Acting

Bud Duncan

Born — Died

1883-10-31 — 1960-11-25

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

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Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the management. A brilliant idea; one would play the wild man in the village square, a real live show of their own. Rooly and Pooly then basked in the society of fair country belles, but Dooly at length was rescued by Miss Smart, looking for excitement. She was not disappointed.

Almost a Wild Man

1913

The Haunted Ship poster
8.0

A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is trying to escape the ship's brutal environment and tyrannical captain, Simon Gant.

The Haunted Ship

1927

Riders of the Rio poster
10.0

Two ranchers are rivals not only over cattle but also over a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Riders of the Rio

1931

No artwork available
10.0

Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.

Red Hicks Defies the World

1913

No artwork available
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A shabby troupe of vaudeville performers put on a show in a hick town theatre, where stage hands Ham & Bud incompetently miss cues, foul up props and ruin several acts on stage.

Raskey's Road Show

1915

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ham and the Masked Marvel

1916

Film credits

1920s · 12 titles

The Haunted Ship poster
8.0

A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is trying to escape the ship's brutal environment and tyrannical captain, Simon Gant.

The Haunted Ship

1927

No artwork available
NR

Bud is a piano tuner who is beginning at the bottom and working up.

Tuning Up

1921

No artwork available
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A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.

All Wet

1921

No artwork available
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Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio."

Movie Mania

1928

No artwork available
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Bud Duncan in a big guy/little guy comedy at the beach with a lot of girls.

Spooky Spooks

1920

No artwork available
9.0

The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.

Smile, Buttercup, Smile

1929

No artwork available
NR

Toots and Casper comedy.

Casper's Night Out

1929

No artwork available
7.0

Casper is going on vacation with his wife and ugly baby (I'm sorry, but the kid IS really creepy looking) and after about five minutes of unfunny shenanigans, he arrives home and gets ready to take off for the country. However, unexpectedly, his rich uncle, his aunt and their destructive and stupid son arrive and invite themselves along for the trip. The trip is anything but relaxing.

Fooling Casper

1928

A Musical Mixup poster
NR

A short silent starring Jimmy Aubrey attempting to step out on his wife the night before she come back to town.

A Musical Mixup

1928

No artwork available
NR

Toots (Thelma Hill) and Casper (Bud Duncan) visit a college campus and get mistaken for freshmen.

Casper's Week End

1928

No artwork available
10.0

In this lively late silent two-reeler, blundering blowhard Jimmy is "always looking for work; someday he'll find it, then he'll have to quit." But meanwhile he applies for a job at a newspaper whose editor really, really wants to solve the mystery of the "haunted" Klutz Mansion. So our hero and the boss' daughter go to investigate a spooky abode that may not have actual ghosts but does have an actual mad scientist in residence.

Have a Heart

1928

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Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.

Stuck Up

1921

1910s · 22 titles

No artwork available
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Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the management. A brilliant idea; one would play the wild man in the village square, a real live show of their own. Rooly and Pooly then basked in the society of fair country belles, but Dooly at length was rescued by Miss Smart, looking for excitement. She was not disappointed.

Almost a Wild Man

1913

No artwork available
10.0

Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.

Red Hicks Defies the World

1913

No artwork available
NR

A shabby troupe of vaudeville performers put on a show in a hick town theatre, where stage hands Ham & Bud incompetently miss cues, foul up props and ruin several acts on stage.

Raskey's Road Show

1915

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ham and the Masked Marvel

1916

The Cruise of the Make-Believes poster
NR

Living in the New York slums with her lazy father, Bessie takes imaginary voyages to "Dream Valley" on a "yacht" she has built in the backyard. Gilbert Byfield, posing as a poor man while completing his book, falls in love with Bessie and secretly arranges for her to spend a month at the Byfield country estate.

The Cruise of the Make-Believes

1918

No artwork available
NR

In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating traveling salesman, who won away their fickle Ma, did not, but through the widow's deception, the kids won the parent of their hearts.

The Widow's Kids

1913

A Bathtub Bandit poster
7.5

Bathtub movers on the job.

A Bathtub Bandit

1917

No artwork available
6.5

Ham and Bud, working as mechanics, wreak havoc at a new car dealership, almost wrecking a big sale.

Love, Oil and Grease

1914

No artwork available
NR

Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.

The Poor Rich Cleaners

1918

No artwork available
6.5

"Midnight at the Old Mill" has some nice "Guignol" touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.

Midnight at the Old Mill

1916

No artwork available
6.0

Ham fears he has accidentally killed his landlady so he and Bud go on the run, disguised as a missionary and a cannibal.

The Phoney Cannibal

1915

No artwork available
7.5

Baker John Doe develops a hole-less doughnut, but rival Henry Mudguard fears the success of his invention and desperately attempts to steal the secret.

The Deadly Doughnut

1917

Maggie Pepper poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maggie Pepper

1919

The Great Detective poster
8.0

Ham, with his 999 disguises, is called on by Mrs. Worry to keep an eye on her husband. Armed with a photograph of hubby, the two set out on a riotous sleuthing career which ends with a bang when they find hubby at dinner with another fair lady and send the news to wifey.

The Great Detective

1916

No artwork available
7.5

Ham and Bud try to catch a counterfeiter.

Whirlwind of Whiskers

1917

No artwork available
7.0

Ham and Bud, while trying to evade a policeman, become cooks in a pancake house.

A Flyer in Flapjacks

1917

No artwork available
9.0

It is Sunday in Cobweb Corners. The ring of hammer in our hero's blacksmith shop is silent. The melody of a hymn steals out of the village church. The village belle is flirting with the simple-hearted smith. It is Monday, and the village belle is plunged in sorrow. Hiram Hardheart demands her hand in marriage. He will foreclose the mortgage. Enter the smith. Exit the villain. Fate opens the way to pay off the mortgage. The smith challenges One Punch Murph. They fight for a purse of $1,000. The village belle in boy's clothing sits near the ring, to urge her sturdy champion on. Round one. Saved by the bell. Round two. The blacksmith knocks out everybody, including the referee. Hardheart gets the money and the smith gets the girl.

The Blundering Blacksmiths

1917

No artwork available
8.0

Ham and Bud rescue a lady on a runaway horse, and Ham falls in love with her.

Some Romance

1915

No artwork available
7.0

Ham & Bud fight over the ladies.

The Love Magnet

1916

No artwork available
6.5

Ham and Bud get jobs as cooks. They flirt with Bombino Souptureeno, and incur the wrath of her boyfriend, Tony Slambango, and his gang.

Ham's Whirlwind Finish

1916

No artwork available
NR

Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.

The Paperhangers' Revenge

1918

Ham and the Jitney Bus poster
6.0

A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside. They use that money to buy a car, and then set up their own taxi company. The competition is fierce, and their clumsiness creates many problems. They even turn to transvestism and the kidnapping of passengers to boost their business.

Ham and the Jitney Bus

1915