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Sybil Seely is a Actor American born on 1 january 1900 at Los Angeles (USA)
Sybil Seely (Jan. 2, 1902 – Jun 26, 1984) was a silent film actress who worked with the well known silent film comedy actor Buster Keaton. She was credited in most of her films as Sibye Trevilla.
Sybil Seely was born Sybil Travilla to Harry Travilla and Lucie Ellen Boyker (1855 – 1949) in Los Angeles, California. She acted in her first film, Hearts and Flowers at the age of 17. She acted in 21 films on record, some of which were filmed with actor Buster Keaton. In 1920, she married screenwriter Jules Furthman. They had a son, Jules Jr., born in 1921. In 1922, she retired from her acting career. She died in Culver City, California, at the age of 82.
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Sybil Seely
Birth name Sybil Travilla
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1900 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 26 june 1984 (at 84 years) at Culver City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1900 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 26 june 1984 (at 84 years) at Culver City (USA)
Sybil Seely was born Sybil Travilla to Harry Travilla and Lucie Ellen Boyker (1855 – 1949) in Los Angeles, California. She acted in her first film, Hearts and Flowers at the age of 17. She acted in 21 films on record, some of which were filmed with actor Buster Keaton. In 1920, she married screenwriter Jules Furthman. They had a son, Jules Jr., born in 1921. In 1922, she retired from her acting career. She died in Culver City, California, at the age of 82.
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Actrice du cinéma muet burlesque, elle a notamment travaillé dans les productions de Mack Sennett mais elle est surtout la star féminine de cinq films avec Buster Keaton et s'est retirée du cinéma peu de temps après avoir épousé Jules Furthman (1888-1966) et donné naissance à Jules Jr. (1923-1999).Usually with
Filmography of Sybil Seely (10 films)
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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 Wife
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 The Wife (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 Twin (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."
A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
, 47minutesDirected by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Fred Guiol, Dick Sutherland, Jobyna Ralston
Roles Harem Girl (uncredited)
Rating67%
"The Boy" (Lloyd) is an idle playboy and heir to $20,000,000, relaxing at an exclusive resort. When he sees "The Girl" (Mildred Davis), surrounded by a flock of admirers, he suddenly asks her to marry him. Taken aback, she sends him to get the approval of her father, a tough, hardworking steel magnate. The girl's father knows and disapproves of the Boy's indolence, and demands that he first get a job to prove that he can do something. The Boy sees a recruiting poster and applies to join the United States Navy. When the magnate decides to take a long cruise on his yacht, he tells his daughter to bring along her friends. She invites the Boy, but he finds he cannot get out of his three year enlistment.
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 Farmer's Daughter (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.
One Week (1920)
, 19minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin
Roles The Bride
Rating80%
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement". The end result is depicted in the picture. As if this were not enough, Keaton finds he has built his house on the wrong site and has to move it. The movie reaches its tense climax when the house becomes stuck on railroad tracks. Keaton and Seely try to move it out the way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighboring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. Keaton stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with Seely.
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 Socialite, Warden's Daughter
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!"
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
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.
Distilled Love (1920)
Directed by Richard Smith, Vin Moore
Origin USA
Actors Oliver Hardy, Alice Howell, Richard Smith, Billy Bevan, Fay McKenzie, Sybil Seely
Roles Bather
Rating58%
Down on the Farm (1920)
, 50minutesDirected by Erle C. Kenton, F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Louise Fazenda, Harry Gribbon, Bert Roach, James Finlayson, Marie Prevost, Don Marion
Roles Maid of Honor
Rating62%