Sammy Brooks

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

Isn't Life Terrible? poster
6.1

Charley 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

Ask Father poster
6.5

Lloyd 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

Scorching Sands poster
5.9

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

Scorching Sands

1923

Here Come the Girls poster
2.0

Bebe 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

Berth Marks poster
6.8

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

Berth Marks

1929

Bumping Into Broadway poster
6.9

A 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

Isn't Life Terrible? poster
6.1

Charley 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

Scorching Sands poster
5.9

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

Scorching Sands

1923

Berth Marks poster
6.8

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

Berth Marks

1929

Movie Night poster
6.7

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Movie Night

1929

Girl Shy poster
6.9

Harold 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

No artwork available
5.2

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

A Punch in the Nose poster
10.0

A 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

Madame Mystery poster
6.5

A 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

Grandma's Boy poster
6.4

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

Grandma's Boy

1922

Frozen Hearts poster
5.7

In 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

Don Key (Son of Burro) poster
8.0

The 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

Collars and Cuffs poster
6.1

Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Collars and Cuffs

1923

Now or Never poster
6.2

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Now or Never

1921

Whirl o' the West poster
8.0

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

Whirl o' the West

1921

A Man About Town poster
6.0

A 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

No artwork available
6.5

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

The Landlubber

1922

The Rat's Knuckles poster
6.8

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

The Rat's Knuckles

1925

No artwork available
8.0

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

Don't Butt In

1926

Looking for Sally poster
6.5

Jimmie 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

Thundering Fleas poster
6.0

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

Thundering Fleas

1926

The Poor Fish poster
7.5

Charley, 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

Are Brunettes Safe? poster
8.0

Charley impersonates his stunt double, a man named Bud Gordon, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.

Are Brunettes Safe?

1927

Zeb vs. Paprika poster
5.8

Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.

Zeb vs. Paprika

1924

No artwork available
9.0

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

Ask Father poster
6.5

Lloyd 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

Here Come the Girls poster
2.0

Bebe 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

Bumping Into Broadway poster
6.9

A 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

Before Breakfast poster
NR

A 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

Luke's Movie Muddle poster
4.9

Lonesome 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

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients poster
NR

Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

Birds of a Feather poster
NR

Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

Birds of a Feather

1917

Captain Kidd's Kids poster
6.2

After 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

Kicked Out poster
NR

Harold 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

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle poster
NR

Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Luke Locates the Loot poster
NR

As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.

Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Luke Rides Roughshod poster
NR

Out 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

The Lamb poster
NR

The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.

The Lamb

1918

Luke's Lost Lamb poster
NR

A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

Heap Big Chief poster
6.5

Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.

Heap Big Chief

1919

Billy Blazes, Esq. poster
5.9

Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.

Billy Blazes, Esq.

1919

Luke, Rank Impersonator poster
NR

Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.

Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916

The Non-Stop Kid poster
5.1

Bebe 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

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life poster
NR

Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

1917

Love, Laughs and Lather poster
NR

An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.

Love, Laughs and Lather

1917

By the Sad Sea Waves poster
5.8

Our 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

Luke and the Mermaids poster
NR

Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.

Luke and the Mermaids

1916

She Loves Me Not poster
NR

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

She Loves Me Not

1918

Just Neighbors poster
6.5

Suburban 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

Clubs Are Trump poster
5.2

In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.

Clubs Are Trump

1917

Luke Joins the Navy poster
5.0

The 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

Step Lively poster
4.6

Snub 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

Fireman Save My Child poster
5.5

In 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

Don't Shove poster
6.1

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Don't Shove

1919

Off the Trolley poster
6.0

Harold 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

It's a Wild Life poster
5.0

Harold 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

Lonesome Luke, Messenger poster
4.6

While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

1917

Hey There poster
6.7

In 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

Look Out Below poster
5.7

A 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

Spring Fever poster
6.1

Harold 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