Ben Turpin
- Title: Ben Turpin
- Popularity: 1.832
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1869-09-18
- Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Also Known As: Bernard Turpin, Bernhard Turpin
4.5 1917 HD
1 1921 HD
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie...
1 1918 HD
A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent,...
1 1916 HD
The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse...
6.5 1915 HD
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can...
1 1914 HD
Mrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram from some friends that they will arrive in the city...
1 1914 HD
Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works. Sweedie finds the card. Next...
1 1914 HD
Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it. He raids the house in an effort to...
1 1914 HD
Mrs. Goodheart, a charity worker, comes home one evening very much discouraged as she is unable to get even a small donation from Mr. Tightwad, the...
1 1914 HD
Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German. Sweedie is...
1 1914 HD
Henry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Sweedie. One day while Danny is peeking in the window...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry. Arrived at the...
1 1914 HD
The Newlyweds read in the newspaper of an ideal automobile trip which only costs $12. Mr. Newlywed decides to take a few days' vacation and enjoy the...
1 1914 HD
Sweedie is the scrub lady in the theater. She makes eyes at the stage manager and the hypnotist and is put out of the theater for being so...
1 1914 HD
Mr. Von Crooks and his son are in love with Madame Double X. One night Von Crooks, Jr., elopes with her and then writes to his father to forgive...
1 1915 HD
Mr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog "Skinny" and her parrot along. Mr. Dingy dislikes dogs, but rather than...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff Puff, has sent her a present in the form of a...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police department. After writing a note to him, she calmly...
1 1915 HD
Mildred refuses Archie's proposal of marriage. Shortly after Fred arrives and she accepts him as her future husband. As he is leaving the house, his...
1 1914 HD
The boy has a camera and snaps Sweedie, the cook, while sitting on the bench in the back yard. Later he takes a picture of his father while sitting...
1 1914 HD
"Chick" Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the cook for a family of "get-rich-quicks" and treated...
1 1914 HD
Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself. He decides to...
1 1914 HD
Mr. and Mrs. Skidoo receive a letter from Lord Bunkum, saying he is coming to pay them a visit. They decide they do not wish to see the Lord, so they...
1 1914 HD
The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But...
1 1914 HD
Sweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it all.
1 1914 HD
Sweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is the most popular lady on the floor.
1 1914 HD
Sweedie's father is the owner of a grocery store, and Sweedie takes care of the trade while father plays checkers all day. She is in love with a...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie, with her arms splattered by dough, looks out the window and sees her mistress just mounting he horse for her morning ride. The simple,...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie holds a clandestine meeting with her beau in the kitchen of her employers, a young married couple. Her love affair influences her cooking and...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie has fallen in love with the grocery boy, and in order to gaze upon his smiling face orders groceries at every possible opportunity.
1 1915 HD
Sweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The fireman escapes her caresses and gains the firehouse...
1 1915 HD
Sweedie, the theater's scrubwoman, in love with the unappreciative props, become enamored with the idea of a stage career.
1 1917 HD
There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor,...
1 1913 HD
The Usual Way
1 1915 HD
"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness." This note, received by the girl, is shown to...
7.1 1931 HD
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of...
1 1928 HD
Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.
1 1909 HD
The custom of young women "tagging" men on the public streets (on a day specially set aside and called "Tag Day") to secure funds for various...
1 1909 HD
A sheriff saves a Mexican from being hanged for horse theft. In a gesture of thanks, the Mexican writes the word "gratitude" upon a card. After...
5.1 1939 HD
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...
5.7 1915 HD
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a...
5.7 1915 HD
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with...
5.8 1915 HD
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
1 1914 HD
The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk. They didn't want a regular guy to get "stepped on," so...
1 1942 HD
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
1 1915 HD
Because he believes in education, a ranch owner hires a school teacher from the east and opens a school for his cowboys. The teacher is admired by...
1 1915 HD
Frank Potter cannot afford to buy a turkey for Thanksgiving. He conceives the idea of pawning his dress suit, and at the same time his wife decides...
1 1915 HD
Broncho Billy becomes engaged. A month later the engagement is broken when the girl's father comes into a fortune. She moves to the city with her...
1 1915 HD
Broncho Billy becomes enraged when a stranger comes to town and wins the affections of his sweetheart. On the night of the wedding Broncho Billy...
7 1923 HD
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...
1 1923 HD
Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
1 1923 HD
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923
1 1923 HD
Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.
1 1925 HD
The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.
1 1925 HD
The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
6.7 1960 HD
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
6.6 1932 HD
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
1 1928 HD
A beautiful young woman is rescued by Ben and gives him her photo. When it is found in his pocket, his henpecking wife and shrewish mother-in-law...
5.5 1932 HD
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
1 1915 HD
When a peddler offers to sell Margie Reiger a coat for $100, husband Ben Turpin is so irate he throws the peddler and the coat out the door. Miss...
5.5 1927 HD
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well -...
1 1926 HD
A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St....
5 1934 HD
Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for...
1 1954 HD
An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends.
1 1951 HD
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...
3 1925 HD
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
8 1935 HD
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry...
1 1917 HD
Right now while everyone is thinking of war, comes this two reel comedy whose plot is based on an invention to revolutionize warfare. A torpedo-bomb,...
1 1909 HD
A tramp in his haste to escape from the clutches of the law, rushes into a second-hand store and hides in a folding lounge. The lounge changes hands...
5 1917 HD
Ben and his pal Paddy, a couple of drifting loafers and con-men, arrive in town via a "side-door Pullman" - a free ride in a boxcar. They set up a...
5 1917 HD
In this movie Ben Turpin plays Vic Vacuum, who is in love with a movie star and ends up working at her studio when he hangs around and people at the...
4 1926 HD
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to...
6 1921 HD
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local...
5.2 1923 HD
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
1 1928 HD
A thief steals a $10,000 string of pearls from the star of a show. The thief runs into Ben (literally), and in the ensuing chaos the thief ends up...
2 1928 HD
The film begins with Ben Turpin looking for some food. He's a hobo and is resorting to trying to steal food from a baby. That 'baby' is actually four...
4 1928 HD
"Some folks think married men live longer. They don't — it only seems longer!" The opening inter-title to "Seein' Things" (1928) sums up the...
5 1923 HD
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next...
3.7 1924 HD
Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and...
4.5 1924 HD
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial...
1 1909 HD
A neighbor visits her friend, taking with her her child, a little girl about the same age as the friend's little girl. Both children being full of...
1 1910 HD
An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is...
1 1935 HD
This very strange film features old silent footage with added audio commentary to give you a comedic look at a typical day in Hollywood. Featuring...
1 1926 HD
Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
1 1930 HD
This time it's Ben Turpin as the nominal announcer, and several well known performers appear, including Myrna Loy. Madge Bellamy sings "The Last Rose...
5.3 1924 HD
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
1 1942 HD
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...
1 1932 HD
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
3.7 1909 HD
Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
3 1928 HD
After a fight with his neighbor over their Model Ts, Ben's tuxedo is ruined. Unfortunately, the suit he gets as a replacement doesn't hold up too...
1 1926 HD
The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by...
5.7 1931 HD
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is...
1 1927 HD
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
1 1927 HD
Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
7 1930 HD
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc...
5.3 1919 HD
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
5 1917 HD
A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not...
5 1917 HD
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
5.5 1920 HD
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But...
1 1925 HD
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish...
1 1921 HD
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
1 1921 HD
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
3 1932 HD
A short featuring many stars
6.8 1940 HD
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage....
1 1917 HD
Squire Laurie, the village skinflint, takes a circus tiger as security for a loan. Arthur, who loves Lillian, the old man's daughter, hates tigers,...
1 1908 HD
1 1916 HD
Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the...
5 1914 HD
Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the...
1 1924 HD
A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way...
1 1917 HD
A businessman's jealous wife suspects he is running around with other women. The tables are turned when a friend of the family involves her in a...
1 1916 HD
Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector,...
5.5 1961 HD
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
1 1924 HD
A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
1 1919 HD
Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation.
5.7 1920 HD
A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finally does, he cannot make it to his bed.
1 1928 HD
After many years as a vagabond, Ronald comes home to his family who are about to be evicted from their home. He saves their home and, while chasing a...
1 1915 HD
Hatch, the world's greatest wrestler, arrives in Snakeville and stands ready to defend his title against all comers. Bloggie meets him on the street,...
4.3 1927 HD
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game.
5.5 1929 HD
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...
1 1917 HD
The gentlemen of a fashionable social club become annoyed when their guest, Ben, has their wives entranced with stories of his bravery battling...
1 1912 HD
Bill Binks sold his ranch and came home in high glee, carrying the currency, for Bill didn't believe in banks. Bill tried to think of an unusual...
4 1928 HD
Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California.
1 1934 HD
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator...
5 1914 HD
Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man.
5 1915 HD
A count shows up in Snakeville to deliver a letter telling matronly Margaret Joslin that she has inherited a lot of money, so of course he wants to...
6.6 1930 HD
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
1 1960 HD
Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.
1 1930 HD
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be...
5 1935 HD
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon...
1 1916 HD
Ben Turpin & Rube Miller trying to fix a leak.
1 1916 HD
Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.
5 1917 HD
Ben, the butcher, is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his affections. He falls asleep and has a dream in which he threatens to foreclose...
1 1920 HD
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
1 1922 HD
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and...
1 1929 HD
A dubious count comes on a visit.
1 1943 HD
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
5 1917 HD
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her...
6.8 1957 HD
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
1 1932 HD
Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
1 1919 HD
Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
7 1931 HD
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this...
5.5 1932 HD
Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
6 1918 HD
Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp,...
1 1939 HD
In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a...
1 1982 HD
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework...
1 1907 HD
A hobo on roller skates creates havoc in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood
1 1915 HD
Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted.
1 2017 HD
Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films.
10 1951 HD
Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915).
1 1949 HD
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...
5 1918 HD
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben...
4.5 1917 HD
4.5 1917 HD
4.5 1917 HD