Albert Edward Sutherland (January 5, 1895 – December 31, 1973) was a British-born film director and actor. Born in London, he was from a theatrical family. His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer. He was a nephew of both Blanche Ring and Thomas Meighan , who was married to Frances Ring, another of his mother's sisters.
17-452: Sutherland acted in 37 known films early in his career, beginning as a Keystone Cop in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), which starred Charlie Chaplin , Mabel Normand , and Marie Dressler . Sutherland was directed by Charlie Chaplin in A Woman of Paris (1923), two years before Sutherland began his directing career with the help of Chaplin. Frequently billed as "Eddie Sutherland," he
34-633: A Keystone Cop. Mack Sennett continued to use the Keystone Cops intermittently through the 1920s, but their popularity had waned by the time that sound films arrived. In 1935, director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel , featuring a re-creation of the Kops clutching at their hats, leaping in the air in surprise, running energetically in any direction, and taking extreme pratfalls. The Staub version of
51-630: A happy marriage; there were numerous reports on both sides of infidelity. He did not have children in any of his marriages. Sutherland lived in and owned the Calypso Apartments in South Palm Springs, California , where he died in 1973. Keystone Cops The Keystone Cops (often spelled " Keystone Kops ") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. Keystone Cops
68-547: A prop man. Sennett also starred in a cameo appearance as himself). Richard Lester 's A Hard Day's Night (1964) has a scene where the reminiscent Keystone cops chase the Beatles around the streets. In Sydney, Australia, in the 1960s, Rod Hull , Desmond Tester and Penny Spence featured in a local homage series of TV comedy shorts, Caper Cops . "It’s a direct steal of the American Keystone Kops [sic], but this
85-561: Is Sydney, Australia, in the late 1960s and who cares..." said creator/star Hull. Mel Brooks directed a car chase scene in the Keystone Cops' style in his comedy film Silent Movie (1976). In the late 1960s, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts pitched to create a series of animated cartoon short films based on the Keystone Cops, before being scrapped permanently following the closure of Warner’s original animation studio in 1969. The name has since been used to criticize any group for its mistakes and lack of coordination, particularly if either trait
102-479: Is best known as a director; he directed more than 50 movies between 1925 and 1956. His breakout film was Behind the Front (1926), which made stars of leads Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton and established Sutherland as a comedic director. He had an especially hard time working with Stan Laurel , whom he disliked ("I'd rather eat a tarantula than work with Laurel again"). On the other hand, he became close friends with
119-670: The Boys . Sutherland's last directing assignment was working on the Mack & Myer for Hire TV comedies with Joey Faye and Mickey Deems for Sandy Howard TV Productions and Trans-Lux Television in 1965. Sutherland was married five times. Among his wives were Marjorie Daw (from 1923 to 1925) and Louise Brooks (from July 1926 to June 1928). He and Brooks met on the set of It's the Old Army Game , which he directed and which also co-starred his aunt Blanche Ring . Brooks and Sutherland did not have
136-615: The Clutches of a Gang ) is a 1914 American short comedy film featuring Roscoe Arbuckle and the Keystone Cops . The majority of the film is believed to be lost . However, a fragment of the film exists and is held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . This film is considered to be a "high point" for the Keystone Cops, as the entire movie focuses on the slapstick police force. This 1910s short comedy film–related article
153-471: The Keystone Cops became a template for later re-creations. 20th Century Fox 's 1939 film Hollywood Cavalcade had Buster Keaton in a Keystone chase scene. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) included a lengthy chase scene, showcasing a group of stuntmen dressed as Sennett's squad. (Two original Keystone Cops in this film were Heinie Conklin as an elderly studio guard and Hank Mann as
170-563: The Keystone Kops. The 1983 video game Keystone Kapers , released for the Atari 2600 , 5200 , MSX and Colecovision , by Activision , featured Officer Keystone Kelly. The open-source 1987 video game NetHack features Keystone Kops as a type of enemy, appearing whenever a player steals from an in-game shop. In the Clutches of the Gang In the Clutches of the Gang (also known as In
187-519: The United Kingdom and Ireland . The rugby commentator Liam Toland uses the term to describe a team's incompetent performance on the pitch. The phrase "Keystone cops defending" has become a catchphrase for describing a situation in an English football match where a defensive error or a series of defensive errors leads to a goal. The term was also used in American Football commentary to describe
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#1733094399307204-481: The first full-length Sennett comedy feature Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Mabel's New Hero (1913) with Normand and Arbuckle; Making a Living (1914) with Chaplin in his first pre- Tramp screen appearance; In the Clutches of the Gang (1914) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John ; and Wished on Mabel (1915) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others. Comic actors Chester Conklin , Jimmy Finlayson , and Ford Sterling were also Keystone Cops, as
221-468: The more famously acerbic W.C. Fields , with whom he established a lifelong friendship, though by at least one account they got off to a rocky start. In 1940, he directed One Night in the Tropics , which was the film debut of Abbott and Costello . Other notable films include Palmy Days , International House , Too Much Harmony , The Flying Deuces , The Navy Comes Through , Dixie , and Follow
238-563: The play of the New York Jets against the New England Patriots in the 2012 Butt Fumble game, with sportscaster Cris Collinsworth declaring "This is the Keystone Cops", after the Jets gave up 21 points in 51 seconds. According to Dave Filoni , supervising director of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars , the look of the police droid is based on the appearance of
255-482: Was director Del Lord . The original Keystone Cops were George Jeske , Bobby Dunn , Mack Riley, Charles Avery , Slim Summerville , Edgar Kennedy , and Hank Mann . In 2010, the lost short A Thief Catcher was discovered at an antique sale in Michigan. It was filmed in 1914 and stars Ford Sterling , Mack Swain , Edgar Kennedy , and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown appearance of Charlie Chaplin as
272-501: Was exhibited after a great deal of energy and activity. For example, in criticizing the Department of Homeland Security 's response to Hurricane Katrina , Senator Joseph Lieberman claimed that emergency workers under DHS chief Michael Chertoff "ran around like Keystone Kops, uncertain about what they were supposed to do or uncertain how to do it." In sport, the term has come into common usage by television commentators, particularly in
289-658: Was the idea of Hank Mann , and they were named for the Keystone studio, the film production company founded in 1912 by Sennett. Their first film was Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912), with Mann playing the part of police chief Tehiezel, but their popularity stemmed from the 1913 short The Bangville Police starring Mabel Normand . As early as 1914, Sennett shifted the Keystone Cops from starring roles to background ensemble in support of comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle . The Keystone Cops served as supporting players for Chaplin, Marie Dressler and Mabel Normand in
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