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The Fainting Lover (1931)
Character: Uncle Ed Roberts
This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. Bert allows as how he'll do something special for her on her birthday coming up next month. The something special ...
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Am I Having Fun! (1936)
Character: Andy Clyde
Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be.
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Lodge Night (1937)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.
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The Golfers (1929)
Character: Ed Martin
Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love.
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Clunked on the Corner (1929)
Character: Bearded Customer
Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.
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Artist's Muddles (1933)
Character: Andy 'Sunshine' Wilson
Andy "Sunshine" Wilson, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, catches a ride with motorist Luckenbach who is on a suicide mission, and nearly succeeds in his mission. Luckenbach is a great portrait artist suffering under the slight handicap of being unable to "do ears." The artist has painted a beautiful portrait of the wife of Pietro Cellini with the exception that her left ear is several times larger than it should be and not painted very well at that. Cellini also holds the keys to the city and Luckenbach getting the job of painting the city hall rides on Cellini's satisfaction with his wife's portrait. Andy accompanies the artist back to his studio, and this short being made in the pre-code days ensures the studio is filled with models wearing a little less than somewhat and less than that in a couple of cases.
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Pardon My Wrench (1953)
Character: Andy
Gil Lamb finds his chief competitor helping his girl friend's father with some household work. When George tells Andy he can not install the garbage disposal, the daughter, in order to help Gil make an impression on Andy, urges Gil to do the job. The impression made, due to Gil's efforts, is not the impression expected.
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The New Aunt (1929)
Character: Uncle Andy
28th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
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The Ring and the Belle (1941)
Character: Andy 'Pop' Clyde
Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town.
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Share the Wealth (1936)
Character: Andy MacClyde
A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.
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Ships of the Night (1928)
Character: Alec
In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals as slaves, and love on a desert island for ship captain Dan Meloy.
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Wandering Willies (1926)
Character: Dusty Duncan
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
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Butter Fingers (1925)
Character: Hoke Perkins
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
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Bull and Sand (1924)
Character: King Lavorus of Bullomania / Professor Marsupp
Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. But it is without counting a scientist who has invented a rocket, his assistant who falls down in the yard of Adonis's prison, a great escape featuring Adonis and the assistant disguised as bulls, a second abduction of the Princess - but, this time for the just cause of love -, a wild chase and a final flight to another planet!
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Lucky Stars (1925)
Character: Astronomer
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925)
Character: Burbank Watts
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
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A Prodigal Bridegroom (1926)
Character: Rodney's Father
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
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The Bees' Buzz (1929)
Character: Andy - Peggy's father
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
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Broke in China (1927)
Character: Ruth's Father
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
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It Always Happens (1935)
Character: Andrew Clyde
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
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Ça, c'est du cinéma (1951)
Character: (archive footage)
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
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Whispering Whiskers (1926)
Character: The Drifter's Pal
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.
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The Pride of Pikeville (1927)
Character: Colonel Pepper
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
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Ice Cold Cocos (1926)
Character: Cuckoo Charlie
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
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Taxi for Two (1928)
Character: Jack Davis
Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan is asked by the boss to drive Dolly to the taxi depot, Dan believes he can make his millions instead by buying a cab and starting his own taxi company. Interactions with Dolly's visiting brother - a hosiery salesman - who Dan mistakenly believes is Dolly's boyfriend, a pair of inflatable legs, and an angry foreman who was fired because of Dan's mistakes in the garage lead to one misadventure after another for Dan.
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Smith's Uncle (1926)
Character: Uncle Dan Smith
Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.
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The Rodeo (1929)
Character: Uncle Bill Cootie
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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Hot Paprika (1935)
Character: Andy
A bank clerk, who mistakenly believes he has three months to live, quits his job, runs off to the island of Paprika, gets involved with a flirty cantina dancer, and becomes entangled in a revolution.
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Boobs in the Woods (1940)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
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Home on the Rage (1938)
Character: Andy
Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance.
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Columbia Laff Hour (1956)
Character: (archive footage)
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
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Giddap! (1925)
Character: Polo Club Official / Major Shirtz
Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
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It's the Cats (1934)
Character: Andy Frisby
Andy prepares to give a speech to an organization of cat lovers.
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I'm a Father! (1935)
Character: Mr. Clyde
Andy, an avowed child-hater, changes his tune when he mistakenly believes his wife is pregnant.
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Old Sawbones (1935)
Character: Old Doc Clyde
Old Doc Clyde is a country physician trying to compete with a younger and more modern doctor, and is having a hard time keeping up. They are both candidates for the job of county physician at a regular salary. and the committee stages a contest to see which handles the most patients in a week. Clyde wins by one patient, that being the wife of his competitor, and he is there ahead of the husband to deliver quintuplets.
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Tramp Tramp Tramp (1935)
Character: Andy
When Andy's wife opens their home to derelicts, Andy keeps devising ways to chase them out.
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Alimony Aches (1935)
Character: Andy Clyde
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
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Caught in the Act (1936)
Character: Andrew Clyde
Andy is mistaken for "Jack the Kisser," a man who grabs women on the street and kisses them.
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The Peppery Salt (1936)
Character: "Captain" Andy Clyde
Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Mister Smarty (1936)
Character: Mr. Bowzer
Mr. Bowser believes that he'll be able to clean the house better than his wife can.
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Knee Action (1937)
Character: Andy
Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the demonstration.
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Stuck in the Sticks (1937)
Character: Sheriff Andy Clyde
Andy's rival has wanted posters printed claiming that Andy's sweetheart is a swindler.
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My Little Feller (1937)
Character: N/A
Andy and his friend Doodles find a baby on their doorstep and decide to care for it, but they are later accused of kidnapping it.
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Ankles Away (1938)
Character: Andy
Andy is duped into thinking his bride-to-be has a wooden leg.
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Not Guilty Enough (1938)
Character: Andy
At his trial, Andy tries to explain why he was arrested for assaulting his brother-in-law
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Pardon My Nightshirt (1956)
Character: Professor Clyde
Professor Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit prowling the college campus.
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Mr. Clyde Goes to Broadway (1940)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy invests in a local theatrical production; when the actors flee with the money, Andy and his wife are forced to take their places and put on a show.
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Lovable Trouble (1941)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy invests the money his wife gave him to pay the bills into a sure-fire money-making scheme, a girl's softball team made up of out-of-work chorus girls. Mrs. Clyde is, to say the least, not amused.
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Sappy Birthday (1942)
Character: Andy 'Hole-in-One' Clyde
Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.
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How Spry I Am (1942)
Character: Andy Clyde, Hotel Owner
After an orphanage burns down, hotel keeper Andy is forced to provide the children with shelter.
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All Work and No Pay (1942)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy is a shopkeeper who's obsessed with crime radio programs. He finds out that a priceless diamond has been stolen by two thieves and Andy tracks them down on an ocean liner, but an escaped gorilla complicates his plans.
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Sappy Pappy (1942)
Character: Andy
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
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Wolf in Thief's Clothing (1943)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy and Emmett try to win the affections of the town widow by presenting her with new whitewall tires.
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A Maid Made Mad (1943)
Character: Andy Clyde, Owner of Women's Clothing Store
Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and walks out on him.
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Farmer for a Day (1943)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy tries to do his bit for the war effort by planting a victory garden.
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He Was Only Feudin' (1943)
Character: Andy Clyde
The brother of Andy's fiance, who doesn't want to see the marriage go through, arranges for a pretty girl to make a pass at Andy so he can tell his sister that Andy's cheating on her.
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His Tale is Told (1944)
Character: Andy
Andy journeys to the big city to sell an invention-followed closely by his suspicious wife.
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Gold is Where You Lose It (1944)
Character: Andy Clyde
Robbers steal some gold and pass it off in Andy's store, but he and his friend think there's been a gold strike. They go off to do some prospecting.
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Heather and Yon (1944)
Character: Andrew 'Andy' Clyde
Andy helps his newspaper reporter friend get the goods on a killer, but when the friend gets injured and can't continue the job, Andy confesses to the murder and tries to expose the killer. while in the jailhouse.
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Two Local Yokels (1945)
Character: N/A
Andy and Charles fancy themselves as ladies men, that is until Andy's wife finds out and wants a divorce.
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A Miner Affair (1945)
Character: Andy Clyde
Clyde and Rogers dig for buried treasure so they can pay for a crippled boys operation.
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Spook to Me (1945)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy, the leader of the "Bloodhounds" boys patrol, investigates a house that is supposedly haunted.
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The Blonde Stayed On (1946)
Character: Andy Clyde
While delivering a fur coat to a beautiful blonde, Andy runs into her jealous husband.
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Wife to Spare (1947)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
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Go Chase Yourself (1948)
Character: Professor Andy Clyde
College professor Andy Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit who is terrorising the campus.
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Sunk in the Sink (1949)
Character: Andy
Andy tries to prove to his wife that he can do the household chores more efficiently than she can.
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Marinated Mariner (1950)
Character: Captain Andy Clyde
Andy, the proprietor of an Oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Blonde Atom Bomb (1951)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy tries to save his nephew from the wiles of a sultry nightclub singer.
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A Blissful Blunder (1952)
Character: Andy Clyde
When Andy returns home and finds a baby, he mistakenly think he's become a father.
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Hooked and Rooked (1952)
Character: Andy
Andy and Emmett are two ex-sailors who return home after sailing out in the ocean and decide to propose to their fiancee's, but married life soon takes it toll on the two saps.
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Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953)
Character: Andy
In an attorneys office, Andy explains why he thought his sweetheart married his best friend.
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Tooting Tooters (1954)
Character: Andy, "Andrew Beethoven Clyde"
Andy despises swing music but his nephew loves it.
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Scratch Scratch Scratch (1955)
Character: Sheriff Andy Clyde
Andy's nephew is about to get engaged, but his rival uses trickery to try to get it called off.
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Andy Goes Wild (1956)
Character: Andy Clyde
Andy's life is made miserable by his brother-in-laws penchant for crazy inventions.
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Bulls and Bears (1930)
Character: Ed Martin
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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Step Forward (1922)
Character: The Police Officer
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
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Flip Flops (1923)
Character: The Girl's Father - the Barker
An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
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The Lion's Whiskers (1925)
Character: J. Tunaar Fish - Director
Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!
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His Unlucky Night (1928)
Character: Homer's Father-in-Law
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
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Fight Night (1926)
Character: Bearded Customer / Butler
While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.
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Smith's Baby (1926)
Character: Projectionist (uncredited)
Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
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Smith's Candy Shop (1927)
Character: Everett Titus - Jimmy's Boss
13th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. The Smiths at the candy shop.
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Smith's Customer (1927)
Character: Bookkeeper
Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
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Smith's Fishing Trip (1927)
Character: Milt Bender - a Farmer
Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.
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Smith's New Home (1927)
Character: House Seller
Ninth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family buys a new home.
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Half-Baked Relations (1934)
Character: N/A
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
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Speed in the Gay Nineties (1932)
Character: Ed Martin
It's 1890. Inventor Ed Martin has long believed and has openly stated that man will someday be able to fly. As such, many people, including the mayor, believe Ed is crazy and want to have him committed. Ed plans to prove them wrong about his mental capacity by winning the upcoming horseless carriage race at the speedway using his 2-cylinder engine machine which he predicts can travel 15mph, twice the speed of other machines. But for Ed to be able to do so, he has to elude the mayor and his gang and get to the speedway in time for the race. And there still is the small matter of whether his prediction will come true, all his other predictions which have not come to fruition... yet.
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Monkey Business in Africa (1931)
Character: Walter McIntosh
When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit.
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A Close Shave (1929)
Character: Andy - Barber
An inept window washer becomes an equally inept barber.
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The Super Snooper (1934)
Character: N/A
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
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Don't Get Jealous (1929)
Character: Judge
Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. Billy, his landlord, offers to take out Carmelita to a cafe and have Wilbur follow them to test his wife's fidelity.
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From Rags to Britches (1925)
Character: Pancake Flipper / Private Detective
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
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Trimmed in Gold (1926)
Character: Hector Moss
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to them and with the shop’s manicurist in tow they run into their customer again who is a crooked gambler winning his money by questionable methods. As he rakes in the pots, an assistant pours the money down a chute which leads to a vault. Billy and Andy, in their explorations, find this vault and think they have discovered a mine. Taking some of the money, they go to the gambler's room and sit in the game. Thus, the money continues to circulate - from the mine to Billy - from Billy to the gambler - and down the chute again.
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Over Thereabouts (1925)
Character: German Servant
Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
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Clancy at the Bat (1929)
Character: Ed Clancy
The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?
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A Hollywood Star (1929)
Character: Ed Martin
Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.
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Fat Wives for Thin (1930)
Character: Arthur Fleming
The short is a domestic comedy starring Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud. It begins with the husband berating his wife for being fat. Later, you learn that the husband is actually running around with a married woman and her husband is extremely jealous...and violent. What happens next? Well, surprisingly, the 'fat' wife comes to the rescue!
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The Chumps (1930)
Character: Slippery aka Meadows
When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with what they THINK is a nice couple...not realizing they are card sharps. They crooks are spotted on the train and are warned NOT to take advantage of other passengers...so they invite the couple to their home in order to fleece them. Does the plan go as the crooks planned?
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The Boudoir Butler (1932)
Character: Ed Martin
When the story begins, Andy's wife has convinced him to join her in a ruse. It seems that a man is looking for widows to invest in his company...which SHOULD have alerted her that the guy was up to no good. But instead, she convinces her husband to pretend to be the butler and help her entertain the guy.
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The New Half Back (1929)
Character: Dean Martin
Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
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McFadden´s Flats (1935)
Character: Jock McTavish
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
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Loose Relations (1933)
Character: N/A
The stereotype in old movies and TV shows is that the man hates his mother-in-law. Well, in "Loose Relations" it doesn't follow this convention, as Andy Clyde is actually happy that his mother-in-law is coming to stay with them and he plans on fixing up a place for her to stay. In a funny scene, when he tells his neighbors, they offer his an axe and a gun!
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921)
Character: The Sweetheart's Rival
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
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Here We Go Again (1952)
Character: The Sweetheart's Rival
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
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No, No, Lady (1931)
Character: Ed Martin
When the story begins, a couple are rehearsing a play...one that is REALLY hard to believe. In the play, the cheating wife convinces her mousy and ineffectual husband to not only condone this affair but help pay for the lovers to run off together!! The director things the whole thing is unbelievable, so the couple from the play decide to act it out with her real life husband...the mousy and ineffectual Ed Martin (Andy Clyde).
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The Big Squeal (1933)
Character: Andy Wilson
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
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Racket Cheers (1930)
Character: Ed Martin
Andy Clyde and Daphne Pollard are nouveaux riches moving into a posh neighbourhood and trying to impress though their behaviour is gross and gauche.
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Feeling Rosy (1933)
Character: Andy Wilson
Andy Clyde is in desperate need of a vacation, and it's not exactly helping the stress.
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The Cannonball (1931)
Character: Ed Martin
Andy fixes his rocket invention to a locomotive in order to win a race with a bus.
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Boy Oh Boy! (1932)
Character: Andy Wilson
To celebrate Father and Son Week, Andy takes his son roller skating.
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Sundown Riders (1944)
Character: Andy
This film was produced and released in 1944 by Film Enterprises for the 16mm school-and-institutional market, and was picked up and released in 1948 by Astor for theatrical 35mm showings. Both versions finds the citizens of Rockford upset over a series of murders and robberies. The Sundowners, Andy Clyde (Andy Clyde), Jay Kirby (Jay Kirby) and Russ Wade (Russell Wade), ride into Rockford and innocently takes jobs with Tug Wilson (Jack Ingram) and his tough crew of line riders, who are in cahoots with Yeager (Hal Price) in a big land swindle scheme.
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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake (1954)
Character: Uncle Billy Smith
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
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Ghost Parade (1931)
Character: Andy Martin
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
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The Branded Man (1928)
Character: Jenkins
Fred Colgate, wealthy young man, learns that his tramp wife has been unfaithful and leaves her, and goes to Mexico. An accident causes him to be thought dead. He becomes a prizefighter, and when he return to his home city, he encounters a strange situation.
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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000)
Character: (archive footage)
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
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The Old Barn (1929)
Character: The Sheriff
The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm (1957)
Character: Lacey
A 15 episode serial in which boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy try to solve the mystery of a haunted farm where the farmer has died and left no one to care for his livestock. A ghost assists them to prevent the acceptance of a false inheritance claim.
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Haunted Trails (1949)
Character: Trigger Winks
Singing cowboy Whip Wilson, the foreman on a cattle drive, quits his job to pursue five bank robbers who murdered his brother.
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Sinister Journey (1948)
Character: California Carlson
Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.
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This Above All (1942)
Character: Fireman
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Galloping Bungalows (1924)
Character: Fire Chief / Drunk Suitor
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
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Twilight on the Trail (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
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Village Tale (1935)
Character: Storekeeper
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Character: The Major-Domo
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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The Devil's Playground (1946)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and he is looking for her. But Hoppy soon learns the girl is looking for stolen gold she wants to return and the Judge in not her father but only wants the gold. Hoppy and the girl find the gold but the Judge and his men find Hoppy and the boys and trap them in a cabin.
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Scotch (1930)
Character: Uncle Andrew
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
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The Bluffer (1930)
Character: Ed Martin
A man tries to win the admiration of a girl's father, by pretending he's earned medals for bravery.
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The Little Minister (1934)
Character: Wearyworld The Policeman
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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The Hollywood Kid (1924)
Character: Studio Spy / Director / Actor
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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Run, Girl, Run (1928)
Character: Trustee
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
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Dangerous Venture (1947)
Character: California Carlson
Sue Morgan gets Hoppy and his friends to join their expedition looking for Indian artifacts. Expedition leader Atwood makes a deal with nearby cattle rustler Morgan to loot the Indian treasures instead and sell them. Hoppy is on to their plan and pretending to leave follows them. Not only is he outnumbered by Morgan's men, but California has himself about to be sacrificed in an Indian ritual.
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Forty Thieves (1944)
Character: California Carlson
When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!
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The Dare-Devil (1923)
Character: The Scenery Mover
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
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False Paradise (1948)
Character: Clarence "California" Carlson
A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.
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The Road to Denver (1955)
Character: Whipsaw Ellis
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
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Gunslingers (1950)
Character: Winks McGee
Wilson and his saddle pal Andy Clyde come to the rescue of a group of ranchers who are being victimized by villain Ace Larabee (Douglas Kennedy). Ace has inside information that the railroad is coming through the territory, and he intends to grab up all the land and sell it to the train execs for a tidy profit.
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Outlaws of the Desert (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
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Carolina Cannonball (1955)
Character: Grandpa Rutherford Canova
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
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That Texas Jamboree (1946)
Character: Andy Warren
With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his place as a private club. When Curt decides to run for Mayor, he is made to shut down the popular Warren medicine show. With Curt now out of favor the Warrens decide to run their daughter for Mayor and Brady has a plan to stop her also.
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On Patrol (1922)
Character: Crook
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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His New Mamma (1924)
Character: The Farmer Boy's Father
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where he sees dad's fiancée with another man. The lad and his lassie follow the woman and try to prevent her from marrying yet another rich man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
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The Green Years (1946)
Character: Saddler Boag
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
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Blindfold (1928)
Character: Funeral
Blindfold is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Charles Klein and written by Ewart Adamson, Robert Horwood and William Kernell. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.
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Borrowed Trouble (1948)
Character: California Carlson
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
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Unexpected Guest (1947)
Character: California Carlson
At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among whoever remains of the seven relatives. With one already dead, another immediately murdered, and the Lawyer telling them the ranch is almost worthless, Hoppy investigates.
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It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Character: 'Gimpy' Wilson
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Range Land (1949)
Character: Winks
Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.
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Crashing Thru (1949)
Character: Winks Winkle
When Ranger Raymond is killed during a stage holdup, Wells Fargo Agent Whip Wilson assumes his identity.
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The Best Man (1928)
Character: The Justice of the Peace
A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
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Smith's Restaurant (1928)
Character: Prospective Buyer
The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
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Arizona Territory (1950)
Character: Marshal Luke Watson
Prospector Jeff Malloy rescues Doris Devlin, owner of a trading post, from an ambush planned by her uncle, Kilburn, who is trying to scare her out of the territory so that he can continue his counterfeiting operations.
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Bar 20 (1943)
Character: California Carlson
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.
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False Colors (1943)
Character: California Carlson
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.
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Strange Gamble (1948)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
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Stick to Your Guns (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
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Outlaws of Texas (1950)
Character: U.S. Marshal Hungry Rogers
Monogram's Outlaws of Texas is surprisingly bereft of the action highlights one might expect from star Whip Wilson. This time, the Whip and his saddle pal Andy Clyde play heroes Tom and Hungry who work undercover to break up a gang of bank robbers.
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Two in a Crowd (1936)
Character: Jonesy
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
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Border Patrol (1943)
Character: California Carlson
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
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Doomed Caravan (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
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Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
Character: California Carlson
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
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The Marauders (1947)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a ghost town, only to meet a young woman and her mother there, then find themselves surrounded by a gang of "workmen" intent on tearing down the church if they have to kill the five to do it.
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Romance in Manhattan (1935)
Character: Store Owner (uncredited)
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
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Song of the Prairie (1945)
Character: Uncle Andy Tyler
Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler's show and uses Wingate money to keep him afloat. Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers they try to keep her father away from the show. But he eventually finds out and decides they will return east
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Yukon Jake (1924)
Character: Eskimo Pie Vendor
Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
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Shanghaied Lovers (1924)
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
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Wide Open Town (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
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Three Men from Texas (1940)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
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Lumberjack (1944)
Character: California Carlson
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It looks as though she will be unable to deliver the timber called for in her agreement. Hoppy has to make the lumber deal happened and solve the murder.
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The Dead Don't Dream (1948)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has suddenly disappeared from the inn. Then Hoppy finds the uncle's body in the shaft of his nearby mine...
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Silver Raiders (1950)
Character: J. Quincy Jones
Arizona Ranger Larry Grant is posing as an outlaw while hunting for an outlaw gang, secretly led by Lance Corbin, that is stealing silver in Mexico and smelting it into bars for sale in the United States.
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Riders of the Dusk (1949)
Character: Winks Holliday
Riders of the Dusk is another of Monogram's formula Whip Wilson westerns. Since the studio couldn't build an entire film around Wilson's bullwhip prowess, a plot was called for. This time around, it's the one about a U.S. marshal who searches high and low for a mysterious masked desperado. The mystery angle is minimal, since seasoned movie fans will be able to determine the mystery person's identity within 15 minutes. As always, Andy Clyde is a tower of comic strength as Whip Wilson's grizzled old sidekick.
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Texas Masquerade (1944)
Character: California Carlson
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
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Yellow Dust (1936)
Character: Silas 'Solitaire' Carter
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
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Secret of the Wastelands (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
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Cherokee Strip (1940)
Character: Tex Crawford
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
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Matchmaking Mamma (1929)
Character: The Minister
This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.
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Isn't Love Cuckoo? (1925)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
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Riders of the Timberline (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
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Money Squawks (1940)
Character: Andy
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924)
Character: Mr. Starr - Susan's Father
Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Character: Stage Driver
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Border Vigilantes (1941)
Character: California Carlson
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
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Black Oxfords (1924)
Character: Prison Batter / Rural Sheriff / Umpire
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
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Bad Lands (1939)
Character: Cluff
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
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Undercover Man (1942)
Character: California Carlson
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
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Hoppy's Holiday (1947)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new clothes and carrying his old ones in a suitcase, bumps into escaping bank robbers in the dark. His suitcase gets switched with that of the robbers and he is seen with the money. Hoppy must find the money that has mysteriously disappeared and also the robbers so that he can clear California who is now in jail.
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In Old Colorado (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
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Smile Please (1924)
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her...
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The Hansom Cabman (1924)
Character: Judge B. Brief - Betty's Father / Insane Convict
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
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Nip and Tuck (1923)
Character: Peg-Legged Hobo / Iceman / Cop (uncredited)
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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Fence Riders (1950)
Character: Winks McGee
Whip Wilson and Andy Clyde are back and Monogram's got 'em in Fence Riders. The Whipster comes to the aid of beautiful ranch owner Reno Browne, who is being victimized by rustlers Myron Healey and Riley Hill. To get Wilson out of the way, the villains frame him on a murder rap.
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Leather Burners (1943)
Character: California Carlson
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
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Shadows of the West (1949)
Character: Winks Grayson
U.S. Marshal Whip Wilson (Whip Wilson) decides to take a vacation and visit his old friend Winks Grayson (Andy Clyde), the ex-sheriff. Upon his arrival Whip learns of Winks' suspicions regarding newly-elected Sheriff Tanner (William Ruhl as William H. Ruhl), and the story of a frame-up of Paul Davis (Ted Adams) and his son Bud (Riley Hill), now being released from prison. Following a holdup and a killing, a band of outlaws hide at the Davis ranch, implicating them again. Paul is hot and Bud goes to jail. Whip and Winks work to clear Bud and expose the real leader of the outlaw gang.
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Silent Conflict (1948)
Character: California Carlson
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.
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Red Lights Ahead (1936)
Character: Grandpa Hopkins
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.
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Pirates on Horseback (1941)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
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Lizzies of the Field (1924)
Character: The Starter
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
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Cherokee Uprising (1950)
Character: Deputy Marshal Jake Jones
The title insurrection in this low-budget Whip Wilson Western consists mainly of Iron Eyes Cody, who is conspiring to raid the wagon trains with crooked sheriff Marshall Reed and nefarious Indian agent Forrest Taylor.
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Mystery Man (1944)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
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Lost Canyon (1942)
Character: California Carlson
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
Character: archive footage
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Abilene Trail (1951)
Character: Sagebrush Charlie
Whip Wilson rides again in the Monogram western Abilene Trail. Wilson and his grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde are accused of horse stealing, a hangin' offense around these here parts. Eluding the authorities, the boys take jobs at a ranch where the real crook is hiding out.
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Fool's Gold (1946)
Character: California Carlson
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.
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Riders of the Deadline (1943)
Character: Ranger "California" Carlson
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, Hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
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Colt Comrades (1943)
Character: California Carlson
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
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A Sea Dog's Tale (1926)
Character: King Gumbo
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
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Picking Peaches (1924)
Character: Near-Sighted Shoe Customer
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
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Annie Oakley (1935)
Character: James MacIvor
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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Riders of the Purple Cows (1924)
Character: Ezra Plunkett
When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
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Throw a Saddle on a Star (1946)
Character: Pop Walker
The "star" in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by cowboy Curt Walker to ride in the Big Rodeo. Unscrupulous John Burton has bet against Curt and does his best to sabotage the event. When lovely Barbara Allen, Curt's new girlfriend, leaves town because of Burton's schemes, Curt loses the first couple of events. The big Bronco Busting contest is coming up, and Pop Walker stalls the proceedings with a series of singing acts while the girl's brothers attempt to locate her. Barbara arrives just in time to spur Curt on to victory.
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Wall Street Blues (1924)
Character: H.L. Cary - the Boss
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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Catalina, Here I Come (1927)
Character: Mr. Hamhocks - Cafe Owner
Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
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