Acting

Spencer Bell

Born 1887-09-25 · Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Acting credits

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

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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

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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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 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

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NR

Short film about the title subject played for laughs.

Matrimony Blues

1926

You Said a Mouthful poster
5.8

Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.

You Said a Mouthful

1932

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

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

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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

Passing the Buck poster
7.2

Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.

Passing the Buck

1919

Mickey's Wildcats poster
8.0

Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.

Mickey's Wildcats

1931

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

Mickey's Rescue poster
10.0

When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.

Mickey's Rescue

1934

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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

Mickey's Minstrels poster
8.0

In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.

Mickey's Minstrels

1934

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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

Mickey's Race poster
8.0

Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.

Mickey's Race

1933

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

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

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

Mickey's Rebellion poster
8.0

A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.

Mickey's Rebellion

1931

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

Kid Speed poster
5.5

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