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Chase Yourself (1926)
Character: Fat Friend
Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
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Derby Day (1922)
Character: N/A
Very hungry Monty chases a garbage truck all around town to retrieve a box lunch thrown away by a picky young lady.
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Pay or Move (1924)
Character: The Rival
Monty is trying to collect rent from a couple of tough deadbeats who have made a sport of beating rent collectors.
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Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918)
Character: Professor Goulash
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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Move On (1917)
Character: N/A
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
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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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Wedding Bells (1924)
Character: Another Groom
Monty Banks plays a groom who is about to get married. In fact, he has the marriage license just about in hand. Apparently, he's had a bachelor party the night before and when his fiancée rings him, he can't find the phone, but there's several other guys sleeping it off. The landlady suspects that some hijinks have gone on and looks to investigate. Monty figures things out pretty quickly. Luckily for him, one of the gentlemen sleeping it off is in a policeman's uniform and Monty has him pretend he's arrested everybody in the room.
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Hear 'Em Rave (1918)
Character: N/A
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Page Me (1926)
Character: N/A
Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complications that ensue he finds himself handing from the hotel's ledge from many stories up.
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Hot Sands (1924)
Character: Detective Dick Harris
Monty Banks finds love and mischief at the amusement park, in this two-reel comedy
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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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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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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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Kicked Out (1918)
Character: N/A
Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
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Court Plaster (1924)
Character: N/A
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
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Fair But Foolish (1925)
Character: N/A
The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.
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Dizzy Sights (1927)
Character: The Boss
A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue.
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Taxi Please (1923)
Character: N/A
A wild taxi driver can't get ahead with his fares but he is still willing to help his sweetheart at the drugstore, especially when he figures out how to sell hair tonic
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Campus Cuties (1928)
Character: Police 1
Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's school, with the usual watchdogs on duty.
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Say Uncle (1928)
Character: N/A
Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.
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Sappy Service (1929)
Character: N/A
In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT allow any of these process servers in the place. Unfortunately, Bobby (Bobby Vernon) is instructed to serve this angry doc.
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A Flivver Wedding (1920)
Character: Baron Island
The misadventures of a young man who sets out in his flivver to stop the girl he loves from being forcibly married to a rival.
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Cleaned and Dry (1921)
Character: A Society Raffles
Monty is the driver of a delivery wagon for a cleaning and dyeing establishment, romps with a Ford and gets himself into many ridiculous scrapes.
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Paging Love (1923)
Character: The Sweetheart's Father
Monty appears as a chap whose prospective father-in-law, to find out the stuff of which he is made, sets him out to peddle an encyclopedia which no one else can sell.
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His Angel Child (1929)
Character: N/A
A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back.
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A Rarin’ Romeo (1925)
Character: N/A
A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks.
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Nothing But Trouble (1918)
Character: N/A
Harold appears as an active young man who gets a job as waiter in a restaurant. Disaster overtakes him and he is hurried off to jail at the close.
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Bashful (1917)
Character: Uncle Bill (uncredited)
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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The Yankee Clipper (1927)
Character: Ike
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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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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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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Always Late (1923)
Character: N/A
Monty is chronically late. He comes to work late and loses his job, and then manages to miss his own wedding...
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Duck Out (1927)
Character: N/A
At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
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Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
Character: Dagger-Tooth Dan
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.
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Crazy Like a Fox (1926)
Character: Gov. Harrison
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Going! Going! Gone! (1919)
Character: N/A
Lloyd and Pollard help a young girl out of the water but they are then chased by a shrew. On a bicycle built for two, Lloyd lazes about on the back while Pollard sweats from all of his effort. Thieves escape by car but it breaks down. Lloyd and Pollard help them start up again but the thieves steal the tandem bicycle, leaving the car in the hands of the heros.
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Bees in His Bonnet (1918)
Character: N/A
Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
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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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In and Out (1921)
Character: N/A
Monty and his wife are newlyweds dealing with things like making breakfast that’s edible and dealing with a persistent book salesman. Only reel 1 survives, so a proper plot synopsis is difficult.
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Reckless Rosie (1929)
Character: N/A
A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......
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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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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: Bebe's father
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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Sic 'Em, Towser (1918)
Character: N/A
At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.
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The City Slicker (1918)
Character: Bebe's rejected suitor
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 Hansom Cabman (1924)
Character: Cop
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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Bliss (1917)
Character: N/A
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
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An Ozark Romance (1918)
Character: N/A
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
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Follow the Crowd (1918)
Character: N/A
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
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Where Is My Wife? (1921)
Character: N/A
Lovable buffoon Monty Banks tries to relax, but ultimately spends his day worrying about who is keeping company with his wife.
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Africa F.O.B. (1925)
Character: King Obogeegeem if Puskudnick
Monty Banks becomes a car salesman and is shifted to Africa to sell one to King Obogeegee.
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Fireman Save My Child (1918)
Character: N/A
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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