Name the Actor...

Doctor Strange · Apr 20, 2016

I thought it might be "One Week" - a short that I've watched countless times, I've owned a Super 8 print since 1973! But because it's a posed set shot rather than a still from the film, I wasn't sure. She's in several of the early Keaton shorts.

And "Carl La Fong" is from a W.C. Fields flick. It's A Gift, I think.

LizzieMaine · Apr 20, 2016

LaFong -- capital L small a capital F small o small n small g -- is T. Roy Barnes, one of those character actors who shows up all over the place even though hardly anybody knows their name. Most memorable part of his career.

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Speaking of Fields....

The girl is still alive, and was better known for her work as a radio actress and writer before she and her family fled to Mexico to escape political persecution in the 1950s.

2jakes · Apr 21, 2016

Aside from Donna Reed & Jimmy Stewart,
who is the young actor on the right?

Hint: known for his cowlick.

JackieMatra · Apr 21, 2016

2jakes said:
Aside from Donna Reed & Jimmy Stewart,
who is the young actor on the right?

Hint: known for his cowlick.

Carl Switzer.
Why is it that child stars are no longer of interest to casting directors once they approach adulthood?
Hardly ever any roles of any consequence, typically, and often even often no screen credits.
Carl Switzer, for example, has a supporting speaking role in "Going My Way" for which he receives no onscreen credit.

2jakes · Apr 21, 2016

The only exception that comes to mind is this actor.

Regarded as the consummate entertainer
adept at comedy, drama as well as a singer & dancer.

Inkstainedwretch · Apr 21, 2016

A few made the transition. Liz Taylor, Roddy McDowell, Dean Stockwell, Jodie Foster, a few others. But I think most child stars succeed because of a certain childlike, appealing quality, which doesn't always mature into grownup acting chops.

JackieMatra · Apr 21, 2016

I disagree. It really seems to be a willful refusal to use familiar faces and names, which would have been why former child stars found themselves typically receiving no onscreen credits for their later adolescent and adult parts.
Take the case of Dickie Moore.
A huge star as a child, quickly relegated to usually uncredited supporting roles once he reached adolescence, out of films by his mid-twenties, and completely out of acting by his early thirties.
It certainly wasn't because he couldn't act. How many actors could have done as convincing and moving a performance as he did in the great classic film "Out of the Past"?

2jakes · Apr 21, 2016

Going back to the topic for a moment....
Can you name these silent film comedians?
Hint: One became very popular in the “talkies”.

Gold Star if you can name them without peeking!

LizzieMaine · Apr 21, 2016

The Chaplin looking guy is Billy West, who was the best of several fake Chaplins who made pictures in those free-and-easy-about-intellectual-property-law days. The light eyes are a dead giveaway.

Every silent comic had a resident heavy who'd make trouble for them, and the fellow gotten up to look like Chaplin's heavy Eric Campbell is none other than Oliver Norville Hardy.

Hardy also heavied for Larry Semon in the '20s before moving on to the Hal Roach studio where Stan Laurel was waiting...

2jakes · Apr 21, 2016

LizzieMaine said:
The Chaplin looking guy is Billy West, who was the best of several fake Chaplins who made pictures in those free-and-easy-about-intellectual-property-law days. The light eyes are a dead giveaway.

Every silent comic had a resident heavy who'd make trouble for them, and the fellow gotten up to look like Chaplin's heavy Eric Campbell is none other than Oliver Norville Hardy.

Hardy also heavied for Larry Semon in the '20s before moving on to the Hal Roach studio where Stan Laurel was waiting...

I should have added "besides LizzieMaine” who else knows?

Just kidding....
You & Vitanola are in a league of your own!
Nice !

AdeeC · Apr 23, 2016

LizzieMaine said:
The Chaplin looking guy is Billy West, who was the best of several fake Chaplins who made pictures in those free-and-easy-about-intellectual-property-law days. The light eyes are a dead giveaway.

Every silent comic had a resident heavy who'd make trouble for them, and the fellow gotten up to look like Chaplin's heavy Eric Campbell is none other than Oliver Norville Hardy.

Hardy also heavied for Larry Semon in the '20s before moving on to the Hal Roach studio where Stan Laurel was waiting...

Seen a few of Billy West's shorts. Would easily fool many viewers they were seeing the real Chaplin. He later moved away from being a Chaplin impersonator. His shorts are very snappy and a few were quite excellent. Very hard to find these days. In the talkies he faded away and only had a few small roles playing mostly down and out types. He was memorable as the drunk in the gutter in the "Remember My Forgotten Man" number from Gold Diggers of 33. Apparently Chaplin didn't mind West imitating him and they knew each other. Here is a link to one of West's films with Oliver Hardy billed as Babe Hardy.

EngProf · May 14, 2016

2jakes said:
actors & movie ?

John Carradine and Louise Platt (correction) in "Stagecoach" (1939)
(Louise Platt only acted in movies for a short time - 1938-42.)

hint::
it was a rough ride !

GHT · May 14, 2016

The actor is very famous, but can you name the film?

2jakes · May 14, 2016

GHT said:
The actor is very famous, but can you name the film?

Inkstainedwretch · May 15, 2016

2jakes said:

David McCallum

Inkstainedwretch · May 16, 2016

2jakes said:
Can you name this millionaire actor & movie?

Eddie Anderson. Not sure about the movie. "Topper Returns,"maybe?

Sloan1874 · May 18, 2016

I received this present from my lovely gf for my birthday. Probably quite easy, but anyone want to guess who the actress is:

Lean'n'mean · May 18, 2016

Sloan1874 said:
but anyone want to guess who the actress is:

My guess would be Beatrice Lillie.................the signature & named photo didn't help at all.

Sloan1874 · May 18, 2016

Haha! You know, I did not notice the name there (I only received a couple of hours ago)! In my defence, the cars is a bit smaller than the photo makes it look, and not immediately apparent. All the same: D'oh!

It was just an opportunity to post a lovely pic, really - I love the actor/actress pics they put on cigarette cards.

2jakes · May 18, 2016

Can anyone name this millionaire actor or film?
It’s not Eddie Anderson “Rochester”.

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