Marvin Loback

Marvin Loback
Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor)
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The Big Shot
The Big Shot (1929) - Short Film
Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo. (imdb)
Mitt the Prince
The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made for the Weiss Brothers) want to make a few bucks. The film begins with them doing some maintenance sort of work--with Fat on a ladder and Snub sweeping outside. When this doesn't work out, a random stranger just happens to walk up to them and offer them HIS MOTHER'S CAR and asks them to make a delivery. (imdb)
Double Trouble
"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord. (imdb (user)
Sing, Bing, Sing
After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again. (imdb)
White Wings
White Wings (1923) - Short Film
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist. (imdb)
The Big Idea
The Big Idea (1924) - Short Film
Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned. (imdb)
The Soilers
The Soilers (1923) - Short Film
During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the mother lode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight. (imdb)
Bashful Jim
Bashful Jim (1925) - Short Film
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short starring Ralph Graves. (imdb)
Masked Mamas
Masked Mamas (1926) - Short Film
A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short. (imdb)
A Prodigal Bridegroom
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale. (imdb)
Thick and Thin
A 'Snub' Pollard comedy short. (imdb)
A Harem Knight
A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink. (imdb)
Hooked at the Altar
A Mack Sennett Comedy short starring Ralph Graves. (imdb)
Holding His Own
After a fight with his neighbor over their Model Ts, Ben's tuxedo is ruined. Unfortunately, the suit he gets as a replacement doesn't hold up too well. (imdb)
The Golf Bug
The Golf Bug (1922) - Short Film
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
The Landlubber
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
A Rainy Knight
Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. (imdb)
Good Morning, Nurse
Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong. (imdb)
Black Oxfords
A mother and daughter are in a fix because their mortgage payment is due and they can't make it--and the heartless landlord is about to foreclose on their house and throw them in the street. Their son Jack, who is in jail, finds out about their plight and breaks out in order to enter his horse in the steeplechase race to win enough money to pay the mortgage. (imdb)
Gymnasium Jim
Jim owns and operates the best garage in town, despite he needing a little prodding to get his assistant to do the work. Jim's sweetheart, the postmistress, isn't sure if Jim is *the* man for her. It isn't until a couple of incidents occur, including Jim coming into a $10,000 windfall, that she agrees to marry him. But that $10,000 windfall could be long gone with the arrival onto the scene of Kid Ryan, a boxer with the strength of an ox and who is Jim's assistant's ex-cell mate. (imdb)
At Your Service
"At Your Service" (aka James Manages a Restaurant), 1921, starring Sidney Smith, is a nice and inventive silent comedy. James and George are seen driving down the street in an extremely dilapidated vehicle and they stop when they see a sign on a restaurant window asking for buyers OR someone willing to trade for the business. Well, given that the car is a mess, they figure to make a killing by trading it for the restaurant.
Here Comes a Sailor
A little known Weiss Brothers comedy short directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring 'Snub' Pollard where he and his fat pal are on shore leave.
Springtime Saps
Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback find comic situations as bums, night cops and seance attendees in this silent short.
Breaking the Ice
Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy. (imdb)
One of the Family
Charley Chase (as Jimmy Jump) is hired as a chauffeur.
Join the Circus
'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
Heavy Seas
Heavy Seas (1923) - Short Film
Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
Off His Trolley
Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
Whispering Lions
At the Second Annual Athletic Meet, "The Fat Men's Race" is open to anybody ~ under a ton and a half... The entries are 'Hippo' (Loback) and 'Rhino' (Parrott) who get on the scales to be weighed. Rhino is assisted by extra padding and a third leg supplied by Wallace Howe on the scales in an attempt to boost his weight. The judge spots his attempts to cheat and orders Rhino to carry extra weight in order to qualify for the race so he is stuffed with filled sacks.
Once Over
Once Over (1928) - Short Film
A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.
Sock and Run
Sock and Run (1929) - Short Film
Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.
A Yankee Doodle Duke
Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
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James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
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Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
No Kidding
No Kidding (1928) - Short Film
Snub and Loback are incompetent handymen, botching one assignment after another,until they cause their boss's lunch to hit him in the face. Fired, they walk home, but a girl asks them to mind a baby. they take it home instead, and try to keep him from discovery by the landlord.
Listening In
Listening In (1932) - Short Film
Arthur Stone gets into trouble due to a crossed phone line in this Mack Sennett comedy.
Hatta Marri
Hatta Marri (1932) - Short Film
Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.