Date of birth: 1883-11-03
Place of birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: George Ford Stich Jr., George Ford Stich, Albert Williams

Ford Sterling (born George Stitch; November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.

1914-02-28
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp a

1933-12-18
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla

1924-12-22
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a

1925-09-28
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vi

1928-02-11
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hop

1928-01-07
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, mu

1927-06-04
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploitin
1931-06-15
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f
1914-03-23
Across the Hall
1915-11-28
About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.

1914-03-09
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

1914-03-02
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job),

1914-02-19
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

1926-03-22
Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new la

1923-08-19
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l
1916-08-20
His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

1926-08-16
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young

1935-03-11
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal l

1931-12-15
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desse

1919-05-10
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin

1914-05-07
A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.

1913-06-02
When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful s

1912-09-23
Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.

1912-10-28
Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marr

1925-11-16
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she a

1913-11-19
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets M
1915-07-19
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry pre

1913-04-03
The young granddaughter of a banker plays a game of hide-and-seek with her mother, Mabel. After Mabe

1913-12-14
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twi
1913-05-25
Toplitsky runs a second-hand clothing shop, but his partner "admires" his wife. Two conniving busine

1913-11-26
Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receiv

1913-06-22
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in

1913-03-09
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with M

1915-12-15
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arb

1935-05-14
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father'

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
1915-05-09
A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling

1937-10-14
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In orde

1930-04-13
Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.

1913-06-22
Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully

1913-10-30
Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.

1913-06-16
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters'

1930-10-30
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r

1930-05-21
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Mari

1913-07-14
Two groundskeepers compete for the attention of a pretty park visitor. When the woman’s daughter goe
1913-07-03
Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.

1913-06-30
A presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
1913-07-31
Professor Bean's Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.
1913-07-21
Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.

1913-07-07
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
1913-09-22
A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife

1913-09-08
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, an

1913-09-18
The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
1913-11-10
A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.
1913-11-13
Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
1913-12-13
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.

1913-12-25
Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
1914-02-12
A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton.

1914-01-17
In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.

1913-02-14
Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leadin

1919-06-22
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

1930-04-20
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director

1927-03-08
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable abili

1919-03-02
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the G

1920-09-05
A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.

1923-10-20
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a pow

1930-01-12
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the
1913-05-14
A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first

1913-03-31
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory

1913-04-24
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's

1935-08-01
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized b

1917-05-13
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in t

1927-07-31
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son. A lost film.

1914-06-11
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying t

1922-12-31
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and

1915-03-14
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage,

1913-05-01
Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the aff

1926-10-04
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the

1929-08-30
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th
1915-08-23
Keystone silent comedy.
1926-05-10
A Modest Comedy Drama

1916-04-22
The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.

1915-07-05
A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the s
1914-02-16
Baffles, Gentleman Burglar

1961-03-21
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr

1912-09-23
After second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was borro

1912-09-29
A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehen

1912-09-29
When a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands; the
1912-10-07
Effeminate college boy Mace is sent West by father Sterling to make a man out of him, but Mace only
1912-10-07
Mack attempts to elope with Mabel, but her friend dons the veil; this confuses both Mack and Mabel's
1912-10-21
Mrs. Smith's friends decide to teach her flirty husband a lesson by engaging him in a saucy game of

1912-10-14
Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the
1912-10-21
A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foi

1912-11-04
At a summer resort, Mabel puts ugly bumps under her bathing suit to discourage fair-weather suitors;
1912-11-11
Brown is insanely jealous of his wife and mistakes her brother for a lover, while the Brown's child

1912-10-28
Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of s
1912-11-04
Mrs. Smith hired detectives to trail her husband, whom she believes is being unfaithful; police chie
1912-11-18
Mabel prefers conceited Fred to earnest rube Mack, but when she is held up by tramps Fred runs out o
1912-11-18
Bashful Mack has his friend Fred take flowers and presents to his girl Mabel by proxy, but the "frie
1912-11-11
The minister is appointed head of a purity league designed to keep a risque dancer from performing h
1912-11-25
Sleuths Mack and Fred go after bandit Ford, but wind up tied to a tree by the crook with a ferocious

1928-06-09
A married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy.

1924-12-28
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peak

1926-06-07
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.

1926-02-07
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.

1928-01-22
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi

1924-12-07
During an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and Pierre,
1935-08-08
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to f

1926-01-31
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the

1924-01-20
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from just
1913-03-13
The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
1913-10-12
An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covere

1925-07-01
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A repo

1923-07-22
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up

1915-02-02
A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.

1929-06-17
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists E

1928-08-26
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to se
1936-02-14
Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on
1914-04-23
Ford Sterling in the park courting.

1943-01-01
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

1912-12-23
Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $5

1913-04-14
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.

1923-08-26
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

1925-03-08
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn ba

1957-12-26
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and

1927-10-08
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene p

1912-12-16
Mabel poses as "Cousin Jack" in a scheme to test her two quarreling suitors who decide to take young

1926-12-13
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye,

1924-04-20
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had
1913-01-27
The deacon's daughter, Betty, is in love with Harold Price. The deacon wants to buy a horse from Har
1913-09-29
An amusing bowling match between Messrs. Sauer and Kraut. The balls and pins are manipulated by an e
1913-04-10
Father wants Mabel to marry a little, wealthy shrimp. She is in love with Charlie, a big, strapping
1913-01-20
A villain attempts to win the love of a pretty fisher girl, who is in love with a village youth. The
1911-10-23
An old toymaker invents an automatic doll and goes to the lawyers to apply for a patent. That day a
1913-05-22
Jones is broke. His girl is giving a birthday party, and her various suitors give her costly present
1913-01-13
George is addicted to the flowing cup, and his friends all try to reform him. His intentions are goo

1912-08-14
This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edwar
1913-02-17
Heinze is lazy, and his wife is disgusted with him. His friend, Pat, secretly admires Mrs. Heinze, a
1913-06-09
Mabel's husband is a hansom cab driver. After a quarrel Mabel imagines herself neglected, and listen
1913-03-06
Advantage was taken of the fact that a floral parade was being held at Pasadena, Cal. in which the K
1913-11-06
Mabel, her father and Mr. Tra La La, a suitor, much to her disgust, for her hand, take a trip on the
1913-02-03
Brown is troubled with an over-abundance of affection, and his wife and mother-in-law convince him o
1913-03-17
Jones is engaged to a jealous girl, Ethel. His stenographer has a fainting spell in his office and J
1913-04-07
His subjects have been vainly petitioning the king for improvements in his reign, without avail. The
1913-05-12
Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything be
1912-12-09
Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his
1913-08-25
A short silent comedy starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.

1922-06-20
Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has

1912-08-14
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
1913-02-06
A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
1913-02-27
A burlesque of a Spanish courtship, in which two rivals for the hand of a beautiful senorita battle

1913-01-27
Georgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His pre
1913-01-06
Three rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by
1913-04-28
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not hav
1913-01-13
Hiram, a country youth, is in love with Sallie. They go fishing and Sallie falls into the water. Hir
1913-06-12
Nellie's father is a judge, afflicted with a species of St. Vitus' dance. When he feels an attack co
1913-12-24
A comedy short with Ford Sterling impersonating a band leader and a flirtatious Mabel Normand creati

1915-02-13
Charles Murray out romancing in the park.

1924-03-10
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new
1913-02-27
Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out o
1913-03-13
A short comedy starring Mabel Normand. It is now considered lost.
1920-10-17