About

Known credits:
246
Birthday:
1893-11-09
Place of birth:
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
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Mabel Normand

Overview

Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892– February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress, a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors. Onscreen she appeared in a dozen commercially successful films with Charles Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man as well as sometimes co-writing and co-directing with Chaplin in films in which they played the lead roles. At the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Normand had her own movie studio and production company.

Throughout the 1920s her name was linked with widely publicized scandals including the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and the 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines, who was shot by Normand's chauffeur with her pistol. She was not a suspect in either crime. Her film career declined, possibly due to both scandals and a recurrence of tuberculosis in 1923, which led to a decline in her health, retirement from films and her death in 1930 at age 37.

Mabel Normand has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.

Her film Mabel's Blunder (1914) was added to the National Film Registry in December 2009.

In June 2010, the New Zealand Film Archive reported the discovery of a print of Normand's film Won in a Closet (exhibited in New Zealand under its alternate title Won in a Cupboard), a short comedy previously believed lost. This film is a significant discovery, as Normand directed the movie and starred in the lead role, making it a showcase for her talents on both sides of the camera.

Known for

Acting
2016 The Women Who Run Hollywood Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2015 Looking for Mabel Normand Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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2007 Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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1998 Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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1992 The Chaplin Puzzle Actor (archive footage) N/A
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1961 Days of Thrills and Laughter Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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1960 When Comedy Was King Actor edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage) 59
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1949 Down Memory Lane Actor (archive footage) N/A
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1943 Happy Times and Jolly Moments Actor (archive footage) N/A
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1942 Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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1931 Stars of Yesterday Actor Self N/A
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1927 One Hour Married Actor 58
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1927 Should Men Walk Home? Actor The Girl Bandit 59
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1927 Anything Once! Actor The Little Girl 59
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1926 The Nickel-Hopper Actor Paddy 58
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1926 Raggedy Rose Actor Raggedy Rose 59
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1923 The Extra Girl Actor Sue Graham 59
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1923 Suzanna Actor Suzanna 58
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1922 Seeing Stars Actor Self 58
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1922 Oh, Mabel Behave Actor The Innkeeper's Daughter N/A
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1922 Head Over Heels Actor Tina N/A
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1921 Molly O' Actor Molly O'Dair 59
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1920 What Happened To Rosa? Actor Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro 59
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1920 The Slim Princess Actor Kalora N/A
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1920 Pinto Actor Pinto N/A
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1919 Jinx Actor The Jinx N/A
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1919 Upstairs Actor Elsie MacFarland N/A
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1919 When Doctors Disagree Actor Millie Martin N/A
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1919 The Pest Actor Jigs N/A
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1919 Sis Hopkins Actor Sis Hopkins N/A
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1918 A Perfect 36 Actor Mabel N/A
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1918 Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand Actor Italian Girl N/A
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1918 Peck's Bad Girl Actor Minnie Penelope Peck N/A
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1918 Mickey Actor Mickey 59
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1918 Back to the Woods Actor Stephanie Trent N/A
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1918 The Venus Model Actor Kitty O'Brien N/A
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1918 The Floor Below Actor Patricia O'Rourke 59
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1918 Joan of Plattsburg Actor Joan N/A
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1918 Dodging a Million Actor Arabella Flynn N/A
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1916 Bright Lights Actor Mabel N/A
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1916 He Did and He Didn’t Actor The Doctor's Wife 59
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1916 Fatty and Mabel Adrift Actor Mabel 59
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1915 Stolen Magic Actor The Friend's Wife N/A
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1915 My Valet Actor Mabel Stebbins N/A
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1915 The Little Teacher Actor The Little Teacher 58
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1915 Mabel Lost and Won Actor Mabel 58
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1915 Mabel’s Wilful Way Actor Mabel 58
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1915 Their Social Splash Actor 58
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1915 Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Actor Herself 58
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1915 Wished on Mabel Actor Mabel 58
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1915 That Little Band Of Gold Actor Mabel - the Wife 58
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1915 Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life Actor Mabel 58
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1915 Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition Actor Mabel 59
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1915 Mabel, Fatty and the Law Actor Mabel - Fatty's Wife 58
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1915 Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life Actor Mabel 58
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1915 Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Tillie's Punctured Romance Actor Mabel 59
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1914 Getting Acquainted Actor Ambrose's Wife Mabel 58
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1914 The Sea Nymphs Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 Fatty's Wine Party Actor The Girl N/A
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1914 His Trysting Places Actor Mabel, The Wife 59
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1914 Lovers' Post Office Actor N/A
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1914 Gentlemen of Nerve Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Hello, Mabel Actor Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl 58
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1914 Mabel's Blunder Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Mabel’s Latest Prank Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 The Masquerader Actor Actress Outside Studio (uncredited) 58
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1914 Those Country Kids Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Mabel's New Job Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 Mabel's Married Life Actor Mabel 58
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1914 A Missing Bride Actor Unconfirmed role N/A
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1914 A Gambling Rube Actor Unconfimed role N/A
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1914 Mabel's Busy Day Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Her Friend the Bandit Actor Mabel 59
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1914 The Fatal Mallet Actor Pretty Girl (uncredited) 58
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1914 The Alarm Actor N/A
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1914 Mabel’s Nerve Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 Caught in a Cabaret Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Where Hazel Met the Villain Actor N/A
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1914 Mabel at the Wheel Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Mack at It Again Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 A Film Johnnie Actor Self (uncredited) 58
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1914 Love and Gasoline Actor N/A
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1914 Mabel's Strange Predicament Actor Mabel 57
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1914 Mabel’s Bear Escape Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 Won in a Closet Actor Mabel 58
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1914 Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair Actor Mabel N/A
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1914 A Glimpse of Los Angeles Actor N/A
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1914 Fatty's Wild Night Actor N/A
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1914 A Misplaced Foot Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 The Champion Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Zuzu, the Band Leader Actor Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer N/A
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1913 Fatty's Flirtation Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 The Gusher Actor Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart 58
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1913 Cohen Saves the Flag Actor Mabel 58
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1913 A Muddy Romance Actor Mabel 58
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1913 Love Sickness at Sea Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 The Speed Kings Actor Mabel 58
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1913 A Healthy Neighborhood Actor N/A
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1913 The Bowling Match Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 When Dreams Come True Actor The Peddler's Wife N/A
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1913 The Fatal Taxicab Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 The Gypsy Queen Actor The Gypsy Queen N/A
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1913 Mabel's Dramatic Career Actor Mabel, the Kitchen Maid 58
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1913 Mabel's New Hero Actor Mabel 58
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1913 Baby Day Actor N/A
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1913 The Riot Actor Mabel - Cohen's Daughter N/A
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1913 Professor Bean's Removal Actor Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter N/A
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1913 Love and Courage Actor The Country Boy's Sweetheart N/A
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1913 A Noise from the Deep Actor Mabel 59
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1913 The Telltale Light Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 For the Love of Mabel Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 The Waiters' Picnic Actor Mabel - the Cashier 59
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1913 The Speed Queen Actor Nellie N/A
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1913 The Hansom Driver Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life Actor Mabel 58
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1913 The Foreman of the Jury Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Hubby’s Job Actor Wifey N/A
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1913 Mabel’s Awful Mistakes Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 A Little Hero Actor 58
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1913 The Ragtime Band Actor Mabel 58
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1913 His Chum the Baron Actor Party Girl N/A
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1913 Bangville Police Actor Della, the Farmer's Daughter 58
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1913 Father’s Choice Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Those Good Old Days Actor The Peasant Girl N/A
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1913 Hide and Seek Actor Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter 58
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1913 On His Wedding Day Actor Wedding Guest 58
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1913 Her New Beau Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 At Twelve O’Clock Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Near To Earth Actor N/A
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1913 The Rube and the Baron Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Love and Pain Actor N/A
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1913 Foiling Fickle Father Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 A Strong Revenge Actor Mabel 58
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1913 The Sleuths at the Floral Parade Actor The Woman N/A
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1913 The Doctored Affair Actor Tillie N/A
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1913 Red Hot Romance Actor Señorita N/A
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1913 A Tangled Affair Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 Heinze’s Resurrection Actor Uncredited / Unconfirmed N/A
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1913 Mabel’s Heroes Actor Mabel 58
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1913 The Battle of Who Run Actor Mack's Girl N/A
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1913 Just Brown’s Luck Actor Mrs. Brown N/A
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1913 The Mistaken Masher Actor Mabel - George's Girl N/A
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1913 The Deacon Outwitted Actor N/A
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1913 For Lizzie's Sake Actor Lizzie N/A
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1913 The Cure That Failed Actor N/A
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1913 How Hiram Won Out Actor Sallie N/A
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1913 Saving Mabel’s Dad Actor Mabel N/A
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1913 A Double Wedding Actor Undetermined Role N/A
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1912 The Duel Actor Mabel N/A
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1912 Mabel's Stratagem Actor Mabel 58
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1912 Drummer’s Vacation Actor N/A
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1912 Mabel’s Adventures Actor Mabel 58
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1912 A Midnight Elopement Actor Sally Rice N/A
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1912 A Family Mixup Actor A Wife N/A
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1912 Brown’s Séance Actor Mrs. Brown N/A
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1912 Pat's Day Off Actor Bridget, His Wife N/A
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1912 A Desperate Lover Actor N/A
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1912 The Rivals Actor Mabel N/A
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1912 Mr. Fixit Actor Mabel N/A
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1912 A Temperamental Husband Actor wife N/A
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1912 The Deacon's Troubles Actor N/A
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1912 Mabel's Lovers Actor Mabel N/A
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1912 At It Again Actor Mrs. Smith N/A
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1912 At Coney Island Actor his girl 58
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1912 The Ambitious Butler Actor N/A
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1912 The Flirting Husband Actor Mrs. Smith N/A
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1912 The Beating He Needed Actor Girl N/A
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1912 Pedro's Dilemma Actor Girl N/A
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1912 Riley and Schultze Actor N/A
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1912 The New Neighbor Actor N/A
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1912 The Water Nymph Actor Diving Venus 58
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1912 Cohen Collects a Debt Actor N/A
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1912 He Must Have a Wife Actor The Girl N/A
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1912 Mr. Grouch at the Seashore Actor Undetermined Secondary Role N/A
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1912 The Tragedy of a Dress Suit Actor The Heiress 58
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1912 An Interrupted Elopement Actor Alice, Bob's Sweetheart 58
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1912 The Tourists Actor Trixie - a Tourist 58
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1912 What the Doctor Ordered Actor Jenks' Daughter 58
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1912 The New Baby Actor The Wife N/A
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1912 A Dash Through the Clouds Actor Josephine 58
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1912 Katchem Kate Actor Katchem Kate 58
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1912 Neighbors Actor First French Family, the Wife 58
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1912 Tomboy Bessie Actor Tomboy Bessie 58
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1912 Helen's Marriage Actor Helen 58
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1912 When Kings Were the Law Actor At Court (Uncredited) N/A
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1912 The Furs Actor The Wife 58
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1912 The Fickle Spaniard Actor Marcelle 58
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1912 The Brave Hunter Actor The Woman 58
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1912 Help! Help! Actor Mrs. Suburbanite 58
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1912 Oh, Those Eyes Actor Gladys 58
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1912 A Voice from the Deep Actor Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed) 59
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1912 Hot Stuff Actor Hank's Sweetheart 58
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1912 The Engagement Ring Actor Alice 58
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1912 A Spanish Dilemma Actor The Señorita 58
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1912 The Fatal Chocolate Actor The City Girl N/A
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1912 The Mender of Nets Actor The Net Mender's rival 58
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1912 The Eternal Mother Actor Mary, the Woman 58
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1911 Saved from Himself Actor The Stenographer 58
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1911 Why He Gave Up Actor The Wife N/A
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1911 A Victim of Circumstance Actor N/A
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1911 The Inventor’s Secret Actor N/A
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1911 Through His Wife’s Picture Actor Wifey N/A
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1911 The Unveiling Actor The Showgirl N/A
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1911 Italian Blood Actor N/A
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1911 The Making of a Man Actor In Second Audience 58
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1911 Her Awakening Actor The Daughter N/A
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1911 The Revenue Man and His Girl Actor 58
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1911 The Squaw's Love Actor Wild Flower 58
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1911 The Baron Actor The Heiress 58
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1911 How Betty Won the School Actor Betty's Rival N/A
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1911 The Diving Girl Actor The Niece N/A
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1911 Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father Actor Betty Harding 58
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1911 The Strategy of Ann Actor N/A
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1911 The Subduing of Mrs. Nag Actor Miss Prue, the Stenographer N/A
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1911 Two Overcoats Actor N/A
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1911 The Changing of Silas Warner Actor The Son's Wife N/A
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1911 Dead Man’s Honor Actor Helen N/A
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1911 When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins Actor Mabel, Jack's Wife N/A
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1911 His Mother Actor Donald's Fiancee N/A
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1911 Picciola; or, The Prison Flower Actor Theresa Girhardi N/A
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1911 Betty Becomes a Maid Actor Betty N/A
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1911 A Tale of Two Cities Actor 58
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1911 The Diamond Star Actor Guest at Dinner Party N/A
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1910 Wilful Peggy Actor Maid 58
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1910 Over the Garden Wall Actor N/A
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1910 Indiscretions of Betty Actor N/A
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Directing
1915 Mabel Lost and Won Directing Director 58
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1915 Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Directing Director 58
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1914 Mabel's Blunder Directing Director 58
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1914 Mabel’s Nerve Directing Director N/A
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1914 Caught in a Cabaret Directing Director 58
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1914 Mabel at the Wheel Directing Director 58
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1914 Love and Gasoline Directing Director N/A
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1914 Mabel's Strange Predicament Directing Director 57
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1914 Mabel’s Bear Escape Directing Director N/A
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1914 Won in a Closet Directing Director 58
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1914 Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1914 Mabel's Blunder Writing Writer 58
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1914 Mabel's Married Life Writing Writer 58
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1914 Mabel's Busy Day Writing Writer 58
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1914 Caught in a Cabaret Writing Writer 58
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1914 Won in a Closet Writing Writer 58
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1912 The Tragedy of a Dress Suit Writing Writer 58
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1912 The Engagement Ring Writing Writer 58
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Production
1918 Mickey Production Producer 59
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