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The Dangerous Moment (1921)
Character: Collins
Sylvia Palprini is a waitress at The Black Beetle, the leading bohemian café in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Among the eclectic customers is artist George Duray, whom she admires from a distance. A jealous suitor, Movros Tarkides, attacks Sylvia and she strikes him with a chair. He is later found dead and she is accused of the murder.
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We Never Sleep (1917)
Character: N/A
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
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All Aboard (1917)
Character: N/A
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.
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The Flirt (1917)
Character: N/A
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
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Rainbow Island (1917)
Character: N/A
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
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Luke, Patient Provider (1916)
Character: N/A
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.
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Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916)
Character: N/A
Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
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Luke Joins the Navy (1916)
Character: N/A
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
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Next Aisle Over (1919)
Character: (uncredited)
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
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A Gasoline Wedding (1918)
Character: The Minister
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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Pinched (1917)
Character: N/A
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
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It's a Wild Life (1918)
Character: N/A
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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Swat the Crook (1919)
Character: N/A
The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
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Luke's Society Mixup (1916)
Character: N/A
Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.
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Wanted - $5,000 (1919)
Character: N/A
Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.
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Luke's Late Lunchers (1916)
Character: N/A
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
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One Cylinder Love (1923)
Character: The Society Girl's Husband
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
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The Rent Dodgers (1920)
Character: A Tragedian
The roommates live in a boarding house run by a strict landlady. When the landlady arrives to collect the rent, the men hide behind a trick door.
The men are able to "reclaim" the rent money they just paid when the landlady leaves, and they use the roll of cash to pay the rent for their friends in the building, too.
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Luke's Movie Muddle (1916)
Character: N/A
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
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Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
Character: (Uncredited)
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
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Over the Fence (1917)
Character: (uncredited)
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
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Bashful (1917)
Character: N/A
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
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By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)
Character: N/A
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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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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Pipe the Whiskers (1918)
Character: (as William Fay)
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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Off the Trolley (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in love with a female collector who doesn't care much about him and he also annoys the trolley conductor. But it seems that odds and luck will be on his favor.
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Take a Chance (1918)
Character: N/A
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
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Clubs Are Trump (1917)
Character: N/A
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
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The Lamb (1918)
Character: N/A
The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.
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Young Mr. Jazz (1919)
Character: (uncredited)
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
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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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The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
Character: Prof. Fay
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
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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: N/A
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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The Dutiful Dub (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment.
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Luke Rides Roughshod (1916)
Character: N/A
Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
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Look Out Below (1919)
Character: N/A
A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Los Angeles streets.
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Pistols for Breakfast (1919)
Character: N/A
A young man goes out to eat breakfast with his friend. As a restaurant "regular" with a pistol threatens to eat everyone's bacon, the two friends flee.
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Fireman Save My Child (1918)
Character: (as B. Fay)
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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