Mantan Moreland

Acting

Mantan Moreland

Born 1902-09-03 Monroe, Louisiana, USA 108 films

Born just after the turn of the century in Louisiana, Mantan began running away from home at age 12 to join circuses and medicine shows, only to be brought back time and again. During these times he sharpened his comic skills and developed routines and acts that eventually became popular on the vaudeville stage, or what was then called the "chitlin' circuit." A solo performer by nature, he often teamed up with other famous comics (such as Ben Carter) to ke…

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Filmography

108 films
Watermelon Man poster

A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of tauntin…

Watermelon Man

★ 6.3 1970

The Comic poster

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his fun…

The Comic

★ 6.1 1969

Spider Baby poster

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives w…

Spider Baby

★ 6.8 1967

Enter Laughing poster

A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman…

Enter Laughing

★ 4.8 1967

The Patsy poster

Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased…

The Patsy

★ 6.2 1964

Sky Dragon poster

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it i…

Sky Dragon

★ 8.0 1949

The Golden Eye poster

A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable mo…

The Golden Eye

★ 5.6 1948