Harry Langdon

Born: 1884-06-14

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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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

as Harry Logan
Released: 1926-03-21

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear...

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Zenobia

as Professor McCrackle
Released: 1939-04-21

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming...

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His Marriage Wow

as The Groom - Harold Hope
Released: 1925-03-01

In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1942-01-01

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of...

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Ella Cinders

as Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1926-06-06

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local...

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The Golden Age of Comedy

as archive footage
Released: 1957-12-26

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy,...

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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

as Egghead
Released: 1933-02-03

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a...

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The Strong Man

as Paul Bergot
Released: 1926-11-19

A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a...

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Hot Rhythm

as Mr. Whiffle
Released: 1944-04-22

Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for...

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There Goes My Heart

as Minister (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-14

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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Saturday Afternoon

as Harry Higgins
Released: 1926-01-31

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must...

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When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'The First 100 Years'
Released: 1960-03-29

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles...

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Days of Thrills and Laughter

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1961-03-21

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century...

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Smile Please

as Otto Focus - the Hero
Released: 1924-03-01

Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also...

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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 2011-04-03

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith...

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Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)

as Harry
Released: 1935-04-29

Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended...

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House of Errors

as Bert
Released: 1942-04-10

Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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Double Trouble

as Albert "Bert" Prattle
Released: 1941-11-21

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers...

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All-American Co-Ed

as Hap Holden
Released: 1941-10-31

Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college...

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Misbehaving Husbands

as Henry Butler
Released: 1940-12-20

Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".

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Fiddlesticks

as Harry Hogan
Released: 1927-11-27

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden...

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Long Pants

as Harry Shelby
Released: 1927-03-26

Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day...

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Boobs in the Wood

as Il ragazzo - Chester Winfield
Released: 1925-02-01

Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and...

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Picking Peaches

as A Shoe Clerk
Released: 1924-02-02

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe...

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Remember When?

as Harry Hudson
Released: 1925-04-14

Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a...

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His First Flame

as Harry Howells
Released: 1927-05-02

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid...

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Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)
Released: 1953-12-02

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of...

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A Doggone Mixup

as Harry Langdon
Released: 1938-12-05

Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.

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Shanghaied Lovers

as A Shanghaied Sailor
Released: 1924-03-30

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a...

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Stardust

as Otto Schultz
Released: 1938-03-25

Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is...

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Defective Detectives

as Harry
Released: 1944-04-03

El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but...

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Plain Clothes

as The Boy
Released: 1925-03-28

Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.

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His New Mamma

as A Farmer Boy
Released: 1924-06-21

The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad....

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The Hansom Cabman

as Harry Doolittle
Released: 1924-10-12

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A...

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Spotlight Scandals

as Oscar Hammond
Released: 1943-09-24

A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success...

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A Blitz on the Fritz

as Egbert Slipp
Released: 1943-01-22

Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi...

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The King

as The King
Released: 1930-06-14

The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the...

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Counsel on De Fence

as Darrow Langdon
Released: 1934-10-24

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

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Hotter Than Hot

as uncredited
Released: 1929-08-17

Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.

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Block Busters

as Higgins
Released: 1944-07-22

Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee...

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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

as Self
Released: 1934-01-22

Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft...

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Lucky Stars

as Harry Lamb
Released: 1925-08-15

Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.

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My Weakness

as Dan Cupid
Released: 1933-09-22

A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous...

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Heart Trouble

as Harry Van Housen
Released: 1928-10-01

No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van...

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The Sea Squawk

as An Immigrant
Released: 1925-01-04

A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a...

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The Chaser

as The Husband
Released: 1928-02-12

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however,...

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Happy Times and Jolly Moments

as (archive footage)
Released: 1943-01-01

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

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All Night Long

as The Boy
Released: 1924-11-08

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while...

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The First 100 Years

as A Newly-Wed
Released: 1924-08-16

A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's...

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The Cat's Meow

as Eddie Elgin
Released: 1924-05-24

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that...

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See America Thirst

as Wally
Released: 1930-11-23

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

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There He Goes

as Harry
Released: 1925-11-29

1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.

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The Hitchhiker

as The Hitchhiker
Released: 1933-02-11

Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip....

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The Luck o' the Foolish

as The Boy
Released: 1924-09-13

Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during...

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Hooks and Jabs

as uncredited
Released: 1933-08-24

Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar...

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The Fighting Parson

as The Banjo Player
Released: 1930-02-06

Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.

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A Soldier's Plaything

as Tim
Released: 1930-10-30

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after...

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Goodness! A Ghost

as uncredited
Released: 1940-03-08

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an...

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The Leather Necker

as Harry
Released: 1935-05-08

Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.

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Sky Boy

as Stowaway
Released: 1929-10-05

Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.

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Piano Mooner

as Harry
Released: 1942-12-11

Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he...

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To Heir Is Human

as Harry Fenner
Released: 1944-01-14

Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion...

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Three's a Crowd

as Harry - the Odd Fellow
Released: 1927-08-28

Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and...

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The Shrimp

as Harry
Released: 1930-05-03

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.

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The Sound of Laughter

as The Hitchhiker
Released: 1963-12-17

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

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Swingin' on a Rainbow

as Chester Willouby
Released: 1945-09-01

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and...

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Soldier Man

as The Soldier / King Strudel the 13th of Bomania
Released: 1926-05-01

After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of...

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Snooper Service

as uncredited
Released: 1945-02-03

Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.

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The Big Flash

as Harry
Released: 1932-11-05

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent...

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Skirt Shy

as Dobbs, the butler
Released: 1929-11-30

Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.

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Atlantic Adventure

as Snapper McGillicuddy
Released: 1935-08-25

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he...

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What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?

as Harry
Released: 1942-03-26

This Columbia short (production number 3431) has Harry Langdon and Elsie Ames billed above the...

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Feet of Mud

as Harry Holdem - The Boy
Released: 1924-12-06

As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that...

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The Big Kick

as Harry
Released: 1930-03-29

Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas...

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Beautiful Clothes

as Stooge
Released: 1942-08-04

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.

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Flickering Youth

as Gus Guitar
Released: 1924-04-27

Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.

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Here Comes Mr. Zerk

as Egbert Slipp
Released: 1943-07-23

Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.

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The Head Guy

as Harry, Temporary Station Master
Released: 1930-01-11

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.

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Knight Duty

as Harry
Released: 1933-05-06

Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he...

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Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon

as Harry
Released: 1929-04-01

Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.

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