Earl Triplett Montgomery (May 24, 1894 – October 28, 1966) was a film director, writer, and comedian who performed in

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s including as the character Hairbreadth Harry. He established the producing company Earl Montgomery Comedy Company.

Joe Rock Joe Rock (born Joseph Simberg, December 25, 1893 – December 5, 1984) was an American film producer, director, actor,Obituary '' Variety'', December 12, 1984, page 63. and screenwriter. He produced a series of 12 two reel short subject comedies ...

partnered with him at

Vitagraph Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...

. Montgomery was born in Santa Cruz, California. He was a theater actor. Early in his film career he was a stunt man with American Film Company. As a comedy team with Joe Rock at

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he appeared in numerous shorts including ''Hash and Havoc'' (1916), ''Stowaways and Strategy'' (1917), ''Farms and Fumbles'' (1918), ''Harems and Hookum'' (1919), ''Zip and Zest'' (1919), ''Vamps and Variety'' (1919), ''Rubes and Robbers'' (1919), ''Cave and Coquettes'' (1919), ''Throbs and Thrills'' (1920), ''Loafers and Lovers'' (1920), and ''Sauce and Senoritas'' (1920). In the book ''Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies'' by Alan Dale, Joe Rock described the two-reelers he made with Earl Montgomery saying, "We always finished our comedies with a shot of us running away from a cop, a schoolteacher, or a principal, and then running smack into them again. If we'd run away from cops, we'd run back into cops." Montgomery acted with the Vitagraph troupe known as ''Semon's Sea Lions''. He married

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but they divorced.

Filmography

*'' Worries and Wobbles'' (1917) *''

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'' (1917) *'' Roughtoughs and Rooftops'' (1917) *''

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'' (1918) *'' Vamps and Variety'' (1918) *'' Chumps and Cops'' (1918) *'' Zip and Zest'' (1919) *'' Fans and Flappers'' (1922) *'' Over the Fence'' (1923) *''

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'' (1925) *'' Stop, Look and Listen'' (1926)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montgomery, Earl 1894 births 1966 deaths American silent film directors American male silent film actors American male stage actors 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Santa Cruz, California