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Joe Rock
Joe Rock (December 25, 1893 – December 5, 1984) was an American movie producer, director, actor,〔Obituary ''Variety'', December 12, 1984, page 63.〕 and screenwriter best remembered today for producing a series of 12 two reel comedies starring Stan Laurel in the 1920s.
After infantry service in World War I, Rock began his film career as a comedian in silent films working under his real name "Joe Simburg" — he had a broad grin and protruding ears, which gave him a comical appearance – but soon found greater success as a producer.
==Career==
Joe Rock began his career as a stunt double for Mary Pickford, A short-lived career with Vitagraph Studios as a comedian teamed with Earl Montgomery in countless comedy shorts as ''Hash and Havoc'' (1916), ''Stowaways and Strategy'' (1917), ''Farms and Fumbles'' (1918), ''Harems and Hookum'' (1919), ''Zip and Zest'' (1919), ''Vamps and Variety'' (1919), ''Rubes and Robbers'' (1919), ''Cave and Coquettes'' (1919), ''Throbs and Thrills'' (1920), ''Loafers and Lovers'' (1920), ''Sauce and Senoritas'' (1920) and many more.
In the book ''Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies'' by Alan Dale, Joe Rock once described the two-reelers he made with Earl Montgomery: "We always finished our comedies with a shot of us running away from a cop, a schoolteacher, or a principal, and then running smack into them again. If we'd run away from cops, we'd run back into cops."
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