Wallace Lupino

Wallace Lupino

Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Drama Deluxe
    Drama Deluxe (1927) - Short Film
    A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show. (imdb)
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    Time Flies
    Time Flies (1926) - Short Film
    The short starts with a duel in the Old South wherein a man inadvertently saves one of the duelist's lives for which he is given a watch. Years pass and we next see the grandson, impoverished and heading to the big city for work (taking the watch with him). His ma gives him a pigeon in case he wants to send a message back home. The watch is the key to getting a fortune and a vamp and her cohort want it. (imdb)
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    Howdy Duke
    Howdy Duke (1927) - Short Film
    Lane plays two roles: Grand Duke Algy Horseradish De Ketchup of Worcestershire and Newsboy White. The newsboy is hired by Elmer Éclair (played by Lane's younger brother, Walter Lupino) to impersonate the Duke for unstated reasons, and to attend a house party at the Smalls (a last name that leads to several puns) in the Duke's stead. Éclair warns the newsboy to stay away from the girl, as she is his finance. (imdb)
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    Naughty Boy
    Naughty Boy (1927) - Short Film
    This is a real corker. It starts off with a terrific routine with an erratic elevator. Lane's character, Johnny Jones, upon sight falls in love with Mary Craig (played by Kathryn McGuire). The man who hopes to marry her is Henry Sharp played by Wallace Lupino; the title card introducing this character says" Henry Sharp - so mean he would steal a dead fly from a blind spider." Johnny agrees to do his father a favor by posing as his little boy of about 10 years old. (imdb)
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    Hello Sailor
    Hello Sailor (1927) - Short Film
    A Lupino Lane comedy short based around Lane being a sailor. (imdb)
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    Roaming Romeo
    Roaming Romeo (1928) - Short Film
    Belle-Hure and Horatio Babaorum escape from a Roman galley only to land in a Roman palace where they indulge in their antique antics! (imdb)
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    Fandango
    Fandango (1928) - Short Film
    Fandango, a short Lane made for Educational Pictures in 1928. Our setting is Bullonia, "the land of romance, castanets, onions and sweet zephyrs of garlic." Actually, it looks rather like a back-lot version of Spain or Latin America. More to the point, the atmosphere suggests the Doug Fairbanks vehicle The Gaucho, which was in general release when this short was made. (imdb)
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    Summer Saps
    Summer Saps (1929) - Short Film
    How the Lupino's spent their summer. Slapstick comedy.
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    The Lost Laugh
    The Lost Laugh (1928) - Short Film
    THE LOST LAUGH - starring Wallace Lupino, with Lucille Hutton and Monte Collins. After a rough start with their rise and shine, a couple's breakfast is interrupted by a washing machine salesman's visit. Purchased and installed, the washer proves troublesome and after several attempts at laundering, the salesman returns only to be ejected...along with his appliance.
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    Me and My Girl
    Lambeth Walk is the film version of the evergreen West End musical Me and My Girl, which was still being successfully revived into the 1980s. The enormously popular music-hall entertainer Lupino Lane repeats his stage characterization as Bill, a diffident working-class cockney who finds himself heir to a title and a vast estate. Though he now has his pick of England's most gorgeous debutantes, Bill remains faithful to his blue-collar girlfriend Sally (Sally Gray). (allmovie.com)
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    Be My King
    Be My King (1928) - Short Film
    Comedy star Lupino Lane is shipwrecked on a desert island.
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    The Draw-Back
    The Draw-Back (1927) - Short Film
    A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball. (imdb)
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    Movieland
    Movieland (1926) - Short Film
    A Lupino Lane comedy short.
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    The Love Race
    The Love Race is a delightful musical comedy film based around the fierce rivalry between two motor manufacturers - and the romance that develops between the daughter of one and the son of the other...
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    The Student\
    In old Heidelberg the marriage of a student to a princess is nearly compromised when the landlady pays his debts from the kindness of her heart. (imdb)
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    Off Again
    Off Again (1927) - Short Film
    Jack Lloyd and his girl get chased around the amusement park.
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    No Lady
    A mild-mannered, somewhat henpecked husband takes his wife and kids to Blackpool for a holiday. While there he is mistaken for an international criminal genius. He finds himself mixed up in intrigue, espionage and--of all things--a glider race. (imdb)
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    Shipmates o\
    A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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    Old Spanish Customers
    A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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    The Deputy Drummer
    Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.
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    The Movie Hound
    The Movie Hound (1927) - Short Film
    A comedy short all about finding the right type of dog for a Hollywood movie.
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    Maid in Morocco
    Lupino and his wife Helen are honeymooning in Morocco and the local Caliph wants to add Helen to his harem. Lupino saves her, loses her again and saves her again.
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    Sword Points
    Sword Points (1928) - Short Film
    A wandering swordsman in the reign of Louis XIII stumbles into a nest of conspirators against the King when his horse throws him and he is forced to seek refuge in a nearby inn. Without money or rank, he is treated ignominiously by patron and customers, but when a captured messenger from the King arrives, accompanied by a lovely lady, he swings into action to save the day. Or try to...
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    Good Night Nurse
    Lupino Lane visits the doctor.
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    His Private Life
    Reggie Hemingway is a rich broker who continually bullies his valet. World War I breaks out and the valet enlists immediately. Reggie goes to the army later and arrives at the training camp to find that his valet is now a tough sergeant in charge of the recruits.
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    Monty of the Mounted
    Lupino Lane as part of the Mounties catching crooks.
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    Battling Sisters
    Battling Sisters (1929) is a bizarre, futuristic gender-bending semi-spoof of 'The Big Parade, with men and women's roles reversed.Offering the spectacle of Wallace Lupino, in drag, vamping the helpless house husband Lane!
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    Joyland
    Joyland (1929) - Short Film
    At a toy hospital, an apprentice deals with a trouble-making boy and his clueless mother. After they leave, he is forced to work late, falls asleep and dreams of a castle where the toys in the shop come to life.
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    Hard Work
    Hard Work (1928) - Short Film
    A couple and their young son move into a fixer-upper - which they try to fix up with mostly disastrous results.
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    No Fare
    No Fare (1928) - Short Film
    When Big Boy's mother leaves town for work, her son is left with a friend as she hasn't the money for his fare as well. Upset, he follows her and causes havoc on the train.
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    High Sea Blues
    High Sea Blues (1927) - Short Film
    Only the first reel is known to survive. Bill and Jennie marry over his aunt's objections. As the couple leaves on their honeymoon, his aunt shows up to chaperon. A luggage mix-up causes jealousy and suspicion.
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