Ambrose’s Nasty Temper
R: Dell Henderson. D: Mack Swain, Louise Fazenda, Cecile Arnold, Dave Morris, Dixie Chene, Billie Walsh. P: Keystone Film Company. USA 1915

“Mack Swain (born Moroni Swain, February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an early American film actor, who appeared in many of Mack Sennett‘s comedies at Keystone Studios, including the Keystone Cops series. He also appeared in major features by Charlie Chaplin. In the early 1900s Swain had his own stock theater company, which performed in the western and midwestern United States. (…) While with Keystone, he was teamed with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as ‘Ambrose’ and Conklin as the grand mustachioed ‘Walrus’, they performed these roles in several films including The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus and Love, Speed and Thrills, both made in 1915. Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, 26 all told, and they also appeared separately andor together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players. Swain later took his Ambrose character with him to the L-KO Kompany. Having already worked with Charles Chaplin at Keystone, Swain began working with him again at First National in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class, Pay Day, and The Pilgrim. He is also remembered for his large supporting role as Big Jim McKay in the 1925 film The Gold Rush, for United Artists, written by and starring Chaplin. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mack Swain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street.”
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Willful Ambrose
R: David Kirkland. B: Walter Wright. D: Mack Swain, Louise Fazenda, Vivian Edwards, Joe Bordeaux, Dixie Chene. P: Keystone Film Company. USA 1915

“Swain’s physical contradictions gave him enormous range as a character comedian. As big as an ox (6’2”, 280 lbs), he was also sort of egg-shaped, middle-aged and sad-sacked. He sported a big comedy mustache, and an incongruous spit curl on the front of his balding head, which was often topped by a boater.”
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When Ambrose Dared Walrus
R: Walter Wright. B: Walter Wright. D: Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Vivian Edwards, Billie Brockwell, Frank Alexander, Billie Bennett. P: Keystone Film Company. USA 1915