Fred C. Newmeyer
Also Known As: Fred Richard Newmeyer
Biography: A native of Central City, Colorado, Newmeyer is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing several Harold Lloyd movies. With Sam Taylor, Newmeyer co-directed Lloyd in films including Safety Last! (1923), Girl Shy (1924), and The Freshman (1925). Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in other comedy short films. He appeared as an actor in 71 films between 1914 and 1923. Prior to his film career, Newmeyer played professional baseball. Partial statistics exist for his time as a left-handed pitcher in Minor League Baseball at the Class D level from 1911 to 1913 in the Southwest Texas League, Michigan State League, and Central Association.[6] He made at least 66 appearances and was the winning pitcher of at least 26 games. Newmeyer was the original director of the first short in the Our Gang series, also titled Our Gang; his version tested poorly, and producer Hal Roach scrapped most of the footage and remade the short with Robert McGowan as the director. Newmeyer, after directing numerous other shorts at Roach, returned to the Our Gang series in 1936 to direct The Pinch Singer, Arbor Day, Mail and Female and the feature film General Spanky. Newmeyer and his wife, Berna, had a son, Fred W. After his film career, Newmeyer worked with the athletic department of University High School in Los Angeles. Newmeyer died on April 24, 1967, in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 78.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Central City, Colorado, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 08, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 24, 1967
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Bumping Into Broadway
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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Captain Kidd's Kids
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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We Never Sleep
Overview: Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-02
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Clubs Are Trump
Overview: In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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Love, Laughs and Lather
Overview: An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-04
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Rainbow Island
Overview: After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-28
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From Laramie to London
Overview: An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-21
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Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
Overview: Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Overview: While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-05
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Luke and the Bang-Tails
Overview: Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-15
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Luke, Patient Provider
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-19
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Luke, Rank Impersonator
Overview: Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-10
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Luke Locates the Loot
Overview: As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-24
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Luke and the Mermaids
Overview: Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-18
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Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
Overview: Luke, working in a fireworks factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-17
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Luke's Speedy Club Life
Overview: Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Luke Does the Midway
Overview: Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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Luke Rides Roughshod
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-10
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Luke's Lost Lamb
Overview: A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-07
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Luke, Crystal Gazer
Overview: Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-24
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Over the Fence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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Pinched
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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Luke's Society Mixup
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-26
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Luke's Late Lunchers
Overview: Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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Luke's Movie Muddle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-03
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Young Mr. Jazz
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The Marathon
Overview: Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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Count Your Change
Overview: Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-10
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Overview: Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Luke Joins the Navy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Don't Shove
Overview: Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Safety Last!
Overview: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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A Sammy in Siberia
Overview: A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Number, Please?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-26
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