F. Richard JonesFilmography

The Water Hole

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Holt, Nancy Carroll, John Boles

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1905 Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern socialite vamping Arizona rancher Philip Randolph Jack Holt, in town to discuss business with her father (C. Montague Shaw). When the smitten young man proposes, he Read More

Big Killing

Crew: Director

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Anders Randolph, Mary Brian, Gardner James

Synopsis: A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this rollicking comedy concerning a pair of nitwits who unwittingly become embroiled in an age old feud between two mountain families. When snake-oil salesmen Pete (Beery) and Gus Read More

Someone to Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, William Austin, Jack Oakie, James Kirkwood

Synopsis: Paramount's popular screen team of Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Mary Brian were once again cinematically united in 1928's Someone to Love. Rogers plays William Shelby, a struggling young sheet-music salesman, while Brian is Joan Kendricks, his wealthy sweetie. Thanks to a series of bizarre Read More

The Gaucho

Crew: Director

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Eve Southern, Lupe Velez, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Geraine Greear, Michael Vavitch, Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks' The Gaucho is a curiosity: a traditional Fairbanks actioner with decidedly unsavory, unpleasant and uncharacteristic overtones. For the first time in his career, Fairbanks plays what would have been a villainous role in anyone else's film: An outlaw leader who exploits religion Read More

Ten Years Old

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Jackie Condon, Bobby Young, Jannie Hoskins

Synopsis: Gang member Joe Cobb celebrates his tenth birthday by baking his own cake since his widowed mother can't afford to buy one. Later, Joe wonders why none of the Our Gang kids have responded to his party invitations. He soon discovers that all the kids have converged at a rival party held by wealthy Jackie Condon Read More

No Man's Land

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Rex the Wonder Horse, Barbara Kent, James Finlayson

Seeing the World

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs, Jackie Condon, Jay R. Smith

Synopsis: If not the funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Seeing the World is certainly one of the most famous. James Finlayson is cast as the gang's schoolteacher, who manages to win a trip to Europe in a local contest. Gathering the kids together, Finlayson leads them on a whirlwind tour of Naples Read More

Bring Home the Turkey

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs, Jackie Condon, Jannie Hoskins

Synopsis: Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted friend in the form of a black grownup named Uncle Tom. Alas, Tom's own children -- including real-life siblings Allen "Farina" Hoskins and Jannie "Mango" Hoskins -- are carted Read More

Baby Clothes

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Mickey Daniels, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs, Mary Kornman

Synopsis: Mr. and Mrs. Weedle (William Gillespie and Charlotte Mineau) are in a jam: For years, they've been receiving substantial amounts of money from their rich uncle (William A. Orlamond), who has been led to believe that the Weedles have two children to support. Now Uncle is coming to town, and the Read More

The Nickel Hopper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The silent era's foremost comedienne, Mabel Normand, plays a taxi dancer in this 2-reel farce produced by Hal Roach. In order to impress one of her customers, a wealthy young man (Theodore Von Eltz), Mabel pretends to live in a mansion, a minor fib which leads to the expected confusion. Co-written Read More

Good Cheer

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: Originally released on January 10, 1926, Good Cheer was Our Gang's Yuletide present to the series' legions of fans. 'Tis the day before Christmas, and all through the snowy streets, the Our Gang kids are confronted not by Christmas cheer, but by the crass commercialism of the holiday. Happily, the Read More

Buried Treasure

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: Once again, the Our Gang kids embark upon a treasure hunt, this time in search of Captain Kidd's buried gold. Boarding their own version of a luxury yacht, the kids end up marooned on Catalina Island, where by an amazing coincidence a group of moviemakers have converged to film a jungle epic. It Read More

Monkey Business

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Farina Hoskins, Mickey Daniels, Joe Cobb, Mary Kornman, Jackie Condon

Synopsis: Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins decides to run away from home on the same day that an oversized, trained chimpanzee mischievously escapes its captors. Befriending the monkey, Farina invites his new pal to join the rest of the gang. The kids decide to capitalize on the simian's talents by Read More

The Fourth Alarm

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Mary Kornman, Johnny Downs, Jackie Condon

Synopsis: While the Our Gang kids are beating the summer heat with their own elaborate version of a "slip-n-slide," a fire alarm rings, and the men from the nearby firehouse race to the conflagration. Tagging along, the youngsters manage, through a series of incredible coincidences, to put the fire out Read More

War Feathers

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs, Jackie Condon, Jannie Hoskins

Synopsis: While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of cowboys and Indians. During a stopover in the sleepy town of Red Dog, the kids disembark in hopes of savoring a taste of genuine Western life. They get more than they bargained Read More

Telling Whoppers

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs, Jackie Condon, Bobby Young

Synopsis: The Our Gang kids are held in thrall by neighborhood bully Toughy (Johnny Downs), who not only extorts money from the kids, but also forces them to perform humiliating stunts. Something must be done about this menace, and Gang members Joe Cobb and Allen "Farina" Hoskins are chosen by lot to take Read More

Uncle Tom's Uncle

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: According to the opening title of this silent Our Gang comedy, "Uncle Tom's Cabin had been translated and played in forty-two languages -- the gang decided to make it forty-three." In the kid's barnyard production of the Harriet Beecher Stowe epic, Mickey Daniels is cast as Simon Legree, Mary Read More

Thundering Fleas

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: Easily one of the fastest and funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Thundering Fleas is set in motion with a sidewalk performance of Professor Clements' Trained Flea and Insect Circus. When the Professor's star attraction, Garfield the flea (depicted via animation) escapes, Clements offers to Read More

Shivering Spooks

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Mary Kornman, Johnny Downs, Jackie Condon

Synopsis: A seance held by phony spiritualist Professor Fleece (George K. French) is inadvertently disrupted by the Our Gang kids. Hoping to get even, the professor instructs his two henchmen to give the kids a good scare when the youngsters decide to explore an underground cave. But in typical Our Gang Read More

One Wild Ride

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Farina Hoskins, Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon

Synopsis: Once again, the Our Gang kids go into the taxi business, this time with an old, abandoned, motorless auto and an obliging mule. When the mule escapes, a motorist offers to tow the kids' vehicle to the top of a hill. Upon their arrival at the top, the youngsters briefly leave their taxi unattended Read More

Your Own Back Yard

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Farina Hoskins, Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon

Synopsis: Producer Hal Roach often claimed that Your Own Back Yard was his favorite of all the Our Gang silent comedies produced by his studio. The focus is on black youngster Allen "Farina" Hoskins, whose efforts to leave his own back yard and participate in the gang's activities are constantly rebuffed. Read More

Boys Will Be Joys

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: Hoping to build their own amusement park, the Our Gang kids are disheartened to discover that their favorite vacant lot has been purchased for development. Fortunately, the developer, 60-year-old Henry Mills (Paul Weigel), is a big kid at heart. Over the protests of his hide-bound board of Read More

Mary, Queen of Tots

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Mary Kornman, Mickey Daniels, Joe Cobb, Farina Hoskins, Jackie Condon

Synopsis: Ignored by her parents and browbeaten by her governess (May Beatty), poor little rich girl Mary Kornman finds comfort only in her collection of dolls, which bear a striking resemblance to the familiar Our Gang kids. And well they should: The dolls were carved by an Italian gardener who used the Read More

Better Movies

Crew: Supervising Director

Actors: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Billy Lord, Farina Hoskins

Synopsis: When the Our Gang kids make the acquaintance of Billy Lord, a wealthy youngster who owns his own home-movie camera, the youngsters decide to go into the motion-picture business. With movie-struck teenager Martha Sleeper as their leading lady, the kids put together a rip-roaring cliffhanger Read More

The First 100 Years

Crew: Director

Shriek of Araby

Crew: Director

Actors: Ben Turpin, Kathryn McGuire, George Cooper

Synopsis: Comedy producer Mack Sennett certainly couldn't let Rudolph Valentino's hit The Sheik come and go without spoofing it with none other than Ben Turpin as the star. Turpin starts off as a bill poster for a movie theater, while a tall, dark, and handsome type is dressed as an Arab and riding a horse Read More

The Extra Girl

Crew: Director

Actors: George Nichols, Anna Hernandez, Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, Vernon Dent

Synopsis: Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand) lives in the tiny hamlet of River Bend. When her parents (George Nichols and Anna Hernandez) refuse to let her marry her sweetheart, Dave Giddings (Ralph Graves), she enters a movie contest and Read More

Crossroads of New York

Crew: Director

Actors: Ethel Grey Terry, Robert Cain, Kathryn McGuire, Herbert Standing

Synopsis: This feature-length comedy-melodrama was not one of the best from Mack Sennett, or his talented director, F. Richard Jones. Country boy Michael Flint (George O'Hara) arrives in the city to seek his fortune. He's a bit better off than your average naïve youth because he has a letter of introduction Read More

Suzanna

Crew: Director

Actors: Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Walter McGrail, Evelyn Sherman, Leon Bary

Synopsis: Comedienne Mabel Normand was in the middle of production for this comedy-drama when William Desmond Taylor was murdered. She was the last person to see him alive, and the shock of his death, combined with stressful police interrogations, caused her to have a breakdown. Filming was halted for Read More

Molly O'

Crew: Director

Actors: Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Anna Hernandez, Albert Hackett, Eddie Gribbon

Synopsis: This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel Goldwyn. Normand plays one of her typical Cinderella turns, a lower-class Irish girl, Molly, whose father, Tim O'Dair (George Nichols) is a ditch digger. Molly is supposed to Read More

Flying Pat

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Legendary producer-director F. Richard Jones, whose expertise kept the Mack Sennett and Hal Roach comedy factories afloat during the 1920s, helmed the 1920 comedy Flying Pat. The ever-delightful Dorothy Gish stars as a newlywed who, after several months in Paris, considers herself a modern Read More

Love, Honor and Behave

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlie Murray, Ford Sterling, Phyllis Haver, Marie Prevost, George O'Hara

Synopsis: Marie Prevost and George O'Hara are two newlyweds who go before a judge seeking a divorce in this slapstick comedy. His Honor (Charles Murray) sees photographic evidence from the wife with the husband's arms around another woman. He claims he was only helping the woman over the fence and he is Read More

The Son of a Gun

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Veteran western hero Broncho Billy Anderson wrote and starred in a series of cheap westerns released by the Golden West Producing Company in 1919. Like in his heyday with Essanay (the "ay" in Essanay stood for Anderson), Broncho Billy played to his strength: rustic comedy augmented by a dash of Read More

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Crew: Director

Actors: Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Malcolm St. Clair, Bert Roach, Eva Thatcher

Synopsis: Instead of his usual two-reel format, Mack Sennett made a five-reel, feature-length film to spoof the recently ended World War. The Americans use the Kaiser's penchant for a pretty face to steal some secret plans from him. They disguise one of their captains, Bob (Bothwell Browne), as a seductress Read More

Mickey

Crew: Director

Actors: Mabel Normand, Wheeler Oakman, Lew Cody, Minta Durfee

Synopsis: Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey, a rambunctious and untamed orphan of the West. On his deathbed, her father left her and his mine in the care of Joe Meadows (George Nichols) and his Indian housekeeper Read More

Judge

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This fast-moving Keystone comedy was directed by the talented F. Richard Jones. A flirtatious manicurist (Louise Fazenda) runs foul of the law when she turns down the attentions of a motorcycle cop (Charles Murray). He puts her under arrest but the old judge (Harry Booker) is charmed by the girl Read More

The Great Vacuum Robbery

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Those who worried that the Keystone comedy formula would be diluted by producer Mack Sennett's merger with Triangle studios were undoubtedly gratified by the old-fashioned slapstick shenanigans in The Great Vacuum Robbery. This two-reel farce begins as a pair of ingenious crooks (Edgar Kennedy and Louise Fazenda Read More