Cast: Ford Sterling

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ford Sterling. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


He Who Gets Slapped

1924 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Lon Chaney · Norma Shearer · John Gilbert · Tully Marshall

Synopsis Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who...

7.5

590 votes

7.5

590 votes

Wild Oranges

1924 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Frank Mayo · Virginia Valli · Ford Sterling · Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John Woolfolk has lost his...

6.9

81 votes

6.9

81 votes

Stage Struck

1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Gloria Swanson · Lawrence Gray · Gertrude Astor · Oliver Sandys

Synopsis Gloria Swanson comedy about a hapless waitress (Swanson) who'll do anything to catch the eye of handsome wheat-cake flipper (Lawrence Gray), who calls her "Mouse."

6.4

34 votes

6.4

34 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Synopsis On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Mabel Normand · Mack Sennett · Ford Sterling · Barney Oldfield

Synopsis Virtuous Mabel rejects the improper advances of a villainous cad. The furious villain and his henchmen then seize Mabel and chain her to a railroad track. Mabel's anxious boyfriend turns for help to the great Barney Oldfield, who jumps in...

5.5

57 votes

5.5

57 votes

A Film Johnnie (S)

1914 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols

Cast Charles Chaplin · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Mabel Normand · Ford Sterling

Synopsis Charlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.

5.5

268 votes

5.5

268 votes

Between Showers (S)

1914 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

Direction Henry Lehrman

Cast Charles Chaplin · Ford Sterling · Emma Bell Clifton · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Charlie and another man compete in trying to help a young lady cross a muddy street. The rival finds a wooden plank which Charlie takes from him. They fight over an umbrella belonging to the rival. A policeman settles the...

5.3

258 votes

5.3

258 votes

Tango Tangles (S)

1914 · Movie · 12 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Charles Chaplin · Ford Sterling · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.

5.2

227 votes

5.2

227 votes

Stolen Glory (S)

1912 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Ford Sterling · Fred Mace · Alice Davenport · Charles Avery

Synopsis Warner is an old veteran in love with the widow Simpson. His rival is an old farmer, named Burns. Warner stands in front of the old soldiers' home, telling a crowd of old veterans of the battles he took part...

5.1

21 votes

5.1

21 votes

A Muddy Romance (S)

1913 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Mabel Normand · Ford Sterling · Charles Inslee · Minta Durfee

Synopsis Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon...

4.8

35 votes

4.8

35 votes

A Grocery Clerk's Romance (S)

1912 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Ford Sterling · James C. Morton · Gus Pixley · Lincoln Plumer

Synopsis The grocery clerk's sympathies are aroused by the sight of hard-working Mrs. Brown, whose shiftless husband sits around and smokes, and spends his time at the saloon. The clerk wins Mrs. Brown's gratitude by doing the washing for her, and...

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A Fishy Affair (S)

1913 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Ford Sterling · Laura Oakley · Nick Cogley · Dot Farley

Synopsis Perkins likes to fish, and his wife scolds about his lazy habits. She hides her savings in an old stocking, which she conceals under the mattress of the bed. A tramp enters the open window and steals the hoard. She...

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Her Birthday Present (S)

1913 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Fred Mace · Henry Lehrman · Ford Sterling

Synopsis A Keystone film, especially from the beginnings, is always worth attention.This film is notable for the profit which it manages to derive from derisory material. It plays more on the resources of comedy than those of burlesque.

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The Woman on the Jury

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Harry O. Hoyt

Cast Sylvia Breamer · Frank Mayo · Lew Cody · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted...

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My Lady's Lips

1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Alyce Mills · William Powell · Clara Bow · Frank Keenan

Synopsis A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two...

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That Ragtime Band (S)

1913 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Ford Sterling · Mabel Normand · Nick Cogley · Raymond Hatton

Synopsis Band leader/clarinetist Ford Sterling is a romantic rival to trumpeter Raymond Hatton for the affections of pretty Mabel Normand. Sterling enters an amateur night contest at the local vaudeville house, where stage manager Edgar Kennedy gives the quick hook to...

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At Coney Island (S)

1912 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Mack Sennett · Mabel Normand · Ford Sterling · Gus Pixley

Synopsis The Boob takes his girl to Coney Island, where she flirts with a married man and eludes the Boob. They visit all the amusement devices, and many comical scenes are shown as the Boob tries to get his sweetheart back...

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That Little Band of Gold (S)

1915 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Mabel Normand · Ford Sterling · Alice Davenport

Synopsis A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them...

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