Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8996 |
| Birthday | 1912-12-20 |
| Place of Birth | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Also Known As | Sammy Morrison, Little Sambo, Smiling Sambo, Sambo, Sunshine Sammy, Ernest Fredric Morrison, Ernest 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison, Hal Roach's Rascals, Ernie Morrison, |
1940
Fugitive from a Prison Camp
9/1
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of pro...
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
1941
Spooks Run Wild
5.1/26
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Spooks Run Wild
1941
Bowery Blitzkrieg
6.136/11
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangste...
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
1994
The Our Gang Story
0/0
Join all your favorites—Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more—in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 epis...
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The Our Gang Story
1922
Saturday Morning
6.9/5
The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.
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Saturday Morning
1922
A Quiet Street
7.125/4
The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.
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A Quiet Street
1923
The Big Show
6.25/6
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
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The Big Show
1920
Live and Learn
10/1
Snub Pollard comedy
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Live and Learn
1920
Don't Rock the Boat
9/1
Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair stranded on a nearby island where comic situation...
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Don't Rock the Boat
1926
Between Meals
8/1
James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, but not released until 1926.
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Between Meals
1943
Ghosts on the Loose
4.167/36
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Ghosts on the Loose
1919
The Old Maid's Baby
7/1
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.
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The Old Maid's Baby
1919
The Sawdust Doll
10/1
Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the place of a real mother.
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The Sawdust Doll
1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
9.5/2
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1943
Clancy Street Boys
6.6/5
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the...
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Clancy Street Boys
1917
Captain Kiddo
0/0
Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr. Cross...
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Captain Kiddo
1920
Get Out and Get Under
6.413/23
The comic adventures of a new car owner.
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Get Out and Get Under
1922
The Non-Skid Kid
4.5/2
After his car runs out of gasoline, the son of a rich man takes his vehicle to a garage run by women.
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The Non-Skid Kid
1918
Dolly Does Her Bit
9/1
Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has been naughty, and finds her aunt in the act of maki...
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Dolly Does Her Bit
1919
Call for Mr. Caveman
5/4
A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.
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Call for Mr. Caveman
1920
Drink Hearty
7/1
Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers.
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Drink Hearty
1922
Full o' Pep
9/1
The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he d...
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Full o' Pep
1920
Waltz Me Around
6/4
Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for directions,...
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Waltz Me Around
1922
The Sleuth
0/0
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
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The Sleuth
1926
Soft Pedal
9/1
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
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Soft Pedal
1920
Run 'Em Ragged
7.5/2
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s E...
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Run 'Em Ragged
1920
Park Your Car
4/1
A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with their wives.
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Park Your Car
1921
Big Game
9/1
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
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Big Game
1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
7/2
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to wri...
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1923
A Pleasant Journey
6.357/7
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.
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A Pleasant Journey
1923
The Cobbler
6.667/6
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
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The Cobbler
1923
The Champeen
6.813/8
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
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The Champeen
1921
Whirl o' the West
8/1
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
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Whirl o' the West
1921
The Pickaninny
7/3
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
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The Pickaninny
1940
Gang War
6.333/6
Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.
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Gang War
1924
Tire Trouble
6.375/4
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own make...
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Tire Trouble
1921
Name the Day
10/1
Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the usual gag-filled Pollard one-reeler, with William G...
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Name the Day
1923
Back Stage
7.375/4
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
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Back Stage
1943
Kid Dynamite
6.714/7
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend D...
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Kid Dynamite
1924
Seein' Things
6.875/4
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so muc...
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Seein' Things
1922
Our Gang
6.591/11
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
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Our Gang
1922
Young Sherlocks
6.75/6
The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
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Young Sherlocks
1923
Boys to Board
6/2
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
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Boys to Board
1923
Sunday Calm
6.625/4
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charmi...
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Sunday Calm
1942
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
6.318/11
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubho...
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1924
It's a Bear
6.25/5
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while...
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It's a Bear
1940
Boys of the City
5.286/14
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Boys of the City
1923
Giants vs. Yanks
6.7/5
The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant home, which they proceed to destroy.
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Giants vs. Yanks
1923
Dogs of War!
5.833/12
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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Dogs of War!
1922
Fire Fighters
6.333/6
The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
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Fire Fighters
1940
Pride of the Bowery
6.2/10
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain a...
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Pride of the Bowery
1924
The Buccaneers
6.563/8
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat wh...
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The Buccaneers
1924
Cradle Robbers
6.875/4
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some...
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Cradle Robbers
1921
Rush Orders
10/1
A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotiv...
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Rush Orders
1922
One Terrible Day
6.5/4
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.
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One Terrible Day
1923
Stage Fright
6.875/4
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starrin...
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Stage Fright
1924
Fast Company
6.375/4
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey...
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Fast Company
1924
Big Business
6.375/4
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close t...
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Big Business
1923
Derby Day
6.5/5
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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Derby Day
1924
The 'Fraidy Cat
6.8/5
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their fa...
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The 'Fraidy Cat
1940
That Gang of Mine
5.8/13
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The m...
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That Gang of Mine
1924
Commencement Day
7.125/4
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has lo...
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Commencement Day
1920
The Dippy Dentist
6.375/4
The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Llo...
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The Dippy Dentist
1923
Lodge Night
6.5/3
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call thems...
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Lodge Night
1941
Flying Wild
6.1/10
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting s...
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Flying Wild
1923
July Days
6.5/5
The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of Ma...
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July Days
1942
Let's Get Tough
5.3/9
Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japa...
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Let's Get Tough
1920
All Lit Up
7.5/2
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their fa...
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All Lit Up
1920
Any Old Port
10/1
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one...
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Any Old Port
1920
Call a Taxi!
5.5/2
After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singi...
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Call a Taxi!
1920
Cracked Wedding Bells
7/1
'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
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Cracked Wedding Bells
1920
Cash Customers
10/1
Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake up at 6am and prepare breakfast with two eggs whic...
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Cash Customers
1920
Grab the Ghost
8/1
As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows revenge on the new bride. The wedding limo pulls off l...
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Grab the Ghost
1921
High Rollers
5.25/2
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped m...
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High Rollers
1926
Don't Butt In
8/1
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
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Don't Butt In
1920
Haunted Spooks
6.3/40
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to s...
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Haunted Spooks
1922
Penrod
10/1
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nast...
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Penrod
1942
In This Our Life
6.931/58
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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In This Our Life
1920
Number, Please?
6.517/30
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in...
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Number, Please?
1919
Start Something
7/1
Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.
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Start Something
1919
Giving the Bride Away
9/1
A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard
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Giving the Bride Away
1919
Tough Luck
9/1
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
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Tough Luck
1920
Red Hot Hottentotts
7/1
Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into difficulties with man-eating cannibals.
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Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
Getting His Goat
10/1
Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
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Getting His Goat
1920
Why Go Home?
9/1
'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
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Why Go Home?
1919
Daddy Number Two
0/0
Marie attempts to select a new husband for her mother and a father for herself.
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Daddy Number Two
1986
Classic Comedy Teams
7/1
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy,...
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Classic Comedy Teams
1919
Peggy Does Her Darndest
10/1
The Honorable Hugh Wentworth, arriving from England with a valuable diamond to millionaire Edward Ensloe. Ensloe's eldest daughter Eleanor has romanti...
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