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Lige Conley est un Acteur Américain né le 4 décembre 1897 à Saint-Louis (Etats-Unis)

Lige Conley

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Nom de naissance Elijah Crommie
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 4 décembre 1897 à Saint-Louis (Etats-Unis)
Mort 11 décembre 1937 (à 40 ans) à Hollywood (Etats-Unis)

Lige Conley (born Elijah Crommie; December 5, 1897 – December 11, 1937) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 140 films between 1915 and 1938.

As Lige Crommie, the curly-haired young comedian joined the stock company of the Mack Sennett studio in 1915. In 1917 he moved to the up-and-coming Hal Roach studio, then producing one-reel comedies with Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, and Snub Pollard. The Roach comedies credited the actor as "Lige Cromley," but since Lloyd and company dominated their pictures, which were limited to single reels, there was little chance for Lige to distinguish himself. He returned to Sennett as a stock player, again as Lige Crommie. When Sennett director Fred Fishback left Sennett for his own unit at Universal Pictures. Lige soon joined him there.

The comic finally achieved stardom at Educational Pictures, where he appeared in a long string of brisk, elaborately staged two-reel comedies. Some of these were directed by Fishback, under the pseudonym of Fred Hibbard. Educational took out trade ads in the mid-1920s, hailing Conley as the next Charlie Chaplin. Conley, with his curly hair and coy grin, did indeed bear a resemblance to the out-of-character Chaplin.

Conley's stock-in-trade was the comedy of embarrassment, as his meek screen character earnestly failed at any occupation he tried. Conley's two most famous comedies are both 1924 releases.

Fast and Furious, directed by Norman Taurog, is a fast-moving comedy set in a general store, with Lige doing everything from demonstrating pancake batter to selling shoes. The last half of the film is a spectacular car-motorcycle-and-train chase, some of which was excerpted in the Kevin Brownlow-David Gill silent-film documentary Hollywood (1980).

Le plus souvent avec

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(36 films)
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
(36 films)
Snub Pollard
Snub Pollard
(36 films)
Bebe Daniels
Bebe Daniels
(36 films)
Sammy Brooks
Sammy Brooks
(34 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Lige Conley (40 films)

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Acteur

L'Idole du village
L'Idole du village (1921)
, 1h10
Réalisé par Erle C. Kenton, Mack Sennett
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Ben Turpin, James Finlayson, Phyllis Haver, Marie Prevost, Bert Roach, Charles Murray
Rôle (*as Lige Crommie)
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Sam Smith est fiancé à la plus jolie fille du village, mais il se retrouve accusé de vol et est expulsé. Il se retrouve à Los Angeles où il réussit en tant qu'acteur dans un studio de cinéma, puis revient à son village, riche et célèbre.