Mack Sennett
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Born 1880-01-17
Died 1960-11-05
Richmond, Québec, Canada
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Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian born actor, director, comedian and studio head, known as the 'King of Comedy'. He produced more than 1,000 silent films and several dozen talkies during a 25-year career. He became a United States citizen in 1932.
Sennett was born and raised in Richmond, Quebec. He moved to Connecticut when he was 17 years old.
In New York City, he took on the stage name Mack Sennett and became an actor, singer, dancer, clown, set designer, and director for the Biograph Company.
He later opened Keystone Studios in Edendale, California, in 1912. Keystone possessed the first fully enclosed film stage, and Sennett became famous as the originator of slapstick routines such as pie-throwing and car-chases, as seen in the Keystone Cops films. He also produced short features that displayed his Bathing Beauties, many of whom went on to develop successful acting careers.
Sennett's work in sound movies was less successful, and he was bankrupted in 1933. In 1938 he was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film comedy.
Mack Sennett died in Woodland Hills, California in 1960, aged 80.
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Producing
34 credits
Married Life
Ghost Parade
Caught in a Cabaret
Galloping Bungalows
Wine
In Conference
Caught in the Rain
Those Love Pangs
The Masquerader
Wife and Auto Trouble
Musclebound Music
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Whispering Whiskers
The Rounders
Remember When?
Hypnotized
Her Torpedoed Love
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Dough and Dynamite
Fight Night
The Campus Carmen
Recreation
His New Profession
Gentlemen of Nerve
His Sister's Kids
His Marriage Wow
The Fatal Glass of Beer
A Thief Catcher
Love, Speed and Thrills
Cruel, Cruel Love
The Ragtime Band
Down Memory Lane
A Film Johnnie
Acting
26 credits
This Is Your Life
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Peeping Pete
It's Showtime
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Frank Capra's American Dream
Leather Stocking
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
What the Daisy Said
His Trust
Paradise Lost
Riley and Schultze
A Lucky Toothache
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
To Save Her Soul
The Knockout
Mabel at the Wheel
The Redman's View
The Campus Carmen
A Strong Revenge
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Hollywood Cavalcade
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
The Ghost
Down Memory Lane
Directing
14 credits
Ghost Parade
Peeping Pete
Hello, Mabel
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Paradise Lost
Riley and Schultze
Hypnotized
A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition
The Knockout
Mabel at the Wheel
A Strong Revenge
The Ghost
Cruel, Cruel Love
The Ragtime Band
Writing
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