Ford Sterling Movies

A Modest Comedy Drama

A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehend an escaped convict. Probably the first Keystone...

A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton.

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

During an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and Pierre, her sweetheart--join the colors and are later...

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).

Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's...

American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race....

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and...

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.

Nellie's father is a judge, afflicted with a species of St. Vitus' dance. When he feels an attack coming on he takes a dose of medicine which always...

A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with...

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at...

Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of sight of a watchful wife and children.