Ben Turpin Movies

A hobo on roller skates creates havoc in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood

Sweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is the most popular lady on the floor.

A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is...

An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.

Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works. Sweedie finds the card. Next...

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy

Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man.

Sweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it all.

Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.

The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and...

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

A beautiful young woman is rescued by Ben and gives him her photo. When it is found in his pocket, his henpecking wife and shrewish mother-in-law...

Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry. Arrived at the...

A sheriff saves a Mexican from being hanged for horse theft. In a gesture of thanks, the Mexican writes the word "gratitude" upon a card. After...

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the...

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.

Sweedie, with her arms splattered by dough, looks out the window and sees her mistress just mounting he horse for her morning ride. The simple,...