William Hauber
Also Known As: William Carl Hauber, William C. Hauber, W.C. Hauber, Bill Hauber
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brownsville, Minnesota, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 19, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 17, 1929
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A Coat's Tale
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-08
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The Love Thief
Overview: Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, then a chase ensues including a chase over roof tops and a lot of rapid-fire action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-22
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Their Fatal Bumping
Overview: A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-24
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A Thief Catcher
Overview: Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-19
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Kid Speed
Overview: Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-16
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Won in a Closet
Overview: Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-21
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Golf
Overview: Comedy on the golf links.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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Dunces and Dangers
Overview: Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and everything and eventually chase the pair up onto the room—where various stunts occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-04
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Passing the Buck
Overview: Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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A Flirt's Mistake
Overview: When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-12
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Fatty's Finish
Overview: Fatty's Finish is a 1914 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-02
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The Suitor
Overview: Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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A Pair of Kings
Overview: A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-10
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Her Boy Friend
Overview: Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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The Gangsters
Overview: An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing and compelled to return to the station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-29
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Peeping Pete
Overview: This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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A Bandit
Overview: Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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A Muddy Romance
Overview: Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-19
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Overview: Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-03
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Love and Rubbish
Overview: Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-14
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A Noise from the Deep
Overview: Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-17
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The Riot
Overview: When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-07
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Fatty's Day Off
Overview: Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-01
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Overview: A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-08
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The Fatal Taxicab
Overview: The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-18
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Mother's Boy
Overview: Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-25
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A Quiet Little Wedding
Overview: The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-23
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Fatty Joins the Force
Overview: Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-23
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Fatty's Flirtation
Overview: Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-18
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Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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His Favorite Pastime
Overview: A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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The Chicken Chaser
Overview: The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-01
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A Fishy Affair
Overview: A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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A Bird's a Bird
Overview: Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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A Strong Revenge
Overview: Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-09
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His Bitter Pill
Overview: Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-30
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A Film Johnnie
Overview: The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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Cruel, Cruel Love
Overview: This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-26
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Overview: Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-29
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His Musical Career
Overview: Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-07
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His New Profession
Overview: Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-31
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Mabel at the Wheel
Overview: A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-18
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Mabel's Busy Day
Overview: Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Overview: A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-09
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Those Love Pangs
Overview: Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-10
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Overview: Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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The Star Boarder
Overview: Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail. Exchanging clothes with a lookalike escaped prisoner, he goes back, only to find he's to be hung. Now desperate to leave again, he joins other cons in a jailbreak.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-26
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The Fly-Cop
Overview: Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-28
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The Barnyard
Overview: Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-11
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Love in Armor
Overview: Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-11
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Love, Loot and Crash
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-23
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The Gusher
Overview: Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-14
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The Bell Hop
Overview: A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-17
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A Lucky Leap
Overview: A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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Scamps and Scandals
Overview: Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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His Home Sweet Home
Overview: Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-12
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He Loved the Ladies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-21
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Hash House Mashers
Overview: A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-16
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The Midnight Taxi
Overview: The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Mabel's Blunder
Overview: Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-12
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Well, I'll Be
Overview: Larry Semon goes out west.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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Her Friend the Bandit
Overview: A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-04
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The Stage Hand
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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Bears and Bad Men
Overview: Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-07
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The Rent Collector
Overview: The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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The Bakery
Overview: Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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The Fall Guy
Overview: Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
Genres: Western Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-15
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The Show
Overview: A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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The Water Dog
Overview: The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-11
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Lightning Love
Overview: The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-22
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Dull Care
Overview: Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-10-05
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The Counter Jumper
Overview: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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