Acting

Spencer Bell

Born — Died

1887-09-25 — 1935-08-18

Place of birth

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 10 titles

1920s · 27 titles

The Wizard of Oz poster
5.5

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

The Wizard of Oz

1925

Ten Dollars or Ten Days poster
5.5

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.

Ten Dollars or Ten Days

1924

Oh, What a Man! poster
7.0

A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to infiltrate her gang in order to get the goods on her, but things don't turn out exactly the way he expected them to.

Oh, What a Man!

1927

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9.0

Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!

Cheap Skates

1925

The Prince of Broadway poster
7.0

"The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he is through. His sweetheart, actress Nancy Lee rescues him from the gutter and asks her admirer, Wade Turner to take him to his ranch to get back in shape. Wade, jealous of George, tells his foreman, Buck Marshall, to hinder George's comeback. Wade’s neighbor, former champ Jim Jeffries offers to help George get back into condition. Trying for the advantage Wade tells Nancy that George is not training, but when she goes out to the ranch, she uncovers the conspiracy. George regains the championship and wins Nancy's hand.

The Prince of Broadway

1926

The Perfect Clown poster
7.5

A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.

The Perfect Clown

1925

Lightning Love poster
6.4

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.

Lightning Love

1923

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10.0

Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.

Below Zero

1925

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7.0

Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short

Should Sleepwalkers Marry?

1927

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10.0

"Lee [Moran] is a city chap who loves to go to the pace and is chagrined when an uncle leaves him his money provided he engages in farming. He has an inspiration and starts a farm on the roof of his apartment house, with a barn, farm vehicles, a donkey, a got and a lot of chickens." - Synopsis from Moving Picture World

Up on the Farm

1925

The Peacock Fan poster
8.0

A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a ritzy home is replaced by a second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.

The Peacock Fan

1929

No artwork available
8.0

Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.

That's the Spirit

1924

The Midnight Taxi poster
6.5

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.

The Midnight Taxi

1928

Ice Cold Cocos poster
9.0

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.

Ice Cold Cocos

1926

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5.4

Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.

No Wedding Bells

1923

The Cloudhopper poster
5.7

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.

The Cloudhopper

1925

Kid Speed poster
5.7

Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.

Kid Speed

1924

The Outlaw Dog poster
8.0

When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows. He gets a chance to clear his name by helping Bill trap a pair of outlaws who plan to blow up a mail train and abscond with the loot.

The Outlaw Dog

1927

Her Boy Friend poster
5.8

Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.

Her Boy Friend

1924

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1.0

Poodles Hanneford comedy produced and distributed by the Weiss Brothers.

Deaf, Dumb and Blonde

1928

The Rodeo poster
9.0

The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.

The Rodeo

1929

Blue Blood poster
7.0

Blue Blood is an extant 1925 American silent comedy drama film

Blue Blood

1925

No artwork available
4.5

The proprietors of a hairdressing and beauty emporium and the neighboring delicatessen battle over everything including the hairdresser's love of the deli owner's daughter.

The Dome Doctor

1925

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NR

Short film about the title subject played for laughs.

Matrimony Blues

1926

No artwork available
NR

Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the property for herself and, with several hired-henchmen, sends "ghost" after "ghoul" through the house after the boys arrive.

Creeps

1926

The Barnyard poster
6.3

Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.

The Barnyard

1923

Fast and Furious poster
4.7

Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.

Fast and Furious

1924