Movies

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

Slapstick experts host this look at the life and films of Charley Chase with rare film clips and photos.

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

Short with Sydney Chaplin. The comical character has lots of adventures such as falling, being beaten up or trying to push his wife in a manhole.

The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, mistreating his caddy and generally making an ass of himself on the golf course, receives a well-deserved golf...

This film concerns the adventures of Gussle, played by Sydney Chaplin, in Big Bear Lake area of California. The picture opens with our hero riding a...

A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to...

King, Queen, Joker is a 1921 silent feature farce written and directed by Sydney Chaplin, Charlie's older brother. The picture was produced by Famous...

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films.

Another of the fast and furious slapstick comedies produced for Keystone that is long on speed and mugging and short on jokes. Gussle and his wife...

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have...

Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl...

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

Gussle (Syd Chaplin) comes home with a cute little dog but doesn't want the wife to see it--leading up to a rather funny bit you'll have to see for...

A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.

Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to...

The old saying goes that "In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love", but when one young man tries to turn his "fancy" in a local...

Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy

Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his...