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    The Clown is a lost 1916 American silent drama film starring stage star Victor Moore and directed by William C. deMille. It was produced by Jesse Lasky...
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  • Wiziarde (1916–1987) was an American actor and television personality who was known primarily for his performances as Whizzo the Clown in the Kansas-Missouri...
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  • (short story), by Thomas Mann The Clown (2000 AD), a series from the comic 2000 AD The Clown (1916 film), a 1916 silent film directed by William C. deMille...
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    Circus clowns are a sub-genre of clowns. They typically perform at circuses and are meant to amuse, entertain and make guests laugh. There are traditionally...
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  • The New Clown is a 1916 British silent comedy film directed by Fred Paul and starring James Welch, Manora Thew and Richard Lindsay. It was based on a play...
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    Bergman. The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin's Little Tramp as a clown, but discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally. The production...
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    The Dawson Film Find (DFF) was the accidental discovery in 1978 of 372 film titles preserved in 533 reels of silent-era nitrate films in the Klondike Gold...
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    advancing the film one frame at a time as each drawing was made. Fleischer's younger brother Dave Fleischer, who was working as a clown at Coney Island...
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    DeWolf Hopper (category American male film actors)
    and Casey at the Bat (1916). Hopper also appeared in a few short sound films, including one in 1923 when he actually recites Casey at the Bat in an experimental...
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  • Pinto Colvig (category Bozo the Clown)
    playing the clarinet off-key while mugging. Colvig was the original performer of the Disney characters Goofy and Pluto, as well as Bozo the Clown and Bluto...
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  • from another Clown story in the October 18, 1930, issue of Detective Story Magazine. Many of Johnston McCulley's stories were made into films. McCulley also...
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    American films of 1916 is a compilation of American films released in the year 1916. 1916 in the United States "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List"...
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  • Zig and Zag, were an entertainer clown duo from Melbourne consisting of Jack Asher Perry (31 December 1916 – 22 June 2006) and Douglas McKenzie (22 March...
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  • splatter film is a subgenre of horror films that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. These films, usually through the use...
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    original was made into a Russian movie in 1916. He Who Gets Slapped was the first film produced entirely by the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was...
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  • sophisticated with such classics as Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914, Felix the Cat, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Koko the Clown. Originally a novelty, some early animated...
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  • Lawler as Clown Pauline Starke as Columbine Kate Toncray as The Widow Edward Bolles as Pierrot Max Davidson as Scaramouche "Progressive Silent Film List:...
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  • George Carl (category American clowns)
    George Carl (7 May 1916 – 1 January 2000) was a vaudevillian style comic, clown and eccentric dancer. Carl was born in Ohio, and he started his comedy...
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  • Tadhg Murphy (born May 30, 1979) is an Irish actor known for his roles in the series Vikings and Black Sails. He is distinguished by his artificial right...
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    Reg Varney (category 1916 births)
    Varney (11 July 1916 – 16 November 2008) was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played the lead role of bus...
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  • Grévin in Paris. Le Clown et ses chiens, a lost animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Pauvre Pierrot, an animated film directed by Charles-Émile...
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  • commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid. 1891 – Dickson Greeting; Men Boxing; Newark Athlete 1892 – Le Clown et ses chiens; Pauvre...
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  • Fred Rains (category English male film actors)
    including the Hollywood actor Claude Rains (born 1889). Rains died on 3 December 1945, aged 85. Actor The Broken Melody (1916) The New Clown (1916) The Marriage...
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    The Count is Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Mutual Film Corporation in 1916. Released on September 4, it co-starred Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance...
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  • film) A Little Bit of Fluff (1928 film) The Little Cafe (1919 film) The Little Cafe (1931 film) The Little Clown (1921) The Little Foxes (1941) The Little...
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    Max Fleischer (category American animated film directors)
    Out of the Inkwell Films, Incorporated, and continued production of Out of the Inkwell through various states-rights distributors. "The Clown" had no...
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    Émile Cohl (category French animated film directors)
    chalk-line style, the stick-figure clown protagonists, and the constant transformations. Cohl made the plots of these films up as he was filming them. He would...
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  • Max Wall (category English male film actors)
    directors rediscovered his comic talents, along with the expressive power of his tragic clown face and the distinctive sad falling cadences of his voice. He...
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    Ken Curtis (category 1916 births)
    1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American actor and singer best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the western television series Gunsmoke. Born the youngest...
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  • in the William Shakespeare play Macbeth Witches (anthology), an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories The Witch (1916 film), a...
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