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From Wikipedia
Arthur Housman (October 10, 1889 – April 8, 1942) was an
American actor in films during both the silent film era and the Golden Age of
Hollywood.
Initially as a leading man, Housman later became known as
Hollywood's most familiar comic drunkard in films of the 1930s, usually playing
cameo parts in features but with better opportunities in short films. His best
remembered roles were in several Laurel and Hardy films, notably Scram!, Our
Relations and (in the title role) The Live Ghost. He also played a frustrated
timekeeper in the Three Stooges' film Punch Drunks.
Housman's died of pneumonia at age 52. He was married to
Ellen Grubley (31 July 1893 - 21 May 1960) from 1919 until his death in 1942.
Most Popular Arthur Housman Trailers
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14 November 1936
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond).
26 January 1935
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
16 February 1919
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers.
30 November 1930
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams).
06 October 1934
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
20 July 1939
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings.
30 June 1937
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
24 June 1934
Lloyd stows away on a ship to be near his girlfriend.
01 November 1917
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow.
28 February 1934
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
30 September 1930
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
19 January 1925
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company.
10 November 1934
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
21 July 1924
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
04 February 1918
Gerry Simpson (Bushman) meets newspaper reporter Virginia Blake (Bayne) and, after learning that she has no use for the idle rich, decides to become a reporter and make Virginia believe he is poor in order to win her.
07 January 1938
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
09 July 1935
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
10 January 1918
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
07 April 1939
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
02 March 1935
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry.
30 October 1930
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon.
17 May 1925
Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
25 November 1932
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
11 June 1928
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
14 January 1913
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, produced a decade earlier.
19 November 1927
Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical producer.
01 January 1921
Having been rejected by Phyllis Leigh in favor of wealthier suitor Peter Lester, Hugh prevents Elinor Ashe from drowning herself.
13 December 1925
Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is actually the fault of the nasty Martin brothers.
30 May 1941
Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric Keating.
20 August 1930
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life.
02 October 1927
Pete Clark, publicity manager for Henly soap, concocts a promotional contest requiring entrants to fly nonstop from California to Hawaii.
09 June 1918
Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon.
21 July 1933
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring.
27 December 1925
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force.
05 September 1920
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son.
09 February 1934
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
20 December 1920
Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York.
28 January 1944
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan.
04 November 1941
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women.
13 December 1945
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel.
11 May 1939
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
31 May 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums.
04 November 1927
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
02 February 1938
Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a great actress by Barnes, who offers to buy her ranch, cheaply of course, so she can have enough money to get to the Big City.
30 June 1939
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
01 November 1931
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce.
17 February 1933
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
03 February 1932
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
15 February 1930
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder.
17 September 1936
Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests.
13 June 1931
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working.
11 June 1921
Leon Errol is a befuddled bridegroom about to get hitched to a pretty lass. If he can only get to the church on time.
23 March 1929
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
28 October 1934
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr.
12 October 1930
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
08 February 1939
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
09 February 1933
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more male friends than can be imagined. One is a vicious escaped criminal on the way to see 'his' girl, unaware she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence.
04 October 1934
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
01 September 1929
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
