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      • Renowned for carrying out their own hair-raising, and frequently dangerous stunts, the original Kops line-up featured actors Charles Avery, Bobby Dunn, George Jesky, Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann, Mack Riley, and Slim Summerville.
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  2. Owner. Mack Sennett. The Keystone Cops (often spelled " Keystone Kops ") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.

  3. Keystone Kops, an incredibly incompetent police force that appeared regularly in Mack Sennett’s silent-film slapstick farces from about 1912 to the early 1920s. They became enshrined in American film history as genuine folk-art creations whose comic appeal was based on a native irreverence for authority.

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  4. Renowned for carrying out their own hair-raising, and frequently dangerous stunts, the original Kops line-up featured actors Charles Avery, Bobby Dunn, George Jesky, Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann, Mack Riley, and Slim Summerville.

  5. The Kops were named for the Keystone studio, the film production company founded in 1912 by Sennett. They first appeared on screen in the Sennett-directed slapstick Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912), but their popularity soared with the release of The Bangville Police (1913).

  6. Mack Sennett (born January 17, 1880, Richmond, Quebec, Canada—died November 5, 1960, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was the creator of the Keystone Kops and the father of American slapstick comedy in motion pictures.

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  7. The original seven Keystone Kops were George Jesky, Bobby Dunn, Mack Riley, Charles Avery, Slimm Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, and Hank Mann. Mann played police chief Teeheezel for only a short while before he was replaced by comedian Ford Serling, the most famous Kop of all.

  8. Jun 2, 2020 · In this episode of The Big Picture, film critic Bob Chipman looks back at the Keystone Cops, goofy fictional police of the silent film era.