His Favorite Pastime, starring Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle – March 16, 1914
His Favorite Pastime is one of Charlie Chaplin’s earlier appearances at the Little Tramp. Although he looks like the Little Tramp, he hasn’t quite cemented the character of Charlie the Tramp at this point.
Case in point, Charlie wanders into a bar, becomes drunk, acts obnoxious, and pesters a young lady. He follows her home and bothers her, until her husband gets rid of him.
Unlike most of his later films, the “victims” of the Little Tramp haven’t done anything to “deserve” his enmity.
Cast of characters
- Charlie Chaplin (The Champion; Limelight) … Drunken Masher
- Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (The Rounders) … Shabby Drunk
- Peggy Pearce (Tango Tangle) … Wife (as Velma Pearce)
- Frank Opperman (Mabel’s Busy Day) … Husband
Additional Cast
- Helen Carruthers (His Trysting Place) … Servant (uncredited)
- Jess Dandy (Dough and Dynamite) … Minor Role (uncredited)
- Hampton Del Ruth … Drinker with Moustache (uncredited)
- Billy Gilbert (The Music Box) … Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
- William Hauber (Those Love Pangs) … Shoeshine Customer / Servant (uncredited)
- Bert Hunn (Caught in a Cabaret) … Bartender (uncredited)
- George Jeske (Tango Tangle) … Servant (uncredited)
- Edgar Kennedy (Bacon Grabbers) … Tough Guy in Bar (uncredited)
- Harry McCoy (The Face on the Barroom Floor) … Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Rube Miller (The Star Boarder) … Bar Patron (uncredited)