31-08-1878
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Virgo
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73
Total Films
Robert P. Burns, Robert Burns, Robert Bunrs
Also known as (male)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Birth
31-08-1878
Birthday
Virgo
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
73
Total Films
Robert Paul Burns, Robert P. Burns, Robert Burns, Robert Bunrs
Also Known As (male)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Birth
actor
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Year:
1968
The Good Bad Egg
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.Year:
1947
Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.Year:
1946
The Body Snatcher
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.Year:
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.Year:
1945
Off Again, On Again
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.Year:
1945
Gents Without Cents
The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.Year:
1944
This Land Is Mine
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.Year:
1943
Air Raid Wardens
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.Year:
1943
Loco Boy Makes Good
After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.Year:
1942
I'll Never Heil Again
The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.Year:
1941
Comin' Round the Mountain
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.Year:
1940
Stanley and Livingstone
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.Year:
1939
Sue My Lawyer
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a jobYear:
1938
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.Year:
1938
My Old Kentucky Home
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.Year:
1938
Dizzy Doctors
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.Year:
1937
Jail Bait
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.Year:
1937
Am I Having Fun!
Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be.Year:
1936
Shakedown
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.Year:
1936
Dummy Ache
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.Year:
1936
A Pain in the Pullman
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.Year:
1936
Disorder in the Court
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.Year:
1936
Ants in the Pantry
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.Year:
1936
Top Flat
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.Year:
1935
His Marriage Mix-up
Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.Year:
1935
Honeymoon Bridge
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.Year:
1935
Slightly Static
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.Year:
1935
Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.Year:
1935
Pop Goes the Easel
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.Year:
1935
His Bridal Sweet
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.Year:
1935
Restless Knights
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.Year:
1935
Speed Limited
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.Year:
1935
Babes in Toyland
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.Year:
1934
The Dancing Millionaire
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competitionYear:
1934
Three Little Pigskins
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.Year:
1934
Counsel on De Fence
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.Year:
1934
The Curtain Falls
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.Year:
1934
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...Year:
1932
Ups and Downs
Shifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs' window. Instead, Pokes blows himself up.Year:
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Them Thar Hills
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.Year:
1934
Hold Your Temper
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.Year:
1933
Cheating Blondes
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.Year:
1933
Mr. Bride
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.Year:
1932
Sneak Easily
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.Year:
1932
Slightly Married
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.Year:
1932
Alum and Eve
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.Year:
1932
Show Business
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.Year:
1932
The Thirteenth Guest
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.Year:
1932
The Old Bull
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?Year:
1932
Red Noses
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.Year:
1932
Any Old Port!
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.Year:
1932
Helpmates
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.Year:
1932
Hollywood Halfbacks
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.Year:
1931
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.Year:
1930
Below Zero
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.Year:
1930
Giftgas
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.Year:
1929
Lazy Days
While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.Year:
1929
Three Tough Onions
In-laws make life unbearable for Monty (Review from Selectd Motion Pictures journal)Year:
1928
Scared Silly
The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.Year:
1927
Grandpa's Boy
Big Boy's grandfather is ordered by the authorities to provide a home for Big Boy, so he sends his butler to get him.Year:
1927
Who Hit Me?
Year:
1926
Out Bound
Mortimer grabs an opportunity to take a truck driving job; Matthew intends to hang onto it.Year:
1924
Ball Bearing, But Hard Running
A previously lost short also known as His Nimble Twist.Year:
1920
Deviled Crabs
Hallucinations abound after eating Deviled Crabs with Pokes & Jabs.Year:
1917
Before the Show
The small town vaudeville manager, before the afternoon performance, discovers his property man has quit without notice, so is compelled to hire one of the hangers-on, Slippery PokesYear:
1916
Behind the Footlights
Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.Year:
1916
A Pair of Skins
A comedy involving tiger skins.Year:
1916
The Wrong Hand Bag
Mrs. Hanson reminds hubby that it is her birthday as he is about to leave for his office. On the way he stops in a jewelry store, and purchases for her a silver mesh bag, which he sends home by a messenger. When Mrs. Hanson receives the bag she cannot resist the temptation to show it to her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Jones, who at once becomes jealous.Year:
1913
The Missing Jewels
Year:
1913
Fixing a Flirt
Instead of paying his landlady, a man invites a seamstress out for dinner. To tease him her colleagues appear uninvited at the restaurant. When the bill comes it is huge and costs the man all of his money, his watch and other belongings, while the seamstress doesn't even want him to walk her home. He goes home penniless and his landlady does not let him in: he has to sleep outside.Year:
1912
A Visit to Lively Town
Two hicks take a trip to Atlantic City.Year:
1912
Willie, the Hunter
A comedy about Willem, who goes out hunting; his friends decide to scare a him with a bear suit.Year:
1912
