Kewpie Morgan

Kewpie Morgan

Birth : 1892-02-01, Anna, Texas, USA

Death : 1956-09-24

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Kewpie Morgan

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The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
The Count Takes the Count
Henry - the Sheriff
Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into thinking she's a detective in pursuit of herself, there's no shortage of great laughs.
The Devil Is a Woman
Coachman (uncredited)
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
Babes in Toyland
King Cole
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.
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Andrew - the Jailer
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
The Spieler
Butch
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Beggars of Life
Skinny
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
A Home Made Man
The Manager
Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
Flying Luck
The Sergeant
A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
Spuds
Sergeant
In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
The Better 'Ole
Gen. Stein (uncredited)
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Love's Last Laugh
Baron Kimmel
Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.
Crazy Like a Fox
Rotund Conductor (uncredited)
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan.
Ice Cold Cocos
Bull Dozer
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Noah Fish - Tailor / Sgt. Major
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
Wandering Willies
'Rough' Rufus
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
Circus Today
Steve Skinner
Two circus hands create chaos.
Trimmed in Gold
Cactus Cal
Trimmed in Gold is a silent comedy short.
Whispering Whiskers
Madame Murino's Associate
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.
From Rags to Britches
Adam Benedict
From Rags to Britches is a silent comedy short.
Butter Fingers
Daisy's Husband
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Sneezing Beezers
Gumboilski - Henchman
Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short.
Hooked
Captain Kewpie
Lloyd Hamilton goes fishing.
Just a Good Guy
Landlord
A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
Stupid, but Brave
Barber
Impoverished "bum" gets a close shave from a menacing barber, then gets tangled up with a banana king, escaped convicts and marathon runners.
Sherlock Jr.
Conspirator (uncredited)
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Referee
Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Picking Peaches
The Customer's Detective Husband
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
The Dare-Devil
The Leading Man's Chief Support
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 dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
Asleep at the Switch
The Baggage Smasher
Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.
Three Ages
The Emperor / Cave Man / Roman Thug
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
Skylarking
Eddie
The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!
Nip and Tuck
Tuck
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
The Shriek of Araby
Cop on Horse
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
When Summer Comes
The Guardian
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge.
Gymnasium Jim
Jim's Assistant
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
Step Forward
The Salesman's Assistant
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 operating the car all at the same time.
On Patrol
The Police Captain
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops!
The Duck Hunter
The Sportsman's Boss
A 1922 comedy short.
Be Reasonable
An Officer of the Law
Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collection agents either want Billy to pay for this necklace or return it. Well, she naturally doesn't want to give up the pearls, so Billy decides to break in to her house to steal them (and a few other items while he's at it).
Love and Doughnuts
The Baker's Assistant
The Scuttlers
The Cook
The Scuttlers is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. William Farnum and Jackie Saunders star in this adventure.
His Noisy Still
If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.
The Heart Snatcher
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
The Cup of Fury
Jake
Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.
Back to God's Country
Bully in Bar
After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While they're at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain, who is the man who killed her father. The captain causes an 'accident' to happen to Peter, so Dolores is all alone and defenceless as they drop anchor in a remote harbour.
A Beach Nut
A Beach Nut
Hell-Roarin' Reform
Bartender (as Cupid Morgan)
Tom Mix plays Tim, a goodhearted cowpuncher who, while riding down a trail, gets robbed of the money he was carrying for the Belgian Babies' Milk Fund.
The Poor Rich Cleaners
M.T. Dome
Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.
The Border Legion
Gorilla Gulden
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
The Paperhangers' Revenge
Mulligatowny
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
A Pirate Bold
The Flunky
The Pirate Chief and his Flunky are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.