Jimmie Adams

Jimmie Adams a.k.a. James Adams, a.k.a. Jimmy Adams of The Ranch Boys, (4 October 1888 - 19 December 1933) was a silent-screen comedian. In 1921 Adams starred in two-reel comedies for Educational Pictures and Al Christie. The slightly built, pencil-mustached Adams has been described by historian Kalton C. Lahue as "a poor man's Charley Chase." Like Chase, and unlike the other comics at Educational, Adams favored situation comedy over slapstick. He briefly replaced Mack Sennett comic Harry McCoy in the cartoon-inspired Hall Room Boys series (produced by Harry Cohn and Jack Cohn, later of Columbia Pictures). By 1924 Adams was back with Educational. Christie hired Adams for six comedies released in 1926 and 1927. The Christie comedies were...