Mack Swain
Biography
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Mack Swain (born Moroni Swain, February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an early American film actor, who appeared in many of Mack Sennett's comedies at Keystone Studios, including the Keystone Cops series. He also appeared in major features by Charlie Chaplin.
In the early 1900s Swain had his own stock theater company, which performed in the western and midwestern United States.
Swain worked in vaudeville before starting in silent film at Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. While with Keystone, he was teamed with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as "Ambrose" and Conklin as the grand mustachioed "Walrus", they performed these roles in several films including The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus and Love, Speed and Thrills, both made in 1915.
Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, 26 all told, and they also appeared separately and/or together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players.
Swain later took his Ambrose character with him to the L-KO Kompany. Having already worked with Charles Chaplin at Keystone, Swain began working with him again at First National in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class, Pay Day, and The Pilgrim. He is also remembered for his large supporting role as Big Jim McKay in the 1925 film The Gold Rush, for United Artists, written by and starring Chaplin.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mack Swain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1876-02-15
Place of birth
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Cast
The Gold Rush
1925
7.99
Laughing Gas
1914
5.50
The Fatal Mallet
1914
5.40
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
6.10
Hands Up!
1926
5.22
The Idle Class
1921
6.70
Love and Gasoline
1914
0.00
Yesterday and Today
1953
0.00
The Locked Door
1929
5.90
Mabel’s Nerve
1914
0.00
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
6.00
A Gambling Rube
1914
0.00
Hello, Mabel
1914
5.30
Other People's Business
1914
0.00
The Girl from Everywhere
1927
0.00
The Girl from Nowhere
1928
0.00
Caught in the Rain
1914
5.60
A Busy Day
1914
4.70
Mabel's Married Life
1914
5.80
His Musical Career
1914
5.90
His Trysting Places
1914
6.10
Getting Acquainted
1914
5.30
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914
5.70
His Prehistoric Past
1914
5.60
Pay Day
1922
7.00
The Pilgrim
1923
6.81
A Thief Catcher
1914
4.90
A Texas Steer
1927
0.00
Mockery
1927
6.70
Pitfalls of a Big City
1923
0.00
Torrent
1926
6.90
Fatty's New Role
1915
5.20
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
4.20
Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914
4.20
A Rowboat Romance
1914
0.00
The Late Lamented
1917
0.00
Gussle, the Golfer
1914
5.00
Double Crossed
1914
4.60
Ambrose's Lofty Perch
1915
4.50
Willful Ambrose
1915
5.00
Love, Speed and Thrills
1915
5.00
Ambrose's Sour Grapes
1915
5.00
Mabel Lost and Won
1915
6.20
Ambrose's Nasty Temper
1915
5.00
When Ambrose Dared Walrus
1915
5.00
Ambrose's Fury
1915
3.00
Oh, What a Knight
1919
0.00
Cleaning Up
1930
5.00
Heroic Ambrose
1919
1.00
Finn and Hattie
1931
5.30
Kiki
1926
7.33
A Muddy Romance
1913
4.80
Fatty Joins the Force
1913
5.40
The Under-Sheriff
1914
0.00
A Robust Romeo
1914
0.00
The Sea Bat
1930
4.60
A Movie Star
1916
5.50
Saved by Wireless
1915
0.00
Redemption
1930
4.50
His Bitter Pill
1916
5.20
Madcap Ambrose
1916
4.00
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
5.60
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
5.60
The Knockout
1914
5.70
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
5.10
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1928
6.00
The Nervous Wreck
1926
5.90
The Eagle
1925
6.20
Caught in a Park
1915
5.00
Full o' Spirits
1920
0.00
The Gusher
1913
4.50
Ye Olden Grafter
1915
5.00
Footloose Widows
1926
0.00
Her First False Hare
1919
0.00
Adventurous Ambrose
1918
0.00
My Best Girl
1927
7.00
Sea Horses
1926
0.00
Caught in the Fog
1928
0.00
Soup to Nuts
1930
5.70
The Shamrock and the Rose
1927
5.50
The Beloved Rogue
1927
6.50
The Last Warning
1928
6.70
Fatty's Wine Party
1914
0.00
The Pullman Bride
1917
0.00
This Way Out
1923
0.00
The Home Breakers
1915
0.00
His Naughty Thought
1917
0.00
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928
0.00
The Chaplin Revue
1959
7.34
Becky
1927
0.00
Innocent Ambrose
1920
0.00
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
0.00
Thirst
1917
0.00
Whispering Wires
1926
0.00
Ambrose's Little Hatchet
1915
5.00
Lighthouse Love
1932
5.50
The Sea Nymphs
1914
0.00
Hogan's Romance Upset
1915
5.00
The Midnight Patrol
1932
0.00
Bad Boy
1935
5.00
Lost: A Cook
1917
0.00
A Missing Bride
1914
0.00
Her Big Night
1926
0.00
The Devil's Circus
1926
6.90