Frank Opperman

Frank Opperman
Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor)
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In Old California
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century. (imdb)
The Indian Brothers
A renegade Indian kills a chief who has insulted him. The chief's brother swears vengeance and pursues the renegade, overtaking him just in time to rescue him from another tribe who are angry with him for stealing a horse. (imdb)
A Flirt\
A woman's rotund husband finds it nearly impossible to resist flirting with any girl who comes in sight. He goes so far as to sneak out of the house in order to find girls to flirt with. One morning he spots a likely target, but the "girl" turns out to be a bearded rajah with a big sword and little patience for being mistaken for a girl. (imdb)
Gussle, the Golfer
The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, mistreating his caddy and generally making an ass of himself on the golf course, receives a well-deserved golf ball to the noggin, temporarily rendering him disoriented. The offending golfer, Ambrose, and his wife feel terrible about the erring ball; but if they knew what Gussle was capable of, they'd have left him lying on the green.... (imdb)
Those Country Kids
Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (en.wikipedia.org)
The Little Teacher
The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé. (imdb)
Bombs!
Bombs! (1916) - Short Film
A World War 1 slapstick comedy from Keystone. (imdb)
Her Fame and Shame
A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda. (imdb)
The Yaqui Cur
The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and again, the moans of men caught under falling horses struck terror in the boy's heart The incensed warriors cast him from the tribe with the brand of a coward. It was then that his opportunity came to follow the white man's wonderful doctrine. "Big love man lay down life for friend," (imdb)
The Wanderer
The Wanderer (1913) - Short Film
This story is somewhat in the nature of a poetical fantasy, and may be construed as the spectator pleases. It is the story of a wanderer who prefers to seek, through his flute, the spirit of truth, that he may give it out into the world as he passes through his various journeys and experiences in life and thus make earth a better and fairer place. He prefers this to the perpetual strife for gain. (imdb)
Neighbors
Neighbors (1912) - Short Film
A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Fred Mace & Fred Mace. (imdb)
Helens Marriage
The movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon as Helen climbs down the ladder, her parents, played by Grace Henderson and Frank Opperman, come out armed, and Opperman chases Tom away. (imdb)
Katchem Kate
Katchem Kate (1912) - Short Film
Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a detective. Mabel goes rushing off to a Detective school run by Fred Ward. (imdb)
Love in Armor
Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas... (imdb)
The Rent Jumpers
The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. (imdb)
The Feathered Nest
Keystone-Triangle comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.
Orkney Snork Nie
The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening. The series was written and directed by Willie Esterhuizen who was also involved in other popular South African series and movies. (Wikipedia)
Colored Villainy
The Keystone gang all in blackface for this one-reeler!
A Lucky Leap
A Lucky Leap (1915) - Short Film
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. (imdb)
A Bear Affair
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Stolen Glory
Stolen Glory (1912) - Short Film
Warner is an old veteran in love with the widow Simpson. His rival is an old farmer, named Burns. Warner stands in front of the old soldiers' home, telling a crowd of old veterans of the battles he took part in, and as he unfolds the tales the scenes are depicted in the film. Burns, with rake in his hand, listens doubtfully, makes a few sarcastic remarks and walks away. (imdb)
His Second Childhood
This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.
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Keystone melodrama parody in which two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
Hash House Mashers
A boarder pursues his love, the landlords daughter, much mayhem in the process.
His Luckless Love
His Luckless Love, starring Tom Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid's new beau.
Iola\
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats, from whose clutches and abuse she is rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, for she regards him as something different from the white people she has seen. Jack's sweetheart and her father are parties of a wagon-train headed for this place, and as luck has been against him, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold.
Broken Ways
Broken Ways (1913) - Short Film
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.
A Lodging for the Night
Dick Logan, a young writer in search of local color, stops at a little border town in the Southwest and engages lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to secure it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. That night, to while the time, he plays faro and breaks the bank, which greatly augments his already large amount of money.
Nobody Dies
Daniel Niemand is a sad-sack whose life changes after he accidentally gets his therapist killed.
Fatty Again
Fatty Again (1914) - Short Film
Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl’s parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
My Valet
My Valet (1915) - Short Film
The parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman he convinces his valet to switch places. The idea is that the valet will make a bad impression on the fiance, the wedding will canceled and the hero can marry his true love. There is only one problem, his love and unseen fiance are the same woman.