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Lige Conley is a Actor American born on 4 december 1897 at St. Louis (USA)

Lige Conley

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Birth name Elijah Crommie
Nationality USA
Birth 4 december 1897 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 11 december 1937 (at 40 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Lige Conley (born Elijah Crommie; December 5, 1897 – December 11, 1937) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 140 films between 1915 and 1938.

As Lige Crommie, the curly-haired young comedian joined the stock company of the Mack Sennett studio in 1915. In 1917 he moved to the up-and-coming Hal Roach studio, then producing one-reel comedies with Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, and Snub Pollard. The Roach comedies credited the actor as "Lige Cromley," but since Lloyd and company dominated their pictures, which were limited to single reels, there was little chance for Lige to distinguish himself. He returned to Sennett as a stock player, again as Lige Crommie. When Sennett director Fred Fishback left Sennett for his own unit at Universal Pictures. Lige soon joined him there.

The comic finally achieved stardom at Educational Pictures, where he appeared in a long string of brisk, elaborately staged two-reel comedies. Some of these were directed by Fishback, under the pseudonym of Fred Hibbard. Educational took out trade ads in the mid-1920s, hailing Conley as the next Charlie Chaplin. Conley, with his curly hair and coy grin, did indeed bear a resemblance to the out-of-character Chaplin.

Conley's stock-in-trade was the comedy of embarrassment, as his meek screen character earnestly failed at any occupation he tried. Conley's two most famous comedies are both 1924 releases.

Fast and Furious, directed by Norman Taurog, is a fast-moving comedy set in a general store, with Lige doing everything from demonstrating pancake batter to selling shoes. The last half of the film is a spectacular car-motorcycle-and-train chase, some of which was excerpted in the Kevin Brownlow-David Gill silent-film documentary Hollywood (1980).

Usually with

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(36 films)
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
(36 films)
Snub Pollard
Snub Pollard
(36 films)
Bebe Daniels
Bebe Daniels
(36 films)
Sammy Brooks
Sammy Brooks
(34 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lige Conley (40 films)

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Sally, Irene and Mary
Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
, 1h26
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Joan Davis, Marjorie Weaver, Gregory Ratoff, Jimmy Durante
Roles Comic Routine with Fred Allen
Rating61% 3.093673.093673.093673.093673.09367
A Small Town Idol
A Small Town Idol (1921)
, 1h10
Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Mack Sennett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ben Turpin, James Finlayson, Phyllis Haver, Marie Prevost, Bert Roach, Charles Murray
Roles (*as Lige Crommie)
Rating53% 2.674772.674772.674772.674772.67477
Sam (Turpin) leaves town after being falsely accused of a crime and becomes a film star in Hollywood working with actress Marcelle Mansfield (Prevost). He returns to his home town hailed as a hero where one of his films is shown in the theater. A rival, who wants Sam's girlfriend Mary (Haver), frames Sam for an apparent murder of Mary's father. Just as the townspeople are about to lynch Sam, Mary arrives with word that her father is fine, and the two are reconciled.
Pay Your Dues
Pay Your Dues (1919)
, 12minutes
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Lige Conley, Snub Pollard, Fred C. Newmeyer, Sammy Brooks
Roles (as Lige Cromley)
Rating62% 3.1345053.1345053.1345053.1345053.134505