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Joe Martin
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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 s…
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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.
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1926
Spangles
Movie The Chimp (uncredited)
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1923
Hollywood
Movie Orangutan
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1923
Merry-Go-Round
Movie Chimp (uncredited)
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1922
Trifling Women
Movie Orangutan (uncredited)
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1921
The Adventures of Tarzan
Movie Man in Ape Suit
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1921
A Monkey Movie Star
Movie Self
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1921
A Monkey Hero
Movie Monkey Hero
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1921
Seven Years Bad Luck
Movie The Chimpanzee (uncredited)
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1920
A Prohibition Monkey
Movie Joe Martin - An Orang-outang
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1920
The Evil Eye
Movie Orangutan (uncredited)
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1920
A Baby Doll Bandit
Movie The Chimp
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1920
King of the Circus
Movie Chimp (uncredited)
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1919
Monkey Stuff
Movie A Chimp
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1919
Looney Lions and Monkey Business
Movie The Chimp
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1917
Man and Beast
Movie The Orang-Outang
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1917
Making Monkey Business
Movie The Ape
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1917
Black Orchids
Movie Haitim-Tai
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1916
What Darwin Missed
Movie The Wise Oran-Outang
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1916
Hungry Happy's Dream
Movie Joe Martin the Chimp
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1915
Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Movie Orangutan
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1915
Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose
Movie Joe Martin - the Inheritance
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1915
The Black Box
Movie Chimp
