Movie: When Comedy Was King

Top 10 Billed Cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery

edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)

Charley Chase
Charley Chase

edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton

edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)

Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Kennedy

edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)

Harry Langdon
Harry Langdon

edited from 'The First 100 Years'

Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel

edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy

edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)

Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand

edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

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