
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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Gussle, the Golfer
The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, mistreating his caddy and generally making an ass of himself on...
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Mabel Lost and Won
Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When a...
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Double Crossed
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get...
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Ambrose's Lofty Perch
King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a...
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Ambrose's Sour Grapes
Ambrose loses his girl-friend to Harry Gribbon in the park. When Ambrose's "girl-friend"'s twin sist...
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Willful Ambrose
Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he tries...
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter ...
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When Ambrose Dared Walrus
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walr...
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Love, Speed and Thrills
After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with...
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Cleaning Up
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as po...
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Heroic Ambrose
When his sweetheart's mother chases Ambrose away from her daughter on a beach outing, Ambrose finds ...
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Finn and Hattie
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the who...
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Kiki
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job ...
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A Muddy Romance
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets M...
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Fatty Joins the Force
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, b...
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The Under-Sheriff
The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols....
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A Robust Romeo
A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton....
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The Sea Bat
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest....
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Saved by Wireless
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up he...
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Redemption
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and ma...
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His Bitter Pill
Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small ...
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Madcap Ambrose
Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relati...
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Mabel at the Wheel
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to ...
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Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a...
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The Knockout
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying t...
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That Little Band Of Gold
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage,...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take ove...
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The Nervous Wreck
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud ...
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The Eagle
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He s...
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Caught in a Park
Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville...
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The Gusher
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twi...
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Ye Olden Grafter
Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by d...
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Footloose Widows
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Sm...
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Her First False Hare
Four men are out rabbit hunting and encounter a beautiful young lady, who promises to marry the firs...
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Adventurous Ambrose
Ambrose and his wife are going to take charge of a seabeach hotel....
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My Best Girl
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, an...
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Sea Horses
Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where ...
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Caught in the Fog
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a...
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Soup to Nuts
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions...
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The Shamrock and the Rose
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters ...
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The Beloved Rogue
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasiona...
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The Last Warning
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the a...
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The Pullman Bride
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring ...
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Fatty's Wine Party
Fatty's Wine Party is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle....
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi...
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The Chaplin Revue
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together...
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Becky
Rebecca (Sally O'Neil) is a salesgirl who gets a chance at a Broadway show; there, she attracts and ...
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Innocent Ambrose
Mack "Ambrose" Swain, the ladies man, finds himself in all kinds of lady trouble....
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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Thirst
A woman has moved to a small town boarding house to seek peace and quiet. All too soon she finds her...
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Whispering Wires
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone....
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Ambrose's Little Hatchet
Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his ad...
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Lighthouse Love
Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighth...
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The Sea Nymphs
Fatty, his wife and mother-in-law are on a ferry to Catalina Island for an outing. So are Mabel and ...
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The Midnight Patrol
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good...
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Bad Boy
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can...
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Her Big Night
Tom Barrett, a motion picture press agent, noting Frances Norcross' resemblance to film star Daphne ...
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The Devil's Circus
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circu...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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