George Rowe

Nacimiento : 1894-09-15, Maine, USA

Muerte : 1981-11-18

Películas

Fatal Mission
Director
A CIA Agent must rely on reluctant help from a female spy in the North Vietnam jungle in order to pass through enemy lines.
Fortress in the Sun
Director
The most expensive message action film ever to hit the screen. An international-geared vehicle showcasing two of Asia's great acting talents.
Black Mamba
Director
Dr. Paul Morgan is stunned to discover witchcraft and voodoo being practiced in the 20th century. while treating the citizens of a small village in the Philippines, Morgan falls for pretty young widow Elena, who becomes the target of a black witch who has swiped a valuable ring from the grave of Elena's late husband. (IMDb)
Loose Change
A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.
Soft Pedal
Wily
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
Unfriendly Enemies
The Cameraman's Assistant
Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land, they take foolish chances and must dodge flying shells, falling down and losing their film repeatedly.
Looking for Sally
Bell Boy
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.
The Haunted Honeymoon
The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet Gaynor in one of her first films. One of the first comedies to parody horror films, it was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.
Is Marriage the Bunk?
Piano mover
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 Wages of Tin
Driving instructor
aka Billy, the Ford Buster
Outdoor Pajamas
Mr. Shrimp
This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.
Short Kilts
Blacksmith
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.
Rupert of Hee-Haw
Duke of Bromo
Brothers Under the Chin
A 1924 silent comedy.
Zeb vs. Paprika
Rival Jockey
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
Postage Due
Photographer
Postage Due is a 1924 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
The Big Idea
Patent Lawyer
Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned.
Fully Insured
The Insurance Agent
A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.
Uncensored Movies
Jeeves - the Chauffeur
A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.
Join the Circus
'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
Frozen Hearts
Soldier
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.
No Pets
James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.
Roughest Africa
Native (uncredited)
Two bungling adventures go on a big game hunt in Africa.
A Man About Town
Cross-eyed Barber
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
The Groom
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.
No Danger
An Arrow comedy directed by Eddie Lyons from Aug 1923, co-starring Glen Cavender, Ruth Hiatt and Art Rowlands.
The Uncovered Wagon
Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.
Collars and Cuffs
Pedestrian
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Pico y pala
Miner
Surge un problema cuando un hombre incompetente, interpretado por Stan Laurel, va a trabajar a "una mina sin valor" y se enamora de la hija del jefe.
White Wings
Cross-Eyed Man
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
The Smile Wins
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
Shoot Straight
SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.
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
Theodore Turkletwister
A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
Watch Your Wife
A James Parrott comedy short.
Shine 'Em Up
Safecracker
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 Golf Bug
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
The Old Sea Dog
Passenger
Snub Pollard comedy directed by Charley Chase and produced by Hal Roach.
The Landlubber
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
The Dumb-Bell
Cameraman
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.
Hale and Hearty
A couple of old guys remembering the old days when courting Marie Mosquini.
In the Movies
In the Movies is a silent comedy short
The Pickaninny
Officer Snoopey
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
On Location
The Cameraman
Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about to throw some litter into the road and dashes over to catch it in his cart. He then tries to save a drunken man from falling into the road before stopping his cart to pick up a solitary leaf which has dared to fallen upon the ground. The eccentric and obsessed street sweeper meticulously disposes of the leaf but when he turns around he finds half the tree has shed its leaves at that very moment
Trolley Troubles
A guy has troubles on a trolley
Dodge Your Debts
Policeman
A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.
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.
Beat It
Snooky the Chimpanzee help out a melancholy little girl and her guardian.
The One Best Pet
Snooky lives with a family where the henpecked husband does the washing and takes care of his wife while she rests up in a hammock and his children play with various pets. When one of the children is carried off by an escaped bunch of balloons Snooky goes about rescuing the baby from multiple dangerous situations.
Run 'Em Ragged
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
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.
Cracked Wedding Bells
'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
Tough Luck
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.