Noah Young
Actor · 1887 – 1958 · Cañon City, Colorado, USA
Noah Young Jr. joined the Hal Roach studios as an actor, mainly playing comic villains. He appeared in several Laurel and Hardy comedies but was more notable as a foil for Harold Lloyd, whom he supported in over 50 films.
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
Movie7.0ComedyA "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.
Sharp Shooters
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WesternFrom Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and ranches. Wells Fargo organizes an express service that will insure the shipments and ensure a guaranteed delivery. Granger Hume is hired to help Wells-Fargo deliver on their promise.
Gun Gospel
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.9ComedyFight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
The Battle of the Century
1927 · 59 votes
Movie6.8ComedyA man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.
Hard Knocks
1924 · 3 votes
Movie6.5ComedyLloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
Ask Father
1919 · 26 votes
Movie8.0ComedySoft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.
Soft Money
1919 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyAfter a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
Sugar Daddies
1927 · 27 votes
MovieComedyNewly Rich is a silent comedy short
Newly Rich
1922
Movie7.0RomanceWesternFollowing the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers, hero Don Miguel Arguella is double-crossed by the group leader who files a claim on his land and makes a move towards his girlfriend. Sadly, this is a lost film.
Don Mike
1927 · 1 votes
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James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.
No Pets
1923
Movie6.0While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.
Fifteen Minutes
1921 · 2 votes
Movie6.4ComedyA meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Grandma's Boy
1922 · 52 votes
Movie4.9ComedyA gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Welcome Danger
1929 · 22 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
Movie8.0ComedyCharley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other wacky adventures.
Hard Boiled
1925 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyStan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where the wife is having a suffragette meeting. None too pleased they cause mayhem and then the neighbours are brought into it as Stan cleans up the backyard by throwing all the rubbish into their award winning garden.
Hustling for Health
1919 · 13 votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyJosephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Vagabond Lady
1935 · 6 votes
Movie5.7ComedyJimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity campaign by having her appear in public in spectacular costumes, with a monkey for a pet. The monkey gets away and Jimmy is elected to capture it. When peace once more descends upon them, the young wife decides to give up her career and devote her time to Jimmy.
Publicity Pays
1924 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThundering Landlords is a 1925 short
Thundering Landlords
1925 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyAn escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
Do Detectives Think?
1927 · 36 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThe head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
Why Girls Say No
1927 · 4 votes
Movie6.7ComedyAn ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Feet First
1930 · 25 votes