James Donnelly
Actor · 1865 – 1937 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Movies23
Movie8.2ComedyDramaA tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
City Lights
1931 · 2.5K votes
Movie7.0Comedy"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
Vamping Babies
1926 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyClyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.
Skirts
1921 · 1 votes
MovieComedyPetticoat Perils is a 1917 comedy short.
Petticoat Perils
1917
Movie8.0ComedyAn eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1925 · 2 votes
Movie5.0ComedyAdventureA henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
A Bedroom Blunder
1917 · 1 votes
Movie8.0AdventureCrimeAn escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
Sea Devils
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyElizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.
A Girl's Desire
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyLarry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Passing the Buck
1919 · 3 votes
Movie5.0ComedyAn inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
A Clever Dummy
1917 · 5 votes
Movie5.2ComedyHarry 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 married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
The Hansom Cabman
1924 · 5 votes
Movie5.3CrimeComedyBilly Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
On Patrol
1922 · 3 votes
- Movie
A 1926 short film
North of 6 7/8
1926
Movie9.0ComedyBilly inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
From Rags to Britches
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThe Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
The Snow Cure
1916 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTwo circus hands create chaos.
Circus Today
1926 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy
Turn Him Loose
1929 · 1 votes
Movie6.5WesternRanger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.
The Border Menace
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyA man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs
1918 · 4 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......
- Movie9.0Comedy
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to them and with the shop’s manicurist in tow they run into their customer again who is a crooked gambler winning his money by questionable methods. As he rakes in the pots, an assistant pours the money down a chute which leads to a vault. Billy and Andy, in their explorations, find this vault and think they have discovered a mine. Taking some of the money, they go to the gambler's room and sit in the game. Thus, the money continues to circulate - from the mine to Billy - from Billy to the gambler - and down the chute again.
Trimmed in Gold
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyBilly Dooley is sent on a mission inside a submarine.
The Dizzy Diver
1928 · 1 votes
- MovieFantasyComedy
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)