Actor. Burly, rubber-faced comic character player. He got his start in movies as one of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops and appeared in two-reel comedies for vitually every studio in Hollywood. In features he usually played dumb detectives and assorted lugs. Gribbon is memorable as one of Adenoid Hynkel's storm troopers in Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940), and he had the regular role of the trainer Canvasback in Monogram's "Joe Palooka" series (11 films, 1946 to 1951). Among his 200 films are "His Last False Step" (1919), "Molly O'" (1921), "Tell It to the Marines" (1926), "Peeking in Peking" (1931), "Li'l Abner" (1940), and "Joe Palooka, Champ" (1946). He was the younger brother of actor Harry Gribbon.
Actor. Burly, rubber-faced comic character player. He got his start in movies as one of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops and appeared in two-reel comedies for vitually every studio in Hollywood. In features he usually played dumb detectives and assorted lugs. Gribbon is memorable as one of Adenoid Hynkel's storm troopers in Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940), and he had the regular role of the trainer Canvasback in Monogram's "Joe Palooka" series (11 films, 1946 to 1951). Among his 200 films are "His Last False Step" (1919), "Molly O'" (1921), "Tell It to the Marines" (1926), "Peeking in Peking" (1931), "Li'l Abner" (1940), and "Joe Palooka, Champ" (1946). He was the younger brother of actor Harry Gribbon.
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