James Finlayson (actor)
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James Henderson Finlayson was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Balding, with a fake moustache, he had many trademark comic mannerisms—including his squinting, outraged do
Finlayson in 1923
Photo Inscribed to Helene Chadwick
Robert Finlayson
Film still from Down on the Farm (1920)
Ben Turpin
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Bernard "Ben" Turpin was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks were his cross-eyed appearance and adeptness at vigorous physical comedy. A someti
James Finlayson (actor)
…films, and Hardy in five, before Laurel and Hardy were teamed. He appeared in dozens of Roach films with Charley Chase, Glenn Tryon, Snub Pollard and Ben Turpin, and in several Our Gang shorts, including Mush and Milk, in which he and Spanky McFarland match wits in a comically adversarial phone conversation…
Ben Turpin, 1935
Ben Turpin in 1891
Late 1800s ad for Ernest Turpin Candy Store, where Ben worked in his childhood
Ben Turpin with two of the Sennett Bathing Beauties