Mack Swain ( February 16 , 1876 – August 25 , 1935 ) was an American film and vaudeville actor. Moroni Swain was born to Robert Henry Swain and Mary Ingeborg Jensen in Salt Lake City , Utah. He performed in vaudeville before beginning to appear in silent films for Keystone Studios , which was run by Mack Sennett . At the studio, he starred in a number of comedy films with actor Chester Conklin . With Swain as Ambrose and Conklin as the large, mustachioed Walrus, several films were released, including The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus and Love, Speed ​​and Thrills in 1915. In addition to these comedies, the pair appeared in a number of other films, twenty-six together, and separately in films by Mabel Normand , Roscoe Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin . He later played the role of Ambrose in films by the L-KO Kompany , to which he transferred. Swain worked with Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and continued with him at First National Pictures in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class , Payday , and The Pilgrim . He also played Big Jim in the 1925 United Artists film The Gold Rush , starring Charlie Chaplin. Swain died in Tacoma, Washington in 1935. For his many contributions to the motion picture industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , 1500 Vine Street. Read More