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Al Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887 – 4 September 1938) was an American actor, best known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. He acted with Chaplin in six films between 1921 and 1936, cast mostly in clinical or villainous supporting roles. Garcia portrayed the brutal circus director in The Circus (1928), the snobbish butler of the millionaire in City Lights (1931), and the factory owner in Modern Times (1936). He was also a casting director for Chaplin on The Circus, City Lights, and Modern Times.
Garcia was co-founder of the Motion Picture Extras and Supporting Players Association, founded in 1933.
Al Ernest Garcia Biography / Wiki
| Name | Al Ernest Garcia |
| Also Know | Allan Ernest Garcia, Al E. Garcia, A.E. Garcia, Allan Garcia, Alan Garcia, Allen Garcia, Al Garcia, A. Garcia, Albert E. Garcia, Albert Garcia, Alfred Garcia, Ernesto Garcia, Ernest Garcia, Earnest Garcia, Frank Garcia |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1887-03-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 51 |
| Deathday | 1938-09-04 |
Al Ernest Garcia Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Circus | The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master | 1928-01-06 | Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman – soon the star of the show – and falls in love with the circus owner’s stepdaughter…. |
| Her Atonement | 1915-09-20 | … | |
| Pierre of the North | Baptiste | 1913-02-10 | Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor’s daughter. Both men propose to the girl, both are refused…. |
| Shipwrecked | Pierre Binbeau | 1911-09-21 | Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, t… |
| Indian Summer | Jim | 1913-05-22 | A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia…. |
| The Still Alarm | William Manley | 1911-05-18 | Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners… |
| Baree, Son of Kazan | ‘Bush’ McTaggart (as Al Garcia) | 1918-05-27 | From James Oliver Curwood’s novel about a wolfdog…. |
| Restitution | Lucifer and Satan | 1918-05-12 | The story of the perfect man and woman in Eden, and the temptation of Mother Eve by Lucifer. Many episodes are then presented showing how Satan, from … |
| City Lights | The Millionaire’s Butler James | 1931-02-01 | In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller…. |
| The Idle Class | Cop in Park / Guest (uncredited) | 1921-09-25 | At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he’s the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife…. |
| Young Romance | Spagnoli (as Al Garcia) | 1915-01-20 | Two young clerks in a department store meet and fall in love during a seaside vacation in Maine, but part as strangers because, unknown to each other,… |
| Morgan’s Last Raid | Morgan | 1929-01-05 | Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan … |
| The Power God | Weston Dore | 1925-05-01 | In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is ki… |
| In Old Mexico | Don Carlos Gonzalez | 1938-09-09 | Escaped criminal “The Fox” hates Hoppy and a Rurales colonel for imprisoning him and lures Cassidy to Mexico in order to exact his vengeance…. |
| The Flight of the Crow | Philip Moore – the Legal Advisor (as Al Garcia) | 1913-08-11 | Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son… |
| Six Feet Four | Ben Broderick | 1919-09-13 | A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel–both are 6’4″. When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy aga… |
| The Golden Trail | Jean the Half-Breed | 1920-09-01 | At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back … |
| The Trail of the Octopus | Wang | 1919-10-19 | Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil’s… |
| A Gentleman’s Agreement | Manager of Mine | 1918-07-29 | Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard,… |
| The Unafraid | Joseph | 1915-04-01 | In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in l… |
| Modern Times | President of the Electro Steel Corp. | 1936-02-05 | The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman…. |
| South of Santa Fe | (as Capt. Garcia) Felipe Anunciado Menendez Gonzales Rodriguez | 1932-01-08 | Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton’s gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton’s daughter Beth, sets out after … |
| Under Two Flags | Rockingham (as Al E. Garcia) | 1915-07-21 | Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign… |
| Pay Day | Drinking Companion and Policeman | 1922-04-02 | A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying…. |
| The Gay Desperado | Police Captain | 1936-01-01 | Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to be… |
| The California Trail | Sgt. Florez (as Allan Garcia) | 1933-03-24 | Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor’s effort to starve … |
| The Gay Caballero | Bandit | 1932-02-14 | Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is re… |
| One Way Passage | Honolulu Cigar Store Proprietor (uncredited) | 1932-10-04 | A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s se… |
| The Rose of the Rancho | Henchman | 1914-11-15 | Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off … |
| The Cisco Kid | Orderly (uncredited) | 1931-11-14 | The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sallyâ… |
| The Gold Rush | Prospector (uncredited) | 1925-07-12 | A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He soon gets mixed up with some burly characters, falls in love with the beautiful Georgia, a… |
| Blossoms On Broadway | Opera Patron (uncredited) | 1937-11-19 | A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway…. |
| I’ll Take Romance | Allan Garcia | 1937-11-17 | Theater manager James Guthrie’s (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, how… |
Al Ernest Garcia Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| City Lights | Casting | 1931-02-01 | In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller…. |
| Modern Times | Casting | 1936-02-05 | The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman…. |
Credit: TMDB
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