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Slapstick Symposium: The Harold Lloyd Collection (2004)
Character: Self
Legendary slapstick comedian Harold Lloyd made audiences roar as a bespectacled everyman who managed to wriggle himself out of many a perilous situation, all the while trying to get the girl. Lloyd's fearless acrobatic skills and agility put him on par with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Watch a true master of physical comedy in this collection of seven Lloyd silent films (many co-starring his wife, Mildred Davis) from the Hal Roach Studios.
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Slapstick Symposium Too: The Harold Lloyd Collection Volume 2 (2005)
Character: Self
Harold Lloyd (Safety Last) demonstrates why he is ranked alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as slapstick cinema's preeminent funnymen. Lloyd is most famous for his aerial acrobatics, dangling from skyscrapers in High and Dizzy and Never Weaken. But his legendary status was earned mostly on the ground, where he crafted the persona of an endearing Everyman, whose pluck and determination rescue him from life's ordinary (and often extraordinary) pitfalls. Whether portraying a pampered socialite (Captain Kidd's Kids), a lowly bellhop (Ring Up the Curtain), Lloyd pursues romance and prosperity at a dizzying pace. His unwavering confidence and optimism - combined with his remarkable speed, agility and impeccable comic timing - made him one of the most beloved figures of the silent era.
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The Old Monk's Tale (1913)
Character: Yaqui Indian (extra) (uncredited)
A monk tells a tale about a woman who can only surrender her heart to a man who can offer her jewels. A poor man falls in love with her and steals jewels off a statue of the Madonna to give to her.
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The Twelfth Juror (1913)
Character: Boy at Barn Dance (uncredited)
A play based on a famous English case of a man being executed wrongfully on circumstantial evidence.
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Rory o' the Bogs (1913)
Character: Posse Member (uncredited)
At the death of Burke, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, Rory, a baby in arms. The child is in the keeping of his uncle. Sir Everett, who had a son of Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped.
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Sealed Orders (1914)
Character: Extra (unconfirmed)
Crooknose is a child of the slums. The slums his mother, dark alleys his father and his family is composed of the crook, the gambler, the demi-monde and the policeman. But despite these family connections Crooknose is organically a decent fellow.
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His Heart His Hand and His Sword (1914)
Character: Extra (rumored)
O'Rourke, soldier of fortune and hero of many wars, finds himself in Paris without funds. In a spirit of recklessness, he pawns a valuable watch given him by a grateful republic for services rendered. With the proceeds he enters a prominent Parisian restaurant to dine. There he attracts the attention of the Princess de Grandlieu, her husband, the Prince, and her legal advisor, M. Adolph Chambret. While there an incident occurs which earns the hatred of her advisor, who is in love with her.
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Pay Your Dues (1919)
Character: N/A
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.
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Spring Fever (1919)
Character: The Boy
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
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That's Him (1918)
Character: N/A
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes with him. The assailant's victims pursue our man while his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
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Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918)
Character: Harold
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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Move On (1917)
Character: Chester Fields
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
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We Never Sleep (1917)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
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All Aboard (1917)
Character: The Boy
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: Harold
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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Birds of a Feather (1917)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
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Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up in a boxing match which again brings the law on his tail.
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Luke Locates the Loot (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
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Luke, Patient Provider (1916)
Character: Luke
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: Lonesome Luke
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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'Curses!' They Remarked (1914)
Character: Stuntman (rumored)
Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
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Court House Crooks (1915)
Character: Youth out of Work (uncredited)
A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a mirror lead to the DA's undoing.
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Luke's Movie Muddle (1916)
Character: Luke
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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Character Studies (1927)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.
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Their Social Splash (1915)
Character: The Minister
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.
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Luke Joins the Navy (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
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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A Sammy in Siberia (1919)
Character: Sammy Strong - the American Boy
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
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Next Aisle Over (1919)
Character: The Hustler
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 Boy
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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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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Hear 'Em Rave (1918)
Character: N/A
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Just Nuts (1915)
Character: Willie Work
Just Nuts is a 1915 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd playing the character that preceded his glasses character. It is also the only surviving film featuring Lloyd as Willie Work
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Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bill Shakespeare Luke "blesses the man who first invented sleep." After a screamingly comical search for slumber he finally hits the hay and sleeps without moving to Brooklyn.
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On the Jump (1918)
Character: Harold - The Squirrel Inn Bellhop
On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Be My Wife (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.
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Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Working as a pastry chef, Luke steals a watch from a customer, which results in a wild police chase throughout the store.
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The Big Idea (1917)
Character: Harold
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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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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At the Old Stage Door (1919)
Character: N/A
Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the deception is uncovered.
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Heap Big Chief (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
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Lifetime of Comedy (1960)
Character: (archive footage)
Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.
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Luke's Society Mixup (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
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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Bughouse Bellhops (1915)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Lonesome Luke and his accessory, Moke Morpheus, are discovered in bellhop uniform, blissfully dozing on a bench in the lobby of the Bughouse Hotel. Comes a guest, and the desk clerk rings a bellhop. But, in the words of Aristotle, or Ted or someone, "you can ring and you can ring, but the house is boarded up."
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Ragtime Snap Shots (1915)
Character: Lonesome Luke aka Lucas
Lucas and Larkin, his running mate, after looking for a job for some time, finally land one in a photographer's shop and immediately start to take possession of the place. They rule supreme in their own inimitable way until a bespectacled college graduate arrives to have his diploma, and incidentally himself, photographed.
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Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks (1915)
Character: Oscar Weeban aka Lonesome Luke
This offering tells the tale of one, Oscar Weeban, a fellow deeply in love with a certain Maisie. He has promised to take her to the Garbage Gentlemen's Rally, that annual society event of the small town in which it is their fortune to reside, and she sends him a note to this effect. He is a rank outsider, but manages to inject himself into the spirit of the affair and enters into the sport of the occasion with a vim. It is at this event that the ashes throwing contest is held every year, and garbage men from all sections, trained to the minute, flock to the party to compete. The contest is at its height and one of the experts is trying for a world's record when Oscar crosses the range. Of course, he and Maisie manage to get in the way of the winning throw and spoil the record which is about to be made.
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Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster (1915)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke, a street tramp, is taken to a dance contest by a pretty millionairess, but when he is ejected, he returns with a gun and wreaks havoc.
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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 Lugs Luggage (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
As a baggage handler at a terminal, Luke is led on a merry chase by a billy goat.
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Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke, stranded on a desert island, becomes chief of the natives. When he pursues the affections of a pretty white girl, he runs afoul of her sweetheart and has to swim back home.
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Lonesome Luke, Circus King (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke opens a circus, but when local officials discover that his side-show attractions are fakes, trouble ensues.
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Luke's Double (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the consequences.
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Them Was the Happy Days! (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke is a movie actor who falls asleep and dreams that he and his fellow actors are school children again.
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Luke's Late Lunchers (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
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Luke Laughs Last (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
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Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke and friends are crowded into his two-seater, out for a ride in the country. Hayhem ensues when his party of fifteen encounters some 'fashionable folk.'
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Luke, the Chauffeur (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
A fortune hunter marries a widow, believing her to be an heiress, but she isn't.
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Luke, the Gladiator (1916)
Character: Lonesome Lukius, Gladiator
Luke, the Gladiator is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Luke's Lost Liberty (1917)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke and his pal find existence in prison so amusing that they depart with regrets.
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Luke's Busy Day (1917)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke's Busy Day is a 1917 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Count the Votes (1919)
Character: N/A
Count the Votes is a 1919 American short comedy film. It is considered to be lost.
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His Chum the Baron (1913)
Character: Extra (rumored)
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
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Cupid in a Dental Parlor (1913)
Character: Extra (rumored)
Harold is in love with Ethel Parks, but finds scant favor with her father, Parks always manages to get his daughter away from her admirer, but one day Harold makes bold to call at the house.
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Algy on the Force (1913)
Character: Extra (rumored)
Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch by a thief with a soft hat and a frock coat and Algie goes out looking for the thief. He meets the chief of police and arrests him after a chase and a fight, and handcuffs his prisoner to a telegraph pole while he goes for assistance. The Captain's consternation can be imagined when he arrives with his men and finds his chief a prisoner.
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Pete, the Pedal Polisher (1915)
Character: Pete
Pete is a discontented hostler. Hostlers are always discontented but Pete is a little more so. In fact, he is so sick and tired of his job as the mule's chambermaid that he is fast becoming desperate. He gives Maud her morning "Massage" and is interrupted by his "steady," a queen of the avenue, and a movie fan. She "coaches" and "wheedles" him in the naturally gentle, persuasive way of her class, in this wise: "Aw, loosen up. Separate. Give yourself another frisk," etc. As Pete finds himself unable to supply his "best" with the wherewithal to attend a movie, his discouragement becomes despair.
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Some Baby (1915)
Character: Lonesome Luke
Luke dreams of the good times that he will have with a young girl with the expense money he his given.
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A Mixup for Mazie (1915)
Character: Luke de Fluke
Maisie Orpe is a dispenser of victuals in a second rate "beanery," and is the light of the lives of several of the town "swells". But Luke de Fluke, an all-round gay lad, and Shorty Magee, the local tough nut, seem to lead the field in Maisie's blue orbs.
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Beyond His Fondest Hopes (1915)
Character: (unconfirmed)
Tony, a little newsboy, witnesses the advent of a dainty Miss, who disturbs his otherwise carefree and happy-go-lucky existence.
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The Sandhill Lovers (1914)
Character: Gambler
Dave and Phillip Hull, twins, are totally different in character. Dave is steady, slow to hate and true in love. Phillip, the gay and popular gambler, is perhaps more lovable on the surface, but shifty and flare-tempered underneath. Dave loves little Meg, daughter of Hardy, a cattle rustler. Dave does not know that the father is a cattle rustler, however.
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The House That Shadows Built (1931)
Character: (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) (1931)
Character: Self
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
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Hulda of Holland (1913)
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
A Dutch romance. Hulda and Heintz are bashful, giggling lovers, hut their spooning opportunities are few, as well as being forbidden. One day they get a chance to spoon, but the village gossip sees them and hastens to Hulda's mother, exaggerating what she saw.
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Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
Character: Italain Fruit Vendor (uncredited)
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
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The Hollywood Clowns (1979)
Character: (archive footage)
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Character: Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
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A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919)
Character: N/A
This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker.
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
Character: Tottenhot
Ojo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr. Pipt, who has been stirring the powder of life for nine years. Ojo adds plenty of brains to Margolotte's Patchwork servant before she is brought to life with the powder. When Scraps does come to life, she accidentally knocks the liquid of petrifaction upon Unc Nunkie, Margolotte, and Danx (daughter Jesseva's boyfriend). So all go on separate journeys to find the ingredients to the antidote.
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High and Dizzy (1920)
Character: The Boy
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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His Royal Slyness (1920)
Character: The American Boy
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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The Milky Way (1936)
Character: Burleigh Sullivan
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Why Worry? (1923)
Character: Harold Van Pelham
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
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Great While It Lasted (1915)
Character: Byron Beanskin
Luke lives the life of a millionaire until it is discovered that a mistake has been made and his inheritance belongs to someone else.
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Ring Up the Curtain (1919)
Character: The Stage Hand
Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.
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Count Your Change (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
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Girl Shy (1924)
Character: Harold Meadows
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
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Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
Character: Billy Blazes
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
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成龍的傳奇 (1998)
Character: (archive footage)
Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to perform incredible stunts without the use of doubles -- or a net. This video takes a personal look at Chan as he works on screen projects in Hollywood and Beijing and candidly discusses his life and work.
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I Do (1921)
Character: The Boy
Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.
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The Kid Brother (1927)
Character: Harold Hickory
The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.
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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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Ask Father (1919)
Character: The Boy
Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
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Bashful (1917)
Character: Harold
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
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Haunted Spooks (1920)
Character: The Boy
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (1915)
Character: Suitor
When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle). The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in; An hilarious rescue effort ensues.
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By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)
Character: The Boy
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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Speedy (1928)
Character: Harold 'Speedy' Swift
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
Character: The Boy
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
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Hey There (1918)
Character: The Boy
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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Never Weaken (1921)
Character: The Boy
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
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A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Character: The Boy
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
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Grandma's Boy (1922)
Character: Grandma's Boy
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
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Now or Never (1921)
Character: The Boy
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
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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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Si, Senor (1919)
Character: N/A
Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.
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Hot Water (1924)
Character: Harold
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!
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Before Breakfast (1919)
Character: N/A
A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.
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Welcome Danger (1929)
Character: Harold Bledsoe
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
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Over the Fence (1917)
Character: Ginger, a Tailor
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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Sigrid Holmquist (2010)
Character: Arthur Cox (archive footage)
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent film medium. It consists of already existing film clips from the 1910s and 20s. Sigrid is played by eight different stars from her era, and she also plays herself. Sigrid Holmquist was born in Borås, Sweden and her stubborn spirit led her to become a movie star in Scandinavia and Hollywood before retiring from the movies in 1926. An experimental film project.
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Safety Last! (1923)
Character: The Boy
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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Just Dropped In (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold and Snub take a trip on a runaway airplane and drop off on a native island. Here they have some amusing adventures with the fierce men and beautiful women of the place.
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Spit-ball Sadie (1915)
Character: Lonesome Luke
A young man promises his girl that he will get Spitball Sadie, a renowned female pitcher, for her all-girl baseball team. When he is unable to get Sadie to come, he dresses up as her and takes her place on the team.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
Character: Harold Diddlebock
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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From Hand to Mouth (1919)
Character: The Boy
As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kindness.
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Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
Character: Two-Gun Gussie (Harold)
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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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Character: Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
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Back to the Woods (1919)
Character: A Millionaire
Harold and Snub are self-proclaimed big-game hunters who stop at a remote outpost. They hire two native guides to lead them into the woods, but the guides run in terror when they see a rather tame bear in the distance. Harold is annoyed that he cannot find any bears to hunt--unaware that two timid bears are closely following him. Meanwhile Snub encounters an equally tame wildcat who eats his picnic lunch. Snub sprints away. Back at the outpost, Harold twice rescues Jeanne--once from the clutches of an unwanted suitor and once from one of the bears. The grateful, gun-toting Jeanne tells Harold she wants him to be her "sweetie."
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Professor Beware (1938)
Character: Prof. Dean Lambert
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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For Heaven's Sake (1926)
Character: The Uptown Boy
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
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A Submarine Pirate (1915)
Character: Cook (uncredited)
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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The Rajah (1919)
Character: N/A
A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp
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Dr. Jack (1922)
Character: Dr. 'Jack' Jackson
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
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Close-Cropped Clippings (1915)
Character: Pete
Punctual Pete prepares the "Shaved in Silence" shop for the day's business. He is as handy as a man with five thumbs. Gertie, almost a soubrette, looking for a job, decides that she is willing to try anything once. Seeing a sign in the barber shop window advertising for a lady barber she beats it home and brushes up on the tonsorial art.
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Funny Side of Life (1963)
Character: Himself
A 30-minute compilation of clips selected by Harold Lloyd that highlight his career, plus a slightly edited presentation of THE FRESHMAN (1925)
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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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Dogs of War! (1923)
Character: Harold Lloyd
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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Off the Trolley (1919)
Character: The Man
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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Her Painted Hero (1915)
Character: Minister (uncredited)
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
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Take a Chance (1918)
Character: The Sport
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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I'm on My Way (1919)
Character: The boy
Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.
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Number, Please? (1920)
Character: The Boy
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
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The Freshman (1925)
Character: Harold Lamb
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.
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An Eastern Westerner (1920)
Character: The Boy
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
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Clubs Are Trump (1917)
Character: Lonesome Luke
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
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Just Neighbors (1919)
Character: The Boy
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard.
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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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Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
Character: The Boy
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
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Young Mr. Jazz (1919)
Character: Glasses Character
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: Harold
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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Giving Them Fits (1915)
Character: Luke de Fluke
Lonesome Luke, working in a shoe store, has difficulty keeping his mind on business whenever a pretty girl is on the scene.
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The Marathon (1919)
Character: Harold
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
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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: Harold
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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Bliss (1917)
Character: Harold
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
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Tinkering with Trouble (1915)
Character: Lonesome Luke aka Easy Otis
Sourball Joe gets the "can" for sassing the tenants, and Easy Otis supplants him. But the latter does not know an awful lot of the art of "janitoring" and soon gets into many and various jams with the people upstairs.
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The Cat's-Paw (1934)
Character: Ezekiel Cobb
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.
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Two Scrambled (1918)
Character: N/A
Roomers in a boarding house break the rules and are caught cooking if their room. A frantic run-in with the landlady ensues.
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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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Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918)
Character: N/A
Our hero has a dream, while in the trenches at the front, that he is in Berlin rescuing a Red Cross nurse from the hands of the Kaiser and his henchmen.
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Never Touched Me (1919)
Character: The Boy
At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."
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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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From Italy's Shores (1915)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to give them a start in the new world. The ordeal of Ellis Island over and the trip to Battery Park on board the municipal ferry boat completed, Tony and Angelica found themselves in a little park in the shadows of the downtown scrapers
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Feet First (1930)
Character: Harold Horne
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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Movie Crazy (1932)
Character: Harold Hall aka 'Trouble'
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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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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Somewhere in Turkey (1918)
Character: Professor O.B. Lively
Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
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Luke Rides Roughshod (1916)
Character: Lonesome Luke
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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Samson (1914)
Character: Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
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Look Out Below (1919)
Character: The Boy
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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Don't Shove (1919)
Character: Harold
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
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Soft Money (1919)
Character: N/A
Soft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.
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Fireman Save My Child (1918)
Character: Harold
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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Yesterday and Today (1953)
Character: (archive footage)
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
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On the Fire (1919)
Character: The Chef
Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
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