
Acting
Sammy Brooks
Born — Died
1891-07-08 — 1951-05-16
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.
Known for
6.1Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925
6.5Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
Ask Father
1919
5.9The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
Scorching Sands
1923
2.0Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.
Here Come the Girls
1918
6.8Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Berth Marks
1929
6.9A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Bumping Into Broadway
1919
Film credits
1920s · 24 titles
6.1Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925
5.9The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
Scorching Sands
1923
6.8Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Berth Marks
1929
6.7A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Movie Night
1929
6.9Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Girl Shy
1924
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
High Rollers
1921
10.0A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
A Punch in the Nose
1926
6.5A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
Madame Mystery
1926
6.4A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Grandma's Boy
1922
5.7In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
Frozen Hearts
1923
8.0The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926
6.1Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Collars and Cuffs
1923
6.2A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Now or Never
1921
8.0A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
Whirl o' the West
1921
6.0A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
A Man About Town
1923
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
The Landlubber
1922
6.8Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
The Rat's Knuckles
1925
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
Don't Butt In
1926
6.5Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.
Looking for Sally
1925
6.0The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Thundering Fleas
1926
7.5Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos, something his mother-in-law was expecting...
The Poor Fish
1924
8.0Charley impersonates his stunt double, a man named Bud Gordon, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.
Are Brunettes Safe?
1927
5.8Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
Big Game
1921
1910s · 35 titles
6.5Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
Ask Father
1919
2.0Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.
Here Come the Girls
1918
6.9A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Bumping Into Broadway
1919
NRA young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.
Before Breakfast
1919
4.9Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
Luke's Movie Muddle
1916
NRLuke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
NRLuke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
Birds of a Feather
1917
6.2After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
Captain Kidd's Kids
1919
NRHarold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
Kicked Out
1918
NRLuke, working in a fireworks factory.
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916
NRAs a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
Luke Locates the Loot
1916
NROut west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
Luke Rides Roughshod
1916
NRThe Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.
The Lamb
1918
NRA day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
6.5Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
Heap Big Chief
1919
5.9Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919
NRLuke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916
5.1Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
The Non-Stop Kid
1918
NRLuke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917
NRAn Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
5.8Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917
NRLonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
Luke and the Mermaids
1916
NRA short film starring Harold Lloyd.
She Loves Me Not
1918
6.5Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard.
Just Neighbors
1919
5.2In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
Clubs Are Trump
1917
5.0The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
Luke Joins the Navy
1916
4.6Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take no for an answer.
Step Lively
1917
5.5In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
Fireman Save My Child
1918
6.1Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
Don't Shove
1919
6.0Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in love with a female collector who doesn't care much about him and he also annoys the trolley conductor. But it seems that odds and luck will be on his favor.
Off the Trolley
1919
5.0Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
It's a Wild Life
1918
4.6While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917
6.7In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Hey There
1918
5.7A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Los Angeles streets.
Look Out Below
1919
6.1Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
Spring Fever
1919

