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Mack Swain

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. Born : 15th-Feb-1876

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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 taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Released : 12th-Dec-1914

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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 young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.
Released : 2nd-Apr-1915

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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 in danger.
Released : 16th-Apr-1915

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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 sister and husband arrive everybody gets mixed-up between the two twins.
Released : 1st-Mar-1915

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When Ambrose Dared Walrus

Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walrus gets a letter from his insurance broker Mr. Cinder demanding a payment. Short on cash, Walrus decides to get his tenants' money now. Ambrose and his wife are in the middle of a domestic squabble when Walrus pays a visit, and his presence only makes things worse. Mr. Cinder visits Walrus himself, and he carelessly throws his cigarette into a trash can. After he leaves, the hotel catches on fire and the rest of the film is a thrilling five-minute race to pay off the insurance!
Released : 11th-Jul-1915

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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 his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
Released : 18th-Jan-1915

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Ambrose's Fury

A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
Released : 24th-Mar-1915

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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 to replace it.
Released : 1st-Mar-1915

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Oh, What a Knight

A slapstick comedy featuring Mack Swain.
Released : 25th-Jan-1919

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A Movie Star

The star of a film attends a public showing.
Released : 26th-Jan-1916

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Madcap Ambrose

Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
Released : 16th-Jul-1916

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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 town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.
Released : 30th-Apr-1916

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Ye Olden Grafter

Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.
Released : 18th-Feb-1915

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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 fall in love.
Released : 14th-Apr-1927

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The Home Breakers

Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
Released : 1st-Feb-1915

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His Naughty Thought

Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.
Released : 6th-May-1917

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Innocent Ambrose

Mack "Ambrose" Swain, the ladies man, finds himself in all kinds of lady trouble.
Released : 11th-Jan-1920

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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 herself in a Keystone movie, where there's everything but.
Released : 29th-Jul-1917

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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 adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including her husband -- see him as killing a woman.
Released : 15th-Mar-1915

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Saved by Wireless

Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.
Released : 21st-Nov-1915

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Heroic Ambrose

When his sweetheart's mother chases Ambrose away from her daughter on a beach outing, Ambrose finds a bevy of bathing beauties to frolic with. Everyone is having fun until someone sinks a boat.
Released : 7th-Jun-1919

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Full o' Spirits


Released : 15th-Aug-1920

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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 her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
Released : 4th-May-1914

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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 Prospect St.
Released : 7th-Nov-1914

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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 arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
Released : 7th-Dec-1914

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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 pretty woman.
Released : 7th-May-1914

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Fatty's New Role

Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
Released : 1st-Feb-1915

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Gussle, the Golfer

The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, mistreating his caddy and generally making an ass of himself on the golf course, receives a well-deserved golf ball to the noggin, temporarily rendering him disoriented. The offending golfer, Ambrose, and his wife feel terrible about the erring ball; but if they knew what Gussle was capable of, they'd have left him lying on the green. Later, at his social club, Gussle gets thrown out of a card game for cheating. Ambrose, ignorant of the exiting Gussle's dishonesty, greets him warmly before joining the game himself. Gussle suddenly has an idea that will give him revenge on the card players and get rid of Ambrose so that Gussle can make his moves on his gullible friend's beautiful wife.
Released : 27th-Dec-1914

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Cleaning Up

Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1 criminal on the "Ten Most Wanted" list.
Released : 27th-Sep-1930

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The Pullman Bride

The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
Released : 1st-Jan-1917

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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 Mack Sennett.
Released : 8th-Oct-1914

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Other People's Business

Other People's Business
Released : 7th-Dec-1914

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The Girl from Nowhere

The Girl from Nowhere is a comedy short
Released : 5th-Aug-1928

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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.
Released : 12th-Jul-1925

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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 off to a bar and gets drunk.
Released : 20th-Jun-1914

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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 to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Released : 5th-Dec-1914

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Pay Day

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
Released : 2nd-Apr-1922

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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 the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
Released : 9th-Nov-1914

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A Thief Catcher

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
Released : 19th-Feb-1914

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Double Crossed

Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.
Released : 25th-Jan-1914

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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 bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
Released : 25th-Aug-1928

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This Way Out

A rival courtships in a variety of absurd situations.
Released : 27th-May-1923

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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 her father. Mabel and Fatty flirt with each other, and Fatty tosses her father overboard, thinking he is another suitor. The boat docks and the two go their separate ways. Mack Swain tries to pick Mabel up, too. All go to rent bathing suits, Fatty locks Mack in a dressing room with mother-in-law. Fatty and Mabel feed a large fish to a seal at the water's edge, and then engage in some graceful and comic diving. Swain, Avery, Durfee and Davenport see them diving and corner them...everyone's relationship to each other is revealed. —Ben Model, [email protected]
Released : 23rd-Nov-1914

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Love and Gasoline

A short comedy directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. believed to be a lost film.
Released : 21st-Feb-1914

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Mabel’s Nerve

A silent comedy short directed by Mabel Normand.
Released : 16th-May-1914

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The Girl from Everywhere

Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Released : 11th-Dec-1927

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A Rowboat Romance

A Rowboat Romance is a 1914 Comedy short.
Released : 6th-Jul-1914

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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.
Released : 1st-Jun-1914

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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 is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Released : 29th-Oct-1914

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A Robust Romeo

A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton.
Released : 12th-Feb-1914

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Leading Lizzie Astray

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Released : 30th-Nov-1914

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