Joe Martin
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joe Martin (born between 1911 and 1913 – died after 1931) was a captive orangutan who appeared in at least 50 American films of the silent era, including approximately 20 comedy shorts, several serials, two Tarzan movies, Rex Ingram's melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round.
Filmography
1926
- Spangles as The Chimp (Uncredited)
1923
- Merry-Go-Round as Chimp (uncredited)
- Hollywood as Orangutan
1922
- Trifling Women as Orangutan (Uncredited)
1921
- The Adventures of Tarzan as Man in Ape Suit
- Seven Years Bad Luck as The Chimpanzee (uncredited)
- A Monkey Movie Star as Himself
- A Monkey Hero as Monkey Hero
1920
- The Evil Eye as Orangutan (Uncredited)
- A Prohibition Monkey as Joe Martin - An Orang-outang
- King of the Circus as Chimp (Uncredited)
- A Baby Doll Bandit as The Chimp
1919
- Looney Lions and Monkey Business as The Chimp
- Monkey Stuff as A Chimp
1917
- Black Orchids as Haitim-Tai
- Man and Beast as The Orang-Outang
- Making Monkey Business as The Ape
1916
- What Darwin Missed as The Wise Oran-Outang
- Hungry Happy's Dream as Joe Martin the Chimp
1915
- The Black Box as Chimp
- Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry as Orangutan
- Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose as Joe Martin - the Inheritance