Fred C. Newmeyer
Director · 1888 – 1967 · Central City, Colorado, USA
A native of Central City, Colorado, Newmeyer is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing several Harold Lloyd movies. With Sam Taylor, Newmeyer co-directed Lloyd in films including Safety Last! (1923), Girl Shy (1924), and The Freshman (1925). Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in other comedy short films. He appeared as an actor in 71 films between 1914 and 1923. Prior to his film career, Newmeyer played professional baseball. Partial statistics exist for his time as a left-handed pitcher in Minor League Baseball at the Class D level from 1911 to 1913 in the Southwest Texas League, Michigan State League, and Central Association.[6] He made at least 66 appearances and was the winning pitcher of at least 26 games. Newmeyer was the original director of the first short in the Our Gang series, also titled Our Gang; his version tested poorly, and producer Hal Roach scrapped most of the footage and remade the short with Robert McGowan as the director. Newmeyer, after directing numerous other shorts at Roach, returned to the Our Gang series in 1936 to direct The Pinch Singer, Arbor Day, Mail and Female and the feature film General Spanky. Newmeyer and his wife, Berna, had a son, Fred W. After his film career, Newmeyer worked with the athletic department of University High School in Los Angeles. Newmeyer died on April 24, 1967, in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 78.
Movies24
Movie7.7ComedyRomanceWhen a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Safety Last!
1923 · 604 votes
Movie6.9ComedyA young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Bumping Into Broadway
1919 · 29 votes
Movie5.8ComedyOur vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917 · 8 votes
MovieComedyLonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
Movie4.9ComedyLonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
Luke's Movie Muddle
1916 · 19 votes
Movie5.2ComedyIn pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
Clubs Are Trump
1917 · 2 votes
MovieComedyLuke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
MovieComedyLuke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
MovieComedyA day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
Movie6.2ComedyFantasyAfter a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
Captain Kidd's Kids
1919 · 23 votes
Movie5.9ComedyWesternBilly Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919 · 32 votes
MovieComedyLuke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
Movie5.7ComedyA bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
A Sammy in Siberia
1919 · 9 votes
- MovieComedy
An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
MovieComedyLonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
Movie6.1ComedyHarold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
Don't Shove
1919 · 7 votes
- MovieComedy
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
MovieComedyLuke, working in a fireworks factory.
- MovieComedy
An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.
MovieComedyWesternOut west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
Movie5.0ComedyHarold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
It's a Wild Life
1918 · 1 votes
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Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
Movie6.5ComedyWhile at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
Number, Please?
1920 · 30 votes
Movie5.0ComedyOur hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
Pipe the Whiskers
1918 · 1 votes