Joe Martin

Joe Martin

Joe Martin (born between 1911 and 1913 – died after 1931) was a captive orangutan who appeared in at least 50 American films of the silent era, including approximately 20 comedy shorts, several serials, two Tarzan movies, Rex Ingram's melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round.

  • Title: Joe Martin
  • Popularity: 0.924
  • Known For: Acting
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  • Place of Birth: Indonesian Archipelago
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  • Also Known As: Joe Martin the Chimp, Charlie Chimpanzee
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Joe Martin Movies

  • 1921
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    Seven Years Bad Luck

    Seven Years Bad Luck

    6.7 1921 HD

    After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck, but in doing so causes himself the worst...

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  • 1921
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    The Adventures of Tarzan

    The Adventures of Tarzan

    5.875 1921 HD

    Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from...

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  • 1917
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    Black Orchids

    Black Orchids

    1 1917 HD

    Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous...

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  • 1926
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    Spangles

    Spangles

    1 1926 HD

    At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a wanted man, Dick Radley, who uses the circus as a...

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  • 1922
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    Trifling Women

    Trifling Women

    1 1922 HD

    Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he...

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  • 1915
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    Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

    Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

    5 1915 HD

    This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On...

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  • 1917
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    Man and Beast

    Man and Beast

    1 1917 HD

    During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle...

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  • 1915
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    Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose

    Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose

    1 1915 HD

    An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is shipping her share of the inheritance in a box....

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  • 1916
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    Hungry Happy's Dream

    Hungry Happy's Dream

    1 1916 HD

    H. Oboe Rhodes, a "knight of the road," limps into a large city with the idea of appeasing his hunger. His first quest is the welcoming doors of a...

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  • 1919
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    Looney Lions and Monkey Business

    Looney Lions and Monkey Business

    1 1919 HD

    The adventures of an escaped convict.

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  • 1916
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    What Darwin Missed

    What Darwin Missed

    1 1916 HD

    Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by Darwin and is pondering especially on the idea...

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  • 1923
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    Merry-Go-Round

    Merry-Go-Round

    6 1923 HD

    A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of...

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  • 1915
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    The Black Box

    The Black Box

    6 1915 HD

    Science fiction serial, presumed lost.

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  • 1923
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7 1923 HD

    Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

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  • 1920
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    The Evil Eye

    The Evil Eye

    1 1920 HD

    This serial, starring boxer Leslie King, is presumed lost.

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  • 1920
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    King of the Circus

    King of the Circus

    1 1920 HD

    Eddie King goes up against a villainous circus owner in this action adventure which was directed by genre specialist J.P. McGowan and released in 18...

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  • 1921
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    A Monkey Movie Star

    A Monkey Movie Star

    1 1921 HD

    Joe dreams he has become a high-salaried, temperamental movie star.

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  • 1921
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    A Monkey Hero

    A Monkey Hero

    1 1921 HD

    Here's a surefire number if ever there was one. Filled with innumerable original gags and laugh-getting animal stuff, it forms an offering that's...

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  • 1920
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    A Prohibition Monkey

    A Prohibition Monkey

    1 1920 HD

    The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon....

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  • 1920
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    A Baby Doll Bandit

    A Baby Doll Bandit

    1 1920 HD

    Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight, but one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful,...

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  • 1919
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    Monkey Stuff

    Monkey Stuff

    1 1919 HD

    Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin

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  • 1917
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    Making Monkey Business

    Making Monkey Business

    1 1917 HD

    Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "The Flea" comes to rob her, bringing his...

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