Sammy Brooks

Birth : 1891-07-10, New York - USA

Death : 1951-05-16

History

Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.

Movies

Catch-As Catch-Can
Little Wrestling Match Referee (uncredited)
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
The Real McCoy
Hunter (uncredited)
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Berth Marks
The story involves Stan and Ollie as two musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville. It was only their second sound film, but a silent version was also made for cinemas at the time that were not equipped to show talkies.
Bromo and Juliet
Bit Role (uncredited)
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Thundering Fleas
Short Flea Circus Spectator
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Say It with Babies
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Madame Mystery
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
Wandering Papas
Construction Worker (uncredited)
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
Don't Butt In
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
A Punch in the Nose
Looking for Sally
Blind Man
Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.
Is Marriage the Bunk?
Photographer
Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family.
The Rat's Knuckles
Blind man
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
The Poor Fish
Balloon man
Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos, something his mother-in-law was expecting...
Short Kilts
McHungry
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
A Ten-Minute Egg
Lobby Bystander (uncredited)
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
Rupert of Hee-Haw
Palace Guard
Girl Shy
Short Train Passenger (uncredited)
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Brothers Under the Chin
A 1924 silent comedy.
Zeb vs. Paprika
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
The Cowboy Sheik
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
It's a Joy!
Studio Flunky
'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
Frozen Hearts
The general's second
In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
A Man About Town
Minor Role (uncredited)
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
Take the Air
James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.
Oranges and Lemons
Worker
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
Post No Bills
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.
Collars and Cuffs
Laundry Worker
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Pick and Shovel
Miner
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
The Smile Wins
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
Before the Public
On Lantern Slide
'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.
Tight Shoes
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.
Jailed and Bailed
A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
Shine 'Em Up
Justice of the Peace
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
The Landlubber
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
Take Next Car
In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter; portrayed by Jobyna Ralston) try to save the day.
The Dumb-Bell
Short actor playing doctor
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
Good Morning, Judge
Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.
High Rollers
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
Big Game
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
Now or Never
Short Man on Train
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Whirl o' the West
Cowboy
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
Call a Taxi
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.
Any Old Port
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards the ship.
An Eastern Westerner
(uncredited)
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
Haunted Spooks
Short Butler (uncredited)
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
Fresh Paint
Roman model
A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.
His Royal Slyness
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
All Lit Up
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.
The Dippy Dentist
A Patient
The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord (who is a dentist). Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives to work in an office across the hall. In a very funny scene, Pollard manages to steal all of Gaylord's patients from his waiting room. However, when it comes to dental work, Snub is highly unlikely to receive the American Dental Association's seal of approval. That's because he's incredibly rough and manages to toss a guy out the window when he pulls his tooth.
Looking for Trouble
The champ's second
Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected.
Captain Kidd's Kids
Small pirate
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
All at Sea
Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
Bumping Into Broadway
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
His Only Father
An American short comedy film.
Pay Your Dues
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.
Be My Wife
Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.
Don't Shove
Party Guest
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
Heap Big Chief
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
Chop Suey & Co.
Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 American short comedy film
Count Your Change
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
A Jazzed Honeymoon
Harold Lloyd! This time, he's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker and yeah well, shovelling coal will beef up anyone. Except he manages to go into the wrong room... What'd you expect?!
Never Touched Me
Little Man
At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."
At the Old Stage Door
Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the deception is uncovered.
Just Neighbors
Short Man in Bank (uncredited)
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard.
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
Spring Fever
Short man in park
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
Off the Trolley
Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in love with a female collector who doesn't care much about him and he also annoys the trolley conductor. But it seems that odds and luck will be on his favor.
Swat the Crook
The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
Pistols for Breakfast
A 1919 Comedy short.
The Marathon
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
Before Breakfast
A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.
Crack Your Heels
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Young Mr. Jazz
(uncredited)
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
A Sammy in Siberia
Short Soldier (uncredited)
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
Next Aisle Over
(uncredited)
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
Look Out Below
A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Los Angeles streets.
Ask Father
Short office worker
Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
Wanted - $5,000
Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.
She Loves Me Not
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Take a Chance
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
An Ozark Romance
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
The City Slicker
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Fireman Save My Child
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
The Non-Stop Kid
Short bearded man
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
Kicked Out
Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
Hey There
Short Prop Man
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
It's a Wild Life
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
Pipe the Whiskers
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
Follow the Crowd
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
Look Pleasant, Please
(uncredited)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Hit Him Again
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
We Never Sleep
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
All Aboard
Midget crew member
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.
Clubs Are Trump
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
The Flirt
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
Rainbow Island
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
Bliss
Short musician
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
Birds of a Feather
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
By the Sad Sea Waves
Spectator at Beach
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Pinched
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up in a boxing match which again brings the law on his tail.
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.
Luke's Trolley Troubles
Luke and his sidekick steal a trolley car and create havoc for passengers.
Luke's Shattered Sleep
Small Tramp
Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bill Shakespeare Luke "blesses the man who first invented sleep." After a screamingly comical search for slumber he finally hits the hay and sleeps without moving to Brooklyn.
Luke Locates the Loot
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
Luke, working in a fireworks factory.
Luke, Rank Impersonator
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
Luke's Movie Muddle
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
Luke, Patient Provider
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.
Luke and the Bang-Tails
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
Luke's Speedy Club Life
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
Luke and the Mermaids
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
Luke Joins the Navy
Jewish Man
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
Luke Does the Midway
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
Luke's Lost Lamb
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Luke, Crystal Gazer
Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
Luke Rides Roughshod
Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
Luke's Society Mixup
Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.
Luke Laughs Last
Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
Luke's Late Lunchers
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
Luke's Double
Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the consequences.