page_title: Slim Summerville
section_title: Film career
hierarchical_section_title: Slim Summerville / Film career
caption_attribution_description: English: Skim Summerville Signed Publicity Photo Evans Photo Studio Los Angeles
context_page_description: Slim Summerville, was an American film actor and director best known for his work in comedies.
context_section_description: The beginning of Summerville's three-decade screen career can be traced to another early job he had, one working in a poolroom in California. There in 1912 he met actor Edgar Kennedy, who took him to see Mack Sennett, the  head of Keystone Studios in Edendale. Sennett immediately hired him for $3.50 per day to perform in bit parts, his first being in the role of a "Keystone Kop" in the short Hoffmeyer's Legacy. Tall and gangly, Summerville used his physical appearance to great effect in many comedies during both the silent and sound eras. His work in films, however, was not limited to acting; he also directed more than 50 productions, mostly shorts.
  Occasionally, Summerville played in dramatic films, such as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Jesse James (1939), but he was most successful in comedies, including several with ZaSu Pitts. He also performed with child star Shirley Temple in the musical-comedy dramas Captain January (1936) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938).
caption: Slim Summerville inscribed photo
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