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A Waiting Game
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Roy Clements

Cast: Ben Turpin [a tramp], Lloyd Bacon [a waiter], Rodney Hildebrand, Belle Mitchell, Charles Allen Dealey, Joe Cassidy, Henry Youngman, Alice Abrott, Mervyn A. Breslauer, Elizabeth Scott (Betty Scott), Eva Sawyer James (Eva Sawyer), Florence Cato, Fritz Wintermeier (Fred Windermere), Arthur Jasmine, Ruth Saville, Carrie Turpin, Robert McKenzie, Harry Todd, Eddie Fries, Lee Willard, Robert Burroughs, Eva Heazlett (Eva McKenzie), L. Allen Dealey, Ida Totheroh

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / Released 6 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 May 2010.

References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.