Ham Kinsey

Ham Kinsey

Birth : 1900-02-21, Collenton, South Carolina, USA

Death : 1967-12-09

Profile

Ham Kinsey

Movies

General Spanky
Bit
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Vamp Till Ready
Max
Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
The Nitwits
Black Widow Henchman
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Babes in Toyland
Townsman (uncredited)
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Busy Bodies
Stunts
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
Twice Two
Passerby (uncredited)
A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office.
Too Many Women
Umpire (uncredited)
College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies.
Let's Do Things
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Haunted at Midnight
Laurel's Double
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
Chickens Come Home
Mr. Kinsey / Elevator Operator
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Shivering Shakespeare
First man hit with pie
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
Saturday's Lesson
Pedestrian #1
A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
Leaping Love
Reporter (uncredited)
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Double Whoopee
Cabdriver
Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
Election Day
Man about town
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
The Battle of the Century
Ringside spectator (uncredited)
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
Hats Off
Pedestrian
Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several near misses. One would-be sale has them carrying the machine up a large flight of steps, only to find out that a young lady wants them to post a letter for her. The boys later get into an argument knocking off each other's hats, which eventually involves scores of others. A police van eventually carts all those involved away except Stan and Ollie, who afterwards try to find their own headgear amongst the hundreds of others lying on the street.
Seeing the World
Ship's official
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Wandering Papas
Property Master
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner
Collars and Cuffs
Props
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
White Wings
Props
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.