Harry Langdon

Harry Langdon

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.

  • Title: Harry Langdon
  • Popularity: 0.447
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1884-06-14
  • Place of Birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
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  • Also Known As: The Sad Clown, The Little Elf
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Harry Langdon Movies

  • 1963
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    The Sound of Laughter

    The Sound of Laughter

    2 1963 HD

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

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  • 1953
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    Yesterday and Today

    Yesterday and Today

    1 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1926
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    The Strong Man

    The Strong Man

    6.1 1926 HD

    A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never...

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  • 1941
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    All-American Co-Ed

    All-American Co-Ed

    4.2 1941 HD

    Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for...

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  • 1933
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    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

    7.5 1933 HD

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

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  • 1960
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    When Comedy Was King

    When Comedy Was King

    6.7 1960 HD

    A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.

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  • 1927
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    Long Pants

    Long Pants

    5.5 1927 HD

    Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of...

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  • 1939
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    Zenobia

    Zenobia

    4.6 1939 HD

    A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

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  • 1926
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    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

    5.8 1926 HD

    A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also...

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  • 1932
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    The Big Flash

    The Big Flash

    4.5 1932 HD

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

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  • 1933
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    Knight Duty

    Knight Duty

    1 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    Hooks and Jabs

    Hooks and Jabs

    1 1933 HD

    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....

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  • 1933
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    The Hitchhiker

    The Hitchhiker

    1 1933 HD

    Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do,...

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  • 1933
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    Tied for Life

    Tied for Life

    1 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Horace Greeley, Jr.

    Horace Greeley, Jr.

    1 1925 HD

    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. He fights first...

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  • 1925
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    Lucky Stars

    Lucky Stars

    7 1925 HD

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

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  • 1925
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    Remember When?

    Remember When?

    7 1925 HD

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

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  • 1925
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    Boobs in the Wood

    Boobs in the Wood

    6.7 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Plain Clothes

    Plain Clothes

    7 1925 HD

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

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  • 1925
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    His Marriage Wow

    His Marriage Wow

    5.5 1925 HD

    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,...

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  • 1935
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    Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)

    Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)

    1 1935 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    I Don't Remember

    I Don't Remember

    2 1935 HD

    Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.

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  • 1935
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    The Leather Necker

    The Leather Necker

    1 1935 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    His Bridal Sweet

    His Bridal Sweet

    1 1935 HD

    Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.

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  • 1924
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    Flickering Youth

    Flickering Youth

    1 1924 HD

    Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.

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  • 1933
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    The Stage Hand

    The Stage Hand

    1 1933 HD

    The story is set in the village of Oskaloosa, which is in Iowa -- Langdon's home state. A silent movie-style opening title informs us that the town...

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  • 1930
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    A Soldier's Plaything

    A Soldier's Plaything

    4.8 1930 HD

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

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  • 1926
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    Soldier Man

    Soldier Man

    1 1926 HD

    After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.

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  • 1926
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    Saturday Afternoon

    Saturday Afternoon

    5.6 1926 HD

    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...

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  • 1927
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    Fiddlesticks

    Fiddlesticks

    6 1927 HD

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

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  • 1927
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    His First Flame

    His First Flame

    5.5 1927 HD

    Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is...

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  • 1924
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    The Hansom Cabman

    The Hansom Cabman

    5 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    Smile Please

    Smile Please

    5 1924 HD

    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....

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  • 1924
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    The Luck o' the Foolish

    The Luck o' the Foolish

    5.3 1924 HD

    Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money...

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  • 1924
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    Feet of Mud

    Feet of Mud

    7 1924 HD

    As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before...

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  • 1924
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    All Night Long

    All Night Long

    7.5 1924 HD

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

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  • 1924
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    The First 100 Years

    The First 100 Years

    6.4 1924 HD

    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. Out...

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  • 1924
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    Picking Peaches

    Picking Peaches

    4.2 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    His New Mamma

    His New Mamma

    4.6 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    The Sea Squawk

    The Sea Squawk

    7 1925 HD

    A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner. Blackie Dawson, the uncrowned king of...

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  • 1942
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    Beautiful Clothes

    Beautiful Clothes

    1 1942 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    A Doggone Mixup

    A Doggone Mixup

    1 1938 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    Atlantic Adventure

    Atlantic Adventure

    5.5 1935 HD

    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....

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  • 1942
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    1 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    My Weakness

    My Weakness

    1 1933 HD

    A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor...

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  • 1984
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    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    10 1984 HD

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

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  • 1940
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    Misbehaving Husbands

    Misbehaving Husbands

    5.2 1940 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Defective Detectives

    Defective Detectives

    1 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    See America Thirst

    See America Thirst

    1 1930 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Mopey Dope

    Mopey Dope

    1 1944 HD

    Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a beautiful blonde with an insanely jealous husband.

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  • 1935
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    His Marriage Mix-up

    His Marriage Mix-up

    1 1935 HD

    Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.

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  • 1927
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    Three's a Crowd

    Three's a Crowd

    5.3 1927 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    The Fighting Parson

    The Fighting Parson

    1 1930 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Hot Rhythm

    Hot Rhythm

    4.7 1944 HD

    Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to...

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  • 1938
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    There Goes My Heart

    There Goes My Heart

    7.2 1938 HD

    An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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  • 1930
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    The King

    The King

    4.3 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    The Shrimp

    The Shrimp

    1 1930 HD

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

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  • 1929
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    Skirt Shy

    Skirt Shy

    2 1929 HD

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

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  • 1930
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    The Head Guy

    The Head Guy

    4 1930 HD

    Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.

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  • 1930
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    The Big Kick

    The Big Kick

    3.5 1930 HD

    Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted...

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  • 2011
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    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    9 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 1928
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    The Chaser

    The Chaser

    4.6 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1926
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    Ella Cinders

    Ella Cinders

    7 1926 HD

    Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of...

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  • 1924
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    The Cat's Meow

    The Cat's Meow

    1 1924 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    Sue My Lawyer

    Sue My Lawyer

    1 1938 HD

    Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job

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  • 1933
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    Tired Feet

    Tired Feet

    1 1933 HD

    Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.

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  • 1924
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    Shanghaied Lovers

    Shanghaied Lovers

    4.3 1924 HD

    Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

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  • 1941
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    Double Trouble

    Double Trouble

    1 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Cold Turkey

    Cold Turkey

    1 1940 HD

    Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.

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  • 1940
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    Goodness! A Ghost

    Goodness! A Ghost

    1 1940 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    Swingin' on a Rainbow

    Swingin' on a Rainbow

    1 1945 HD

    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.

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  • 1961
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    Days of Thrills and Laughter

    Days of Thrills and Laughter

    5.5 1961 HD

    An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

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  • 1943
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    Spotlight Scandals

    Spotlight Scandals

    1 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    House of Errors

    House of Errors

    1 1942 HD

    Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II...

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  • 1943
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    A Blitz on the Fritz

    A Blitz on the Fritz

    1 1943 HD

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

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  • 1934
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    Counsel on De Fence

    Counsel on De Fence

    1 1934 HD

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

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  • 1942
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    What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?

    What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?

    1 1942 HD

    This Columbia short (production number 3431) has Harry Langdon and Elsie Ames billed above the title, but it is all Elsie Ames with Langdon and Monty...

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  • 1942
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    Tireman, Spare My Tires

    Tireman, Spare My Tires

    1 1942 HD

    Harry picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a runaway heiress. Under threat, Harry agrees to help her hide by pretending to be husband and wife.

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  • 1943
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    Here Comes Mr. Zerk

    Here Comes Mr. Zerk

    1 1943 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    Pistol Packin' Nitwits

    Pistol Packin' Nitwits

    1 1945 HD

    Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.

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  • 1942
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    Piano Mooner

    Piano Mooner

    1 1942 HD

    Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment...

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  • 1943
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    Blonde and Groom

    Blonde and Groom

    1 1943 HD

    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.

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  • 1942
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    Carry Harry

    Carry Harry

    1 1942 HD

    After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds...

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  • 1944
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    To Heir Is Human

    To Heir Is Human

    1 1944 HD

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

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  • 1925
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    There He Goes

    There He Goes

    1 1925 HD

    1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.

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  • 1929
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    Hotter Than Hot

    Hotter Than Hot

    1 1929 HD

    Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.

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  • 1928
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    Heart Trouble

    Heart Trouble

    1 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    Shivers

    Shivers

    1 1934 HD

    To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.

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  • 1945
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    Snooper Service

    Snooper Service

    1 1945 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Block Busters

    Block Busters

    1 1944 HD

    Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean...

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  • 1943
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    Happy Times and Jolly Moments

    Happy Times and Jolly Moments

    1 1943 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    Stardust

    Stardust

    4 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    The Golden Age of Comedy

    The Golden Age of Comedy

    6.8 1957 HD

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

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  • 1929
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    Sky Boy

    Sky Boy

    1 1929 HD

    Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.

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  • 1929
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    Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon

    Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon

    1 1929 HD

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

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  • 1930
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    The Gas Station

    The Gas Station

    1 1930 HD

    Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

    Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

    1 1934 HD

    Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.

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  • 1930
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    The Voice of Hollywood No. 5

    The Voice of Hollywood No. 5

    1 1930 HD

    This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars...

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  • 1938
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    Block-Heads

    Block-Heads

    6.97 1938 HD

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  • 1926
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    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

    5.8 1926 HD

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  • 1926
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    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

    5.8 1926 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Strong Man

    The Strong Man

    6.1 1926 HD

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  • 1942
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    Piano Mooner

    Piano Mooner

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Stage Hand

    The Stage Hand

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1927
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    Three's a Crowd

    Three's a Crowd

    5.3 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    The Chaser

    The Chaser

    4.6 1928 HD

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  • 1928
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    The Chaser

    The Chaser

    4.6 1928 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Flying Deuces

    The Flying Deuces

    6.4 1939 HD

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  • 1942
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    House of Errors

    House of Errors

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1927
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    Long Pants

    Long Pants

    5.5 1927 HD

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  • 1927
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    Long Pants

    Long Pants

    5.5 1927 HD

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  • 1940
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    Goodness! A Ghost

    Goodness! A Ghost

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Stage Hand

    The Stage Hand

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1945
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    Pistol Packin' Nitwits

    Pistol Packin' Nitwits

    1 1945 HD

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  • 1941
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    Road Show

    Road Show

    5.8 1941 HD

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  • 1928
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    Heart Trouble

    Heart Trouble

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1938
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    Wise Guys

    Wise Guys

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1940
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    A Chump at Oxford

    A Chump at Oxford

    6.9 1940 HD

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