Ben Turpin

Acting

Born: 1869-09-18 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Died: 1940-07-01

Biography

Bernard "Ben" Turpin was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films.

Acting

The Musical Marvel

Dickie, the pianist

She Sighed by the Seaside

The Lifeguard

Sheriff Nell's Tussle

Honest Eyed Jack - Still After Her

He Died and He Didn't

The Gambler

The Champion

Ringside vendor

Sweedie the Swatter

Countess Sweedie

The Waiter

Sweedie Collects for Charity

Mr. Tightwad

Sweedie's Hero

The Bellboy

The Fickleness of Sweedie

Police Captain

Sweedie at the Fair

Captain of the Police

Sweedie the Trouble Maker

Captain of the Police

Their Cheap Vacation

Sweedie and the Hypnotist

The Hypnotist

Madame Double X

Mr. Von Crooks Jr.

Sweedie and the Sultan's Present

Swipes, her husband

Sweedie's Suicide

Police Captain

Sweedie and Her Dog

Captain of the Dog Catchers

Two Hearts That Beat as Ten

Sweedie and the Lord

The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in

Sweedie and the Double Exposure

Sweedie Springs a Surprise

Mr. Prim

Sweedie's Skate

Captain

Sweedie's Clean-Up

The Chief of Police

Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie

The Captain

She Landed a Big One

The Chief of Police

Sweedie's Hopeless Love

The Grocery Boy

Love and Trouble

Sweedie's Beau

Sweedie Learns to Ride

Sweedie's Romeo

Sweedie in Vaudeville

Sweedie's Finish

That Night

The Usual Way

Secondary Role

Curiosity

The Lunatic

Our Wife

Justice of the Peace

A Woman's Way

Tag Day

The Tramp

A Mexican's Gratitude

Hollywood Cavalcade

Bartender in Western

His New Job

Film Extra, in Anteroom

A Night Out

Fellow Reveller

A Burlesque on Carmen

Remendados

The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer'

Wedding Yells

Jackson Snood

Broncho Billy Steps In

Too Much Turkey

The Neighbor

Broncho Billy's Love Affair

A Christmas Revenge

Loafer

Hollywood

Ben Turpin

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?

Rodney St. Clair

Pitfalls of a Big City

Rodney St. Clair

Asleep at the Switch

The Station Agent

The Raspberry Romance

Rodney St. Clair

The Marriage Circus

Rodney St. Clair

When Comedy Was King

edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)

Million Dollar Legs

Mysterious Man

The Eyes Have It

Make Me a Star

Ben

A Coat Tale

A Harem Knight

Rodney St. Clair

Broke in China

Donald Drake

The Law of the Wild

Henry

Big Farewell

Dancer

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

(archive footage)

The Wild Goose Chaser

Rodney St. Clair

Keystone Hotel

Count Drewa Blanc

Masked Mirth

Suffern Phatt

The Haunted Lounge

Tramp

When Ben Bolted

A Studio Stampede

Vic

A Prodigal Bridegroom

A Small Town Idol

Sam Smith

Idle Eyes

Benjamin Turps

She Said No

Seein' Things

The Dare-Devil

Joe Magee

The Shriek of Araby

Bill Poster - The Sheik

Yukon Jake

Sheriff Cyclone Bill

Ten Dollars or Ten Days

The Soda Clerk

The Neighbors' Kids

Servant

You Saved My Life

Any Day in Hollywood

A Blonde's Revenge

Gerald Montague

The Voice of Hollywood No. 8

Self - Guest Host

The Hollywood Kid

Self

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Self (archive footage)

Running Hollywood

Traffic Cop

Mr. Flip

Holding His Own

Ben Muggs

When a Man's a Prince

Prince Nikolo

Ambassador Bill

The Butcher

The Pride of Pikeville

Baron Bonamo

The Jolly Jilter

Vigil Vancourt

Swing High

Bartender

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

A Prussian Guardsman

A Bedroom Blunder

Hotel Desk Clerk

A Clever Dummy

A Romantic Janitor

Down on the Farm

The Faithful Wife's Husband

Hogan's Alley

The Stranger

Bright Eyes

Luke Larson the Oil Magnate

Love and Doughnuts

The Baker

Hollywood on Parade

Self

Saps at Sea

Cross-Eyed Plumber

Bucking the Tiger

The Grand Ruin

Oh! What Lungs

The Stolen Booking

Ben

Sweedie Learns to Swim

Captain of Life Savers

Three Foolish Weeks

Baron Sergius Rodney St. Clair

Caught in the End

Superintent of the Union Squar Fish Ball Co

Picture Pirates

2nd Ne'er-Do-Well

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Self (archive footage)

Romeo and Juliet

Rodney St. Clair / Romeo

Trying to Get Along

Freeloading Customer

Charlie Butts In

Why Babies Leave Home

Snakeville’s Champion

Bloggie

The College Hero

The Janitor

The Show of Shows

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

His Bogus Boast

The Hidden Treasure

Puddlefoot Pete

The Cockeyed Family

Amos Gillig

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

Bartender

The Laundress

His Assistant

Versus Sledge Hammers

The Count's Valet

The Love Parade

Cross-Eyed Lackey (uncredited)

Lifetime of Comedy

(archive footage)

A Royal Romance

Cossack Guard (uncredited)

Starlit Days at the Lido

Self

Doctoring a Leak

1st Plumber

Poultry à la Mode

Ben

The Butcher's Nightmare

The Butcher

The Quack Doctor

The Justice of the Peace

Step Forward

Rodney Robbin

Taking the Count

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

(archive footage)

Are Waitresses Safe?

Ralph - Who Loved Her So

The Golden Age of Comedy

archive footage

Lighthouse Love

The Russian Prince

Up in Alf's Place

Oswald Planter - Mortician

Cracked Nuts

Cross-eyed Ben

Lighthouse Love

The Russian Prince

Chase Me Charlie

Ben

A Small Town Idol

Sam Smith

Dance of the Cookoos

Cross-Eyed Plumber

An Awful Skate; or, The Hobo on Rollers

The Hobo

Sweedie Goes to College

Sweedie's Romeo

A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"

Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay

Self (archive footage)

Down Memory Lane

(archive footage)

She Loved Him Plenty

Cupid's Day Off

1st Shoe Salesman

The Pawnbroker's Heart

The Pawnshop Janitor

Lost: A Cook

Pest Guest

Roping Her Romeo

Honest Eyed Jack - a Poor Butterfly

Married Life

Rodney St. Clair - a Man's Man

The Wife's Relations

Rodney St. Clair

The Musical Marvel

Dickie, the pianist

She Sighed by the Seaside

The Lifeguard

Sheriff Nell's Tussle

Honest Eyed Jack - Still After Her

He Died and He Didn't

The Gambler

The Champion

Ringside vendor

Sweedie the Swatter

Countess Sweedie

The Waiter

Sweedie Collects for Charity

Mr. Tightwad

Sweedie's Hero

The Bellboy

The Fickleness of Sweedie

Police Captain

Sweedie at the Fair

Captain of the Police

Sweedie the Trouble Maker

Captain of the Police

Their Cheap Vacation

Sweedie and the Hypnotist

The Hypnotist

Madame Double X

Mr. Von Crooks Jr.

Sweedie and the Sultan's Present

Swipes, her husband

Sweedie's Suicide

Police Captain

Sweedie and Her Dog

Captain of the Dog Catchers

Two Hearts That Beat as Ten

Sweedie and the Lord

The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in

Sweedie and the Double Exposure

Sweedie Springs a Surprise

Mr. Prim

Sweedie's Skate

Captain

Sweedie's Clean-Up

The Chief of Police

Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie

The Captain

She Landed a Big One

The Chief of Police

Sweedie's Hopeless Love

The Grocery Boy

Love and Trouble

Sweedie's Beau

Sweedie Learns to Ride

Sweedie's Romeo

Sweedie in Vaudeville

Sweedie's Finish

That Night

The Usual Way

Secondary Role

Curiosity

The Lunatic

Our Wife

Justice of the Peace

A Woman's Way

Tag Day

The Tramp

A Mexican's Gratitude

Hollywood Cavalcade

Bartender in Western

His New Job

Film Extra, in Anteroom

A Night Out

Fellow Reveller

A Burlesque on Carmen

Remendados

The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer'

Wedding Yells

Jackson Snood

Broncho Billy Steps In

Too Much Turkey

The Neighbor

Broncho Billy's Love Affair

A Christmas Revenge

Loafer

Hollywood

Ben Turpin

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?

Rodney St. Clair

Pitfalls of a Big City

Rodney St. Clair

Asleep at the Switch

The Station Agent

The Raspberry Romance

Rodney St. Clair

The Marriage Circus

Rodney St. Clair

When Comedy Was King

edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)

Million Dollar Legs

Mysterious Man

The Eyes Have It

Make Me a Star

Ben

A Coat Tale

A Harem Knight

Rodney St. Clair

Broke in China

Donald Drake

The Law of the Wild

Henry

Big Farewell

Dancer

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

(archive footage)

The Wild Goose Chaser

Rodney St. Clair

Keystone Hotel

Count Drewa Blanc

Masked Mirth

Suffern Phatt

The Haunted Lounge

Tramp

When Ben Bolted

A Studio Stampede

Vic

A Prodigal Bridegroom

A Small Town Idol

Sam Smith

Idle Eyes

Benjamin Turps

She Said No

Seein' Things

The Dare-Devil

Joe Magee

The Shriek of Araby

Bill Poster - The Sheik

Yukon Jake

Sheriff Cyclone Bill

Ten Dollars or Ten Days

The Soda Clerk

The Neighbors' Kids

Servant

You Saved My Life

Any Day in Hollywood

A Blonde's Revenge

Gerald Montague

The Voice of Hollywood No. 8

Self - Guest Host

The Hollywood Kid

Self

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Self (archive footage)

Running Hollywood

Traffic Cop

Mr. Flip

Holding His Own

Ben Muggs

When a Man's a Prince

Prince Nikolo

Ambassador Bill

The Butcher

The Pride of Pikeville

Baron Bonamo

The Jolly Jilter

Vigil Vancourt

Swing High

Bartender

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

A Prussian Guardsman

A Bedroom Blunder

Hotel Desk Clerk

A Clever Dummy

A Romantic Janitor

Down on the Farm

The Faithful Wife's Husband

Hogan's Alley

The Stranger

Bright Eyes

Luke Larson the Oil Magnate

Love and Doughnuts

The Baker

Hollywood on Parade

Self

Saps at Sea

Cross-Eyed Plumber

Bucking the Tiger

The Grand Ruin

Oh! What Lungs

The Stolen Booking

Ben

Sweedie Learns to Swim

Captain of Life Savers

Three Foolish Weeks

Baron Sergius Rodney St. Clair

Caught in the End

Superintent of the Union Squar Fish Ball Co

Picture Pirates

2nd Ne'er-Do-Well

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Self (archive footage)

Romeo and Juliet

Rodney St. Clair / Romeo

Trying to Get Along

Freeloading Customer

Charlie Butts In

Why Babies Leave Home

Snakeville’s Champion

Bloggie

The College Hero

The Janitor

The Show of Shows

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

His Bogus Boast

The Hidden Treasure

Puddlefoot Pete

The Cockeyed Family

Amos Gillig

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

Bartender

The Laundress

His Assistant

Versus Sledge Hammers

The Count's Valet

The Love Parade

Cross-Eyed Lackey (uncredited)

Lifetime of Comedy

(archive footage)

A Royal Romance

Cossack Guard (uncredited)

Starlit Days at the Lido

Self

Doctoring a Leak

1st Plumber

Poultry à la Mode

Ben

The Butcher's Nightmare

The Butcher

The Quack Doctor

The Justice of the Peace

Step Forward

Rodney Robbin

Taking the Count

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

(archive footage)

Are Waitresses Safe?

Ralph - Who Loved Her So

The Golden Age of Comedy

archive footage

Lighthouse Love

The Russian Prince

Up in Alf's Place

Oswald Planter - Mortician

Cracked Nuts

Cross-eyed Ben

Lighthouse Love

The Russian Prince

Chase Me Charlie

Ben

A Small Town Idol

Sam Smith

Dance of the Cookoos

Cross-Eyed Plumber

An Awful Skate; or, The Hobo on Rollers

The Hobo

Sweedie Goes to College

Sweedie's Romeo

A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"

Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay

Self (archive footage)

Down Memory Lane

(archive footage)

She Loved Him Plenty

Cupid's Day Off

1st Shoe Salesman

The Pawnbroker's Heart

The Pawnshop Janitor

Lost: A Cook

Pest Guest

Roping Her Romeo

Honest Eyed Jack - a Poor Butterfly

Married Life

Rodney St. Clair - a Man's Man

The Wife's Relations

Rodney St. Clair

Director

The Musical Marvel

Director

The Musical Marvel

Director

Other Credits

The Musical Marvel

Screenplay

The Musical Marvel

Producer

The Musical Marvel

Screenplay

The Musical Marvel

Producer