Henry LehrmanFilmography

Moulin Rouge

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Constance Bennett, Franchot Tone, Tullio Carminatti, Helen Westley, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: A remake of the silent film Her Sister From Paris, Moulin Rouge stars Constance Bennett in a dual role as twin French entertainers. One is married to a songwriter (Franchot Tone), who doesn't want his wife to return to the stage. In order to hide the fact that she's gotten a job in a musical, the Read More

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner Oland, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel

Synopsis: This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan orchestrated by Warner Oland. Damsel in distress Loretta Young reports that her wealthy and influential uncle is missing, but all those concerned insist that the uncle never Read More

New Year's Eve

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Astor, Charles Morton, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: In this drama, an unemployed young woman who must support her younger brother pays a visit to a gambler who wants her body. However, he is murdered during her visit, and she is charged with the crime. But, the real killer is unmasked and dies in an accident, and her old flame shows up to romance Read More

Chicken a La King

Crew: Director

Actors: Nancy Carroll, George Meeker, Arthur Stone, Ford Sterling, Carol Holloway

Synopsis: Chicken a la King was based on Mr. Romeo, a play by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. When his brother-in-law Oscar Barrows (Arthur Stone) announces his plans to marry chorus girl Maisie DeVoe (Nancy Carroll), priggish Horace Trundle (Ford Sterling) is aghast. How can Oscar throw his life away on a girl who Read More

Homesick

Crew: Director

Actors: Sammy Cohen

Synopsis: Sammy Cohen, Fox Studios' resident Jewish comic, heads the cast of Homesick. This one is all about a cross-country bicycle race, with Sammy Schnable (Cohen) competing against his old pal Ambrose (Harry Sweet). Whoever wins the race will also win the hand of eligible bachelorette Babe (Marjorie Beebe Read More

Why Sailors Go Wrong

Crew: Director

Actors: Sally Phipps, Sammy Cohen, Ted McNamara

Synopsis: Why Sailors Go Wrong was directed by Henry "Pathe" Lehrmann, whose comedy technique hadn't changed much since his days with the Keystone studios. Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara play a pair of silly sailors, the best friends of hero Nick Stuart. In love with wealthy Sally Phipps, Stuart has been Read More

Sailor Izzy Murphy

Crew: Director

Actors: George Jessel, Warner Oland, Clara Horton, Otto Lederer, Audrey Ferris

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1927 George Jessel vehicle Private Izzy Murphy finds Jessel reprising the role of Lower East Side entrepreneur Izzy Goldberg. That's right, "Goldberg" -- Izzy doesn't adopt the name of "Murphy" until he abandons the perfume business to pose as an underworld thug. It's all for Read More

For Ladies Only

Crew: Director

Actors: John Bowers, Jacqueline Logan, Edna Marion, Ben Hall, William Strauss

Synopsis: Henry Lehrman and Percy Pembroke, two graduates of the 2-reel comedy mills, shared directorial responsibilities for Columbia's For Ladies Only. Jacqueline Logan stars as one of several female office workers who spend their lunch hour ogling their male employers. Office manager Jack Mower catches Read More

Husbands for Rent

Crew: Director

Actors: John Miljan, Katherine Perry, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: Personable Owen Moore starred in this romantic comedy from Warner Bros. featuring Dolores Costello. About to marry his uncle's pretty ward, Herbert Willis (Moore) finds his bride-to-be, Doris (Kathryn Perry), completely taken in by dashing newcomer Hugh Fraser (John Miljan). Herbert, meanwhile Read More

Fighting Edge

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Stalwart movie hero Kenneth Harlan has the situation well in hand during most of The Fighting Edge. Disguised as half-breed, government agent Juan de Dios O'Rourke, Harlan sneaks across the Mexican border to rescue fellow agent Joyce (W.A. Carroll), who's in the clutches of smugglers. Together Read More

On Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Stuart Holmes, Richard Talmadge, Billie Dove, Charles Clary

Synopsis: Henry "Pathe" Lehrman, the busy but mediocre director of many a 2-reel comedy, was entrusted with the Richard Talmadge vehicle On Time. As usual, stunt-man Talmadge plays a dashing young adventurer, pitted against a veritable legion of villains. This time, he must rescue Billie Dove from the Read More

Reported Missing

Crew: Director

Actors: Owen Moore, Pauline Garon, Tom Wilson, Togo Yamamoto, Robert Cain

Synopsis: This comedy was a satire on serious melodrama, and ex-Mack Sennett director Henry Lehrman gave it as many thrills as it had laughs. Less successfully, it featured titles by several newspaper columnists, who proved they were wittier on paper than they were on screen. Owen Moore (who, aside from Read More

Roaring Lions and Wedding Bells

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Roaring Lions and Wedding Bells was the inaugural entry in the "Sunshine Comedies," a long-running series of two-reelers produced by William Fox. Roly-poly Lloyd Hamilton, one of the most creative comedians of the silent era, played Ham Berger, a raw-meat fancier who falls in love with Mildred Read More

Ring Rivals

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Comedy director Henry Lehrman left the Keystone studios to form his own production company, L-KO. Sometimes his slapstick films were pretty funny, but often they were crude and hard to follow. This picture is definitely one of his lesser efforts. Dan, the Irish Terror (Dan Russell) and Battling Read More

For the Love of Mike and Rosie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While the humor in this ethnic comedy seems nasty and cynical today, filmgoers of the 1910s apparently found it hilarious. It was made by Henry Lehrman's L-Ko productions, the company he formed after leaving the Keystone studios. Lehrman's comic sense was very much of its era, which is probably Read More

The Great Smash

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After leaving producer Mack Sennett, comedy director Henry Lehrman formed his own studio. The gags to this three-reeler don't make up for its unfunny plot to -- Lehrman would have been better off staying with Sennett's. John D. Rock, Sr. (Dick Smith) gets fed up with his lazy, do-nothing son Read More

Gaby's Gasoline Glide

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this two-reeler, comedy director Henry Lehrman creates a chase that is almost up to par with his alma mater, the Keystone Studios, but he spoils it with a grim end. Gaby (Gertie Selby) has two suitors -- Bill (Bill Armstrong and Phil Phil Dunham). She favors Phil since he owns a real car, while Read More

Live Wires and Love Sparks

Crew: Director

Actors: Billy Ritchie

Silk Hose and High Pressure

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Released by Universal, this three-reel comedy was produced by LKO, a Keystone-like operation managed by director Henry Lehrman. The star was Billie Ritchie, one of the many Charlie Chaplin wannabes of the period (Ritchie and Chaplin were both graduates of Fred Karno's British music hall troupe). Read More

Making a Living

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This typical Keystone slapstick comedy was Charlie Chaplin's first appearance on film. An Englishman (Chaplin) cons a newspaper reporter (Henry Lehrman) out of some money. The Englishman flirts with a young woman who later turns out to be the reporter's girlfriend, and the reporter and the Read More

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Kid Auto Races at Venice

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Chicken Chaser

Crew: Director

Between Showers

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Sadie Lampe

Synopsis: In his fourth film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin was assigned for the last time to Henry Lehrman, his first director at Keystone. It was Chaplin's first film with the ostensible star of the film, Ford Sterling, who had announced that he would be leaving Keystone for a more lucrative deal well Read More

Mabel's Busy Day

Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin's 18th film for Keystone was likely co-written and co-directed by co-star Mabel Normand. It was shot entirely on location at an automobile racetrack during a racing event. Mabel plays a hot dog vendor who sneaks in to the track by bribing the cop who guards the gate. As soon as she Read More

The Bangville Police

Crew: Director

A Beast at Bay

The Jealous Husband

Crew: Director

Her Sacrifice

As the Bells Rang Out!

The Iconoclast

Synopsis: No relation to the 1910 D.W.Griffith production of the same name, the 1913 release The Iconoclast was a three-reeler from the Thomas H. Ince film factory. The title character is a Mexican aristocrat who fancies himself an atheist. In addition to his constant tiltings with the Church, the Read More

Nursing a Viper

Synopsis: Described by its parent studio Biograph as a "French Revolution melodrama," Nursing a Viper runs a thrill-packed 920 feet (or roughly twelve minutes). Arthur V. Johnson stars as a French aristocrat who is sympathetic to the revolutionary cause. Johnson provides shelter to another aristocrat, who Read More