Al Ernest Garcia
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Al Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887 – 4 September 1938) was an American actor, best known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. He acted with Chaplin in six films between 1921 and 1936, cast mostly in clinical or villainous supporting roles. Garcia portrayed the brutal circus director in The Circus (1928), the snobbish butler of the millionaire in City Lights (1931), and the factory owner in Modern Times (1936). He was also a casting director for Chaplin on The Circus, City Lights, and Modern Times.
Garcia was co-founder of the Motion Picture Extras and Supporting Players Association, founded in 1933.
Known for
Modern Times
President of the Electro Steel Corp.
City Lights
His Butler
The Gold Rush
Prospector (uncredited)
Pay Day
Drinking Companion and Policeman
The Circus
The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master
The Last Train from Madrid
3rd Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Gay Desperado
Police Captain
The Idle Class
Cop in Park / Guest (uncredited)
I'll Take Romance
Allan Garcia
The Cisco Kid
Orderly (uncredited)
Under Two Flags
Rockingham (as Al E. Garcia)
One Way Passage
Honolulu Cigar Store Proprietor (uncredited)
The Rose of the Rancho
Henchman
In Old Mexico
Don Carlos Gonzalez
The Country Boy
Jimmy Michaelson
Six Feet Four
Ben Broderick
Blossoms On Broadway
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Young Romance
Spagnoli (as Al Garcia)
The Gay Caballero
Bandit
The Trail of the Octopus
Wang
South of Santa Fe
(as Capt. Garcia) Felipe Anunciado Menendez Gonzales Rodriguez
Shipwrecked
Pierre Binbeau
The Power God
Weston Dore
The Golden Trail
Jean the Half-Breed
A Gentleman's Agreement
Manager of Mine
Her Atonement
The Big Trail
Flack aka El Rojo
Baree, Son of Kazan
'Bush' McTaggart (as Al Garcia)
The Still Alarm
William Manley
Restitution
Lucifer and Satan
Morgan's Last Raid
Morgan
Bounder
Pete Lopez
The Unafraid
Joseph
The California Trail
Sgt. Florez (as Allan Garcia)
The Flight of the Crow
Philip Moore - the Legal Advisor (as Al Garcia)
Indian Summer
Jim
Pierre of the North
Baptiste