Mark Twain

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Also Known As
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Birth Place
Florida, Missouri, USA
Born
November 30, 1835
Died
April 21, 1910
Cause of Death
Heart Attack

Filmography

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Mark Twain's America in 3-D (1998)
Himself
Band of Robbers (2015)
Source Material
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (2013)
Source Material
Charlie's Ghost Story (2004)
From Short Story
Fortune Hunters (2000)
Writer
Arthur's Quest (1999)
Book As Source Material

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Adventures Of Mark Twain, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Born Under The Comet
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Adventures Of Mark Twain, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) You And Your Tall Tales

Biography

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Mark Twain's America in 3-D (1998)
Himself

Writer (Feature Film)

Band of Robbers (2015)
Source Material
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (2013)
Source Material
Charlie's Ghost Story (2004)
From Short Story
Fortune Hunters (2000)
Writer
Arthur's Quest (1999)
Book As Source Material
The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998)
Characters As Source Material
A Million to Juan (1994)
Story By
Hail Caesar (1994)
From Story
A Million to Juan (1994)
From Story ("The Million Pound Bank Note")

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Tom Sawyer (2000)
Source Material (From Novel)
A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Source Material (From Novel)
Prince For a Day (1995)
Source Material (From Novel)
Tom and Huck (1995)
Source Material (From Novel)
Huck and the King of Hearts (1994)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
Source Material (From Novel)
An American Summer (1990)
Source Material (From Novel)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989)
Source Material (From Novel)
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Source Material (From Novel)
Crossed Swords (1978)
Source Material (From Novel)
Huckleberry Finn (1975)
Source Material (From Novel)
Huckleberry Finn (1974)
Source Material (From Novel)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Source Material (From Novel)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Source Material (From Novel)
Huck and Tom (1918)
Source Material (From Novel)

Writer (Special)

Mama (1987)
From Story
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1981)
From Story
Life on the Mississippi (1980)
Book As Source Material
A Connecticut Yankee (1955)
Novel As Source Material ("A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur'S Court")

Special Thanks (Special)

Mama (1987)
From Story
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1981)
From Story
Life on the Mississippi (1980)
Book As Source Material
A Connecticut Yankee (1955)
Novel As Source Material ("A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur'S Court")

Misc. Crew (Special)

The Diaries of Adam and Eve (1989)
Other
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn (1985)
Source Material (From Novel)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1984)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Innocents Abroad (1983)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Mysterious Stranger (1982)
Source Material (From Novel)
P.J. and the President's Son (1976)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Prince and the Pauper (1957)
Source Material (From Novel)

Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Mark Twain's Roughing It (2002)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Prince and the Pauper (2001)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Princess and the Pauper: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000)
Source Material (From Novel)

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Adventures Of Mark Twain, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Born Under The Comet Opening with what will be a theme throughout, Halley’s comet in 1835 over Missouri, Frank Wilcox as Judge Clemens who becomes the father of Samuel, a.k.a. Mark Twain, who appears in the person of Fredric March, reflecting later in life, in the complicated Warner Bros. bio-pic, The Adventures Of Mark Twain,1944.
Adventures Of Mark Twain, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) You And Your Tall Tales Facing failure as miner in Nevada, with Alan Hale as his partner, Fredric March as Samuel Clemens doesn’t realize that Donald Crisp as J.B. Pond, is looking for “Mark Twain,” the pseudonym he first used when he submitted “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County,” which had become a sensation back east, in The Adventures Of Mark Twain,1944.
Adventures Of Mark Twain, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Safe Water Dickie Jones has assumed the title role as Samuel Clemens, age 15, learning to be a Mississippi River steamboat pilot, ca. 1850, Robert Barrat his crusty mentor captain Bixby, though the corresponding episodes in Clemens’ real life came later, in the Warner Bros. bio-pic The Adventures Of Mark Twain,1944, starring Fredric March.
Man With A Million (1953) -- (Movie Clip) The Young Gentleman American castaway Henry Adams (Gregory Peck) gets an odd offer from London aristocrats Roderick and Oliver Montpelier (Wilfrid Hyde White, Ronald Squire) in this early scene from director Ronald Neame's Man With A Million, 1953.
Man With A Million (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Tailor Todd the tailor's assistant (Bryan Forbes) goes to pieces though Mr. Reid (Maurice Denham) copes better when Adams (Gregory Peck) offers payment in Man With A Million, 1953.
Man With A Million (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Portia Lansdowne Adams (Gregory Peck), the man with the million-pound note, welcomes what he assumes is mere flirting from Portia (Jane Griffiths), when she really wants money for her charity in director Ronald Neame's Man With A Million, 1954, from a Mark Twain story.
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Your Right Stocking Huck (Mickey Rooney) scrambles in from just having learned he won't be promoted at school, help from Jim (Rex Ingram), then covering up with the widow Douglas (Elizabeth Risdon) and her crankier sister Miss Watson (Clara Blandick), early in MGM's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, 1939.
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Murdered Left behind by his evil father who's gone into town to ransom him from the benevolent widow Douglas, Huck (Mickey Rooney) stages evidence of his own murder, in MGM's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, 1939.
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Smell That Free State Having sneaked into town disguised as a girl, Huck (Mickey Rooney) arrives just in time to rescue Jim (Rex Ingram) from a lynch mob, the two then heading down river, hoping to reach Illinois, in MGM's simplified version of Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, 1939.
Prince And The Pauper, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Paradox Of Power One can hear the voice of Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens in the speech of King Henry VIII (Montagu Love) to his son Prince Edward (Bobby Mauch), the interested Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) witnessing, in The Prince And The Pauper, 1937.
Prince And The Pauper, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Skin Him! Bobby Mauch (as "Prince Edward"), sneaking out of the castle, meets brother and twin Billy (as "Tom Canty,"), arrested by a guard (Alan Hale) in Warner Bros.' version of the Mark Twain story, The Prince And The Pauper, 1937.

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