Harry Langdon
Birthday: 1884-06-14
Place of Birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...
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The Strong Man
A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo f...
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All-American Co-Ed
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insult...
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid...
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When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...
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Long Pants
Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finall...
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Zenobia
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage...
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company...
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The Big Flash
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangs...
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Knight Duty
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a...
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Hooks and Jabs
Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and...
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The Hitchhiker
Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. Wha...
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Tied for Life
We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know...
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Horace Greeley, Jr.
Horace jumps in a caravan car covered with a large tarp, only to discover that a band of hooded rebe...
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Lucky Stars
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show....
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Remember When?
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearde...
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Boobs in the Wood
Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the j...
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Plain Clothes
Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000....
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His Marriage Wow
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from get...
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Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)
Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to p...
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I Don't Remember
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket....
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The Stage Hand
The story is set in the village of Oskaloosa, which is in Iowa -- Langdon's home state. A silent mov...
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A Soldier's Plaything
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I...
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Soldier Man
After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania,...
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Saturday Afternoon
Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure ou...
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Fiddlesticks
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talent...
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His First Flame
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimo...
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The Hansom Cabman
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strang...
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Smile Please
Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursu...
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The Luck o' the Foolish
Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry'...
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Feet of Mud
As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he ...
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All Night Long
Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while the...
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The First 100 Years
A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, d...
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Picking Peaches
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe cler...
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His New Mamma
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The yo...
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The Sea Squawk
A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-s...
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Atlantic Adventure
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is wo...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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My Weakness
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fas...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Misbehaving Husbands
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman"....
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Defective Detectives
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but the...
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See America Thirst
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals....
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Mopey Dope
Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a b...
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Three's a Crowd
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and lon...
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The Fighting Parson
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town....
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Hot Rhythm
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, an...
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The King
The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne ...
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The Shrimp
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him....
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Skirt Shy
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal....
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The Big Kick
Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas sta...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...
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The Chaser
A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes u...
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Ella Cinders
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local bea...
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The Cat's Meow
Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is...
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Sue My Lawyer
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a ...
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Tired Feet
Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films....
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Shanghaied Lovers
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sail...
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Double Trouble
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who ...
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Goodness! A Ghost
Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur...
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is pa...
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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Spotlight Scandals
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventual...
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House of Errors
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long c...
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A Blitz on the Fritz
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies a...
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Counsel on De Fence
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband....
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What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?
This Columbia short (production number 3431) has Harry Langdon and Elsie Ames billed above the title...
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Tireman, Spare My Tires
Harry picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a runaway heiress. Under threat, Harry agrees to hel...
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs....
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Piano Mooner
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't ma...
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Blonde and Groom
Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and...
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Carry Harry
After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire ...
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To Heir Is Human
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to co...
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Heart Trouble
No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen'...
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Shivers
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house....
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Snooper Service
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl....
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Block Busters
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Ro...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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Stardust
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing...
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The Golden Age of Comedy
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and...
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Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up....
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with ...
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This ente...
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