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    Bernard "Ben" Turpin (September 19, 1869 – July 1, 1940) was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks...
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  • The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is a British historical comedy television series starring Noel Fielding as the title character. Developed...
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  • Scotland Turpin Bannister (1904–1982), American architectural historian and academic Barbara Turpin, American atmospheric scientist Ben Turpin (1869–1940)...
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    Ben Turpin with a Fotoplayer, 1922...
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  • produced by the Hal Roach Studios, as well as the last film to feature Ben Turpin and Harry Bernard. Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory, where the constant...
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    for his films. A Night Out also stars Ben Turpin, Leo White and Bud Jamison. Charlie Chaplin - Reveller Ben Turpin - Fellow Reveller Bud Jamison - Headwaiter...
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  • Studios, directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson and starring Ben Turpin. The film is about a man going to various locations in town where he flirts...
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    first film, An Awful Skate, or The Hobo on Rollers (July 1907), starring Ben Turpin (then the studio janitor), produced for only a couple hundred dollars...
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  • (TV series) Married Life (1920 film), an American comedy film starring Ben Turpin Married Life (1921 film), a British drama film directed by Georges Tréville...
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    comedy films from 1914 to 1916. Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914) co-starred Ben Turpin. Sweedie Goes to College (1915) starred Gloria Swanson, whom Beery married...
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    talkie short subject on the market, in 1928. His leading star at the time, Ben Turpin, was suddenly unemployed and moved to the Weiss Brothers studio. Sennett...
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  • the picture including Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Chester Conklin and Ben Turpin. In 1913 New York City, movie director Michael Linnett Connors (Don Ameche)...
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  • Curly Howard (1903–1952) Moe Howard (1897–1975) Franchot Tone (1905–1968) Ben Turpin (1869–1940) Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926) Rudy...
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    Ben Turpin and a type of photoplayer instrument, June–August 1922...
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  • specializing in the white clown (straight man)/red clown (comic) relationship Ben Turpin (September 19, 1869 – July 1, 1940) – cross-eyed comedian, best remembered...
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  • Judge Turpin (also known as Lord Turpin) is a fictional character in Christopher Bond's 1973 play of the story of Sweeney Todd, as well as later adaptations...
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    appeared several times before her own career as a comic leading lady. Ben Turpin, the cross-eyed Mack Sennett comedy star, made two memorable appearances...
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  • Chaplin soon relocated back to California. Charlie Chaplin as Film Extra Ben Turpin as His squint rival Charlotte Mineau as The Leading Lady (the Filmstar)...
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    dozens of Roach films with Charley Chase, Glenn Tryon, Snub Pollard and Ben Turpin, and in several Our Gang shorts, including Mush and Milk, in which he...
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  • Double X is a 1914 short film starring Wallace Beery, Robert Bolder and Ben Turpin. The short was produced by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and...
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    responsible for discovering stars such as Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman, Ben Turpin, Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chaplin. Allan Dwan, who was hired as a screenwriter...
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    Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since Ben Turpin received one in Mr. Flip in 1909. More recently, pieing has also become...
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    several veterans of Mack Sennett's Keystone films, including Andy Clyde, Ben Turpin, and Hank Mann. Producer Herman J. Mankiewicz recalled of Cline, "He was...
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    the best possible light on screen. Among his most notable clients were: Ben Turpin, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert...
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  • 'Flips' Montague Stuart Erwin as Merton Gill ZaSu Pitts as Mrs. Scudder Ben Turpin as Ben Charles Sellon as Mr. Gashwiler Florence Roberts as Mrs. Gashwiler...
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    Sennett and released through Associated First National. The film stars Ben Turpin and was made and acted by many of the same Sennett personnel from his...
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  • tavern, they ask for someone to chop off their handcuffs. Cross-eyed Ben Turpin appears, wielding an axe. They decide they'd rather stay handcuffed. King...
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  • is a 1914 silent short 1-reel comedy film starring Wallace Beery and Ben Turpin and produced and distributed by the Essanay Company. This short survives...
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    Coolidge — men who stood the test! Land of Jefferson and Adams, Dempsey and Ben Turpin, too, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson — all red, white, and blue! Francis...
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    Dollar Legs (1932) starring W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Susan Fleming, and Ben Turpin. Gilbert is prominent in most of the movies he appeared in, and he often...
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