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Henry "Harry" Philmore Langdon (June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1944) was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films (where he had his greatest fame), and talkies.
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22 April 1944
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
25 August 1935
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him.
24 September 1943
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
14 June 1930
The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns, drilling his soldiers, and dallying with the wife of a new minister.
27 November 1927
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
01 April 1929
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.
03 February 1945
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
30 March 1924
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
29 April 1935
Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to promote Goodrich Tires.
01 January 1942
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years.
03 May 1930
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
12 February 1928
A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dressing like her--for 30 days to see what it's like to be his wife.
24 October 1934
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
25 March 1938
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
30 October 1930
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
14 October 1938
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
23 November 1930
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
01 July 1933
We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo of his bride.
16 June 1944
Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a beautiful blonde with an insanely jealous husband.
01 October 1928
No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent heroism in foiling a ring of spies.
31 January 1926
Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend.
21 March 1961
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
02 May 1927
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs.
22 January 1943
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
02 February 1924
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers.
03 April 2011
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film.
18 February 1941
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity.
03 April 1944
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
12 October 1924
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive.
06 May 1933
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin.
02 December 1953
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
20 December 1940
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
28 August 1927
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men.
24 August 1933
Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich.
21 November 1941
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
05 November 1932
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl.
17 December 1963
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
14 April 1925
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
01 March 1925
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance.
05 December 1938
Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
21 June 1924
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab.
01 February 1930
This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars and this episode includes Langdon, Lola Lane, Harry Jolson, Lew Cody and Armida.
30 October 1935
Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.
06 June 1925
Horace jumps in a caravan car covered with a large tarp, only to discover that a band of hooded rebels are hidden under the canopy.
29 March 1960
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
16 August 1924
A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar.
01 March 1924
Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset.
04 January 1925
A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner.
01 February 1925
Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress.
22 July 1944
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers.
01 September 1945
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
03 November 1939
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles.
16 April 1943
Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and gets the wrong idea.
11 December 1942
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister.
01 May 1926
After the armistice of WW1, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for. He's wandering the fields of fictional Balkan state Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.
01 January 1943
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
