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The 100 best silent comedians, according to James Roots in "The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians". 305 users · 7,760 views. from books.google.co.uk · made by Somebodyelse. avg. score: 7 of 100 (7%) required scores: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10. list stats leaders vote print comments.
This book ranks the top 100 silent film stars based on a scale that considers creativity, originality, chemistry with fellow performers, and other factors. The author also promotes some lesser-kno...
- Ben Turpin
- Larry Semon
- Mary Pickford
- Mabel Normond
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Harold Lloyd
- Oliver Hardy
- Stan Laurel
- Charlie Chaplin
- Buster Keaton
Born in 1869 in New Orleans, Turpin was one of the most distinctive faces of the era. This had a lot to do with his permanently crossed-eyes. Like most stars of the age he began his career on the vaudeville stage developing a rough and tumble act reliant on the usual mix of pratfall and slapstick and he was noted for his athleticism.When cinema sil...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WFVpSeIfA One of the most forgotten stars of the era is one Larry Semon. In his day he was a writer, producer, director and star of numerous silent comedies and even appeared in the first-ever big screen version of The Wizard of Oz. Born in West Point Mississippi in 1889, he was working as a newspaper cartoonist wh...
Mary Pickford was America’s original screen sweetheart. Born Gladys Marie Smith in 1892 she was the first female film superstar and could hold her own with anyone on screen or off it. Early on she talked herself into jobs with D.W. Griffith and appeared in numerous one-reelers for the director. By 1913, she had been hired by Adolph Zukor on five hu...
If Pickford was the sweet innocent girl next door, Mabel Normond was perhaps the other side of the coin. Writer, director, producer and star Normand was undone by scandal and drug addiction. She cut her teeth with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle at Keystone while also having something of a torrid affair with the studio’s head Mack Senne...
There is perhaps no more tragic a clown in film history than Roscoe Arbuckle. The rotund comedian who would forever be known as Fatty was the first major screen comic. Only Chaplin could stand next to him in terms of box office receipts and worldwide fame. The rise from plumber’s assistant to million-dollar a year movie star was meteoric, however t...
Harold Lloyd was one of the biggest stars of the day, he replaced Arbuckle as the only star that could compete with Chaplin and at his peak far outshined the likes of Keaton and Laurel and Hardy. He got his break working with Hal Roach in 1913 and became his most successful comic. From 1915 – 1917 he appeared in more than sixtie one-reel comedies. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijvB_DRhL8&list=PLw2gUb6nJ1pKa53YzRf-kK8Rpoi55QdrI One half of the screen’s first great comic duo, Ollie Hardy became entranced by film from an early age. In fact he worked as a projectionist, ticket taker, janitor and manager of his local nickelodeon in Georgia. The first movie of his many many film appearances arr...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVI-HO0BSRU Stan was always the fall guy for the duo on screen. Off screen, he was the brains behind the pair. Like Chaplin, he was born in England in 1880. He joined Fred Karno’s troupe of actors in 1910 along with a young Charles Chaplin and was Chaplin’s understudy at one point. In 1926, he joined the Hal Roach st...
No one is more synonymous with the silent era and film comedy itself than Charles Chaplin. People around the world who have never seen a silent filmknow the Chaplin silhouette, the shabby suit, the bowler hat. His influence is considerable. Up until the Tramp arrived film comics were based firmly in the realm of cartoonish slapstick. Fatty Arbuckle...
Keaton gets the number one spot. Though in reality the differences between him and Chaplin are pretty negligible, Keaton’s style was very different. Where Chaplin’s Tramp appealed to the sentimental and emotional Keaton’s appeal was much more cerebral. He was born in 1895 to a family of travelling vaudevillians. Famed for his invincibility, he got ...
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Oct 23, 2014 · In The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians, James Roots ranks the greatest performers based on a scorecard that measures each comic’s humor, timelessness, originality, and teamwork. Far more than...
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