Acting

Virginia Fox

Born April 19, 1902 · Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

Died October 14, 1982 · aged 80

Virginia Fox was born in Wheeling, West Virginia (though her grave erroneously lists Charleston, W.Va. as her place of birth), the daughter of Marie (née Oglseby) and Frederick Fox. While on vacation from boarding school, Fox traveled to visit a friend in Los Angeles. The two made a casual stop by the studio of Mack Sennett, where she was hired on the spot and made a bathing beauty in the stu…

Known For

Cops

MovieComedyFamily

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

Neighbors

Neighbors · 1920

MovieComedyRomance

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

Why Beaches Are Popular

Why Beaches Are Popular · 1919

Why Beaches Are Popular

This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin

The Play House

The Play House · 1921

MovieComedyFantasy

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

The Electric House

The Electric House · 1922

The Electric House

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

Hard Luck

Hard Luck · 1921

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

Married Life

Married Life · 1920

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

The Haunted House

The Haunted House · 1921

The Haunted House

MovieComedyHorror

A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Filmography

Sort

Cops

MovieComedyFamily

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

Mayor's Daughter (uncredited)

Neighbors

Neighbors · 1920

MovieComedyRomance

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

The Girl (uncredited)

Why Beaches Are Popular

Why Beaches Are Popular · 1919

Why Beaches Are Popular

This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Bathing Girl

The Play House

The Play House · 1921

MovieComedyFantasy

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

Twin (uncredited)

The Electric House

The Electric House · 1922

The Electric House

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

The Millionaire's Daughter

Hard Luck

Hard Luck · 1921

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

Virginia

Married Life

Married Life · 1920

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

(uncredited)

The Haunted House

The Haunted House · 1921

The Haunted House

MovieComedyHorror

A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Bank President's Daughter

The Love Nest

The Love Nest · 1923

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.

The Girl

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm · 1920

Down on the Farm

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.

Minor Role

Itching Palms

Itching Palms · 1923

MovieComedyCrime

The search is on for a bank robber's hidden stash in a house they all say is haunted.

Virgie

Love, Honor and Behave

Love, Honor and Behave · 1920

Love, Honor and Behave

A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.

Girl in Cafe (uncredited)

The Goat

The Goat · 1921

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

The Police Chief's Daughter

The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith · 1922

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.

Horsewoman

The Cave Man

The Cave Man · 1926

A bored society girl cuts a hundred dollar bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it and throws it out the window of her apartment. The person who finds it turns out to be the driver of a coal truck. So she decides to give him a complete makeover in order to make him presentable to her society friends.

Party Girl (uncredited)

The Paleface

The Paleface · 1922

MovieWesternComedy

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.

Indian Maiden

Don't Weaken!

Don't Weaken! · 1920

A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.

Dance Pupil (uncredited)