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Edward F. Cline is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Assistant Director American born on 4 november 1891 at Kenosha (USA)
Edward Francis Cline (November 4, 1891 – May 22, 1961) was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director best known for his work with comedians W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.
(1944)
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Birth name Edward Francis Cline
Nationality USA
Birth 4 november 1891 at Kenosha (USA)
Death 22 may 1961 (at 69 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 november 1891 at Kenosha (USA)
Death 22 may 1961 (at 69 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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The Balloonatic (1923)
, 22minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Buster Keaton, Phyllis Haver, Babe London, Edward F. Cline, Natalie Talmadge
Roles Car driver
Rating65%
A young man (Keaton) has a series of encounters in an amusement area, much like Coney Island, until happening upon a group of men preparing a hot air balloon for launch. The young man assists the group by climbing atop the balloon to afix a pennant, when the balloon mistakenly takes flight with no one aboard but the young man. The young man finally downs the balloon in a wilderness area, where he encounters a young outdoorswoman and proceeds to have a series of misadventures.
Day Dreams (1922)
, 19minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts
Roles The Theater Director
Rating67%
Lorsqu'un jeune homme sans le sou fait sa demande en mariage au père de l'élue de son cœur, il se fait renvoyer pour chercher de quoi lui assurer un avenir financier. S'il ne se fait pas une situation, il devra mettre fin à ses jours avec un pistolet prêté par le père pour l'occasion.
The Blacksmith (1922)
, 25minutesDirected by Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Malcolm St. Clair, Billy Franey
Roles Engineer
Rating67%
Malec est un simple employé chez le forgeron du village. Mais c'est à se demander quel métier il exerce vraiment. Est-il forgeron, maréchal ferrant ou bien mécanicien ? Malec est tout simplement présent au bon endroit au bon moment ; même s'il tombe, dans la situation, comme un cheveu sur la soupe. Ces hasards de circonstance provoquent un décalage qui nous renvoie directement au personnage de Charlie Chaplin.
Cops (1922)
, 18minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Roles Hobo (uncredited)
Rating75%
Paraissant sous les barreaux, Buster (alias Frigo pour les copies françaises d'époque) est en fait séparé de sa dulcinée par le portail en fer de sa résidence, symbole du fossé social qui empêche leur union. Elle demande ainsi à son soupirant de réussir d'abord dans les affaires. Après avoir subtilisé un portefeuille fourni, il est la victime d'un escroc opportuniste qui lui vend un stock de meubles sur le trottoir, en fait pour cause de déménagement. Le prenant pour un ouvrier déménageur, la famille l'aide à charger sa charrette. Parti dans les rues de la ville, son attelage se révèle peu fiable et le cheval n'avance pas. Il se retrouve bientôt au beau milieu d'un défilé de policiers. Un terroriste envoie une bombe sur le défilé, mais à côté de Buster, qui en profite alors pour allumer sa cigarette avec la mèche enflammée, puis se débarrasse de la bombe en la jetant sur le côté. Pris pour le terroriste, les policiers se mettent à le poursuivre.
The Frozen North (1922)
, 17minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Freeman Wood
Roles The Janitor
Rating64%
The film opens near the "last stop on the subway", a terminal in Alaska, which appears to be emerging from deep snow in the middle of nowhere. A tough-looking cowboy (Buster Keaton) emerges. He arrives at a small settlement, finding people gambling in a saloon. He tries to rob them by scaring them with the cutout of a poster of a man holding a gun, which he places at the window, as if it is he is an accomplice. He tells the gamblers to raise their hands in the air. Frightened, they hand over their cash, but soon they find out the truth when a drunk man falls over the cutout. Keaton is thrown out through the window.
The Boat (1921)
, 25minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Edward F. Cline
Roles SOS Receiver (uncredited)
Rating70%
Buster is married with two children (both of whom wear the porkpie hat made famous by Keaton). He has built a large boat he has christened Damfino inside his home. When he finishes and decides to take the boat out to sea, he discovers it is too large to fit through the door. Buster enlarges the opening a bit, but when he tows the boat out, it proves to be a bit bigger than he estimated, and the house collapses, utterly.
The Play House (1921)
, 22minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely
Roles Orangutan Trainer (uncredited)
Rating74%
The film is set up as a series of humorous tricks on the audience, with constant doubling, and in which things are rarely what they at first seem to be. It opens with Keaton attending a variety show. In this first sequence, Keaton plays beside him and remarks, "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show." This was a gibe at one of Keaton's contemporaries, Thomas Ince, who credited himself generously in his film productions. In interviews with Kevin Brownlow, Keaton claims he gave the director's credit to Cline mainly because he did not want to appear too Ince-like himself: "Having kidded things like that, I hesitated to put my own name on as a director and writer."
The Haunted House (1921)
, 21minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Roles Customer in Bank
Rating68%
Buster Keaton is a bank teller who becomes involved in a hold-up, counterfeiters, and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.
The Goat (1921)
, 27minutesDirected by Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton
Roles Cop by Telephone Pole (uncredited)
Rating76%
Buster Keaton is walking by and peers through a barred window while captured murderer "Dead Shot Dan" is having his picture taken. Seeing that the photographer is looking away, Dan moves his head to the side and snaps a picture of Buster without anybody noticing. Thus, when Dan escapes, the wanted posters all show Buster with his hands on the bars. Unaware, Buster moves on to a street corner, where he notices a horseshoe, and kicks it aside. The next man who comes along picks it up and throws it for good luck. Within seconds the man finds a wallet filled with money. After scrambling to find the horseshoe, Buster picks it up and throws over his shoulder. It strikes a policeman, who chases Buster, and soon other officers join the chase. Buster lures them into the back of a truck, locks them in, and escapes.
The Scarecrow (1920)
, 19minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely, Joe Keaton, Mary Astor, Joe Roberts
Roles Hit-and-Run Truck Driver (uncredited)
Rating77%
Buster plays a farmhand who competes with Joe Roberts to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog (played by Luke, Fatty Arbuckle's real-life pet), Buster falls into a hay thresher and ruins his clothes. Forced to borrow the clothes of a nearby scarecrow, Sybil believes Buster to be proposing as she stumbles upon him tying his shoe. The couple speed off on a motorcycle with Joe and the farmer (played by Buster's father, Joe) in hot pursuit. Scooping up a minister during the chase, they are married on the speeding motorcycle and splash into a stream at the climax of the ceremony and the film.
Convict 13 (1920)
, 19minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Prison films
Actors Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton
Roles Hangman
Rating70%
Keaton goes from a golf game with his girlfriend to death-row in prison through a case of mistaken identity. In the film, Buster performs one of the most dangerous sight gags that he performed in vaudeville. In the words of Marie Dressler: Buster would "stand on a table in back of his father twirling a basketball tied to the end of a rope, while his father was trying to shave himself with a straight razor. And that ball kept getting closer and closer, all the sudden, BANG!"
The Saphead (1920)
, 1h17Directed by Herbert Blaché
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Buster Keaton, Edward Connelly, Carol Holloway, William H. Crane, Irving Cummings, Katherine Albert
Roles Stock Exchange member (uncredited)
Rating60%
Nicholas Van Alstyne is the richest man in New York, but he is very disappointed in the behavior of his son, Bertie, who stays out all night gambling and partying, and who seems to show no talent or interest in work. In fact, Bertie is feigning this behavior because he believes it will help to impress the girl of his dreams, his adopted sister Agnes. Unfortunately, it helps him to do nothing more than get disowned by his father.
Neighbors (1920)
, 18minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Roles The Cop (uncredited)
Rating75%
Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence. Their families feud over the lovers' relationship, resulting in much mayhem and slapstick.
Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)
, 14minutesDirected by Mack Sennett, Dell Henderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Collier Sr., William Collier Sr, Blanche Payson, Alice Davenport, Mae Busch, Fritz Schade
Roles The Driver (as Eddie Cline)
Rating53%
A new husband shares a house with his wife and mother-in-law and a second man (listed as a brother-in-law). The first scene shows favoritism at the breakfast table to the second man, but whilst he reads his paper the table is rotated to ensure a good cup of coffee for the husband.
Fatty’s Faithful Fido (1915)
, 14minutesDirected by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Roscoe Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Al St. John, Joe Bordeaux, Charles Lakin, Glen Cavender
Roles Gymnasium Man (uncredited)
Rating60%