Joe Martin

Joe Martin (0)

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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.

On Movies

  • Spangles
  • Hollywood
  • Merry-Go-Round
  • Trifling Women
  • The Adventures of Tarzan
  • A Monkey Movie Star
  • A Monkey Hero
  • Seven Years Bad Luck
  • A Prohibition Monkey
  • The Evil Eye
  • A Baby Doll Bandit
  • King of the Circus
  • Monkey Stuff
  • Looney Lions and Monkey Business
  • Man and Beast
  • Making Monkey Business
  • Black Orchids
  • What Darwin Missed
  • Hungry Happy's Dream
  • Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
  • Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose
  • The Black Box

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