Date of birth: 1886-01-10
Place of birth: Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Chester Cooper Conklin, Chet Conklin
Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 – October 11, 1971) was an early American film comedian who started at Keystone Studios as one of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops, often paired with Mack Swain. He appeared in a series of films with Mabel Normand and worked closely with Charlie Chaplin, both in silent and sound films.
1924-12-04
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
1936-02-05
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by
1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme
1914-02-28
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp a
1914-10-26
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two
1914-06-13
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the
1914-02-09
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two
1914-08-27
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed
1914-12-21
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban
1942-08-28
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de
1914-04-27
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a
1928-06-11
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears
1955-06-15
At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of som
1929-11-09
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discove
1939-02-10
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and
1943-01-15
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her form
1926-03-29
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. M
1924-02-24
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to
1951-04-12
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
1925-10-25
Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away o
1926-03-17
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris L
1926-05-31
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. W
1924-09-07
Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken
1927-12-17
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby G
1925-12-13
An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.
1931-06-15
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f
1914-08-15
Such a Cook
1914-10-12
The Anglers
1914-10-22
Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, the
1914-11-14
It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet
1915-04-05
Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show wh
1944-12-25
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm
1936-03-06
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like J
1939-10-13
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr
1914-03-09
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
1914-04-18
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to
1914-04-20
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that
1914-08-10
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, f
1914-10-10
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
1914-10-29
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend
1926-11-01
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan t
1933-02-03
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid
1915-12-26
Rival spies on a train cross swords over a woman and an airplane shipment in this Keystone comedy.
1931-12-15
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desse
1966-06-08
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopar
1949-02-22
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the cour
1938-12-05
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who want
1943-07-09
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay
1914-02-02
A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed
1937-01-27
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with th
1914-11-05
Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast
1929-06-01
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his dire
1915-02-20
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.
1914-09-03
The Baggage Smasher is a 1914 Comedy short.
1947-07-15
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invite
1955-09-15
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of front
1935-09-21
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the f
1914-01-25
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get
1915-03-22
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
1915-07-11
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walr
1939-06-06
Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her
1936-02-28
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A
1962-01-02
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the live
1937-07-02
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. The
1915-04-11
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a da
1927-02-06
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock,
1927-03-26
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub,
1930-09-27
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as po
1925-12-28
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America wi
1950-11-29
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her weal
1944-09-18
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell
1944-08-09
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow
1944-11-01
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who ge
1928-10-27
The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than
1952-07-14
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
1941-03-21
The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to th
1916-12-17
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
1915-11-21
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up he
1930-05-18
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circ
1915-06-10
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an
1923-11-24
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough s
1919-03-02
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the G
1917-07-15
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to pro
1915-02-08
Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
1915-04-07
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fanc
1916-02-26
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
1917-12-01
A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.
1925-06-29
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make
1914-08-01
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
1924-08-14
1926-11-06
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with P
1926-02-22
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not kn
1939-04-21
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage
1943-08-01
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is
1928-03-03
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take ove
1926-10-09
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud
1950-09-01
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes
1939-07-28
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim
1939-12-08
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
1943-04-15
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass
1954-09-03
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bill
1915-06-13
An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he ap
1950-08-19
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widow
1940-05-03
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scie
1942-11-04
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police office
1944-06-17
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival n
1949-05-27
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She
1940-10-15
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu
1945-04-07
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns tha
1941-08-07
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo
1941-10-17
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for t
1915-01-18
After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with
1920-11-14
Silent comedy short starring Chester Conklin and directed by Harry Edwards
1921-01-07
Silent short film directed by Harry Edwards
1928-11-18
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
1950-03-24
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Mar
1947-10-11
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studio
1939-11-29
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title ro
1943-04-02
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun
1942-12-11
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't ma
1946-04-04
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m
1925-02-12
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
1940-11-09
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry tw
1929-11-21
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and
1947-07-04
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a de
1915-03-24
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
1941-12-11
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a g
1922-10-15
During the course of his flirtation a driver's cab is used by a notorious robber who deposits his ev
1947-05-30
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.
1924-02-11
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the mone
1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter
1942-07-02
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solv
1942-05-18
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Ro
1942-05-31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D
1949-11-15
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mar
1942-02-06
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
1926-10-25
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called bac
1943-05-21
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe
1943-05-20
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
1937-12-18
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she
1929-04-28
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The
1949-10-14
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life o
1942-03-05
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge
1941-09-11
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play profession
1917-01-01
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring
1941-11-30
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp
1931-05-09
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware
1928-03-25
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney I
1915-02-01
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
1918-01-27
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.”
1928-01-22
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi
1926-09-04
An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feelin
1929-02-09
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a
1943-01-01
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
1943-11-27
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on
1935-12-07
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nomi
1930-09-25
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain
1928-11-04
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the wi
1925-12-19
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all
1946-02-27
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had bee
1918-01-01
Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
1946-02-22
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cro
1945-04-24
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
1918-02-24
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
1946-06-06
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New
1929-01-27
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support
1927-02-22
Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was reall
1950-06-04
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey
1914-07-16
A lost short film starring Mabel Normand.
1925-08-24
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
1929-06-08
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov
1939-11-02
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welco
1941-11-01
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
1944-07-04
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair toni
1927-06-11
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of
1925-03-15
Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lasc
1949-08-15
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hun
1924-03-10
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new
1931-02-28
Chester Conklin gets a job in the props department of a movie studio. Soon he gets into all sorts of
1947-02-26
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
1917-08-19
1925-10-18
War buddies Whitey and Skeeter have become safecrackers. On a job, Skeeter is surprised by the polic
1953-01-10
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.
1913-05-19
Hubby is out of work, and wifey is working as a stenographer, posing as a single woman, in an employ
1928-08-15
Gambler and fight promoter Jim Lambert, grants Gunner O'Brien his dying wish and agrees to care for