Direttore di palcoscenico per trent'anni per la stella del musical Kate Carney, Alf Collins iniziò nel 1902 una carriera cinematografica come regista. Diresse oltre duecento pellicole, apparendo anche in una decina di film come attore.
Biografia Nato in Inghilterra nel 1866, iniziò la sua carriera nel mondo dello spettacolo nel musical hall. Attore comico, fu uno dei primi registi del cinema muto britannico.
Filmografia La filmografia - basata su IMDb - è completa. Regista 1902
The Tramp's Surprise (1902) The Professor and the Butterfly (1902) The Dead Cat (1902) Trained Dogs (1902) Serpentine Dancer (1902) Clown, Pantaloon and Bobby (1902) Boudoir Secrets (1902) Baker and Boy (1902) A Resourceful Dentist (1902) A Policeman's Dream (1902) American Knockabouts (1902)
1903
The Marvellous Syringe The Effects of Too Much Scotch Papa's Bath King of Coins A Photographic Episode Welshed - A Derby Day Incident Mind the Wet Paint The Rivals (1903) The Mysterious Mechanical Toy Rip Van Winkle (1903) Our New Cook Notice to Quit Little Nell and Burglar Bill A Row in a Laundry A Pleasant Breakfast A Lover's Troubles A Substantial Ghost Two Little Vagabonds; or, The Pugilistic Parson Tommy Atkins' Dream The Double-Bedded Room That Naughty Girl Murphy's Wake (1903) The Sportive Navvies The Somnambulist (1903) The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor The Pickpocket -- A Chase Through London The Christmas Waits; or, High Life Below Stairs Such Is Life; or, Mind Your Own Business(?) A Political Discussion Nicholas Nickleby (1903)
1904
The Silver Tenor; or, The Song That Failed That Busy Bee (1904) No Room for Father Father's Birthday Party The Apple Woman Jack's Rival All Through the Page Boy The Coster's Wedding (1904) Two Deceived Old Maids The Office Boy's Revenge The Jealous Wife (1904) The Eviction Military Tactics Dr. Cut'emup Cook's Lovers Chased by Dogs A Smart Capture (1904) Raid on a Coiner's Den The Electric Shock The Sweep The Masher's Dilemma The Lost Shuttlecock The Fatal Wig Stewed Missionary Night Duty Mr. Mosenstein Fixing the Swing Behind the Scenes (1904) Artist and Musician An Affair of Honour Revenge! The Tramp's Toilet The Haunted Houseboat The Fruits of Matrimony Rejected by Pa On Brighton Pier My Mother-In-Law Mixed Bathing Lovers on the Sands Future Hackenschmidts Brown's Pudding Bill Bailey's Return Bed and Breakfast Two Shillings Amorous Militiaman A Day at Brighton Hands Up!; or, Captured by Highwaymen Inspector's Birthday
1905
Wig and Buttons The Three Tramps The Scent Spray The Electric Goose The Alien Question Nobbler's Card Party Eyes Right Auntie's Cycling Lesson As Sparrows See Us A Raid on a Canteen A Motor Masquerade A Macaroni Feast The Coster's Christening The Birthday Umbrella Darling Puggy A Motorbike Adventure The Ups and Downs of Murphy The Gardener's Nap That Awful Baby The Young Ladies' Dormitory The Tale of a Coat The Henpecked Hindoo The Burglar Lover Stump Speech Married Bliss Keiro's Cat Jack's Return Greedy Billy Father in the Kitchen Who's That A-Calling? W.Weary and T.Tired The Terror of the House The Gentleman Beggar The Bobby's Nightmare The Awkward Horseman A Day with the Fresh Air Fiend When Extremes Meet How the Poor Help the Poor Why the Lodger Left The Record Sneeze The Peashooter; or, A New Weapon for the Army The New Woman The Milkmaid The Gipsy Fortune Teller The Burglar; or, The Hue and Cry How Brown Brought Home the Goose Grandpa and the Butterfly An Artful Dodge A False Alarm; or, The Masher's Ducking Tommy's Experiments in Photography The Motor Competition The Blind Man's Child Santa Claus' Mistake Robbery with Violence Mixed Bathing at Home Father Makes Love to the Pump Mutiny on a Russian Battleship
1906
The Missing Legacy; or, The Story of a Brown Hat This Side Up The Henpecked Husband It's a Have In Our Alley Dinner Hour Saved by a Pillar Box Lost! A Leg of Mutton Hot Pie My Wife's a Teetotaler All's Well That Ends Well (1906) Undergraduates Uncle George's Trip to London The Catch of the Season (1906) Not Detained at the Office Nosey Parker (1906) Willie and Tim Get a Surprise Wanted, a Husband The Two Orphans (1906) Lodging House Comedy Flypaper (1906) Dolly Varden (1906) The Puzzle Maniac The Convict's Daughter (1906) Jane on the Warpath When Cripples Meet The Postman's Christmas Box The Four Hooligans Rescued by Lifeboat Jam Now in Season Her Morning Dip A Sailor's Courtship The Two Tomboys Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1906)
1907
Catch the Kid The Drunken Motorcyclist Ju-Jitsu A Shilling Short of his Wages Tommy the Tinpot Hero The Ice Cream Jack The Bachelor's Piece of Wedding Cake Short-Sighted Jane Remember Remember the Fifth of November Oh That Cat! Father Buys a Lawn Roller Cheap Beer All for Nothing The Adventures of a Roll of Lino
1908
Honours Even A Race for a Rose The Woman Who Wasn't Only a Penny a Box Washing Day Tommy and the Policeman's Whistle The Mechanical Legs The Drunkard's Dream The Dancing Girl (1908) The Convict and the Dove The Burglar's Joke with the Automatic Doll Put Papa Amongst the Girls Napoleon and the English Sailor Moving In Harry Lauder in a Hurry A Stitch in Time (1908) Sweet Liberty The Sloshton Quartette A Christmas Raffle
1909
The Four Tomboys The Boxing Waiter From Servant Girl to Duchess Quicksilver Pudding
1910
The Travelling Stiltwalkers The Coster's Phantom Fortune Algy Tries for Physical Culture Wait and See (1910) Father Minds the Baby Winning a Widow (1910) The Sleep Breakers Algy Goes on the Stage
1912
A Maid of the Alps Algie's Expensive Stick
Attore
Welshed - A Derby Day Incident The Mysterious Mechanical Toy Rip Van Winkle, regia di Alf Collins (1903) Little Nell and Burglar Bill Two Little Vagabonds; or, The Pugilistic Parson Murphy's Wake This Little Girl and That Little Girl Won't You Throw Me a Kiss I Get Dizzy When I Do That Twostep The Coster's Phantom Fortune Algie's Expensive Stick
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