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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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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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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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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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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Ben Turpin with a Fotoplayer, 1922...
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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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Two Hearts That Beat as Ten is a 1915 short film starring Ben Turpin and Wallace Beery, produced by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, and distributed...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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a 1917 American silent film short comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Ben Turpin. It was produced by Mack Sennett. The film was possibly rereleased in...
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1921. She played ingénue parts opposite Sennett's leading comedians, Ben Turpin and Billy Bevan. Lentz was directed in her first film by Sennett's production...
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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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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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and new scenes involving a subplot about a gypsy character played by Ben Turpin. This longer version was deeply flawed in pacing and continuity, and not...
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The Shriek of Araby is a 1923 American silent film comedy starring Ben Turpin and directed by F. Richard Jones for producer Mack Sennett, who also wrote...
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of regular players, actors he worked with again and again, including Ben Turpin, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Paddy McGuire, Fred Goodwins and Billy Armstrong...
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Let's Make a Deal in 1985, bringing along a drawing of silent film star Ben Turpin, which host Monty Hall remarked on when choosing him. After being given...
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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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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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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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Alan Tudyk (born 1971) Jane Turner (born 1960) Toby Turner (born 1985) Ben Turpin (1869–1940) Aisha Tyler (born 1970) Alanna Ubach (born 1975) Bob Uecker...
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