Cast: Mack Swain

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


The Gold Rush

1925 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Georgia Hale · Tom Murray

Plot The Lone Prospector, a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune in the Alaskan wilderness. There, he meets Black Larson (Tom Murray) and large but gentler Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain),...

8.4

27K votes

8.4

27K votes

Pay Day (S)

1922 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Phyllis Allen · Mack Swain · Edna Purviance

Plot Charlie is an expert bricklayer. He has lots of fun and work and enjoys himself greatly while at the saloon. As he leaves work his wife takes the pay he...

Max

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Pilgrim

1923 · Movie · 47 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Kitty Bradbury · Syd Chaplin

Plot Chaplin plays an escaped convict who steals clothes to get rid of this prison uniform. He ends up in a small town mistaken for someone else. Not quite a feature...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Chaplin Revue

1959 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Albert Austin · Henry Bergman · Syd Chaplin

Plot Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small...

7.2

147 votes

7.2

147 votes

The Idle Class

1921 · Movie · 32 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Mack Swain · Henry Bergman

Plot A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the...

Max

7.0

626 votes

7.0

626 votes

My Best Girl

1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Sunshine Hart · Lucien Littlefield

Plot Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of...

7.0

48 votes

7.0

48 votes

The Beloved Rogue

1927 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast John Barrymore · Conrad Veidt · Marceline Day · Lawson Butt

Plot In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent...

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

The Last Warning

1929 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Paul Leni

Cast Laura La Plante · Montagu Love · Roy D'Arcy · Margaret Livingston

Plot A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the...

6.1

22 votes

6.1

22 votes

His Trysting Place (S)

1914 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Mack Swain · Phyllis Allen

Plot Charlie's wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two...

5.8

285 votes

5.8

285 votes

Mockery

1927 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Christensen

Cast Lon Chaney · Barbara Bedford · Ricardo Cortez · Mack Swain

Plot There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food. He meets a mysterious young woman looking for the town of Novokursk....

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Marie Dressler · Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Mack Swain

Plot Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with...

5.8

282 votes

5.8

282 votes

The Knockout

1914 · Movie · 27 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Minta Durfee · Edgar Kennedy · Charles Chaplin

Plot A couple of tramps, down on their luck and hungry, decide to fake an exhibition boxing match for a promoter. Meanwhile, Pug, a good-hearted but boisterous fellow, takes on a...

5.6

231 votes

5.6

231 votes

Caught in the Rain (S)

1914 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Alice Davenport · Alice Howell

Plot When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their...

5.6

260 votes

5.6

260 votes

Mabel's Married Life (S)

1914 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Mack Swain · Eva Nelson

Plot Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her wimpy husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk. She buys a boxing dummy...

5.5

237 votes

5.5

237 votes

Laughing Gas (S)

1914 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Fritz Schade · Alice Howell · Joseph Sutherland

Plot Charlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia Charlie knocks him out with a club. He is...

5.5

458 votes

5.5

458 votes

Gentlemen of Nerve (S)

1914 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Chester Conklin · Mack Swain

Plot Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the...

5.5

233 votes

5.5

233 votes

Mabel at the Wheel (S)

1914 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Mabel Normand · Mack Sennett

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Harry McCoy · Chester Conklin

Plot Charlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her in a puddle. He next joins some dubious characters in abduction of his...

5.4

152 votes

5.4

152 votes

His Musical Career (S)

1914 · Movie · 12 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Charley Chase · Fritz Schade

Plot Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano...

5.4

264 votes

5.4

264 votes

Fatty's New Role (S)

1915 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Mack Swain · Slim Summerville · Joe Bordeaux

Plot Fatty's a harmless hobo. When he tries to cadge hooch and a free lunch at Ambrose Schnitz's bar, Herr Schnitz ejects him. Someone has been blowing up the taverns of...

5.3

35 votes

5.3

35 votes

The Fatal Mallet (S)

1914 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Mack Sennett · Mack Swain

Plot Three man will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie will play dirty, throwing bricks to his contender, and using a huge hammer to hurt one of them....

5.2

185 votes

5.2

185 votes