Robert Youngson Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Four Clowns

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor Read More

1970
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase

Synopsis: The second of Robert Youngson's compilations of the silent comedies of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, The Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy suffers a bit from too much repetition and gee-whiz obvious narration. Still, the vignettes offered herein are first-rate, as fresh and funny as they were when Read More

1967
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jay Jackson, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Glenn Tryon

Synopsis: Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson. Included are From Soup To Nuts, Wrong Again, The Finishing Touch, and iberty. On hand are legendary comic foils like James Findlayson and Edgar Kennedy, both masters of the "slow Read More

1965
MGM's The Big Parade of Comedy

Crew: Director

Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gary Grant

Synopsis: This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the clips are culled from 40 years' worth of MGM comedy material. The silent scenes spotlight such funsters as Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Karl Dane and George K. Arthur Read More

1964
30 Years of Fun

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of Comedy, When Comedy was King, and Days of Thrills and Laughter) is, amazingly, almost as full and fresh as those earlier efforts, containing highlights from such silent comedy Read More

1963
Days of Thrills and Laughter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film (The Golden Age of Comedy and When Comedy Was King directly preceded this release). As in its predecessors, this compilation looks back on the more distant past. Renowned Read More

1961
When Comedy Was King

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

1959
The Golden Age of Comedy

Crew: Director

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

1958
I Never Forget a Face

Crew: Director, Producer

1956
Gadgets Galore

Crew: Producer

1955
Noah's Ark

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Fazenda, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the end, Curtiz' treatise of man's inhumanity to man was ironically sabotaged by the enormous success of yet another studio release, the groundbreaking The Jazz Singer (1927). Read More

1928