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Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American producer, director, actor, and studio head who was known as the "King of Comedy" during his career. [ 1 ]
Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) [1] and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909).
At It Again is a 1912 American short silent comedy film produced and directed by Mack Sennett. The film stars Fred Mace, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand and Alice Davenport. It was distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation. The film was the first Keystone Film comedy that featured the two bumbling detectives.
Mack Sennett continued to use the Keystone Cops intermittently through the 1920s, but their popularity had waned by the time that sound films arrived. In 1935, director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel, featuring a re-creation of the Kops clutching at their hats, leaping in ...
Roy Mack (December 14, 1889, New Brunswick, New Jersey - January 16, 1962, Los Angeles, California), born Leroy McClure, was an American director of film shorts, mostly comedy films, with 205 titles to his credit. [1] [2] Born and raised in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he attended New Brunswick High School. [3]
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is a 1913 silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett.It stars Sennett, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, The Keystone Cops and Barney Oldfield as himself, in his film debut.
Mack Sennett, whilst working with a degree of autonomy, was working for the larger company of Kessel and Baumann. [ 6 ] When slapstick impresario Mack Sennett proposed to adapt the 1910 Broadway comedy Tillie's Nightmare to the screen in 1914, he enlisted the immensely successful star of the stage production, the then 45-year-old Marie Dressler ...
Hollywood Cavalcade is a 1939 American film featuring Alice Faye as a young performer making her way in the early days of Hollywood, from slapstick silent pictures through the transition from silent to sound. Famous directors and actors from the silent film era appear in the picture including Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Chester Conklin and Ben ...