Phyllis Allen

from Staten Island, New York, USA

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Biography

Phyllis Allen (November 25, 1861 – March 26, 1938) was an American vaudeville and silent screen comedian who worked with Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Mack Sennett during a film career spanning 74 movies in the decade between 1913 and 1923. Given her rotund size, she was quite similar in appearance to fellow screen comedian Marie Dressler.

Timeline

1959Aged 98

  • Poster for The Chaplin Revue

    Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

1923Aged 62

  • Poster for The Pilgrim

    Congregation Member (uncredited)

1922Aged 61

  • Poster for Pay Day

    His Wife

1920Aged 59

1919Aged 58

  • Poster for Monkey Stuff

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Head Waiter

    (Unknown)

1917Aged 56

  • Poster for The Adventurer

    Governess (uncredited)

1916Aged 55

  • Poster for A Movie Star

    Jack's Real Wife

  • Poster for The Vagabond

    (uncredited)

1915Aged 54

  • Poster for Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

    The Bride

  • Caught in a Park

    The Wife

  • Poster for That Little Band Of Gold

    Audience Member (uncredited)

  • Poster for Gussle's Day of Rest

    Mrs. Gussle

  • Poster for Gussle's Wayward Path

    Gussle's Wife

  • Gussle Rivals Jonah

    Mrs. Gussle

  • Poster for Fatty’s Plucky Pup

    Fatty's Mother

  • Poster for A Lover's Lost Control

    Shoe Customer

  • Poster for Fickle Fatty's Fall

    Fatty's Mother-In-Law

  • Poster for A Submarine Pirate

    A pugnacious guest

1914Aged 53

  • Rebecca's Wedding Day

    Wedding Guest

  • Poster for A Thief Catcher

    Woman Hanging Out Washing (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Star Boarder

    Boarder (uncredited)

  • Where Hazel Met the Villain

    Hazel

  • Poster for Caught in a Cabaret

    Cabaret Dancer (uncredited)

  • Poster for A Busy Day

    The Other Woman (unconfirmed)

  • Fatty and the Heiress

    (Unknown)

  • Fatty's Finish

    Fatty's Friend's Wife

  • Poster for The Property Man

    Lena Fat (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Rounders

    Mrs. Full

  • Poster for Lover's Luck

    The Girl's Mother

  • Fatty Again

    The Proprietor's Wife

  • Poster for Zip, the Dodger

    Minta's Mother

  • Poster for Dough and Dynamite

    Customer

  • Poster for Gentlemen of Nerve

    Flirty Woman

  • Poster for His Trysting Places

    Ambrose's Wife

  • Poster for Leading Lizzie Astray

    Amorous Dancing Cafe Patron (uncredited)

  • Poster for Getting Acquainted

    Mrs. Sniffels

  • Poster for Fatty's Magic Pants

    Fatty's Mother

  • Poster for Tillie's Punctured Romance

    Prison Matron / Restaurant Patron / Guest (uncredited)

1913Aged 52

  • Poster for Murphy's I.O.U.

    (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

  • Poster for Fatty at San Diego

    Fatty's Wife