Sybil Seely

Acting

Sybil Seely

Born 1900-01-01 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Sybil Seely was a silent film actress who worked with the well known silent film comedy actor Buster Keaton.

Acting credits

One Week poster
7.9

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

One Week

1920

Married Life poster
9.0

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

Married Life

1920

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride poster
NR

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

2026

Love, Honor and Behave poster
8.0

A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.

Love, Honor and Behave

1920

Distilled Love poster
7.0

Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.

Distilled Love

1920

The Scarecrow poster
7.4

Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.

The Scarecrow

1920

The Boat poster
6.5

A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'.

The Boat

1921

Her Nature Dance poster
NR

An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.

Her Nature Dance

1917

Down on the Farm poster
5.8

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.

Down on the Farm

1920

Convict 13 poster
6.7

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

Convict 13

1920

The Play House poster
6.8

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

The Play House

1921

The Frozen North poster
6.2

A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north - "the last stop on the subway".

The Frozen North

1922

A Sailor-Made Man poster
6.4

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

A Sailor-Made Man

1921

On Patrol poster
5.3

Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.

On Patrol

1922

Hearts and Flowers poster
6.5

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

Hearts and Flowers

1919

No artwork available
NR

Short comedy

Secrets of a Beauty Parlor

1917

No artwork available
7.0

Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.

Up in Alf's Place

1919