Marcel Perez | Actor | Actress

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Marcel Perez

Trained initially as a clown, Perez became a comedic star in the Nickelodeon era in France, working at Pathe, Eclair, and Ambrosio studios. Moving to the United States during the First World War, Perez continued writing, directing and starring in short comedies until an amputated leg forced him to work behind the camera. Born : 29th-Jan-1884

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Miss Tweedledum

Robinet disguises himself as a woman to get away from his girlfriend’s husband, and discovers the unexpected pleasures of public drag amidst mobs of flirtatious men. (MoMA)
Released : 8th-Dec-1912

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Tweedledum as Aviator

Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone slapstick look like drawing-room comedy by contrast.
Released : 16th-Feb-1911

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Robinet: Cyclist

Italian slapstick actor Robinet riding a bicycle.
Released : 4th-Jul-1912

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Tweedledum Wants to Be a Jockey

Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.
Released : 26th-Oct-1910

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Pedestrian Love

The story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in smart shoes prepares to go out. His maid gives him his coat, he dusts off his shoes and leaves. As he leaves the building an elegant woman drops her purse. He returns it to her and follows her home.
Released : 5th-Mar-1914

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La nuova cameriera è troppo bella

The new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her toiletries.]... She is dismissed and the lady advertises for a new maid. The new maid arrives at the front gate and the bemused gate keeper lets her in. The page boy sees her walking up to the house and admires her beauty. She is shown in to meet her new master, who also admires her, and mistress.
Released : 16th-Nov-1912

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A Bath Tub Elopement

A 1916 short comedy starring Marcel Perez
Released : 20th-Nov-1916

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Robinet’s White Suit

In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)
Released : 10th-Aug-1911

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Robinet è Geloso

Robinet is jealous, with comedic results.
Released : 6th-May-1914

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Tweedledum in Love with a Singer

Robinet brings down the house when he unleashes himself on Mimi Kratzfuss , an attractive opera singer, during a music hall performance.
Released : 1st-Dec-1911

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A Busy Night

A disgruntled man imagines what the world would be like if everyone were like him.
Released : 25th-Jun-1916

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You're Next

A hapless nitwit sets up his living space in the middle of a street, then moves to a police station, then gets a job in a movie studio, with calamitous results.
Released : 9th-Feb-1919

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Camouflage

A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.
Released : 9th-Nov-1918

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Tweedledum's Sweet Wife

Robinet escapes from his wife’s smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.
Released : 31st-May-1912

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Some Hero

When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.
Released : 26th-Jun-1916

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Police in the Year 2000

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)
Released : 28th-May-1910

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Lend Me Your Wife

Released : 13th-Nov-1916

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Robinet boxeur

Robinet gets punched by a boxer in the ring and decides to challenge him for a match. To win, he needs to train as much as he can.
Released : 28th-Mar-1913

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L'auto di Robinet

Tweedledum gets chased by police on bicycles.
Released : 11th-Oct-1911

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Robinet chauffeur miope

A Italian short comedy with Robinet.
Released : 12th-May-1914

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Sweet Daddy

Perez plays a henpecked husband who is chained at the neck by his wife in the kitchen and when he tries to stand up for himself, she throws him out of the window where he is dangling for dear life.Once she sends him to the store, Tweedy becomes smitten by a stage actress and tries to woo her with great success until his wife shows up on the scene and all hell breaks loose with cartoon gags.
Released : 11th-Dec-1921

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The Short-Sighted Cyclist

The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure follows misadventure with great frequency, but the cyclist comes up smiling every time, mounts his machine, and again resumes his journey. Accidents which would maim or kill an ordinary mortal serve only to spur him on to fresh exertions in a mad search for physical inconveniences and dangers, which always present themselves. (Picture World)
Released : 26th-Jun-1907

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Chickens in Turkey

Marcel Perez is taken aboard an all-female crewed boat where he has to dress as a woman so the female captain won't claim him as her own.
Released : 19th-Mar-1919

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Oh! What a Day

A short comedy
Released : 1st-Aug-1918

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A Scrambled Honeymoon

A Short Comedy
Released : 3rd-Jul-1916

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Pinched

A short comedy
Released : 1st-Jan-1921

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Friday the 13th

A short comedy
Released : 1st-Feb-1923

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Wild

A short comedy
Released : 1st-Jan-1921

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola

Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
Released : 24th-Nov-1913

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Can You Beat It?

Twede-Dan is aggressively courted, and courts, in a park.
Released : 1st-Jul-1919

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Lash of the Law

Released : 2nd-Feb-1926

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Robinet ricattatore

Marcel Perez and Nilde Baracchi are blackmailers engaged in the badger game: each gets a member of the opposite sex into compromising positions, the other partner takes a photo and snap! Pay up or we tell your spouse.
Released : 20th-Feb-1912

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Robinet in vacanza

Marcel Perez arrives at the holiday resort wearing a pith helmet and carrying enough luggage to hold supplies for a monthlong journey through hostile territory. It's a good idea for a comic who never met a flight of stairs he didn't fall down.
Released : 31st-Oct-1912

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Una Dichiarazione Impossibile di Robinet

Marcel Perez meets Nilde Baracchi at a party and falls instantly in love. How much comedy short subjects have contributed to the 'falling in love at first sight' trope might make an interesting paper. Anyway, he falls in love, but things go wrong at the party, then again when he waits outside her apartment -- today we would say he was stalking her. Back then it was considered cute, particularly given the indignities of Italian slapstick -- and when he finally meets her again on a train.
Released : 31st-Dec-1912

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Tweedledum on His First Bicycle

Tweedledum's attempts to master the bicycle lead him into situations both thrilling and comical, and the ride proves most adventurous. He barely escapes with his life, and causes a mad scramble on the part of pedestrians who cross his path.
Released : 31st-Dec-1910

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Robinet Reporter

Marcel Perez is, as you might guess from the title of this movie, a reporter. He's been assigned a new story: a general is in town to review the troops. Get an interview! The general does not wish to give an interview, so Perez has to resort to subterfuge. Good thing he's a comic and can raid the studio's wardrobe department for disguises.
Released : 24th-Apr-1913

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Robinet Pescatore

Nilde Baracchi sends Marcel Perez out fishing, armed .... I mean "equipped" with a long, sturdy bamboo fishing pole and a line and hook. However, what he catches is not fish in this funny late 'Robinet' short.
Released : 31st-Jan-1915

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Tweedledum a Rich Man for Ten Minutes

Marcel Perez is so poor he can't even tip the janitor for some service or other. However, a messenger arrives with a telegram from a notary. An uncle is dead and has left Marcel a hundred thousand francs! With a huzzah and skips and falls and smashing of his old junk, Marcel is off to equip himself in the latest and most expensive fashion, waving the telegram like Mark Twain's Million-Pound Note to gain the instant obsequiousness of tailors, haberdasher and hatters. But wait, why is that messenger following on Marcel's trail? Could it be another telegram? What could it possibly say?
Released : 31st-Dec-1912

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Le furberie di Robinet

Tweedledum wears his sister's new slit-skirt, and with a handsome wig and beautiful hat, causes a stir on the boulevard. His many admirers follow him around from place to place and even invade his parlor when he gets home. His sister puts them to rout with a stout broom and she and Tweedledum enjoy a hearty laugh over the joke.
Released : 7th-Jul-1911

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Robinet padre e figlio

Tweedledum goes out dining with a girl. He discovers that his worthy father is out on a little lark and is in the next booth to him. Many amusing complications result and in the end the old man buys his son's silence by paying both checks.
Released : 31st-Jan-1912

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Tweedledum's Itching Powder

Fricot finds his father asleep and takes advantage of the opportunity to pour down his parent's hack a handful of itching powder. The poor man's antics in attempting to relieve himself of his distress are ludicrous and finally result in incurring the wrath of his wife and her mother, who set upon him and beat him until exhausted. To his amazement he discovers that the blows have a salutary effect and he submits to the thrashing. When the women finally leave him alone he arises well pleased, as his affliction has been overcome.
Released : 24th-Aug-1910

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Tweedledum as a Cycling Policeman

A short comedy for the actor Marcel Perez
Released : 16th-Jun-1913

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Il duello di Robinet

Robinet is challenged to a duel, but owing to an overpowering fear, ludicrously depictd, the weapons are discarded, one by one, and two bottles of champagne subistituted. (Moving Picture world Synopsis)
Released : 5th-Oct-1910

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Tweedledum's Auto-Skates

Tweedledum tries out his roller skates down a slope. As he picks up speed he grabs a long pole, which causes him to destroy everything in sight. The townspeople chase after him as he crashes into everything.
Released : 27th-Sep-1911

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The Destruction of Carthage

In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall. Cato, a Roman Senator, appealed to the Senate to conquer Carthage, and under a pretext that she had failed to keep faith, the Romans began a new war. The Roman army embarked for Africa and landed near Carthage.
Released : 1st-Jan-1914

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