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Clean Sweep (film)
''Clean Sweep'' is a 1918 silent film comedy short. It was produced by the L-KO Kompany and starred actress Merta Sterling. It was distributed through Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Cast * Eddie Barry *Chai Hong - Charlie, the Chinese Laundry Man *Merta Sterling - The Lady Barber * Bartine Burkett - The Lady Barber's daughter *Russ Powell - The Butcher (*as Rusell Powell) *Billy Armstrong William Armstrong and its variations may refer to: Politicians * William Armstrong (corn merchant) (1778–1857), local politician and corn merchant * Bill Armstrong (Australian politician) (1909–1982), member of the Parliament of Australia * ... - Billy References External links * lobby poster 1918 short films American black-and-white films Silent American comedy short films 1918 comedy films 1918 films 1910s American films {{silent-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lehrman
Henry Lehrman (30 March 1881 – 7 November 1946) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Lehrman was a very prominent figure of Hollywood's silent film era, working with such cinematic pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett. He directed, as well as co-starred in, Charlie Chaplin's first film, ''Making a Living''. Lehrman was notoriously careless of the safety of the actors who worked for him. He was the fiancé of the actress Virginia Rappe, for whose death Roscoe Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (whom Lehrman had directed in about a dozen films in the early 1920s), in a highly publicized series of trials, was accused, and later acquitted, of manslaughter. Life and career Born in Sambir, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) or Vienna, to Jewish parentage, Lehrman emigrated to the United States in 1908 or December 1906 and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production directed by D. W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merta Sterling
Merta Sterling (June 13, 1883 – March 14, 1944) was an American film actress of the silent era who predominantly appeared in comedic roles. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1914 and 1927. She was born Manitowoc, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood, California Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and district in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. .... Selected filmography References External links * 1883 births 1944 deaths American film actresses American silent film actresses Actresses from Wisconsin People from Manitowoc, Wisconsin 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American film production and distribution company headquartered at the Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. Additionally, the studio's library includes many individual films such as '' Jaws'' and ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', both of which becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era, which existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in larger cities, an orchestra—would play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L-KO Kompany
The L-KO Motion Picture Company, also known as the L-KO Kompany, was an American motion picture company founded by Henry Lehrman. It produced silent one-, two- and very occasionally three-reel comedy shorts between 1914 and 1919, released by Universal Pictures. The initials L-KO stand for "Lehrman—Knock Out". History By the spring of 1914, Henry "Pathé" Lehrman had directed several important Keystone Cops comedies including '' The Bangville Police'' (1913) and ''Kid Auto Races at Venice'' (1914), Charlie Chaplin's debut. Wooed away from Mack Sennett by producer Fred J. Balshofer, Lehrman left Keystone, along with star performer Ford Sterling, to found Sterling Comedies under the umbrella of the Universal Film and Manufacturing Co., later Universal Pictures. After a relatively short time, Lehrman was fired from Sterling Comedies and founded L-KO as a separate unit within Universal. L-KO's first comedy star was veteran English comic Billie Ritchie, who had played the role o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Barry (actor)
Eddie Barry (October 25, 1887 – August 28, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1912 and 1930. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Newquay, England. He was the older brother of fellow actor Neal Burns. Selected filmography * '' Clean Sweep'' (1918) * '' Business Before Honesty'' (1918) * '' A Roman Scandal'' (1919) * ''Rowdy Ann'' (1919) * '' Her Bridal Nightmare'' (1920) * '' A Bashful Bigamist'' (1920) * ''Mr. Fatima'' (1921) * '' Crack o' Dawn'' (1925) * '' The Sagebrush Lady'' (1925) * '' Reckless Courage'' (1925) * ''Fighting Luck'' (1925) * ''Red Blood ''Red Blood'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Al Hoxie, Lew Meehan and Eddie Barry (actor), Eddie Barry.Langman, p. 357 Cast * Al Hoxie as Buck Marsden * Marjorie Warfie ...'' (1925) * '' Nifty Numbers'' (1928) References External links * 1887 births 1966 deaths 20th-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartine Burkett
Bartine Burkett Zane (February 9, 1898 – May 20, 1994) was an American film actress. Burkett had a brother, Arthur. She gained acting experience in productions of the Shreveport Dramatic Club. Burkett was engaged to be married, but her fiance, an American Expeditionary Forces officer, was killed in France in 1918. As early as 1914, Burkett worked as an extra in Famous Players–Lasky films. She progressed to feature roles by the end of that decade. She is best recalled for her silent comedies and her late-in-life appearances in sitcoms and TV commercials. She appeared in nearly sixty silent films before retiring upon her 1928 marriage to Ralph Leland Zane. Among her earliest co-stars and friends were Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Al St. John and Stan Laurel. In 1973, five years after her husband's death, she returned to acting, appearing in three films and a number of television programs and advertisements. She died in Burbank, California at age 96. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Powell
Russ Powell (September 16, 1875 – November 28, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in 186 films between 1915 and 1943. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''The Fashion Shop'' (1915, Short) - Fat Customer * ''The Tale of the Night Before'' (1915) - Henry's friend * ''Fat and Furious'' (1917) - Merta's Father * '' Clean Sweep'' (1918) - The Butcher * '' Smoldering Embers'' (1920) - Tramp * ''Dangerous Days'' (1920) - Bartender (uncredited) * '' The Slim Princess'' (1920) - The Governor General * '' The Soul of Youth'' (1920) - Patrolman Jones * '' One Stolen Night'' (1923) * '' Kindled Courage'' (1923) - Marshal * '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (uncredited) (1923) * '' A Boy of Flanders'' - Baas Kronstadt (1924) * '' Open All Night'' (1924) (uncredited) * ''Dynamite Smith'' (1924) * '' The Wheel'' (1925) * '' The Show'' (1927) * '' The Red Mill'' (1927) * '' Tillie the Toiler'' (1927) (uncredited) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Armstrong (actor)
William Armstrong (14 January 1891 – 1 March 1924) was a British-American actor and comedian. Biography Armstrong was born on 14 January 1891 in Bristol, England. Armstrong started his career in the British music hall tradition and appeared in roles for Fred Karno from 1910 until 1914 in his native Bristol, before heading to the US and working in films for Keystone Studios, mainly in comedy roles, where he was a regular player in the films of Charlie Chaplin among others. Armstrong died from tuberculosis on 1 March 1924 in Sunland, California. Partial filmography *''His New Job'' (1915) *'' The Champion'' (1915) *'' In the Park'' (1915) *''The Tramp'' (1915) *'' By the Sea'' (1915) *''Work'' (1915) *''A Woman'' (1915) *'' The Bank'' (1915) *'' Shanghaied'' (1915) *''Police'' (1916) *'' Watch Your Neighbor'' (1918) *'' Clean Sweep'' (1918) *'' Triple Trouble'' (1918) *''Hop, the Bellhop'' (1919) * '' Love, Honor and Behave'' (1920) *''Skirts'' (1921) *'' When Knights Were Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Short Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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Silent American Comedy Short Films
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