
Harry Watson
Actor · 1876 – 1930 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Harry Watson Jr. aka Harry B. Watson was an American actor and comedian. Before his Vaudeville, Broadway and film careers, he was a clown for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Movie5.0FantasyComedyMusty Suffer hunts wild horses in the bad lands of New Jersey. He captures a fine specimen and sells it, but it breaks away to join the fascinating Musty. The fairy tramp grants Musty's wish for a suit and cab, and goes into business.
Strictly Private
1916 · 1 votes
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Series 2, episode 8 of 'The Mishaps of Musty Suffer' series of one-reel comedies, where Harry Watson gets a make-over.
Active Service
1916
Movie5.0ComedyMusty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.
Hold Fast!
1916 · 1 votes
MovieComedyMusty holds down a job as general factotum at the Busy Bee Amusement Arcade, one of his chief duties being that of taking tickets at the entrance to the moving stairway which leads to the cinema theater on the second floor.
Coming Down
1916
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceAn Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Little Old New York
1923 · 13 votes
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Musty gets a job in a grocery store. Through a series of very bad encounters with various customers it becomes clear he is ill-suited to the job and ultimately he goes his own way.
Keep Moving
1915
- Movie9.0Comedy
It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.
Actors' Fund Field Day
1910 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyMusty Suffer visits a "painless dentist"
Local Showers
1916 · 1 votes
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Detective Ruby Swift is on the trail of crooked politicos McQuire and Olson and traces them to the small hamlet Hicktown. Once there she finds that they are attempting to steal the election of the mayor in order to “trim” the town. Ruby, as secretary to the politicians, causes both to fall in love with her, hoping their rivalry will part them and reveal the hidden ballot boxes. Jealous over Ruby, the politicians quarrel, and not even the suffragette Chief of Police can reconcile them. How Ruby takes advantage of the quarrel and brings them to justice is the climax of this five-reel comedy.
The Politicians
1915
MovieComedyMusty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.
Going Up
1916
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Musty holds down a job in Mole and Kittleton's dime museum. Musty seems to be the sole employee about the place, and whatever is called for by any of the patrons, he has to supply it. He is placed in charge of the cane rack, and of course, cheats so that the customers get no canes. One irascible old fellow complains to the manager, who upbraids Musty for his dishonesty. As soon as the customer leaves the manager congratulates himself on having so business-like an employee.
Partly Cloudy
1916
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceAmbitious press agent Jack Murray introduces two of his clients, Follies dancer Mabel Vandegrift and prize fighter Joe Cain, to each other and they fall in love. After Brock Morton, the owner of the show, says that he will bring down the curtain on the show in the middle of opening night unless Mabel renounces Joe, the latter goes on the stage and announces that, in spite of his prior refusal, that he will fight the English boxing champion. With the money he gets from boxing promoter Tex Rickard, he buys out Morton and the show goes on. Prior to the fight, Morton dopes Joe, but he is brought around so that he is able to fight and eventually wins the match. Joe's father comes east and then brings Joe and Mabel back west with him. A lost film.
The Great White Way
1924 · 1 votes
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Musty suffers from sleeplessness and consults a quack doctor, who administers "Starlight Sleep."
Starlight Sleep
1917
Movie6.2DramaMamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.
Zander the Great
1925 · 6 votes
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Wet and Dry is a silent film comedy.
Wet and Dry
1917
- Movie5.0Comedy
Musty, messenger boy, is assigned to deliver a cook stove to a certain address. In spite of the fact that there is no one home and the house locked up, Musty takes the stove in through the window.
Showing Some Speed
1916 · 2 votes
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Musty goes for a day's fishing, but bites are scarce and he whiles away the time reading an exciting story entitled "The Bold, Bad Pirate." He goes to sleep sitting on the edge of a bridge and dreams of hidden treasure and dark deeds on the Spanish Main.
A Pirate Bold
1916
Movie5.0ComedyMusty Suffer gets a job as a chef and waiter at an automat restaurant. Various customers attempt to filch food or money from the coin slots, and Musty deals with the situation.
Outs and Ins
1916 · 1 votes
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Musty Suffer at sea.
Fore and Aft
1916
Movie4.0ComedyWhen Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor dinner. And the dinner degenerated into a quiet game with sugar for dice until constable Zack arrived with sleuths galore and landed them everyone safe and sound in the local calaboose. This was an early five-reeler that featured the famous George Bickel and Harry Watson duo.
The Fixer
1915 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyMusty Suffer, finding a meal ticket, resolves to take a vacation while eating is free. The café owner, however, discovers Musty’s face does not compare with the photograph on the ticket. Musty goes out to have it altered, thinking less of the face than he does of the meal ticket. He is completely recast in a steel foundry and returns to enjoy the free meals only to find that the restaurant has closed.
Musty's Vacation
1917 · 2 votes
Movie5.0ComedyMusty is standing around in a state of confusion, so his fairy godfather appears to find him a job as a general factotum at an amusement gallery. Musty serves as a bootblack, a ticket-taker, a target at the shooting gallery and a rope to block off a non-working escalator.
Out Of Order
1916 · 1 votes
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Musty applies for a job as office boy, but is turned down because he is too old. He visits a doctor to get some elixir of youth, but drinks too much and is reduced to a sprightly two-year-old.
Musty B. Young
1917