Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Date of birth: 1912-12-20
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sammy Morrison, Little Sambo, Smiling Sambo, Sambo, Sunshine Sammy, Ernest Fredric Morrison, Ernest 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison, Hal Roach's Rascals, Ernie Morrison
Biography
Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.
Movie Credits
Fugitive from a Prison Camp
1940-10-05
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in
Spooks Run Wild
1941-10-24
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Bowery Blitzkrieg
1941-08-01
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and beco
The Our Gang Story
1994-01-01
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s
Saturday Morning
1922-12-03
The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a v
A Quiet Street
1922-12-30
The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up
The Big Show
1923-02-24
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever s
Don't Rock the Boat
1920-07-04
Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair
Live and Learn
1920-08-01
Snub Pollard comedy
Between Meals
1926-01-03
James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, bu
Ghosts on the Loose
1943-07-30
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by my
The Old Maid's Baby
1919-02-23
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends m
The Sawdust Doll
1919-04-20
Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the pla
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Clancy Street Boys
1943-04-23
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had
Captain Kiddo
1917-08-05
Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. M
Get Out and Get Under
1920-09-26
The comic adventures of a new car owner.
The Non-Skid Kid
1922-06-11
After his car runs out of gasoline, the son of a rich man takes his vehicle to a garage run by women
Dolly Does Her Bit
1918-04-29
Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has b
Call for Mr. Caveman
1919-11-19
A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have
Drink Hearty
1920-05-02
Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the pl
Full o' Pep
1922-04-23
The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pe
Waltz Me Around
1920-02-22
Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run
The Sleuth
1922-07-16
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
Soft Pedal
1926-01-31
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
Run 'Em Ragged
1920-08-01
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up
Park Your Car
1920-12-19
A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with thei
Big Game
1921-05-22
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940-05-01
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abd
The Champeen
1923-01-27
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
A Pleasant Journey
1923-03-25
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places
The Cobbler
1923-02-18
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car sta
The Dippy Dentist
1920-01-25
The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her
Whirl o' the West
1921-01-23
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
Rush Orders
1921-04-07
A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railr
Name the Day
1921-08-20
Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the u
The Pickaninny
1921-12-04
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
One Terrible Day
1922-09-09
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, muc
Fire Fighters
1922-10-08
The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet anima
Gang War
1940-03-28
Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.
Boys of the City
1940-07-15
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
That Gang of Mine
1940-09-23
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poo
Pride of the Bowery
1940-12-15
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape.
Flying Wild
1941-03-10
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942-11-20
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing
Kid Dynamite
1943-02-05
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but j
Big Business
1924-02-09
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt,
The 'Fraidy Cat
1924-03-29
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood ch
Our Gang
1922-11-04
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established
Young Sherlocks
1922-11-25
The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidn
Boys to Board
1923-04-07
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a
Giants vs. Yanks
1923-05-12
The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant ho
Back Stage
1923-06-02
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to h
Dogs of War!
1923-07-01
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they
Lodge Night
1923-07-28
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Th
July Days
1923-08-26
The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mick
Stage Fright
1923-10-20
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang a
Derby Day
1923-11-17
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
Sunday Calm
1923-12-15
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, m
Tire Trouble
1924-01-12
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascal
The Buccaneers
1924-03-09
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits
Seein' Things
1924-04-05
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him
Commencement Day
1924-05-03
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room sch
Cradle Robbers
1924-06-01
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After
It's a Bear
1924-07-27
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to
Fast Company
1924-11-15
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Ma
Let's Get Tough
1942-05-29
Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwi
All Lit Up
1920-02-01
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a caf
Any Old Port
1920-06-27
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns
Call a Taxi
1920-07-25
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks,
Cash Customers
1920-12-06
Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake
Cracked Wedding Bells
1920-04-04
'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
Grab the Ghost
1920-05-30
As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows reven
High Rollers
1921-06-26
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the vario
Don't Butt In
1926-01-17
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
Haunted Spooks
1920-03-14
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking
Penrod
1922-02-20
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name o
In This Our Life
1942-05-08
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l
Number, Please?
1920-12-26
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl
Start Something
1919-10-07
Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl mot
Giving the Bride Away
1919-11-16
A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard
Tough Luck
1919-12-21
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920-01-04
Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into diff
Why Go Home?
1920-01-11
'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
Getting His Goat
1920-02-08
Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by
Daddy Number Two
1919-10-12
Marie attempts to select a new husband for her mother and a father for herself.
Classic Comedy Teams
1986-01-01
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis