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Lloyd French (January 11, 1900 – May 24, 1950) was an American director of short films, most of them comedies. His best remembered films are several Laurel and Hardy comedies in the 1930s. He also made several musical short films featuring many bandleaders of the day; in the 1940s he also directed several shorts starring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol; he made his last film in 1946.
French was born in San Francisco, California and died in Beverly Hills, California of heart disease.
Most Popular Lloyd French Trailers
Total trailers found: 68
26 June 1937
Orphanage manager Dr. Bergen tries to get a rich woman to adopt Charlie McCarthy.
09 January 1938
Hades is cooling off, so the Devil imports Leon Navara and his Orchestra to put on some heat using their music instruments.
01 February 1940
A concert film
09 November 1935
Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.
10 September 1938
A man desiring to join the Grouch Club describes the terrible experience of trying to check out a book from a public library.
10 August 1935
Prankster Bob is traveling to New York by ship with his girlfriend and he proposes to marry her. Along the trip, he plays pranks on the captain, passengers and his future father-in-law.
04 May 1935
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior.
05 March 1932
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
28 May 1938
A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three Symphonettes.
29 December 1934
Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
23 November 1935
An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want her photographed.
17 June 1932
Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.
21 November 1936
In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.
05 February 1943
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
06 April 1935
Bob Hope wants to marry the mayor's daughter, but the mayor doesn't want his daughter to marry Bob Hope.
11 September 1937
Mal Hallett and his Orchestra perform three songs with featured dancers
03 June 1939
Red Skelton inherits a dude ranch and must live there for six months, far from the bright lights of New York City.
25 March 1936
This early comedy short has Bob Hope and John Berkes putting on sailor uniforms to find dates, getting mistaken for real sailors and being dragged back to a Navy ship by the shore patrol.
24 August 1935
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.
29 December 1933
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
15 February 1936
A former art student returns from Europe to run the department store he inherited from his father and finds his employees behaving very bizarrely.
22 October 1938
In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs.
07 October 1933
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
08 May 1936
Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank.
16 January 1942
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
15 June 1935
Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood.
28 November 1936
The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches.
14 March 1936
Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend's dog gets kicked.
22 August 1941
The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home.
15 August 1936
Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.
08 March 1935
After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
22 June 1940
Women are put in charge of the city government for a day, and the mayor must go to the train station to greet an opera singer.
01 November 1934
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip.
22 April 1939
Part of the Melody Masters series (1938-1939 season) #11 where Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra does their comedy and music bits.
30 July 1938
Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing.
03 September 1938
Larry Clinton & His Orchestra and two guest vocalists perform several songs popularized by Clinton and his group.
06 February 1937
Joe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.
24 April 1937
Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ.
20 October 1934
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
20 December 1940
Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made other arrangements for their vacation time.
03 August 1933
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
05 May 1935
Professor Cicero Pu and his dummy Charlie take a trip in the "Spirit of Ammonia" hot air balloon to the stratosphere.
04 January 1936
Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.
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.
06 June 1936
Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a championship bout at Madison Square Garden.
12 September 1936
Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.
23 February 1929
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse.
31 December 1932
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
20 April 1929
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
14 December 1934
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St.
06 October 1928
Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
08 September 1928
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
25 November 1933
Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.
13 January 1934
Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband.
10 September 1932
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion.
23 March 1929
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married.
22 April 1933
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift.
