Date of birth: 1891-07-08
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sam Brooks, Samuel Rockenberg , Simon Rottenberg
Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.

1918-04-21
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a

1920-05-02
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsib
1925-07-12
House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart at

1926-01-03
A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hil

1925-05-10
Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he

1919-02-09
Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The pro

1919-07-06
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear a

1921-03-27
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

1919-11-02
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boa

1919-11-30
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters nume

1918-05-12
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold make

1917-12-02
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.

1917-11-25
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda

1917-10-28
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a trib

1917-09-30
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changi

1917-10-14
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his

1917-11-18
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the op

1917-11-11
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.

1917-10-07
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

1917-09-16
Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

1917-04-15
Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up

1917-02-04
Luke and his sidekick steal a trolley car and create havoc for passengers.

1917-03-18
Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.

1916-10-01
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.

1916-12-10
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.

1916-10-15
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.

1916-12-17
Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

1916-11-19
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to t

1916-08-07
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

1916-12-24
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.

1916-08-21
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.

1916-09-18
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.

1916-07-10
Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for

1916-07-24
Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick aro

1918-04-07
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch

1919-07-13
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining t

1917-08-05
While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.

1917-09-09
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himsel

1923-08-12
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help anoth

1916-04-12
Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the

1919-10-12
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistake

1919-07-26
At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."

1919-08-02
This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to te

1919-01-12
Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.

1919-05-18
A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He beco

1919-06-29
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weath

1919-08-17
Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 American short comedy film

1919-10-19
An American short comedy film.

1916-12-03
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up wi

1916-05-22
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.

1916-12-31
Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bil

1916-06-05
Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with bur

1926-05-16
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provi

1918-07-06
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric

1923-10-27
In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful
1920-08-22
Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-fo

1919-04-20
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by

1918-12-15
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ru

1919-05-25
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

1922-07-16
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an

1924-08-03
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, bu

1920-03-07
A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with at
1922-07-16
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik

1929-05-11
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

1930-02-01
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.

1922-11-04
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but afte

1923-06-02
Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, b

1923-12-09
The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

1924-01-19
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employme

1924-02-17
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery
1923-02-11
A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.

1919-08-10
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.

1931-08-22
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.

1916-09-04
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the bl

1919-08-31
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating

1918-04-28
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young l
1919-12-14
Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to

1921-01-23
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

1923-08-05
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy f

1920-01-25
The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her

1925-03-29
Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes ou
1924-02-03
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attent
1919-09-07
Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.

1926-07-18
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which g
1922-09-09
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

1917-09-23
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes

1919-03-16
A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around o

1924-06-07

1924-12-07
Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch job

1924-07-19
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure t

1925-01-03
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

1926-02-21
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rab
1922-07-29
In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business

1919-06-08
A young man goes out to eat breakfast with his friend. As a restaurant "regular" with a pistol threa

1918-12-29
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

1919-04-20
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

1919-06-15
The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.

1919-06-22
Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the co

1919-07-20
Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the decepti

1919-08-24
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
1918-05-05
Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls of

1918-02-17
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

1918-04-14
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.

1918-05-25
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen h

1918-03-10
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.

1918-06-02
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gad

1926-03-12
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts
1921-05-22
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently

1926-09-19
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his

1920-02-08
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

1920-03-14
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking
1919-11-02
Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
1920-06-27
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns

1920-02-01
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a caf
1920-07-25
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks,
1921-06-26
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the vario
1922-06-18
Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.
1923-12-30
'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
1923-09-09
James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers o
1923-02-25
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's
1923-03-04
'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off
1926-01-17
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

1924-04-20
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, T

1923-07-01
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
1923-04-08
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.

1929-06-01
Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

1916-06-26
Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are

1923-06-16
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

1924-03-16
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.

1923-09-15
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty y

1924-07-06
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.

1924-04-13
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted an

1919-04-06
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.

1919-03-30
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
1920-10-17
1918-03-24
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

1918-03-03
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off --

1918-02-24
Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvi

1918-02-03
The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.

1918-03-17
Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer a
1918-01-06
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

1917-12-30
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has

1917-12-23
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.

1917-11-04
An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.

1925-07-05
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decide

1925-09-13
Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his h

1926-05-23
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they c