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POWERS, LEN (Leonard Stephen Powers) Born December 12, 1892 (although he incorrectly gave 1894 on some documents), Rodney,
Iowa. Len grew up in Grant, Iowa with his grocer father Charles, mother May, and siblings Charles, Hazel and Clara. He went to school in Portland, Oregon and for a time was a professional boxer. Powers began work as a cinematographer with Reliance in 1914. He shot Blue Blood and Red (1916) for Raoul Walsh at Fox, and Headin’ South (1918) for Douglas Fairbanks, directed by Allan Dwan; he also worked for Magnetic, Mack Sennett, and Hank Mann Comedies. His first film for Hal Roach was the Our Gang short Young Sherlocks (1922). He directed or co-directed 14 Dippy Doo-Dad shorts for Roach in 1923 and ’24, and because of his success with all-animal casts he was asked to film a rooster crowing for the official Pathé logo. After that, Powers was a cameraman exclusively for Roach through 1933, mostly working with Charley Chase. (He moonlighted as a gagman for Mack Sennett in 1927.) With Laurel and Hardy he worked on From Soup to Nuts, Habeas Corpus, Unaccustomed As We Are, Berth Marks, The Hoose-Gow, and The Music Box. He worked at Universal in the early ’40s and was camera operator on some Johnny Mack Brown Westerns toward the end of the decade. His last known credit was photographing stills for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). Powers’ wife, the former Muriel Elizabeth Davey, died in November. 1945, but he was survived by their daughter Murlen. Died January25, 1965, Hollywood, California, age 72; of a heart attack.
Most Popular Len Powers Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
10 December 1927
One of many LOST MGM silent films.
15 April 1933
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
12 February 1917
A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.
03 September 1927
Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival.
25 July 1926
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
13 April 1928
On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
02 October 1926
The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he's shutting her shop down.
16 May 1930
The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
16 June 1937
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
16 May 1926
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense.
25 February 1918
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.
21 February 1926
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake.
02 June 1933
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
19 September 1926
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
10 November 1928
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
08 March 1930
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
30 January 1932
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
01 August 1925
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
14 March 1925
Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework.
23 May 1926
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy.
26 August 1926
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station.
11 April 1925
In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything.
13 November 1926
Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man.
16 April 1932
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof.
01 February 1925
Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around.
26 June 1926
Clyde Cook is a traveling handyman who whitewashes farm barns and he flirts with the wife of a jealous farmer.
29 June 1924
A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.
12 August 1949
This is an actual burlesque show, filmed in 1948 at the Hollywood Theater in San Diego, California. It is not a drama or a documentary, it is what you would have seen if you'd been sitting in the theater.
27 October 1923
Intelligent monkeys, dogs, and ducks enact a spoof of boxing dramas. (MoMA)
16 April 1932
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
23 December 1923
A monkey is kidnapped by another monkey, while a third monkey is hot on the trail. Part of Hal Roach's Dippy Doo Dads series.
19 August 1923
One monkey is stealing eggs from the farmyard. Another monkey, with his dog friend, tries to stop the crook.
10 May 1924
Len Powers' Dippy-Doo-Dads (the billing received by the films' all-animal cast) cavort, drink and seek frontier justice "North of 53, where the population is split 50-50 between bad men and Northwest Mounted Police" in this broad parody of Mountie Westerns.
27 September 1924
When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time to receive the reward of $1,000.
19 October 1919
The misadventures of a dog catcher
25 November 1923
Maw and Paw Monkey throw their boy out of the house after a long night of drinking. When he hitches a ride on a freight train to parts unknown, he arrives in a Wild West town full of gunslingers, giant police dogs, and steeds--billy goats--for the riding, as an unpaid tab leads to a rootin' tootin' chase from the town sheriff.
04 May 1929
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
01 June 1929
Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
12 March 1926
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it.
02 June 1924
A 'Dippy Doo Dad' comedy with an all-animal cast.
21 April 1918
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
06 February 1927
Charley impersonates his stunt double, a man named Bud Gordon, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.
23 August 1930
Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.
14 April 1918
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
28 October 1927
A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
10 June 1923
Entry in Hal Roach's "Dippy Doo Dads' series of comedy shorts. All roles are played by animals. Partially lost.
12 September 1930
Alabam is lovesick. He tells Mickey how he can't get close to the girl of his dreams; he's overheard by Dave, a smooth operator, who insists that Alabam leave everything to him.
01 March 1925
Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his no-frills girl.
16 March 1924
The irate proprietor of a hotel discharges his hotel clerk after the "Hawkshaw" of the inn tells him the young upstart is flirting with his daughter.
