Josef Swickard
Josef Swickard (26 June 1866 – 29 February 1940) was a German-born veteran stage and screen character actor, who had toured with stock companies in Europe, South Africa, and South America. Swickard entered films with D.W. Griffith in 1912 and by 1914 was playing supporting roles for Mack Sennett. He appeared in Charles Chaplin's Laughing Gas and Caught in a Cabaret. He remained with Sennett until 1917, when he settled into his prolific career of playing mostly aristocratic characters. Modern audiences are perhaps most familiar with his role of Marcelo Desnoyers, the well intentioned but impractical French upper class father in Rex Ingram's 1921 film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His career in sound films was somewhat limited and he played in low-budget and action serial type films. He played the villainous Prime Minister Kruel in 1925 film version of Wizard of Oz. Swickard was the brother of actor Charles Swickard, and the husband of Broadway actress Margaret Campbell, who on June 27, 1939 was brutally murdered by their adult son. Nearly seven months to-the-day after his ex-wife's murder, Swickard died on February 29, 1940. He was 73.
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When Ambrose Dared Walrus
Hefty Ambrose (Mack Swain) is an unlikely acrobat who checks into the Walrus Hotel with his petite trapeze-artist wife. Proprietors Mr. and Mrs. Walrus, whose marital union is no more harmonious than their guests', suffer several embarrassing encounters with the newcomers....Watch Movie -
Fatty's Spooning Days
Fatty Arbuckle stars as an incorrigible husband who begins by flirting with the maid and ends up chasing after another man’s wife in the park. The other husband spots Fatty’s wife (Mabel Normand) unattended and so the marriage circle goes round and round. Those indefatigable...Watch Movie -
Willful Ambrose
WILLFUL AMBROSE’s farcical plot may not be much for continuity but all the better to focus on the slapstick pageantry of slipups, extramarital flirtations and enough thumps for a game of Whack-A-Mole. Mack Swain stars as a beer-guzzling, sharpshooting lout. Louise Fazenda is his wife and pretty...Watch Movie -
Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Ambrose's amorous antics at the garment factory get him fired. In retaliation, he hires a couple of crooks to menace his boss but they mistakenly target the boss' daughter he fancies instead. Her mortal peril necessitates a call to the police so it's the Keystone Kops to the...Watch Movie
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The Return of Chandu
Three years after his legendary first screen appearance as Dracula (a role he'd already played on stage), Bela Lugosi got one of his rare chances to play the hero in this twelve-part serial. He plays Frank Chandler (aka "Chandu the Magician") who becomes embroiled in intrigue...Watch Movie -
The Plumber
House calls don't come much messier than the one answered by a plumber (Charles Murray) at the upstanding bourgeois home of the Felixes, where a bathroom gusher is making life very wet. The tradesman proceeds to get likewise, nipping into the family's hooch supply with disastrous results. Murray...Watch Movie

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