Mack Swain
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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Movies (50)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Big Jim McKay (archive footage)
1998
The Chaplin Revue
as Various (archive footage)
1959
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
1943
Bad Boy
as Man on Rowing Machine
1935
Lighthouse Love
as Captain Wiggins - the Lighthouse Keeper
1932
The Midnight Patrol
1932
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
as Doctor
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
as Doctor
1931
Finn and Hattie
as Le Bottin
1931
Soup to Nuts
as First Fat Diner (uncredited)
1930
Cleaning Up
as Mack
1930
The Sea Bat
as Dutchy
1930
Redemption
as Magistrate
1930
The Locked Door
as Hotel Proprietor
1929
The Last Warning
as Robert Bunce
1928
Caught in the Fog
as Detective Ryan
1928
The Girl from Nowhere
as Wilbur Ashcraft
1928
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Tillie's Father
1928
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Sir Francis Beekman
1928
The Girl from Everywhere
as Wilfred Ashcraft - Director
1927
A Texas Steer
as Bragg
1927
Becky
as Irving Spiegelberg
1927
My Best Girl
as Judge
1927
Mockery
as Vladimir Gaidaroff
1927
The Shamrock and the Rose
as Mike Kelly
1927
The Beloved Rogue
as Nicholas
1927
Whispering Wires
as McCarthy
1926
Her Big Night
as Myers, film producer
1926
The Nervous Wreck
as Jerome Underwood
1926
Footloose Widows
as Ludwig
1926
Kiki
as Pastryman (uncredited)
1926
Sea Horses
as Bimbo-Bomba
1926
Torrent
as Don Matías
1926
The Devil's Circus
1926
Hands Up!
as Silas Woodstock
1926
The Eagle
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
1925
The Gold Rush
as Big Jim McKay
1925
Pitfalls of a Big City
as The Vamp's Husband
1923
This Way Out
as The Girl's Father
1923
The Pilgrim
as Deacon
1923
Pay Day
as Foreman
1922
The Idle Class
as Edna's Father (uncredited)
1921
Full o' Spirits
1920
Innocent Ambrose
as Ambrose Schnitz
1920
Heroic Ambrose
as Ambrose Schnitz
1919
Her First False Hare
as Unknown
1919
Oh, What a Knight
as The Sheriff
1919
Adventurous Ambrose
as Ambrose
1918