Sybil Seely

Sybil Seely

Birth : 1900-01-01, Los Angeles, California, USA

Death : 1984-06-26

History

Sybil Seely was a silent film actress who worked with the well known silent film comedy actor Buster Keaton.

Profile

Sybil Seely

Movies

The Frozen North
Wife
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.
On Patrol
Minor Role as Sibye Trevilla
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops!
A Sailor-Made Man
Harem Girl (uncredited)
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
The Boat
His Wife
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.
The Play House
Twin (uncredited)
After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
The Scarecrow
Farmer's Daughter
Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.
Convict 13
Sibil
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
One Week
The Bride
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week." A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement."
Down on the Farm
Maid of Honor
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 the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Distilled Love
Bather
Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
Up in Alf's Place
Bathing Girl (uncredited)
Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
Hearts and Flowers
Bathing Girl
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Short comedy
Her Nature Dance
Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Unknown if lost.