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That's Him (1918)
Character: N/A
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes with him. The assailant's victims pursue our man while his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
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Thirst (1917)
Character: Employment Agency Representative (uncredited)
A woman has moved to a small town boarding house to seek peace and quiet. All too soon she finds herself in a Keystone movie, where there's everything but.
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Astray from the Steerage (1921)
Character: The Rich Husband
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
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A Gasoline Wedding (1918)
Character: N/A
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.
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A Hash House Fraud (1915)
Character: N/A
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
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Don't Weaken! (1920)
Character: Reilly's Poker Pal (uncredited)
A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
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Too Many Highballs (1933)
Character: Ambulance Attendant
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
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Below Zero (1925)
Character: N/A
Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
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Neck and Neck (1924)
Character: The Country Hick
Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.
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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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On the Jump (1918)
Character: N/A
On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Be My Wife (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.
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The Big Idea (1917)
Character: N/A
A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
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It's a Wild Life (1918)
Character: Deunk
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
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Heap Big Chief (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
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His Busy Day (1918)
Character: N/A
A two-reel comic number featuring Toto the clown in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes dressed as a girl. He then invades the grounds of a dancing school, and later the winter quarters of a circus.
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Dollars and Sense (1916)
Character: Algy's Valet
A country girl and a foppish Englishman are to inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided: The two must get married, and if one refuses, then the other gets the entire estate. The girl schemes with her twin brother to trick the Englishman out of his part of the inheritance. The girl's corn-fed crush helps out, while the twins' father dreams of being force-fed dog sausage.
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The Battling Kangaroo (1926)
Character: Pete Brush
Lige Conley goes into a fight to collect money to marry his girl. Then, hooking up with Holloway and George Gray, they get involved in several other schemes to make money fast.
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A Punch in the Nose (1926)
Character: N/A
A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
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Cheap Skates (1925)
Character: Johnnie Jones
Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!
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She Sighed by the Seaside (1921)
Character: The Boob Fisherman
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.
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Sunshine's Dark Moment (1929)
Character: N/A
Barney Hellum and Slim Summerville give policeman Kit Guard a rough time in this funny Barney Google short, which is based on the comic strip character.
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Love, Honor and Behave (1920)
Character: (uncredited)
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.
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Fast and Furious (1924)
Character: The Demonstrator
Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
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Count Your Change (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
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Hey There (1918)
Character: N/A
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
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Step Lively (1917)
Character: N/A
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take no for an answer.
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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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Pay Your Dues (1919)
Character: N/A
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.
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Pipe the Whiskers (1918)
Character: (as Lige Cromley)
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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The Rajah (1919)
Character: N/A
A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp
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Here Come the Girls (1918)
Character: N/A
Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.
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Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
Character: Comic Routine with Fred Allen
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Beat It (1918)
Character: N/A
Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.
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The City Slicker (1918)
Character: (as Lige Cromley)
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
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Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918)
Character: N/A
Our hero has a dream, while in the trenches at the front, that he is in Berlin rescuing a Red Cross nurse from the hands of the Kaiser and his henchmen.
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Never Touched Me! (1919)
Character: N/A
At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."
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Spring Fever (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
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The Tin Ghost (1926)
Character: N/A
Lige Conley is a newspaper reporter covering a demonstration of a new invention to some money-men. The inventors boss wants to get the credit for the device and crosses the wires so that it doesn't work right. Lige's sweetheart is the daughter of the inventor, and Lige sets out to help out.
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Don't Shove (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
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Soft Money (1919)
Character: N/A
Soft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.
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Fireman Save My Child (1918)
Character: (as Lige Cromley)
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
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