Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Indonesian Archipelago

Joe Martin

Joe Martin (born between 1911 and 1913 – died after 1931) was a captive orangutan who appeared in at least 50 American films of the silent era, including approximately 20 comedy shorts, several serials, two Tarzan movies, Rex Ingram's melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round.

Titles

Merry-Go-Round

Movie • 1923

The Adventures of Tarzan

Movie • 1921

King of the Circus

Movie • 1920

Seven Years Bad Luck

Movie • 1921

Hollywood

Movie • 1923

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

Movie • 1915

Spangles

Movie • 1926

Black Orchids

Movie • 1917

The Evil Eye

Movie • 1920

Trifling Women

Movie • 1922

Man and Beast

Movie • 1917