SLIM SUMMERVILLE BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Slim Summerville was born on July 10th, 1892 in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the birth name George Joseph Somerville.  His mother passed away when he was just five years old and his father moved to numerous places throughout the country. 

As a young teenager he ran away from home and happened to become friends with Mack Sennett through a mutual friend.  Sennett took to Summerville and by the age of nineteen, with no intentions of ever becoming an actor, Summerville began appearing in silent films.
 
Some of his early short film roles included, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin and the Keystone Cops, "The Knockout" starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, Mack Sennett and Mack Swain , "Love and Bullets", "Laughing Gas" starring Charlie Chaplin, Alice Howell, Mack Swain, Joseph Sutherland, Fritz Schade and Josef Swickard, "Fatty and the Heiress" starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Edward Dillon and Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, "Mabel's Busy Day" starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, Charley Chase and Mack Sennett and "Those Happy Days" (all 1914). 

Along with working as an actor on silent films, he also worked on the other side of the industry as a director working on projects for Fox and Universal Studio's such as, "Pardon Me" (1921), "Hold the Line" (1922), "High and Dry" (1922), "Unreal News Reel" (1923), "The Riding Master" (1923), "The Pinhead" (1924), "Wanted a Bride" (1926) and "Hopalong" (1927) among many others.
 
When the silent film era came to an end, he returned to acting and had no problem making the transition to talkies.  Some of his more well know film roles included, Academy Award winner "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930) starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, William Bakewell, Edmund Breese, Harold Goodwin, Beryl Mercer and Ben Alexander, "King of Jazz" (1930), "The Front Page" (1931) starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, Mae Clarke, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett, Frank McHugh, Clarence Wilson and Edward Everett Horton, "Captain January" (1936) starring Shirley Temple, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938), "Tobacco Road" (1941) and "The Hoodlum Saint" (1946) starring William Powell, Esther Williams, James Gleason, Lewis Stone, Rags Ragland, Frank McHugh, Louis Jean Heydt, Henry O'Neill, Charles Trowbridge, Addison Richards, Tom Dugan, Trevor Bardette, Roman Bohnen and Charles Arnt.
 
He passed away from a stroke on January 6th, 1946 in Laguna Beach, California. at the age of fifty three.  He married twice during his lifetime, first briefly to Gertrude M. Roell in 1927 and they adopted a child together before the marriage ended in 1936.  He then wed Eleanor Brown and remained married until he passed away. 

Slim Summerville was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the Motion Picture Industry as well as being inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012.   

Filmography

1946         The Hoodlum Saint
1945         Sing Me a Song of Texas
1944         I'm from Arkansas
1944         Swing in the Saddle
1944         Bride by Mistake
1944         Bachelor Daze 
1943         Garden of Eatin' 
1942         The Valley of Vanishing Men
1941         Miss Polly
1941         Niagara Falls 
1941         Highway West
1941         Puddin' Head
1941         Tobacco Road
1941         Western Union
1941         Uncle Joe
1940         Gold Rush Maisie
1940         Anne of Windy Poplars
1940         You Nazty Spy!
1939         Henry Goes Arizona
1939         Charlie Chan in Reno
1939         Winner Take All
1939         Jesse James
1938         Up the River
1938         Submarine Patrol
1938         Five of a Kind
1938         Kentucky Moonshine
1938         Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1937         Fifty Roads to Town
1937         The Road Back
1937         Love Is News
1937         Off to the Races
1936         Reunion
1936         Can This Be Dixie?
1936         Pepper
1936         White Fang
1936         Captain January
1936         The Country Doctor
1935         Way Down East
1935         The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935         Life Begins at Forty
1934         Their Big Moment
1934         Love Birds
1933         Love, Honor and Oh Baby!
1933         Her First Mate
1933         Horse Play
1933         Out All Night
1932         They Just Had to Get Married
1932         Air Mail
1932         Officer, Save My Child
1932         Kid Glove Kisses
1932         Tom Brown of Culver
1932         Meet the Princess
1932         Racing Youth
1932         Eyes Have It
1932         The Unexpected Father
1932         In the Bag
1932         Sea Soldier's Sweeties
1931         Peeking in Peking
1931         Bless the Ladies 
1931         Heaven on Earth
1931         Hotter Than Haiti
1931         Reckless Living
1931         Lasca of the Rio Grande
1931         First to Fight
1931         El Tenorio del harem
1931         Parisian Gaities
1931         Here's Luck
1931         Let's Play
1931         Arabian Knights
1931         The Bad Sister
1931         The Front Page
1931         The Sargie's Playmate
1931         Many a Slip
1931         The Royal Bluff
1931         Hello Russia
1931         Estamos en París
1931         ¡Hola, Rusia!
1930         Free Love
1930         Ooh La-La
1930         See America Thirst
1930         We! We! Marie!
1930         Her Man
1930         The Spoilers
1930         Under Montana Skies
1930         Parlez Vous
1930         Little Accident
1930         All Quiet on the Western Front
1930         King of Jazz
1930         Troopers Three
1929         Tiger Rose
1929         The Shannons of Broadway
1929         One Hysterical Night
1929         Sailor's Holiday
1929         Strong Boy
1929         King of the Rodeo
1929         The Last Warning
1928         Riding for Fame
1927         The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927         The Chinese Parrot
1927         Painted Ponies
1927         Red Suspenders 
1927         Hey! Hey! Cowboy
1927         The Beloved Rogue
1927         Why Mules Leave Home
1927         The Denver Dude
1927         Oh! What a Kick!
1926         The Texas Streak
1925         All Out
1924         Hello, 'Frisco
1924         William Tell 
1924         The Cry Baby
1924         Miners Over 21
1924         Case Dismissed
1924         My Little Brother
1924         Politics
1924         Green Grocers
1924         Ship Ahoy!
1924         Keep Healthy
1924         Easy Money
1924         Easy Work
1924         Why Wait?
1923         The Rivals
1921         The Singer Midget's Scandal
1921         Skirts
1920         Pretty Lady
1920         Hold Me Tight
1920         Mary's Little Lobster
1920         Ten Nights Without a Barroom
1920         Training for Husbands
1920         Sheriff Nell's Comeback
1919         A Schoolhouse Scandal
1919         Wild Waves and Women
1919         Her First Kiss
1919         Virtuous Husbands
1919         Footballs and Frauds
1918         Roaring Lions on the Midnight Express
1918         A High Diver's Last Kiss
1918         His Smothered Love
1918         Those Athletic Girls
1918         It Pays to Exercise 
1918         His Hidden Purpose
1918         The Kitchen Lady 
1917         Are Waitresses Safe? 
1917         Roping Her Romeo
1917         A Bedroom Blunder 
1917         His Precious Life
1917         The Pawnbroker's Heart
1917         A Dog Catcher's Love
1917         Her Fame and Shame
1917         Villa of the Movies
1917         Are Witnesses Safe?
1916         His Busted Trust
1916         The Winning Punch
1916         Hearts and Sparks 
1916         The Three Slims
1916         Bucking Society
1916         His Bread and Butter
1916         Gypsy Joe
1916         Cinders of Love
1916         The Snow Cure
1915         Fatty and the Broadway Stars 
1915         The Great Vacuum Robbery
1915         Her Painted Hero
1915         A Game Old Knight
1915         A Rascal's Wolfish Ways
1915         A Home Breaking Hound
1915         Those Bitter Sweets
1915         Merely a Married Man
1915         Those College Girls
1915         A Human Hound's Triumph
1915         Crossed Love and Swords
1915         Their Social Splash 
1915         Gussle's Day of Rest
1915         Caught in the Act
1915         That Little Band of Gold
1915         Beating Hearts and Carpets
1915         A Lucky Leap
1915         The Home Breakers
1915         A Bird's a Bird 
1915         Fatty's New Role 
1915         Rum and Wall Paper
1915         Her Winning Punch
1915         Saved by the Wireless
1914         Gussle, the Golfer 
1914         Their Fatal Bumping 
1914         Fatty and Minnie He-Haw 
1914         Wild West Love
1914         Fatty's Magic Pants 
1914         Ambrose's First Falsehood 
1914         Leading Lizzie Astray 
1914         Among the Mourners 
1914         Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914         An Incompetent Hero 
1914         His Talented Wife
1914         Cursed by His Beauty
1914         Gentlemen of Nerve
1914         Dough and Dynamite 
1914         Stout Hearts But Weak Knees 
1914         Zip, the Dodger 
1914         High Spots on Broadway
1914         The Anglers
1914         Those Love Pangs 
1914         He Loved the Ladies 
1914         Lover's Luck
1914         Mabel's Latest Prank
1914         Those Country Kids 
1914         A New York Girl
1914         The Property Man 
1914         Soldiers of Misfortune
1914         Those Happy Days 
1914         Laughing Gas 
1914         A Rowboat Romance
1914         Love and Bullets 
1914         Fatty and the Heiress
1914         Mabel's Busy Day 
1914         The Knockout
1914         Caught in the Rain
1912         Hoffmeyer's Legacy