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List of Chico Marx Movies: Ranked Best To Worst

1. Humor Risk (1921)
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Humor Risk
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Role:
Henchman
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Groucho Marx, Mildred Davis
Directed By:
Richard Smith
2. Duck Soup (1933)
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Duck Soup
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Freedonia is on the brink of a revolution and in the middle of a financial crisis. Rufus T Firefly is appointed as  President by the government in order to gain a bail-out from the wealthy Mrs Teasdale. The bordering nation of Sylvania senses the weakness in the leadership of Freedonia, and sends in the spies Chicolini and Pinky to prepare for a revolution. The countries are on the verge of an all out war as Sylvanian ambassador and Firefly lock horns.

Role:
Chicolini
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Groucho Marx, Brothers The Marx
Directed By:
Leo McCarey
3. A Night at the Opera (1935)
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A Night at the Opera
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Opera soprano Rosa, though leading-lady of tenor Rodolfo, is in love with unknown but better tenor Ricardo. As the opera company voyages from Italy to New York, manager Otis, with friends Fiorello and Tomasso, help Ricardo travel as stowaway. Now Otis and friends have to evade authorities who are after stowaway, and also arrange for Ricardo to replace Rodolfo as leading tenor. 

Role:
Fiorello
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
Directed By:
Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
4. Animal Crackers (1930)
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Animal Crackers
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Bob and Horatio are two brothers who are running a traveling circus, and doing quite well, despite their different personalities. They soon find themselves attracted to a lovely girl, whose uncle asks them to provide her a job.

Role:
Signor Emanuel Ravelli
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Groucho Marx, Brothers The Marx
Directed By:
Victor Heerman
5. A Day at the Races (1937)
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A Day at the Races
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A Day at the Races is a comedy sports musical film which tells the story of Hugo, a veterinarian, who poses as a doctor, and teams up with a singer and his friends, in his struggle to save a sanitarium in New York.

Role:
Tony (as The Marx Brothers)
Starring:
Dorothy Dandridge, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Maureen O'Sullivan, Allan Jones
Directed By:
Sam Wood
6. Horse Feathers (1932)
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Horse Feathers
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Shortly after Professor Quincy Adam is appointed as the new president of Huxley College, his son Frank convinces him that the football team needs to appoint two professional footballers, if they want to have a chance against their rival school.  

Role:
Baravelli
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Groucho Marx, Brothers The Marx
Directed By:
Norman Z. McLeod
7. Monkey Business (1931)
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Monkey Business
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Four stowaways hide in barrels in the cargo of a ship, but they are soon discovered, after which the naval officers attempt to chase and arrest them. However, things get complicated when they soon get mixed up with gangsters.      

Role:
Chico
Starring:
Maurice Chevalier, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Groucho Marx, Brothers The Marx
Directed By:
Norman Z. McLeod
8. The Cocoanuts (1929)
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The Cocoanuts
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Mr. Hammer is running a bankrupt hotel in Florida, and he is always trying to come up with various schemes to make his business a success. Things get complicated when he gets involved with a group of jewel thieves.  

Role:
Chico
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Groucho Marx, Brothers The Marx
Directed By:
Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
9. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
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A Night in Casablanca
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Ronald Kornblow, a former motel proprietor, is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all ended up dead.  Despite the dangers, he decides to accept the job. Meanwhile, a French soldier named Pierre begins to suspect the involvement of ex-Nazis, but he is soon himself accused of collaborating with the enemy. Along with his girlfriend, he attempts to prove his innocence.

Role:
Corbaccio
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier
Directed By:
Archie Mayo
10. At the Circus (1939)
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At the Circus
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The Marx brothers try to help a circus show owner escape from a loan shark, with the help of a cunning lawyer.

Role:
Antonio
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice
Directed By:
Edward Buzzell
11. Go West (1940)
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Go West
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S Quentin is a conman who is heading west hoping for a better future. However, he is ten dollars short for a train ticket. At the station, he encounters two brothers named Joseph and Rusty, and attempts to swindle their money. However, the two are also con men and they swindles Quentin’s money instead.

Role:
Joe Panello
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
Directed By:
Edward Buzzell
12. Room Service (1938)
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Room Service
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The Marx Brothers are about to be evicted after their landlord discovers that they have run out of money. Therefore, to confuse their landlord, they pretend that the author of the play has contracted a terrible disease, and therefore, he can’t be moved. Meanwhile, they also try to find someone to back their new play.

Role:
Harry Binelli (as The Marx Brothers)
Starring:
Lucille Ball, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Ann Miller
Directed By:
William A. Seiter
13. The Big Store (1941)
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The Big Store
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Role:
Ravelli
Starring:
Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Directed By:
Charles Reisner
14. Love Happy (1949)
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Love Happy
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Role:
Faustino the Great
Starring:
Raymond Burr, Marilyn Monroe, Harpo Marx, Vera-Ellen
Directed By:
David Miller
15. Einmal kehr' ich wieder (1953)
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Einmal kehr' ich wieder
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Starring:
Paul Dahlke, Helene Stanley, Adelheid Seeck, Pero Alexander
Directed By:
Géza von Bolváry
16. The Story of Mankind (1957)
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The Story of Mankind
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Loosely based on Hendrik Willem van Loon nonfiction book of the same name, this movie has a devil and an angel acting as prosecutor and defender respectively in the Great Court of Outer Space. The argument revolves around whether to allow humanity to continue existing despite its faults or let it get destroyed by the Super H-bomb invented by earth scientists. 

Role:
Monk
Starring:
Vincent Price, Dennis Hopper, John Carradine, Agnes Moorehead, Peter Lorre, Hedy Lamarr, Ronald Colman
Directed By:
Irwin Allen

Animation(s)

Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956)
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
Role:
Cameo appearance (Piano player)
Starring:
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Ernie Kovacs, Groucho Marx, Edie Adams
Directed By:
Shamus Culhane

TV Shows and Videos

The Silver Theatre (1949)
The Silver Theatre
Starring:
Eva Gabor, George Reeves, William Frawley, Conrad Nagel, Donald Woods
Playhouse 90 (1956)
Playhouse 90
Starring:
Buster Keaton, Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Charlton Heston, Anne Bancroft, Errol Flynn, Leslie Nielsen
Directed By:
John Frankenheimer, Franklin J. Schaffner, Ralph Nelson, Vincent J. Donehue, Arthur Hiller
The Bigelow Theatre (1950)
The Bigelow Theatre
Starring:
James Dean, George C. Scott, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, William Frawley, Ann Dvorak, Don DeFore
Directed By:
Frank Telford, Frank Woodruff
General Electric Theater (1953)
General Electric Theater
Starring:
Ron Howard, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Michael Landon, Ryan O'Neal, Ernest Borgnine, Bob Crane
Directed By:
Herschel Daugherty, Don Medford, James Neilson, Jules Bricken, Mitchell Leisen