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Meet the Folks (1927)
Character: James Pettingill
Jimmie Adams, a comedian who bears a strong resemblance to comedian Charley Chase, stars as a man going to the hills of Tennessee to visit his kin. On the way, he meets a sweet lady and they hit it off well. However, they don't realize that both are coming to visit relatives who are in the middle of a serious feud. Instead of a warm welcome, her kin tries to blow his butt off and he is forced to make a run for it. Unfortunately, his relatives don't seem much nicer, as they treat him rather poorly to say the least!
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Nerve Tonic (1924)
Character: Eddie - the Nervous Wreck
Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie.
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Chase Yourself (1926)
Character: Jimmie
Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
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Beauty à la Mud (1926)
Character: Jimmie
When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills.
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His Musical Sneeze (1919)
Character: Casper's Father
A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
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Love Shy (1928)
Character: Jimmie
Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie.
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Free and Easy (1921)
Character: N/A
Campers on a vacation have all the comforts of home fitted into their Ford car. Eggs are fried on the hot engine, and coffee is percolated in the radiator.
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Nonsense (1920)
Character: N/A
A farmer's daughter, Little Nell, is abducted and it's up to two of her faithful admirers to rescue her.
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Fair But Foolish (1925)
Character: N/A
The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.
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Sherman Said It (1933)
Character: Soldier
Although the war is over, Charley still can't seem to find his way out of France.
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Swiss Movements (1927)
Character: Freddie
To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion.
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Nobody's Baby (1922)
Character: Ferdie
The pair are elegant down-and-outs in a park where a mother and her baby are having a picnic. Their dog steals the picnic basket for them but when the woman complains to the policeman on duty, they have to hide their booty. Unfortunately the dog keeps giving the game away.
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Done in Oil (1923)
Character: Jimmie
Jimmie, an oil stock salesman, is roughly handled by a couple of shrewd promoters who have stolen a well from a poor girl. The latter saves our hero, who in turn gets the well back for her.
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Stop Flirting (1925)
Character: Count Spinagio
On their honeymoon Vivian twice finds Perry in the arms of other women. Though Perry claims he was simply catching one who slipped, Vivian decides to teach him a lesson in fidelity. She begins aggressively flirting with every man she encounters, including a Scotsman, to make Perry jealous. To get back at her, Perry stages his own death in a plane crash, but when Vivian discovers the plane crash was a hoax, she is initially even more enraged. However, after a series of further misadventures, the couple eventually reconciles.
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This Is The Life (1926)
Character: N/A
When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills.
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Holy Mackerel (1928)
Character: N/A
Jimmie Adams leads the cast, along with Lorraine MacLean and Billy Engle, in this Al Christie production.
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A Baby Doll Bandit (1920)
Character: Hiram Biff
Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight, but one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties teaching school.
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High and Dry (1920)
Character: N/A
Two rival suitors plot to win the girl using fair means or foul.
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A Good Scout (1922)
Character: The Book Agent
A snappy young book agent reforms and becomes a cook for a group of Boy Scouts.
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Whoa, Emma! (1926)
Character: Jimmie
When wild horse Emma (Trixie the Horse) keeps opening the gates and freeing horses, ranch owner Molly (Molly Malone) hires Jimmie (Jimmie Adams) to deal with the problem. When he tames Emma, however, jealous ranch hands tie him up and kidnap Molly, so it's Emma to the rescue!
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Arabian Tights (1933)
Character: Musician - The Ranch Boys (uncredited)
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
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Her Man o' War (1926)
Character: Shorty Flynn
During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, instead of being placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he is assigned to the small farm of a young woman and her son to help raise crops to help feed the German army and people.
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Grief (1921)
Character: N/A
Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one.
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Rough Seas (1931)
Character: Pvt. Jimmie Adams
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
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A Fresh Start (1920)
Character: N/A
Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.
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Kismet (1920)
Character: Chamberlain
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Midsummer Mush (1933)
Character: Member of Camping Trio
Charley falls in love with Betty on a camping trip.
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Hold Your Breath (1924)
Character: Beauty Parlor Proprietor
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
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The Tabasco Kid (1932)
Character: Cowboy
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
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Sunless Sunday (1921)
Character: N/A
A girl gets trapped by racketeers and chaos happens at a gambling house.
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The Office Scandal (1929)
Character: Delaney
Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.
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The Grand Parade (1930)
Character: Jones
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
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