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Ford Sterling (born George Stitch; November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.
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26 November 1913
Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant.
21 September 1935
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies.
20 January 1924
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie.
20 April 1924
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her.
14 April 1913
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
02 June 1913
When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.
14 October 1912
Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a parade, pursued by his rival.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
20 October 1923
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval.
07 February 1926
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
22 July 1923
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom.
13 December 1913
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
02 March 1919
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
01 August 1935
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief.
28 October 1912
Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marry Mrs.
26 August 1928
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound.
21 October 1912
A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foiled by the chef whom he snubbed.
16 June 1913
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
18 September 1913
The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
11 November 1912
The minister is appointed head of a purity league designed to keep a risque dancer from performing her act; however, the deacon becomes infatuated with the girl at an amusement park and has his picture taken with her, which causes much scandal and blackmail.
04 November 1912
Mrs. Smith hired detectives to trail her husband, whom she believes is being unfaithful; police chief Larkin gets mistaken for Mr.
09 December 1912
Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim.
23 October 1911
An old toymaker invents an automatic doll and goes to the lawyers to apply for a patent. That day a young girl is reported missing, and Dan, the cop, receives word that a reward of $500 is offered for solving the mystery of her disappearance.
10 May 1919
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
21 March 1961
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
14 August 1912
This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand, but papa interferes.
28 October 1912
Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of sight of a watchful wife and children.
21 July 1913
Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
10 November 1913
A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.
14 August 1912
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
01 July 1925
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
14 May 1935
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her.
28 November 1915
About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
14 December 1913
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt.
12 January 1930
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing.
15 December 1931
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner.
03 April 1913
The young granddaughter of a banker plays a game of hide-and-seek with her mother, Mabel. After Mabel walks away, the child disappears.
06 January 1913
Three rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by one, who tries to win favor as a hero by rescuing him, using a motorboat going at lightning speed.
01 May 1913
Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.
22 December 1924
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
08 September 1913
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable.
09 March 1913
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
19 November 1913
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them.
10 March 1924
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone.
11 March 1935
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
07 July 1913
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
14 May 1913
A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution.
14 July 1913
Two groundskeepers compete for the attention of a pretty park visitor. When the woman’s daughter goes missing, the two set out to rescue her.
08 March 1925
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem.
19 July 1915
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
18 December 1933
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
09 March 1914
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
14 October 1937
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting.
30 October 1930
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
22 September 1913
A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.
04 October 1926
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her.
