Acting

Ernest Van Pelt

Born 1883-03-30 · Kansas, USA

Acting credits

Sentimental Sophie poster
7.0

Slim and Mustang are rivals for the affections of Sophie, the cook at the O.K. Hotel.

Sentimental Sophie

1915

The Tramp poster
6.5

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.

The Tramp

1915

The Champion poster
6.5

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

The Champion

1915

By the Sea poster
5.6

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.

By the Sea

1915

A Jitney Elopement poster
5.8

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.

A Jitney Elopement

1915

In the Park poster
5.4

A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie's sausages, Charlie gets the handbag. The handbag makes its way from person to person to its owner, who is angry with her boyfriend who didn't protect her in the first place. The boyfriend decides to throw himself in the lake in despair, so Charlie helps him out.

In the Park

1915

Broncho Billy and the Claim Jumpers poster
NR

Broncho Billy, a prospector, makes a rich strike, but while he is examining the rock he is being watched by three claim jumpers. The minute he leaves the spot the jumpers gather up some samples of the ore, and after replacing Broncho's sign with one of their own, start for the claim agent's office.

Broncho Billy and the Claim Jumpers

1915

Sophie and the Man of Her Choice poster
8.0

Slippery Slim and Sophie are deeply in love. Slim incurs the enmity of Hiram Clutts, Sophie's father, and Mustang Pete. They swear vengeance. Mustang writes a note to Slim, signing Sophie's name, asking him to meet her in a cemetery. Slim finds a band of men waiting clad in sheets. He flees and asks Sophie to save him.

Sophie and the Man of Her Choice

1914

Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie poster
10.0

Slippery Slim, the Justice of the Peace, serves a notice on Hiram Clutts, threatening to foreclose his mortgage unless Sophie marries him the next day. Hiram agrees that Sophie shall marry him as he demands. Sophie tells Mustang of this and they plan to elope that night. Mustang calls for her in his buggy, but they fail to make their escape unnoticed by Hiram. He chases them with a shotgun, but is unable to catch them before they reach Slim's office. They disguise themselves and Slim, not knowing who they are, performs the marriage ceremony.

Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie

1914

Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair poster
9.0

Slim calls on Sophie, but has no more than gotten comfortably settled when Mustang arrives and is given all the attention. Very shortly Hiram, Sophie's father, comes downstairs and kicks Mustang out. Mustang returns with a note telling Sophie to meet him next day when the stage coach arrives and they will run away.

Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair

1915

No artwork available
8.0

Slippery Slim and Mustang Pete are suitors for the hand of Sophie Clutts, but she cares nothing for either of them.

Sophie's Sweetheart

1914

Broncho Billy and the Vigilante poster
NR

The cattle owners have formed a lynching party and are in pursuit of a rustler who has been ravaging the country. Broncho Billy, the sheriff, goes after him and captures him single handed. He takes the prisoner to a hotel for the night, and while in the barroom the lynching party comes along. They leave their shotguns outside and step in for a drink.

Broncho Billy and the Vigilante

1915

Sophie's Home-Coming poster
9.0

Slim receives a note from Sophie telling him that she will arrive on the five o'clock stagecoach the next morning, and for him to set his alarm clock so he will be sure to meet her. Mustang reads the note, and after Slim has gone to bed, substitutes another clock in Slim's room.

Sophie's Home-Coming

1915

A Horse on Sophie poster
10.0

Sophie writes a note to her aunt telling her that she is undecided whether she will marry Slippery Slim or Mustang Pete, but says she will accept the one who buys the best-looking horse.

A Horse on Sophie

1914

No artwork available
NR

A doctor dreams that he has shot and killed a local gambler. Awakened by a sudden noise, he discovers that the gambler is lying on his living-room floor, shot to death. Unnerved, he flees to Canada, but the RCMP finds out he's there and sets out to track him down.

Bring Him In

1921

The Battle of Snakeville poster
8.0

The proprietor of the O.K. hotel is advertising for a "lady" cook. Meanwhile, a Chinaman is stealing all his trade. Sophie arrives in Snakeville and applies for the position. The proprietor engages her without a moment's hesitation.

The Battle of Snakeville

1915

Slippery Slim Gets Cured poster
9.0

Sophie tries curing Slim's drinking problem by forcing him to drink ammonia, but it doesn't work.

Slippery Slim Gets Cured

1914

Slippery Slim and the Impersonator poster
7.0

Slippery Slim, crossed in love, plots revenge with help from an unexpected quarter.

Slippery Slim and the Impersonator

1914

Slippery Slim Gets Square poster
10.0

Pete decides to steal Slim's clothes, when he chooses to bathe in the creek before going to a dance with Sophie.

Slippery Slim Gets Square

1914

Broncho Billy's Brother poster
NR

Broncho's brother has a quarrel with a greaser. In the fight that follows the greaser is bested, but swears to be avenged. Broncho's brother then goes home and while under the influence of liquor, strikes his mother. Broncho, hearing her screams, rushes into the room, but by this time his brother has departed.

Broncho Billy's Brother

1915

When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese poster
7.0

Slippery Slim purchases a large piece of Limburger cheese. On the way home he stops to chat with Sophie, but Hiram, her father, chases him off the premises.

When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese

1915

When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs poster
7.0

When eggs went up to $6 a dozen, Slim and Sophie try in every way to make their hen lay, but with no success. Mustang sees their efforts and decides to play a joke. One morning Slim receives a letter telling him that giving hens hot water to drink and putting salt on their tails will make them lay.

When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs

1915

Broncho Billy's Sentence poster
5.0

Billy commits a robbery but a preacher inspires him to have a change of heart.

Broncho Billy's Sentence

1915

The Tell-Tale Hand poster
8.0

Tim Cantle, an evil-looking fellow, is drinking at a bar. The saloonkeeper's daughter enters, and Tim, slightly tipsy, tries to kiss her. She struggles to escape him. Broncho Billy enters and draws his gun. Tim flees. Tim gets his horse and rides away. As he approaches a house on a hill nearby, he sees Annie Fargo run out of her home, her father cursing her. Tim seizes and kisses her. She strikes him in the face and screams. Her father then comes out and drives Tim away. He sends Annie back into the house, following her with his gun. Tim swears vengeance.

The Tell-Tale Hand

1914

Behind the camera