Sammy Cohen (1902–1981) was an American
film actor and
comedian
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. He was one of several popular
Jewish comedians acting in films during the late 1920s.
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Selected filmography
* ''
What Price Glory?'' (1926)
* ''
The Return of Peter Grimm'' (1926)
* ''
The Skyrocket
''The Skyrocket'' is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce. The film was based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Adela Rogers St. Johns and scripted by Benjamin Glazer.
Cas ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Great K & A Train Robbery
''The Great K & A Train Robbery'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Tom Mix and Dorothy Dwan. The film is based on the actual foiling of a train robbery by Dick Gordon as related by Paul Leicester ...
'' (1926)
* ''
Upstream'' (1927)
* ''
Cradle Snatchers'' (1927)
* ''
Colleen
Colleen is an Irish language name and is of Irish origin and a generic term for women or girls, from the Irish '' cailín'' 'girl/woman', the diminutive of '' caile'' 'woman, countrywoman'.
Although it originates in the Irish language, Colleen ...
'' (1927)
* ''
The Gay Retreat'' (1927)
* ''
Why Sailors Go Wrong'' (1928)
* ''
Homesick'' (1928)
* ''
Plastered in Paris'' (1928)
* ''
Sailor's Luck'' (1933)
* ''
Swellhead'' (1935)
* ''
Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
''Rip Roarin' Buckaroo'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Robert F. Hill.
Cast
*Tom Tyler as "Scotty" McQuade
*Beth Marion as Betty Rose Hayden
*Sammy Cohen as "Frozen-Face" Cohen
*Forrest Taylor as Lew Slater
* Charles King as "B ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Here Comes Trouble'' (1936)
* ''
The Phantom of the Range
''The Phantom of the Range'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Robert F. Hill.
Cast
*Tom Tyler as Jerry Lane
*Beth Marion as Jeanne Moore
*Sammy Cohen as Eddie Parsons
*Soledad Jiménez as Perdita, the Housekeeper
*Forrest Taylor ...
'' (1936)
* ''
45 Fathers
''45 Fathers'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by James Tinling, written by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray, and starring Jane Withers, Thomas Beck, Louise Henry, Richard Carle, Nella Walker and Andrew Tombes. It was released on November ...
'' (1937)
* ''
Battle of Broadway
''Battle of Broadway'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and written by Lou Breslow and John Patrick. The film stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Lynn Bari and Jane Darwell. The film wa ...
'' (1938)
* ''
The Fighting 69th'' (1940)
* ''
You're the One'' (1941)
References
Bibliography
* Erens, Patricia. ''The Jew in American Cinema''. Indiana University Press, 1984.
External links
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1902 births
1981 deaths
American male film actors
Jewish American male actors
People from Minneapolis
20th-century American male actors
20th-century American Jews
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