Dave Morris (June 7, 1884 – November 27, 1955) was an American film actor of the

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. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1912 and 1949. He was born in

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and died in

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Partial filmography

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With the Aid of Phrenology ''With the Aid of Phrenology'' is a lost film, lost 1913 short silent film, silent film comedy directed by Edward Dillon (actor), Edward Dillon and starring Charles Murray (American actor), Charles Murray. It was produced by the Biograph Company a ...

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Tango Tangles ''Tango Tangles'' is a 1914 American film comedy short starring Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. The action takes place in a dance hall, with a drunken Chaplin, Ford Sterling, and the huge, menacing, and acrobatic Arbuckle fighting over a g ...

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The Fighting Demon ''The Fighting Demon'' is a 1925 American silent melodrama film. Directed by Arthur Rosson Arthur Henry Rosson (24 August 1886 – 17 June 1960) was an English film director. From 1917 to 1948, Rosson directed 61 feature films (includin ...

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Tearing Through ''Tearing Through'' is a 1925 American silent action film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Richard Talmadge, Kathryn McGuire, and Herbert Prior Herbert Prior (2 July 1867 – 3 October 1954) was an English silent film actor. He ap ...

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Crazy to Act ''Crazy to Act'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Plot Ethel St. John was in love with the bland, but poor, Arthur Young. Mrs. St. John, Ethel's mother, preferred, however, the millionaire Gordon Bagley, to be Eth ...

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Beware of Bachelors ''Beware of Bachelors'' is a 1928 American part-talkie pre-code comedy drama film produced and released by Warner Bros., and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The movie stars Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr., Margaret Livingston, Clyde Cook, and Geor ...

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The Old Barn ''The Old Barn'' is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Mack Sennett. Plot A motley collection of guests and regulars at a country hotel are anxious one dark and stormy night when they hear by a radio news bulletin that a dangerous crim ...

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Juno and the Paycock ''Juno and the Paycock'' is a play by Seán O'Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Ir ...

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Swamp Water ''Swamp Water'' is a 1941 American film noir crime film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Walter Brennan and Walter Huston. Based on the novel by Vereen Bell, it was produced at 20th Century Fox. The film was shot on location at Okefenokee Sw ...

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* 1884 births 1955 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Chicago {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub