Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Snub Pollard (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.

Born Harold Fraser, in Melbourne, Australia on 9 November 1889, he began performing with Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company at a young age. Like many of the actors in the popular juvenile company, he adopted Pollard as his stage name. The company ran several highly successful professional children's troupes that traveled Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

In 1908, Harry Pollard joined the company tour to North America. After the completion of the tour, he returned to the US. By 1915 he was regularly appearing in uncredited roles in movies, for example Charles Epting notes that Pollard can clearly be seen in Chaplin's 1915 short By the Sea. In later years, Pollard claimed Hal Roach had discovered him while he was performing on stage in Los Angeles.

Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels. The long-faced Pollard sported a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down; this became his trademark. Lloyd's producer, Hal Roach, gave Pollard his own starring series of one- and two-reel shorts. The most famous is 1923's It's a Gift, in which he plays an inventor of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, including a car that runs by magnet power.

In early 1923, shortly after his second marriage, Pollard returned with his wife Elizabeth to see his relations in Australia. His visit attracted considerable attention, and he appeared again in several theatres to speak about the motion picture business. On his return to the US, he left Roach and joined the low-budget Weiss Brothers studio in 1926. There he co-starred with Marvin Loback as a poor man's version of Laurel and Hardy, copying that team's plots and gags.

In later years, Pollard claimed the Great Depression wiped out his investments, and he had been unable to "adjust to the talkies." However, in the 1930s, he played small parts in talking comedies, and was featured as comic relief in "B" westerns. Pollard's silent-comedy credentials guaranteed him work in slapstick revivals. He appeared with other film veterans in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). He also appeared regularly as a supporting player in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies of the mid-1940s.

Forsaking his familiar mustache in his later years, he landed much steadier work in films as a mostly uncredited bit player. He played incidental roles in scores of Hollywood features and shorts, almost always as a mousy, nondescript fellow, usually with no dialogue.

Snub Pollard died of cancer on 19 January 1962, aged 72, after nearly 50 years in the movie business. His interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

For his contributions to motion pictures, Pollard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard.

Singin' in the Rain

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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Miracle on 34th Street

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Limelight

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Inherit the Wind

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Adam's Rib

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The Paradine Case

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The Man with the Golden Arm

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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One-Eyed Jacks

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The Gunfighter

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Pocketful of Miracles

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Friendly Persuasion

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The Tin Star

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Scaramouche

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Teacher's Pet

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Homicidal

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Police

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Pal Joey

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Master of the World

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House of Strangers

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Johnny Belinda

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Hail the Conquering Hero

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State Fair

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Canyon Passage

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It Happened Tomorrow

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Stars in My Crown

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Road to Utopia

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The Man from Colorado

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Man of a Thousand Faces

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Framed

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Carrie

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A Woman's Secret

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One Good Turn

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Desperate

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Edge of Darkness

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The Fast and the Furious

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Park Row

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The Lady Gambles

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Ghosts on the Loose

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Bowery at Midnight

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The Crooked Way

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Billy Blazes, Esq.

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Who Was That Lady?

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His Regeneration

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From Hand to Mouth

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Bumping Into Broadway

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Walk Softly, Stranger

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Pete Kelly's Blues

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The Purchase Price

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Ask Father

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Till the Clouds Roll By

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His Royal Slyness

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Casanova Brown

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Young Mr. Jazz

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Strange Impersonation

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Take a Chance

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Unknown Island

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Captain Kidd's Kids

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Luke's Movie Muddle

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The Oregon Trail

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The Marathon

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Just Neighbors

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Sister Kenny

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Kitty

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Jeanne Eagels

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Stand by for Action

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The Non-Stop Kid

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Belle Starr's Daughter

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Stingaree

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The Road to Singapore

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Are Crooks Dishonest?

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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

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Badman's Territory

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Cheyenne

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Goofs and Saddles

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Conquest of Cochise

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Phony Express

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The City Slicker

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The Perils of Pauline

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The Rawhide Terror

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Hey There

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Two-Gun Gussie

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The Payoff

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A Sammy in Siberia

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By the Sad Sea Waves

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The Flirt

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Rockin' in the Rockies

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The Hoodlum Saint

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Meet Me After the Show

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One More River

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Arizona Days

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It's a Gift

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Spring Fever

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Bashful

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Next Aisle Over

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Ring Up the Curtain

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I'm on My Way

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Bliss

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Never Touched Me

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Three Pests in a Mess

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Sky Bandits

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The Earl of Chicago

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Gents in a Jam

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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

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Chop Suey & Co.

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Back to the Woods

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Hollywood Cavalcade

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Monkey Businessmen

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Over the Fence

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Fireman Save My Child

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A Jazzed Honeymoon

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All Aboard

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Runaway Daughters

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Step Lively

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Look Out Below

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It Happened in Flatbush

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Off the Trolley

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Booby Dupes

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Follow the Crowd

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Boot Hill Bandits

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The Kid Rides Again

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Main Street Today

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Kid Dynamite

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Clancy Street Boys

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Where the Buffalo Roam

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Going! Going! Gone!

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On the Fire

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The Dippy Dentist

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Rollin' Westward

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A Gasoline Wedding

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Nation Aflame

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Cockeyed Cavaliers

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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

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Loaded Pistols

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The Rajah

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Racket Squad

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Call for Mr. Caveman

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Sing Cowboy Sing

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Count Your Change

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The Laramie Kid

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Hear 'Em Rave

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Waltz Me Around

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The Dumb-Bell

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The Night Is Young

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Frontier Town

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The Floor Below

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Clubs Are Trump

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Luke Joins the Navy

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Move On

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Pay Your Dues

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Lonesome Luke, Messenger

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Looking for Trouble

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Somewhere in Turkey

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Swing Your Partners

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Murder on the Yukon

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The Girl in the Case

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Days of Thrills and Laughter

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Pinched

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Look Pleasant, Please

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Confirm or Deny

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Public Defender

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Mr. Celebrity

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The Sound of Laughter

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Raise the Rent

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The Old West

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The Big Shot

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Riders of the Rockies

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The Yokel

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The Doughboy

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White Legion

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Bars of Hate

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The Black Coin

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Hittin' the Trail

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Utah Trail

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Here Comes a Sailor

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Fresh Paint

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Run 'Em Ragged

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Park Your Car

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Springtime Saps

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Sold at Auction

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Rainbow Island

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What a Whopper!

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Jungle Menace

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That's Him

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Why Pick on Me?

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Pipe the Whiskers

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Years to Come

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Partners in Time

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The Barefoot Mailman

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Fully Insured

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Here Come the Girls

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It's a Wild Life

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Heap Big Chief

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Pistols for Breakfast

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Fifteen Minutes

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Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

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Square Dance Jubilee

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Foreign Agent

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All Lit Up

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High Rollers

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Punch the Clock

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Before the Public

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Get Busy

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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

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Thunder Mountain

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Yankee Fakir

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Ex-Flame

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His Wedding Scare

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Song of the Buckaroo

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Santa Fe Rides

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A Countless Count

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Valley of Fire

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Newly Rich

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Don't Rock the Boat

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His Best Girl

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Jack Frost

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In the Movies

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The Stone Age

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Blue Sunday

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The Hustler

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The Drunkard

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Thick and Thin

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All Wet

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Luke and the Bomb Throwers

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Luke Foils the Villain

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Fresh from the Farm

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Vitamin 'U' for Me

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Wanted - $5,000

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Double Trouble

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Mitt The Prince

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The Big Idea

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The Crime Patrol

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Just My Luck

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Drink Hearty

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Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

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Rollin' Plains

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A London Bobby

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Full o' Pep

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Blow 'Em Up

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Strictly Modern

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The Mystery Man

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Andy Plays Hookey

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Courtship of Miles Sandwich

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Dear Ol' Pal

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Red Skins and Red Heads

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Hit Him Again

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The Gentleman from Louisiana

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At the Ringside

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Si, Senor

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Luke, Crystal Gazer

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Money to Burn

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Birds of a Feather

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Luke Locates the Loot

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Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley

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We Never Sleep

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Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

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Whirl o' the West

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All Dressed Up

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Luke and the Bang-Tails

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California or Bust

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Luke, Rank Impersonator

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Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

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Two Scrambled

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Luke's Lost Lamb

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Luke, Patient Provider

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Love, Laughs and Lather

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Luke's Speedy Club Life

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Kicking the Germ Out of Germany

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Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

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Luke's Trolley Troubles

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Luke and the Mermaids

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Luke Does the Midway

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From Laramie to London

0.0

An Ozark Romance

0.0

Sic 'Em, Towser

0.0

Luke Rides Roughshod

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Big Game

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Headin' for the Rio Grande

0.0

No Kidding

0.0

Luke's Shattered Sleep

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How Dry I Am

0.0

Name the Day

0.0

The Old Sea Dog

0.0

Society Mugs

0.0

On the Jump

0.0

Giving Them Fits

0.0

Be My Wife

0.0

The Bum's Rush

0.0

Lure of the Wasteland

0.0

Jungle Terror

0.0

Strange As It Seems: The Herald of the Skies

0.0

Defective Detectives

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Luke, the Candy Cut-Up

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Peculiar Patients' Pranks

0.0

Luke and the Rural Roughnecks

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Lonesome Luke's Wild Women

0.0

Mesquite Buckaroo

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The Green Cat

0.0

Crack Your Heels

0.0

At the Old Stage Door

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Nothing But Trouble

0.0

Just Dropped In

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The Tip

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Let's Go

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Kicked Out

0.0

The Dutiful Dub

0.0

She Loves Me Not

0.0

Beat It

0.0

Swat the Crook

0.0

Men About Town

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Rush Orders

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365 Days

0.0

Teaching the Teacher

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Pardon Me

0.0

Some Baby

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Back Trail

0.0

Sally Scrags, Housemaid

0.0

Starlight Over Texas

0.0

Girls Will Be Boys

0.0

Bride and Gloom

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All at Sea

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Any Old Port

0.0

Cash Customers

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Cracked Wedding Bells

0.0

Call a Taxi

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Grab the Ghost

0.0

On Location

0.0

Hale and Hearty

0.0

Hot Off the Press

0.0

Join the Circus

0.0

It's a Joy!

0.0

Once Over

0.0

Sock and Run

0.0

Do Me a Favor

5.0

Live and Learn

0.0

Luke's Society Mixup

0.0

Start Something

0.0

Giving the Bride Away

0.0

Order in the Court

0.0

It's a Hard Life

0.0

Red Hot Hottentotts

0.0

Tough Luck

0.0

Why Go Home?

0.0

Getting His Goat

0.0

Bughouse Bellhops

0.0

Bees in His Bonnet

0.0

Hello Teacher

0.0

The Lamb

0.0

Love's Young Scream

0.0

Tinkering with Trouble

0.0

Ragtime Snap Shots

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Great While It Lasted

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Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks

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Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary

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A Foozle at the Tee Party

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Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster

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Them Was the Happy Days!

0.0

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury

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Luke Lugs Luggage

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Lonesome Luke, Circus King

0.0

Luke Laughs Last

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Luke's Late Lunchers

0.0

Luke's Fatal Flivver

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Luke's Washful Waiting

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Luke, the Chauffeur

0.0

Luke's Double

0.0

Luke Pipes the Pippins

0.0

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle

0.0

Luke's Busy Day

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Luke's Lost Liberty

0.0

Lonesome Luke, Lawyer

0.0

Luke's Newsie Knockout

0.0

Luke's Preparedness Preparations

0.0

Luke, the Gladiator

0.0

Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon

0.0

Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire

0.0

Lonesome Luke, Plumber

0.0

Before Breakfast

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Stop! Luke! Listen!

0.0

His Only Father

0.0

Count the Votes

0.0

He Leads, Others Follow

0.0

Lonesome Luke, Mechanic

0.0

Soft Money

0.0

Fire!!

0.0

Slippery Slickers

0.0

Charlie's Triple Trouble

0.0

A Tough Winter

0.0

The Midnight Patrol

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