This is a list of known on-screen appearances made by Joe Martin (orangutan), a film star of the 1910s and 1920s.
Grace Cunard was an American actress, screenwriter and film director. During the silent era, she starred in over 100 films, wrote or co-wrote at least 44 of those productions, and directed no fewer than eight of them. In addition, she edited many of her films, including some of the shorts, serials, and features she developed in collaboration with Francis Ford. Her younger sister, Mina Cunard, was also a film actress.
Billy West was a silent film actor, producer, and director. Active during the silent film era, he is best known as the premier Charlie Chaplin impersonator. He was a star in his own right, appearing in more than 100 films for nine different companies. Beyond acting, he also directed short comedies in the 1910s and '20s, and produced films. West retired as an actor in 1935, but remained in the employ of Columbia Pictures into the 1950s.
Jonathan Frank Glendon was an American actor in films and on the stage. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1915 and 1936. Also known for his writings and lectures on economics, Glendon was closely aligned with the technocracy movement from its inception.
Agnes Vernon was an American film actress of the silent era. While still in her teens, she experienced a meteoric ascent from obscurity to box-office sensation. After turning twenty-three and a movie career fading away, she abandoned the silver screen forever. Vernon performed in over 90 films between 1913 and 1922. She completed most of her roles under contract with Universal Pictures.
Southern Cross Feature Film Company was a short lived film production company that made some of Australia's most famous silent films, mostly directed by Raymond Longford. One of the key figures behind it was Sir David Gordon.
Rollin Summers Sturgeon was an American film director of silent films active from 1910 to 1924. He directed 101 films during this period.
Her Soldier Sweetheart is a 1910 American silent film, produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott.
Isabel West, also known as Isabelle West was an American film actress in the late 1910s and early 1920s. She began her career in 1916 as Mrs. Harris in The Blue Envelope Mystery.
Edwin Harley Born in Philadelphia Harley was an actor in minstrel shows and later in silent films. He worked for the Reliance Majestic Company, Lasky Film Company, Albuquerque Film Company, Crown City Film Company, and Fine Arts Film Company.
When Lizzie Got Her Polish is a 1914 Canadian comedy short silent black and white film directed by Al Christie and produced by Nestor Film Company. It is based on the story by Bess Meredyth.
Maie B. Havey, born Marie Judge, was an American screenwriter active during the earliest years of Hollywood. During her decade in the industry, she is credited with 70 screenplays.
Edwin Middleton was an American film director.
Jere F. Looney was a writer for several American silent films.
Edward Flanagan, sometimes spelled Edward Flannigan, was a comedic actor in vaudeville and American films. He was part of a popular vaudeville duo with Neely Edwards.
Tom Guise (1857–1930) was an American male actor on stage and screen. He appeared in numerous films in the decade spanning 1917 to 1927.
Joe Martin was a captive orangutan who appeared in at least 50 American films of the silent era, including approximately 20 comedy shorts, several serials, two Tarzan movies, Rex Ingram's melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round.
Universal City Zoo was a private animal collection in southern California that provided animals for silent-era Universal Pictures adventure films, circus pictures, and animal comedies, and to "serve as a point of interest" for tourists visiting Universal City. The animals were also leased to other studios. The zoo was closed in 1930, after cinema's transition to synchronized sound complicated the existing systems for using trained animals onscreen.
Early Cinema History Online (ECHO) is a database of very early silent-era film titles.
Algernon Maltby "Curley" Stecker was an early Hollywood animal trainer, Universal City Zoo superintendent, animal-film producer, and occasional actor-stuntman.