Directing

Jess Robbins

Born — Died

1886-04-29 — 1973-03-11

Place of birth

Dayton, Ohio, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Known for

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

A Burlesque on Carmen poster
5.8

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

A Burlesque on Carmen

1915

His New Job poster
5.8

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.

His New Job

1915

Shanghaied poster
6.0

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

Shanghaied

1915

A Night in the Show poster
6.2

Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.

A Night in the Show

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

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

A Burlesque on Carmen poster
5.8

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

A Burlesque on Carmen

1915

His New Job poster
5.8

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.

His New Job

1915

Shanghaied poster
6.0

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

Shanghaied

1915

A Night in the Show poster
6.2

Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.

A Night in the Show

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

The Bank poster
6.3

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.

The Bank

1915

By the Sea poster
5.5

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brotherly Love

1926

A Night Out poster
5.8

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.

A Night Out

1915

Police poster
6.3

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

Police

1916

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

A Woman poster
6.1

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

A Woman

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

No artwork available
7.0

Two "correspondence romance" suitors prepare to meet their respective partners for the first time; mixups ensue.

Scrambled Eggs

1925

Meet Father poster
NR

The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champion.

Meet Father

1924

The Ladder Jinx poster
8.0

Peter Stalton, retiring as a bank cashier, is anxious that his nephew Richard Twing should succeed him. The directors, however, appoint Arthur Barnes, engaged to Helen Wilbur, the president's daughter. Being highly superstitious, Helen makes Arthur promise to cross back under a ladder under which he has walked earlier in the day. In doing so, he is accused of robbing a house and is pursued by the police. Passing the bank in which he works, he sees two robbers making a getaway just as the president and Helen arrive. Arthur pursues the bandits in their car, accompanied by Helen. They are arrested and accused of robbing Stalton's house and the bank, but Arthur is cleared by Sam, the Negro janitor, who exposes Richard Twing as the culprit. Arthur is freed and is happily reunited with his fiancée.

The Ladder Jinx

1922

A Little Bit of Fluff poster
9.0

Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.

A Little Bit of Fluff

1928

A Little Bit of Fluff poster
9.0

Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.

A Little Bit of Fluff

1928

A Front Page Story poster
7.0

Rodney Marvin hears a vague account of a dispute between Mayor Gorham and Matt Hayward from Hayward's daughter, Virginia. She is employed by her father on his paper the Gazette, a sworn enemy to the Mayor. Rodney outwits the Mayor and buys from him a note that would have endangered the fortune of the Gazette. Rodney realizes that the only remedy for the situation is to get the two men to shake hands and be friends.

A Front Page Story

1922

All's Swell on the Ocean poster
8.0

Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts. Jack arouses the jealousy of a Frenchman, who is keen on a young French girl, and is challenged to a fight. The Frenchman fights a la Savatte (the French method, including kicking, bucking, etc.) and is getting the better of Jack, until the latter dons a pair of hobnailed brogans. He consents to remove these if his adversary will put boxing gloves on his feet. The Frenchman gets seasick and is counted out as he leans over the rail, where he is soon joined by Jack.

All's Swell on the Ocean

1924

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Twin Sisters

1926

No artwork available
7.0

As Wanda bicycles down the street, she finds herself at the center of a series of adventures and mishaps involving fire trucks, a construction site, a cop, a policeman, a honky tonk but it all ends happily in the arms of a dreamy engineer.

Looking Down

1925

The Son-of-a-Gun poster
7.5

A young man is lured into a cardgame by a crooked dealer. He is about to lose all the money that was given to him to get medicine for his mother when a local cowboy comes to his rescue.

The Son-of-a-Gun

1919

Work poster
5.9

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.

Work

1915

No artwork available
4.0

Arthur Housman gets invited into a ranch house.

The Non-Stop Bride

1926

The Lucky Dog poster
5.8

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

The Lucky Dog

1921

The Lucky Dog poster
5.8

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

The Lucky Dog

1921

The Law Forbids poster
7.0

Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peggy move to a farm town, while Paul remains in the big city to write a play for actress Inez Lamont, who is in love with him. Peggy knows that her mother still loves Paul, so she flees to the big city to explain the situation to her father.

The Law Forbids

1924

Should Sailors Marry? poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Should Sailors Marry?

1925

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mixed Brides

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Red Blood and Yellow is a 1919 Western

Red Blood and Yellow

1919

The Last Laugh poster
7.0

Marguerite discovers a personal in the paper asking for information concerning Wallace Jones, and stating that he is heir to an immense fortune, which she shows to her mother. That morning, when a man applies to Mrs. Joslin for a room in her house and the landlady discovers his valise is marked "W. Jones," both she and her daughter insist on his taking one of their rooms, and make a great fuss over him. Mr. Jones is at a loss to understand their overwhelming attentions, but as Marguerite is extremely pretty, he accepts the fussing good-naturedly, as far as she is concerned.

The Last Laugh

1913

A Thrilling Romance poster
8.0

An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.

A Thrilling Romance

1926

Too Much Business poster
7.0

Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's partner; and brings about a reconciliation between Hayward and his longtime enemy, Mayor Gorham.

Too Much Business

1922

No artwork available
9.0

Jane's father favors one of her suitors, her mother another one, and Jane a third one. She gets the first two suitors to have a boxing match to determine the best man, while she and her favored suitor elope.

Jane's Troubles

1926

The Trouble Hunter poster
9.0

Jimmy makes a chaotic entrance into a café falling through a coal chute, stumbling into a den of chorus girls. Meanwhile, a Salvation Army lass is attempting to rescue a young girl who has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous scoundrel. Jimmy becomes involved in the chaos, battling the scoundrel and the café proprietor's men to protect the girl. In a climactic twist, the girl turns out to be the estranged sister of the villainous proprietor. The film ends with a happy reunion, the villainous proprietor turning good, and Jimmy thanked for his heroism.

The Trouble Hunter

1920

The Trouble Hunter poster
9.0

Jimmy makes a chaotic entrance into a café falling through a coal chute, stumbling into a den of chorus girls. Meanwhile, a Salvation Army lass is attempting to rescue a young girl who has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous scoundrel. Jimmy becomes involved in the chaos, battling the scoundrel and the café proprietor's men to protect the girl. In a climactic twist, the girl turns out to be the estranged sister of the villainous proprietor. The film ends with a happy reunion, the villainous proprietor turning good, and Jimmy thanked for his heroism.

The Trouble Hunter

1920

Sophie's Hero poster
10.0

Alkali Ike dons a bearskin to chase away his rivals.

Sophie's Hero

1913

There She Goes poster
10.0

A woman gets caught in the rain on her way to meet a Tinder date.

There She Goes

1926