Marvin Loback
Marvin Loback, sometimes billed as Marvin Lobach (November 21, 1896 – August 18, 1938), was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1916 and 1935.
Loback was born in Tacoma, Washington. He joined the Los Angeles film community in 1918 with Universal's Jewel comedies. Later that year he joined Henry Lehrman's L-KO company, promoting himself in trade ads as "Marvin Loback, L-KO 330-Pound Comedian." He played character roles in comedies and westerns into the 1920s, signing with Hal Roach in 1923 and then Mack Sennett in 1924. Sennett usually billed the actor as "Marvin Lobach."
In 1927 Loback was hired by Weiss Bros. to co-star with Snub Pollard as a fat-and-skinny comedy team, patterned after the new Laurel and Hardy partnership. These low-budget films were obvious imitations, with Pollard and Loback using Laurel and Hardy's derby hats and some of their situations. Even so, the Pollard-Loback comedies were successful as lower-priced alternatives, and lasted through 1929. These were Marvin Loback's only starring roles, and it is for these films that he is best known.
Loback then returned to the Sennett studio, working in two-reel comedies until the studio discontinued production in 1933. He joined Columbia Pictures in 1934, where he worked in feature films and short subjects. By late 1935 there were no further film assignments for the actor, and he turned to the Los Angeles stage. He appeared in the federally funded WPA plays "If It Pleases the Court" (1936) and "Roaring Girl" (1937).
Marvin Loback died on August 18, 1938, at the age of 41.
Acted in
Here We Go Again
1952
as The Belle's Sweetheart
Uncivil Warriors
1935
as Colonel (uncredited)
It Happened One Night
1934
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Sing, Bing, Sing
1933
as Barnes
The Fatal Glass of Beer
1933
as Bartender (uncredited)
Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
1933
as Kibitzer lin Stockade
Hatta Marri
1932
as Hassa Ben Soba
Speed in the Gay Nineties
1932
as Mayor
The All-American Kickback
1931
as Referee
Sock and Run
1929
Springtime Saps
1929
No Kidding
1928
Men About Town
1928
Holding His Own
1928
as Fat
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
Once Over
1928
as Fat
Thick and Thin
1928
Speedy
1928
as Fat Man (uncredited)
Cured in the Excitement
1927
as Male Nurse
Mitt The Prince
1927
Double Trouble
1927
A Small Town Princess
1927
as Fat Dancer / Director
Peaches and Plumbers
1927
as The Plumber's Helper
Smith's Customer
1927
as Fat Customer
A Harem Knight
1926
as The Rajah of Barbaria
Masked Mamas
1926
as The Bouncer
Hooked at the Altar
1926
as Eric Broadhurst
A Prodigal Bridegroom
1926
as Pete - the Hired Man
Meet My Girl
1926
as Felix Butterworth
Hot Cakes for Two
1926
as J. Cecil Larger - Director
Don't Butt In
1926
Isn't Love Cuckoo?
1925
as Homer Swift
A Rainy Knight
1925
as Adolph Brock
Good Morning, Nurse
1925
as Davenport Ward
Breaking the Ice
1925
as Charley Duncan
Bashful Jim
1925
as Homer Watts
Off His Trolley
1924
as Cornelius Bauer - Motorman
The Cat's Meow
1924
as Bartender
Black Oxfords
1924
as Convict
Flickering Youth
1924
as Barber Party Guest
The Hollywood Kid
1924
as Felix Katz - Rival Studio Boss
Smithy
1924
as Worker
Join the Circus
1923
Heavy Seas
1923
Nip and Tuck
1923
as Fat Cop
White Wings
1923
as Cop
The Smile Wins
1923
Jailed and Bailed
1923
Newly Rich
1922
The Golf Bug
1922
The Landlubber
1922
Gymnasium Jim
1922
as Kid Ryan
A Studio Rube
1922
On Patrol
1922
as Cop / Thug
Hard Knocks and Love Taps
1921
as The Belle's Sweetheart
Hands Off!
1921
as Jumbo
Hey There
1918