Alice Lake
Date of birth: 1895-09-11
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Lake was an American film actress. She began her career during the silent film era and often appeared in comedy shorts opposite Roscoe Arbuckle. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lake began her career as a dancer. She made her screen debut in 1912, and she appeared in a number of comedy shorts by Mack Sennett. Lake was often the leading lady of Roscoe Arbuckle in comedies like Oh Doctor! (1917) and The Cook (1918). Arbuckle directed both films and was joined by Buster Keaton who had a leading role in Oh Doctor. Lake also played dramatic roles with Bert Lytell in Blackie's Redemption and The Lion's Den, both from 1919. During the 1920s she appeared in a number of Metro silent film features as the lead actress. At the height of her career she earned $1,200 per week as a motion picture actress. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Alice Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1620 Vine Street.
Movie Credits
His Wedding Night
1917-08-20
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown
Dining Out
1930-09-14
Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out d
Circumstantial Evidence
1929-04-01
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, i
I Am the Law
1922-06-01
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love
The Bell Boy
1918-03-18
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered b
Good Night, Nurse!
1918-06-30
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has
Uncharted Seas
1921-04-25
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse
Lombardi, Ltd.
1919-10-01
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensat
Out West
1918-01-20
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a tra
The Rough House
1917-06-25
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets t
The Butcher Boy
1917-04-23
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat,
Oh, Doctor!
1917-09-30
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love wit
Moonshine
1918-05-12
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new
The Cook
1918-09-15
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc
A Country Hero
1917-12-10
Fatty plays a village blacksmith in “Jazzville,” an imaginary rural village. There is a rivalry betw
The Hole in the Wall
1921-12-12
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace
Frisco Kid
1935-11-30
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris
Obey Your Husband
1928-05-15
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
Crazy Days
1962-07-12
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty A
A Creampuff Romance
1916-07-05
A Creampuff Romance is a 1916 comedy short starring Fatty Arbuckle.
The Grab Bag Bride
1917-01-27
A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lov
The Unknown Purple
1923-10-01
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his relea
The Golden Gift
1922-02-06
Nita, a former singer, loses her voice and husband. To support her child, she becomes a cafe dancer.
Full of Pep
1919-05-26
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company,
Skyway
1933-08-29
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her
The Angel of Broadway
1927-10-02
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her custo
Rip & Stitch: Tailors
1919-02-09
Comedy Short
A Reckless Romeo
1917-05-21
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Coney Island
1917-10-29
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that s
Broken Hearts of Broadway
1923-07-01
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
The Waiters' Ball
1916-06-25
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirem
Glamour
1934-04-09
An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leav
Red Lights
1923-09-30
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
Stage Mother
1933-09-29
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve
The Picture Idol
1912-05-31
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Mauric
The Lion's Den
1919-05-19
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy
Babes in Toyland
1934-12-14
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mort
Twin Beds
1929-07-14
A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zan
The Girl from Missouri
1934-08-03
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and
Should a Woman Tell?
1919-12-29
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns
Death on the Diamond
1934-09-14
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debt
The Virgin
1924-08-01
The Virgin (1924)
The Hurricane
1926-02-26
"Hurricane" Jack Foster is a smuggler who ignores his wife and child in order to pursue Marguerite B
The Dancing Cheat
1924-04-07
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Ca
The Marriage Market
1923-10-25
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and
The Overland Limited
1925-07-14
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful
Come Through
1917-06-01
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his ma
Wicked
1931-10-04
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband
Camping Out
1919-01-05
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is
A Desert Hero
1919-06-15
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film
Young Desire
1930-06-08
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
Blackie's Redemption
1919-04-14
Shrewd crook Boston Blackie is determined to go straight. At a celebration held on the eve of his ma
Cupid's Day Off
1919-01-12
Heretofore running a shoe store has been considered a quiet, respectable business, but Ben and his p
The Haunted Ship
1927-12-01
A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is try
The Mystery of the Empty Room
1915-11-30
Ruth and her father stay at an inn run by the malicious Scroogles. The Scroogles rob Ruth's father,
The Spider and the Rose
1923-02-15
In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, ret
The Infamous Miss Revell
1921-10-17
Nobody's Bride
1923-04-02
Jimmy Nevins--once wealthy and now engaged to Doris Standish--is reduced to poverty and jilted by he
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
1922-08-20
An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Lak
Environment
1922-12-01
The rehabilitation of "Chicago Sal," a lady crook, is seemingly realized when probation officers sen
Hate
1922-05-20
Gamblers Dave Hume and Ed Felton are rivals for the love of Babe Lennox, a chorus girl. Hume informs
Runaway Girls
1928-08-23
Runaway Girls is a lost 1928 silent film drama directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Shirley Mason