Rube Miller

Acting

Rube Miller

Born — Died

1886-05-21 — 1927-04-01

Place of birth

Trotwood, Ohio, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Rube Miller was born on May 22, 1886 in Trottwood, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Shy Thirty Cents (1916), Someone in the House (1920) and Whitewashing William (1915). He died on April 1, 1927 in Mexico City, Mexico of a drug overdose.

Known for

Film credits

1920s · 5 titles

The World's Champion poster
8.0

Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.

The World's Champion

1922

No artwork available
9.0

Alias "the Dancer," fashionable society crook Jimmy Burke is hot on the trail of the Brent diamonds. Upon learning that Molly Brent and her diamonds are the stars of an amateur play, Jimmy obtains the leading man's part and devises a plan to steal the jewels. Molly falls in love with her leading man, who plans to switch the gems with fakes during the performance. After the play, the police question the couple and Molly declares that the robbery was part of the drama. When she discovers Jimmy's deed, she begins to cry and "the Dancer," realizing that he is in love with his victim, renounces his profession.

Someone in the House

1920

Truxton King poster
7.0

An American seeking adventure in Graustark strikes up an acquaintance with six-year-old Prince Robin and his Aunt Lorraine. The next day, Truxton overhears a plot against the prince and is taken prisoner. He escapes to rescue both Prince Robin and Lorraine, and to prevent an attack on the castle. Truxton's love for Lorraine leads to marriage when she reveals that she, too, is American.

Truxton King

1923

Hell's Hole poster
9.0

Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he discovers they have no tickets, and the two men swear revenge.

Hell's Hole

1923

The Desperate Hero poster
9.0

Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.

The Desperate Hero

1920

1910s · 38 titles

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.2

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914

The Knockout poster
5.8

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

The Knockout

1914

Tango Tangles poster
5.2

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

Tango Tangles

1914

The Great Toe Mystery poster
5.5

A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.

The Great Toe Mystery

1914

Won in a Closet poster
4.4

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

Won in a Closet

1914

A Thief Catcher poster
5.1

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

A Thief Catcher

1914

His Favorite Pastime poster
5.3

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

His Favorite Pastime

1914

Peeping Pete poster
6.0

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).

Peeping Pete

1913

The Star Boarder poster
5.2

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.

The Star Boarder

1914

No artwork available
10.0

His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.

His Sister's Kids

1913

No artwork available
NR

Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.

Rastus and the Game Cock

1913

A Favor to a Friend poster
8.0

When Mary Worthington will not sign a document absolving the executors of her late father's estate from the loss of money due to mismanagement, they lock her up to force her to comply. Meanwhile, Danny Abbott, a press agent for Mary's friend, Gloria Morning, and two East Side Jewish backers, worry that Gloria's failing musical, The Purple Pagoda , will ruin them. Danny persuades his friend Robert Garrison to kidnap Gloria and release her before showtime, thus creating a news item to attract ticket buyers. When Mary escapes and approaches Gloria's apartment, Garrison, thinking that she is Gloria, kidnaps her. Mary plays along to escape the executors and falls in love with him at his cabin where they fight off Gloria's would-be rescuers. After the executors find Mary and take her to an insane asylum, Garrison saves her, they marry, and Gloria's show becomes a success.

A Favor to a Friend

1919

No artwork available
NR

Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.

Passions, He Had Three

1913

Shot in the Excitement poster
5.3

Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.

Shot in the Excitement

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.

His Chum the Baron

1913

Poultry à la Mode poster
NR

Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.

Poultry à la Mode

1916

No artwork available
7.0

In this farce Charley and Minta frolic by the seaside.

Love and Salt Water

1914

The Gusher poster
4.5

Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.

The Gusher

1913

The Gay Lord Quex poster
9.0

Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.

The Gay Lord Quex

1919

Tom's Little Star poster
7.0

A 1919 silent drama film

Tom's Little Star

1919

A Bandit poster
5.5

Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.

A Bandit

1913

Bangville Police poster
5.1

A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.

Bangville Police

1913

No artwork available
NR

The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.

A Quiet Little Wedding

1913

A Fishy Affair poster
5.5

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.

A Fishy Affair

1913

In the Clutches of the Gang poster
NR

In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.

In the Clutches of the Gang

1914

The Belles of Liberty poster
7.0

Monty Banks plays a paramour who starts all sort of silly highjinks with Eva Novak and Carolyne Wright

The Belles of Liberty

1918

No artwork available
NR

Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.

Bombs and Bangs

1914

A Muddy Romance poster
4.8

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.

A Muddy Romance

1913

No artwork available
8.0

The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.

A Deaf Burglar

1913

No artwork available
9.0

The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.

He Died and He Didn't

1916

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Coat's Tale

1914

No artwork available
NR

Her Last Chance

Her Last Chance

1914

A Blind Pig poster
10.0

A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.

A Blind Pig

1918

No artwork available
NR

The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.

The Chicken Chaser

1914

No artwork available
NR

Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out.

The Stolen Booking

1916

No artwork available
NR

Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the place Rube and Ben try to pick his pockets, and admonishing them as amateurs, he tells them to join in with him and try to steal the picture. They take the art collector's wife with them to the same café wherein their wives are waitresses. Ben and Rube leave her there and hasten to her home to steal a copy of the picture, the owner having hidden the original. They also drink some poisoned whiskey left for them and fall into a fit. Later the "picture pirate" pays Rube and Ben for the picture, thinking it is the original.

Picture Pirates

1916

Doctoring a Leak poster
NR

Ben Turpin & Rube Miller trying to fix a leak.

Doctoring a Leak

1916

No artwork available
NR

A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.

A Gambling Rube

1914

Behind the camera

Shot in the Excitement poster
5.3

Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.

Shot in the Excitement

1914

Poultry à la Mode poster
NR

Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.

Poultry à la Mode

1916

No artwork available
9.0

The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.

He Died and He Didn't

1916

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Coat's Tale

1914

No artwork available
NR

Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out.

The Stolen Booking

1916

No artwork available
NR

Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the place Rube and Ben try to pick his pockets, and admonishing them as amateurs, he tells them to join in with him and try to steal the picture. They take the art collector's wife with them to the same café wherein their wives are waitresses. Ben and Rube leave her there and hasten to her home to steal a copy of the picture, the owner having hidden the original. They also drink some poisoned whiskey left for them and fall into a fit. Later the "picture pirate" pays Rube and Ben for the picture, thinking it is the original.

Picture Pirates

1916

Doctoring a Leak poster
NR

Ben Turpin & Rube Miller trying to fix a leak.

Doctoring a Leak

1916