Hoffmeyer's Legacy
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Hoffmeyer's Legacy is a 1912 comedy short directed by Mack Sennett
and notable for being the first Keystone Cops comedy. However, the film many people consider the first real Keystone Cop comedy to be is The Bangville Police
(1913).
Alice Davenport
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Charles Avery
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Bobby Dunn
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George Jeske
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Fred Mace
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Edgar Kennedy
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Hank Mann
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Mack Sennett
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Slim Summerville
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Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
and notable for being the first Keystone Cops comedy. However, the film many people consider the first real Keystone Cop comedy to be is The Bangville Police
The Bangville Police
The Bangville Police is a 1913 comedy short starring Mabel Normand and the Keystone Kops . The film, notable for being regarded as the seminal Keystone Cops short, was directed by Henry Lehrman...
(1913).
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Alice Davenport
Alice Davenport was an American film actress. She appeared in some 140 films between 1911 and 1930.She was born Alice Shepphard in New York, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. She made her stage debut at age five...
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Charles Avery
Charles Avery
Charles Avery was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. One of the original seven Keystone Kops, Avery directed Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in thirty-one comedies while at Keystone.-Biography:...
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Bobby Dunn
Bobby Dunn
Bobby Dunn was a comic actor who appeared in several Laurel & Hardy comedies, beginning with Duck Soup, and notably as the shoplifter in Tit for Tat.-Biography:...
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George Jeske
George Jeske
George Jeske , was an American screenwriter, director and actor. He wrote for 54 films between 1926 and 1946. He was one of the original Keystone Kops for Mack Sennett...
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Fred Mace
Fred Mace
Fred Mace was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 156 films between 1909 and 1916. Mace worked for Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios...
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Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper...
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Hank Mann
Hank Mann
Hank Mann was a comedian and silent screen star who is best known as the last surviving member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original member of the ensemble Edgar Kennedy, Mann was the originator of the idea for the Keysotne Cops...
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Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
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Slim Summerville
Slim Summerville
Slim Summerville was an American film actor, best known as a comedy performer.-Life and career:Born George Joseph Summerville in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Summerville began his career as a "Keystone Kop" in 1912...
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