
Mack Swain
Biography
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Mack Swain (born Moroni Swain, February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an early American film actor, who appeared in many of Mack Sennett's comedies at Keystone Studios, including the Keystone Cops series. He also appeared in major features by Charlie Chaplin.
In the early 1900s Swain had his own stock theater company, which performed in the western and midwestern United States.
Swain worked in vaudeville before starting in silent film at Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. While with Keystone, he was teamed with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as "Ambrose" and Conklin as the grand mustachioed "Walrus", they performed these roles in several films including The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus and Love, Speed and Thrills, both made in 1915.
Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, 26 all told, and they also appeared separately and/or together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players.
Swain later took his Ambrose character with him to the L-KO Kompany. Having already worked with Charles Chaplin at Keystone, Swain began working with him again at First National in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class, Pay Day, and The Pilgrim. He is also remembered for his large supporting role as Big Jim McKay in the 1925 film The Gold Rush, for United Artists, written by and starring Chaplin.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mack Swain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street.
Acting (81 movies)

The Gold Rush
1925

Laughing Gas
1914

The Fatal Mallet
1914

Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914

Hands Up!
1926

The Idle Class
1921

Yesterday and Today
1953

The Locked Door
1929

Hello, Mabel
1914

The Girl from Everywhere
1927

The Girl from Nowhere
1928

Caught in the Rain
1914

A Busy Day
1914

Mabel's Married Life
1914

His Musical Career
1914

His Trysting Places
1914

Getting Acquainted
1914

Gentlemen of Nerve
1914

His Prehistoric Past
1914

Pay Day
1922

The Pilgrim
1923

A Thief Catcher
1914

A Texas Steer
1927

Mockery
1927

Pitfalls of a Big City
1923

Torrent
1926

Fatty's New Role
1915

Leading Lizzie Astray
1914

Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914

The Late Lamented
1917

Double Crossed
1914

Willful Ambrose
1915

Love, Speed and Thrills
1915

Mabel Lost and Won
1915

Ambrose's Nasty Temper
1915

When Ambrose Dared Walrus
1915

Finn and Hattie
1931

Kiki
1926

A Muddy Romance
1913

Fatty Joins the Force
1913

The Sea Bat
1930

A Movie Star
1916

Redemption
1930

His Bitter Pill
1916

Madcap Ambrose
1916

Mabel at the Wheel
1914

Caught in a Cabaret
1914

The Knockout
1914

That Little Band Of Gold
1915

Tillie's Punctured Romance
1928

The Nervous Wreck
1926

The Eagle
1925

Full o' Spirits
1920

The Gusher
1913

Footloose Widows
1926

Her First False Hare
1919

My Best Girl
1927

Sea Horses
1926

Caught in the Fog
1928

Soup to Nuts
1930

The Shamrock and the Rose
1927

The Beloved Rogue
1927

The Last Warning
1928

The Pullman Bride
1917

The Home Breakers
1915

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928

The Chaplin Revue
1959

Becky
1927

Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998

Thirst
1917

Whispering Wires
1926

Ambrose's Little Hatchet
1915

Lighthouse Love
1932

Hogan's Romance Upset
1915

The Midnight Patrol
1932

Bad Boy
1935

Lost: A Cook
1917

The Devil's Circus
1926

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
1931

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
1931
Directing (2 movies)
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