Harry LangdonFilmography

The Sound of Laughter

Synopsis: Ed Wynn hosts this compilation of comedic material from the likes of Imogene Coca and Buster Keaton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

When Comedy Was King

Synopsis: Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy), When Comedy Was King covers the years 1914 to 1929. Using snipettes from the 1929 Charley Chase 2-reeler Movie Night as a framing device, Youngson offers vintage clips from the Read More

The Golden Age of Comedy

Actors: Harry Langdon, Jean Harlow, Will Rogers, Jr.

Synopsis: The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began life as a short subject, consisting of vintage clips from the Mack Sennett vaults. When Youngson struck a deal with the Hal Roach studios, he was able to expand the film's Read More

Swingin' on a Rainbow

Actors: Jane Frazee, Brad Taylor, Harry Langdon, Minna Gombell, Amelita Ward

Synopsis: Republic's Swingin' on a Rainbow utilizes a plotline that had already done service in several of the studio's previous budget musicals. Would-be songwriter Lynn Ford (Jane Frazee) comes to the Big City, demanding $1000 from bandleader Jimmy Rhodes (Richard Davies). It seems that Rhodes has scored Read More

Block Busters

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Billy Benedict, Jimmy Strand

Synopsis: A lesser East Side Kids effort, Block Busters looks more like an elongated 2-reel comedy than a 6-reel feature. This time, Muggs (Leo Gorcey), Glimpy (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the Kids set about to "Americanize" affable young French refugee Jean Rogers (Frederick Pressel). But after a Read More

Hot Rhythm

Actors: Dona Drake, Robert Lowery, Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Sidney Miller

Synopsis: Robert Lowery and the comedy team of Tim Ryan and Irene Ryan star in this pleasant musical-comedy about a jingle-writer (Lowery) attempting to turn his girlfriend (Dona Drake) into a band vocalist. Unfortunately, there is a case of mistaken identity and the bumbling recording studio owner (Tim Ryan Read More

Spotlight Scandals

Actors: Billy Gilbert, Frank Fay, Bonnie Baker, Billy Lenhart

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling in love with his talented partner. When he learns that she has a shot at becoming a famous radio singer, he decides to go solo. Eventually, the woman gets herself into a Read More

House of Errors

Synopsis: Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an Read More

Double Trouble

Synopsis: In this comedy, funny Langdon and Rogers end up working at a bean factory and getting into deep trouble when they accidentally lose an irreplaceable bracelet in a can. Now, before it is too late, they must somehow find that can out of a thousand that look just like it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

All-American Coed

Actors: Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Marjorie Woodworth, Noah Beery, Jr., Esther Dale

Synopsis: This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer LeRoy Prinz, who also produced the film. Johnny Downs stars as Bob Sheppard of Quinceton University, who is appointed by his frat brothers to get even with the snotty sorority gals Read More

Misbehaving Husbands

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Harry Langdon, Esther Muir, Luana Walters, Gayne Whitman

Synopsis: Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from grace in the 1920s had to content himself with cheap 2-reelers, featured roles and screenwriting assignments. Langdon plays henpecked store-owner Henry Butler, who decides to Read More

Road Show

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Charles Butterworth, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: When millionaire bachelor John Hubbard takes a run-out powder at his own wedding, Hubbard's vengeful fiancee Polly Ann Young has the luckless fellow committed to an insane asylum. Hubbard escapes with certified looney Adolphe Menjou; together they join a carnival run by Carole Landis. Hubbard and Menjou Read More

A Chump at Oxford

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas, Forbes Murray, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: Back at Hal Roach Studios for the first time since 1938's Block-Heads, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in the uneven but generally rewarding A Chump at Oxford. The boys are cast as street-sweepers who hope to better their lot in life by attending night school. Fate intervenes when Stan and Ollie Read More

Saps at Sea

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Ben Turpin

Synopsis: In their last film for Hal Roach, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play employees at the Sharp and Pierce Horn Factory, where the workers tend to go beserk at a rate of one per hour. Driven crazy by the cacophonous G-minor horn, poor Ollie begins to tear the factory apart, screaming "Horns to the left Read More

The Flying Deuces

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles B. Middleton

Synopsis: In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker). At Stan's Read More

Zenobia

Actors: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison

Synopsis: With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo starring vehicle for Laurel's longtime partner Oliver Hardy. Digging into his files, Roach pulled out Zenobia's Infidelity, an H.C. Bunner story originally purchased as a vehicle Read More

Block-Heads

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: Twenty years after the Armistice, doughboy Stan Laurel continues guarding a trench in France--simply because no one told him the war was over. His rescue coincides with the first wedding anniversary of his old pal Oliver Hardy. Heading to town to pick up a gift for his wife (Minna Gombell), Ollie Read More

There Goes My Heart

Actors: Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Alan Mowbray, Nancy Carroll

Synopsis: Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered young lady is given a crash course in pragmatism by her worldly roommates Patsy Kelly and Nancy Carroll. Reporter Fredric March learns of Bruce's ruse and plans to tell all Read More

Stardust

Actors: Lupe Velez, Wallace Ford, Ben Lyon, Harry Langdon

Synopsis: This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon play Jackson and Hartley, a couple of fly-by-night producers hoping to slap together a movie project. They hire showgirl Carla (Lupe Velez) as their leading lady, enhancing Read More

Wise Guys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This comedy was directed by the once great silent comedian Harry Langdon. It is about two hoboes who have a sudden change of fortune when they discover that they can buy their uncle's loan company if they can find money. The two head for the horse races in hopes of winning the badly needed dough. Read More

Atlantic Adventure

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Langdon, Arthur Hohl, Robert Middlemass

Synopsis: Having fallen from grace at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll retreated to Columbia Pictures, known in 1935 as "the Port of Missing Stars." Though Carroll does no singing in Columbia's Atlantic Adventure, she is still a charming and delightful screen presence. The actress is cast as Read More

Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)

Actors: Harry Langdon, Monty Collins

My Weakness

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Lew Ayres, Charles Butterworth, Harry Langdon, Sid Silvers

Synopsis: The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page or two from Pygmalion, the plot is hinged on a wager made between playboy Ronnie Gregory (Lew Ayres) and his crusty uncle Ellery (Henry Travers). Ronny bets that he can Read More

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

Actors: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin

Synopsis: Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and S.N. Behrmann and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Jolson plays a genial hobo who wanders happily around Central Park, neither seeking nor accepting honest Read More

Hooks and Jabs

Actors: Harry Langdon

Knight Duty

Actors: Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent

A Soldier's Plaything

Actors: Lotti Loder, Harry Langdon, Ben Lyon

Synopsis: In this WW I comedy, several young men decide to join the army. Each one has his own reason for joining up. Songs include: "Forever," "Qui, Qui," "Honey Boy," "Ja, Ja, Ja," "Side by Side." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Two Reelers: Comedy Classics 10

The Big Kick

Synopsis: In this Harry Langdon two-reeler, Langdon plays a mild-mannered gas-station attendant. Through a series of misunderstandings, he gets involved with a gang of bootleggers on the run from the law. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fighting Parson

Synopsis: This Harry Langdon two-reel comedy is set in a tough Western town. Harry rides into town, and is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson," a meek-looking but tough-as-nails frontier preacher. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

The Head Guy

King

See America Thirst

Actors: Harry Langdon, George "Slim" Summerville, Bessie Love, Mitchell Lewis, Matthew Betz

Synopsis: Silent-screen comedian Harry Langdon was the darling of the critics in 1927, but his career quickly lost momentum, and by the time talkies came in, Langdon was considered a has-been, reduced to starring in 2-reelers for comedy producer Hal Roach. In 1930, he made a feature-film comeback bid in a Read More

Shrimp

Sky Boy

Skirt Shy

Hotter Than Hot

The Chaser

Crew: Director

Actors: Gladys McConnell, Harry Langdon, Henry Hayward, William Jaimison, Charles Thurston

Synopsis: Achieving "critic's darling" status with three well-constructed starring features, baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon became convinced that he could produce, write and direct his own vehicles, a la Charlie Chaplin. Langdon's first auteur exercise, Three's a Crowd, was a disaster; his second, The Chaser Read More

Heart Trouble

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Langdon, Doris Dawson, Lionel Belmore, Madge Hunt

Synopsis: A patriotic German American attempts to prove his loyalty to the U.S. (and also impress the gal he loves) by enlisting in the army during WW I, but unfortunately is rejected. This romantic silent comedy follows his exploits as he proves his mettle after accidently discovering a German base Read More

Long Pants

Actors: Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Al Roscoe, Alma Bennett, Priscilla Bonner, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Few comedies of the 1920s were as bizarre and surreal as Harry Langdon's Long Pants. Having recently come of age, small-town-boy Langdon aspires to become a great lover, drawing inspiration from the romantic novels he's been reading since childhood. Falling hard for a "vamp" (Alma Bennett), Harry Read More

Three's a Crowd

Crew: Director

Actors: Gladys McConnell, Cornelius Keefe, Harry Langdon

Synopsis: After achieving success in the mid-'20s, Harry Langdon decided to emulate the silent era's premier comedian -- Charles Chaplin -- and turn auteur. He fired Frank Capra from his staff and directed this feature on his own. Although both writer (and future director) Arthur Ripley and director Harry Read More

Saturday Afternoon

Actors: Harry Langdon

Fiddlesticks

Actors: Harry Langdon

Synopsis: Harry Langdon's first directing attempt, Three's a Crowd, had just been released when his former boss, producer Mack Sennett, released this short subject which features Langdon in the lead. The exhibitors' trade papers virtually leapt on this release and sang its praises -- "far better than some Read More

Baby Face Harry Langdon

Synopsis: Baby Face Harry Langdon is a videocassette collection of selected Mack Sennett two-reelers starring pasty-faced comedian Harry Langdon. Langdon's character can best be described as an overgrown baby (with all the bad attributes of infancy as well as the good), and as such he seemed an unlikely Read More

His First Flame

Actors: Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Ruth Hiatt, Vernon Dent

Synopsis: Baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon plays a timorous fireman in His First Flame. Much of the action involves Langdon's efforts to impress the unimpressable Ruth Hiatt. She is so resistant to his "charms" that she can't even act grateful when he rescues her from a burning house. Filmed during Read More

The Strong Man

Actors: Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim

Synopsis: The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to mention first feature-length directorial effort of Frank Capra. Langdon plays a Belgian soldier who, during World War I, is captured by German conscript Arthur Thalasso. Almost immediately, the armistice Read More

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Tom Murray, Edwards Davis, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to make features for First National, he wisely brought along the two Sennett staffers who helped make him a star: gag writer Frank Capra and director Harry Edwards. Langdon's first feature-length comedy at his new studio was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Read More

Plain Clothes

Actors: Harry Langdon

Remember When

Actors: Harry Langdon

The Sea Squawk

Actors: Harry Langdon

Boobs in the Wood

Actors: Harry Langdon

His Marriage Wow

Actors: Harry Langdon

Lucky Stars

Synopsis: Although Harry Langdon was nearing his peak as a two-reel comedian (in just a few months he would graduate to features), not all his films during this period were winners. Of this picture, trade paper Moving Picture World complained, "The gags carry little punch and the action is constantly slowed Read More

Soldier Man

Actors: Harry Langdon

All Night Long

The Luck o' the Foolish

The First 100 Years

The Hansom Cabman

His New Mamma

Picking Peaches

Actors: Harry Langdon

Feet of Mud

Actors: Harry Langdon

Smile Please

The Cat's Meow

Synopsis: Although Harry Langdon was an established vaudeville star when he signed on to make films for Mack Sennett, it took him several pictures (not to mention teaming up with director Harry Edwards and writer/ future director Frank Capra) before he really began to gain his film footing. Nevertheless Read More