Slim Summerville
Birthday: 1892-07-09
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Biography: Slim Summerville (born George Joseph Somerville; July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946) was an American film actor and director best known for his work in comedies.
Movies
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
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Dough and Dynamite
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two...
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Mabel's Busy Day
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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Laughing Gas
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anest...
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Free Love
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divor...
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murde...
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The Denver Dude
A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress ...
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The Front Page
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer e...
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Western Union
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires ...
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Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. Bu...
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A Dog Catcher's Love
The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is...
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Tobacco Road
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors ...
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Those Country Kids
Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court...
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The Plumber
This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues...
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Droppington's Devilish Deed
Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show wh...
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The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m...
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Captain January
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A ...
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Air Mail
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions...
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Gold Rush Maisie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining h...
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vi...
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Painted Ponies
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, wi...
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Riding for Fame
A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his bo...
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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by...
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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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The Road Back
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to '...
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Love and Bullets
Charlie is trying to impress Minnie, who is interested in another fellow, but having trouble with hi...
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arb...
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Her Painted Hero
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fa...
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Reckless Living
In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when t...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm....
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Their Social Splash
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with ba...
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Oh, What a Kick!
Slim Summerville and Dick Sutherland fight over the pretty French girl. Then Summerville is is volun...
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Five of a Kind
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows....
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Life Begins at Forty
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to to...
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Uncle Joe
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried ...
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Way Down East
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the wo...
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Kentucky Moonshine
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show....
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Submarine Patrol
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m...
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Bride by Mistake
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target...
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Troopers Three
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and...
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The Valley of Vanishing Men
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him....
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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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I'm from Arkansas
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets....
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The Country Doctor
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu...
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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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See America Thirst
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals....
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Her First Kiss
Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minni...
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A Bedroom Blunder
A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the l...
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Horse Play
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle...
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Bachelor Daze
Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the l...
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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer....
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White Fang
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accus...
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Reunion
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into...
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A Bird's a Bird
Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry....
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Gussle's Day of Rest
The disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal a l...
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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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Cinders of Love
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief....
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Sailor's Holiday
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling ...
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Under Montana Skies
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During th...
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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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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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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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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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The Property Man
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets...
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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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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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Out All Night
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery....
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Heaven on Earth
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then a...
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We! We! Marie!
In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly...
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King of Jazz
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravaga...
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Their Big Moment
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder....
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Swing in the Saddle
In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admire...
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Miss Polly
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity Leagu...
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The Chinese Parrot
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its ow...
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The Texas Streak
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw ...
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His Bread and Butter
After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that the...
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A Schoolhouse Scandal
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was r...
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Villa of the Movies
Here's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would co-st...
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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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Puddin' Head
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Haro...
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Sing Me a Song of Texas
The two nieces of the deceased Charley Bronson arrive to learn that an unknown judge will determine ...
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Pepper
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take he...
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Winner Take All
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but...
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The Spoilers
On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivat...
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Tom Brown of Culver
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter....
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Love Birds
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the Californi...
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Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...
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The Bad Sister
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsemen...
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Strong Boy
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the fru...
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One Hysterical Night
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Nap...
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Fatty's Magic Pants
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly...
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Garden of Eatin'
After being falsely accused of kidnapping, Slim is thrown in jail. His troubles get worse when a lyn...
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Her Man
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld....
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Little Accident
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby....
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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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Fifty Roads to Town
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the...
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His Hidden Purpose
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” ...
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Cursed by His Beauty
Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female...
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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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Are Waitresses Safe?
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock...
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King of the Rodeo
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago....
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They Just Had to Get Married
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter m...
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Up the River
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape ...
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The Rivals
A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Rals...
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Off to the Races
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps...
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Can This Be Dixie?
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old pl...
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Many a Slip
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant....
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Case Dismissed
Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bail...
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The Unexpected Father
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly...
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The Kitchen Lady
Louise is sentimentally inclined, but her passion is unrequited. She loves the landlady's long, hand...
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Lasca of the Rio Grande
A Texas Ranger who loves a dance hall girl must bring her in when she is charged with murder....
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Sunshine's Dark Moment
Barney Hellum and Slim Summerville give policeman Kit Guard a rough time in this funny Barney Google...
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Mabel’s Latest Prank
Mabel meets a masher in the park while en route to get a position as maid. Later she finds the man w...
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Roping Her Romeo
The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran), who keeps Triggerville in line...
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The Way of the World
A long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker....
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Skirts
Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is ...
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The Shannons of Broadway
The Shannons, a vaudeville act, are performing in a New England town when the local hotel owner barg...
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