Ben Turpin


Actor

About

Also Known As
Bennie Turpin
Birth Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Born
September 17, 1874
Died
July 01, 1940

Biography

Ben Turpin was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Turpin began his acting career appearing in various films, such as the Hope Drown anthology "Hollywood" (1923), "Hogan's Alley" (1925) and "The Pride Of Pikeville" (1927). He also appeared in the adaptation "The Love Parade" (1929) with Maurice Chevalier. He kept working in film throughout the twenties and the thirties, s...

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Million Dollar Legs - Movie Poster

Biography

Ben Turpin was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Turpin began his acting career appearing in various films, such as the Hope Drown anthology "Hollywood" (1923), "Hogan's Alley" (1925) and "The Pride Of Pikeville" (1927). He also appeared in the adaptation "The Love Parade" (1929) with Maurice Chevalier. He kept working in film throughout the twenties and the thirties, starring in "The Show of Shows" (1929) with Frank Fay, "Make Me a Star" (1932) and the Jack Oakie sports comedy "Million Dollar Legs" (1932). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in "The Law of the Wild" (1934), the dramatic comedy "Hollywood Cavalcade" (1939) with Alice Faye and the comedy "Saps at Sea" (1940) with Stan Laurel. Turpin was most recently credited in "Oh, Men! Oh, Women!" (1957) with Dan Dailey. Turpin passed away in July 1940 at the age of 66.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

When Comedy Was King (1960)
The Golden Age of Comedy (1958)
Down Memory Lane (1949)
Saps at Sea (1940)
Plumber
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Bartender
The Law of the Wild (1934)
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Mysterious man
Make Me a Star (1932)
Ben
Cracked Nuts (1931)
Pilot
Ambassador Bill (1931)
The butcher
Swing High (1930)
Bartender
The Love Parade (1930)
Cross-Eyed Lackey
The Show of Shows (1929)
Waiter
The Wife's Relations (1928)
Rodney St. Clair
The College Hero (1927)
The Janitor
Steel Preferred (1926)
Bartender
Hogan's Alley (1925)
A stranger
The Shriek of Araby (1923)
A bill poster
Hollywood (1923)
The Bull-Dogger (1922)
Home Talent (1921)
A Small Town Idol (1921)
Sam Smith [Samuel X. Smythe]
Down on the Farm (1920)
Her husband
Married Life (1920)
Rodney St. Clair
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919)
A guardsman
Chase Me Charlie (1918)
Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on "Carmen" (1916)
Remendado
The Essanay-Chaplin Revue of 1916 (1916)
The Property Man
He Did and He Didn't (1916)
The Rubes and the Bunco Men (1909)
A Case of Seltzer (1909)
A Midnight Disturbance (1909)
Oh, What Lungs! (1908)
Breaking into Society (1908)
Ben Gets a Duck and Is Ducked (1907)

Music (Feature Film)

Slave Girl (1947)
Music Supervisor

Cast (Short)

Cinema Circus (1937)
Himself
Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)
Himself
Our Wife (1931)
Broke in China (1927)
The Pride Of Pikeville (1927)
A Harem Knight (1926)
Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924)
The Daredevil (1923)
Bright Eyes (1922)
A Clever Dummy (1917)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Million Dollar Legs - Movie Poster
Million Dollar Legs - Movie Poster

Bibliography