Ebenezer Goodly — What Happened to Jones? Character Profile

About Ebenezer Goodly

Tom Jones's fat elderly friend. He accompanies Tom to the poker game, escapes the police raid together, and helps Tom flee in women's clothes via a milk wagon to Goodly's residence.

Character Facts

Played by

Otis Harlan

Appears in

What Happened to Jones? (1926)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Ebenezer Goodly — Social Close Friend — Tom Jones (Reginald Denny)

  Longtime companion who shares Tom's misadventures from the poker game to the Goodly residence.

• Ebenezer Goodly — Family Spouse — Mrs. Goodly (Emily Fitzroy)

  Married couple residing at the Goodly estate where the impersonation plot unfolds.

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• Lucille Bigbee (Marian Nixon)
• Mr. Bigbee (Melbourne MacDowell)
• Mrs. Goodly (Emily Fitzroy)
• Mrs. Bigbee (Frances Raymond)
• Hilda (as Zazu Pitts) (Zasu Pitts)
• Henry Fuller (William Austin)
• Richard (Ben Hendricks Jr.)
• Marjorie Goodly (Margaret Quimby)
• Minerva Starlight (Nina Romano)