Sammy Cohen (1902–1981) was an American
film actor
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and
comedian. He was one of several popular
Jewish
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comedians acting in films during the late 1920s.
[Erens p. 91-92]
Selected filmography
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What Price Glory?'' (1926)
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The Return of Peter Grimm'' (1926)
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The Skyrocket'' (1926)
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The Great K & A Train Robbery
''The Great K & A Train Robbery'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Tom Mix and Dorothy Dwan. The film is based on the actual foiling of a train robbery by Dick Gordon as related by Paul Leicester Fo ...
'' (1926)
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Upstream
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'' (1927)
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Cradle Snatchers
''Cradle Snatchers'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks. The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Raymond Hackett, ...
'' (1927)
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Colleen'' (1927)
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The Gay Retreat'' (1927)
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Why Sailors Go Wrong
''Why Sailors Go Wrong'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Henry Lehrman and written by Randall Faye and Delos Sutherland. The film stars Sammy Cohen, Ted McNamara, Sally Phipps, Nick Stuart, E. H. Calvert, and Carl Miller. Th ...
'' (1928)
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Homesick'' (1928)
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Plastered in Paris'' (1928)
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Sailor's Luck
''Sailor's Luck'' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh for Fox Film Corporation. It stars James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Victor Jory, and Frank Moran.
The plot has a sailor on shore leave falling for a nice gir ...
'' (1933)
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Swellhead
''Swellhead'' is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Wallace Ford, Dickie Moore and Barbara Kent.Dick p.239
Synopsis
A cocky baseball player is forever bragging about his success on the field, and off it w ...
'' (1935)
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Rip Roarin' Buckaroo'' (1936)
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Here Comes Trouble'' (1936)
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The Phantom of the Range'' (1936)
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45 Fathers'' (1937)
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Battle of Broadway'' (1938)
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The Fighting 69th'' (1940)
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You're the One'' (1941)
References
Bibliography
* Erens, Patricia. ''The Jew in American Cinema''. Indiana University Press, 1984.
External links
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1902 births
1981 deaths
American male film actors
Jewish American male actors
People from Minneapolis
20th-century American male actors
20th-century American Jews
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