Al Cooke

Acting

Al Cooke

Born 1880-09-26 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Acting credits

Married Life poster
9.0

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

Married Life

1920

Love, Honor and Behave poster
8.0

A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.

Love, Honor and Behave

1920

The Quack Doctor poster
9.0

In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.

The Quack Doctor

1920

Sherlock's Home poster
4.8

Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.

Sherlock's Home

1924

No artwork available
8.0

Eleventh episode in 'The Telephone Girl' 2-reel comedy series.

Faster Foster

1924

Her Father Said No poster
7.0

While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in distress over her balky roadster. Martin wins his fight but is counted a loser by a crooked referee. Later, he is invited to a barbecue at Charlotte's home, but when John Hamilton, who strongly dislikes fighters, learns of Martin's profession, he shows him the door. Danny gives up his career for Charlotte and opens a health resort for obese millionaires. Hamilton and his prospective son-in-law, Penrod, arrive at the resort for treatment, and their indignation and disgust at the treatment provide comic complications. Learning that Danny and Charlotte have already eloped, Hamilton is at first furious, then resigns himself to their happiness.

Her Father Said No

1927

One Minute to Play poster
5.0

"Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.

One Minute to Play

1926

Here We Go Again poster
NR

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).

Here We Go Again

1952

Gymnasium Jim poster
6.0

Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.

Gymnasium Jim

1922

Catch-As Catch-Can poster
3.3

Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.

Catch-As Catch-Can

1931

No artwork available
6.0

Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF?

Dream Stuff

1933

The Mystery Train poster
4.8

A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

The Mystery Train

1931

No artwork available
7.0

Bill Grimm, a taxicab driver, falls in love with Barbara Baxter, from Lyons, New York, the minute she steps off the train, and has him take her to Mrs. Whipple's boarding house, in spite of the interference by Jack Fairfax, Bill's rival. Boarders at Mrs. Whipple's include a prizefighter named "Butch,", his manager O'Brien, and Pansy the maid. This first entry in the series introduces the leading characters in the future films, and a few comical interludes.

The Lady of Lyons, N.Y.

1926

On Patrol poster
5.3

Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.

On Patrol

1922

No artwork available
NR

After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his literary juices to flow. Unfortunately, he gets more than he bargained for.

Money to Burns

1924

Don't Weaken! poster
6.3

A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.

Don't Weaken!

1920

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is from the second series, 11th round, "Beauty and the Feast".

Fighting Blood

1923

Legionnaires in Paris poster
8.0

Two American soldiers are on leave in Paris on Armistice Day and, due to a misunderstanding, believe that they've killed a man, although accidentally. When they discover that the police are looking for them, they're convinced that they're in big trouble and take off. Complications ensue.

Legionnaires in Paris

1927

Conductor 1492 poster
5.5

A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.

Conductor 1492

1924

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 3rd round, "Six Second Smith".

Fighting Blood

1923

She Sighed by the Seaside poster
7.0

Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.

She Sighed by the Seaside

1921

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 4th round, "Two Sones with One Bird".

Fighting Blood

1923

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Beloved Rouge

1927

Hard Knocks and Love Taps poster
8.0

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.

Hard Knocks and Love Taps

1921