Larry Semon
Yönetmen · 1889 – 1928 · West Point, Mississippi, USA
American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight, Larry Semon was the son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great. He grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics. A talent for drawing and cartooning led to art school and then work as a cartoonist for various New York City newspapers. The humor evident in his published cartoons prompted executives at New York's Vitagraph Studios to hire him as a gag writer in 1916. He quickly proved himself and was promoted to director for the Hughie Mack series of comedies. His background in magic helped him create interesting new gags for the comedian. When Mack left the studio in 1917, Semon took over the starring role himself. His one-reelers were quite successful, and Vitagraph sent him to California to participate in its new West Coast operation. He produced as well as wrote, starred in and directed his own films, at the same time also producing films for other comics. In the summer of 1928 Semon apparently fell ill with tuberculosis and simultaneously, it seems, suffered a nervous breakdown. He entered a sanitarium near San Bernardino, CA, where he reportedly died on October 8. However, an air of mystery surrounds his death, since his wife (and former co-star) Dorothy Dwan was allowed almost no contact with him and never saw his body, which was ordered cremated after a tightly secured funeral, which was carried out per Semon's "previous instructions" and to which almost no attendees were allowed. The whereabouts of Semon's cremated remains are to this day a mystery, and his widow professed until her death to be mystified by the circumstances of his passing. With enormous financial obligations facing him Larry Semon could easily have considered a dramatic escape of this sort from his creditors. Whether he did, or whether his death was the sad final chapter to a high-rising, briefly brilliant, but ultimately short-lived career may never be known for certain.
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Film5.5KomediAileA farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz
1925 · 52 votes
Film6.4KomediAksiyonComedy on the golf links.
Golf
1922 · 5 votes
Film7.0DramGilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywood to begin anew but the old gang follows behind. Can she stop them from ruining her new life?
Go Straight!
1925 · 1 votes
Film4.9KomediAksiyonLarry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
The Suitor
1920 · 4 votes
Film6.4KomediThe storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Lightning Love
1923 · 5 votes
Film7.0DramSuçBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Underworld
1927 · 94 votes
Film5.7KomediThe plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
The Cloudhopper
1925 · 6 votes
Film6.7KomediThe Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog. The film stars Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Al Thompson, Frank Alexander and William Hauber.
The Sportsman
1921 · 3 votes
Film5.6AksiyonKomediLarry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!
The Fly-Cop
1920 · 4 votes
Film6.0KomediAksiyonLarry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!
The Hick
1921 · 3 votes
Film7.0KomediA detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to infiltrate her gang in order to get the goods on her, but things don't turn out exactly the way he expected them to.
Oh, What a Man!
1927 · 1 votes
Film4.9KomediA boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.
Horseshoes
1923 · 7 votes
Film6.3KomediLay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
The Barnyard
1923 · 3 votes
Film6.5KomediTony and Freddie, who have been rivals all their lives, vie for the hand in marriage of their childhood sweetheart. Big Freddie has the upper hand when Tony gets himself kidnapped by a ring of muggers whose M.O. is to have one of their members dress up as a woman to lure men into the back seat of their limousine, where they are beaten up and robbed.
The Girl in the Limousine
1924 · 2 votes
Film7.0KomediAksiyonA harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
The Show
1922 · 12 votes
Film5.1KomediBears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.
Bears and Bad Men
1918 · 4 votes
Film8.0KomediThe Stage Hand
1920 · 2 votes
Film7.2KomediLarry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Passing the Buck
1919 · 3 votes
Film5.8KomediAksiyonYoung and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Her Boy Friend
1924 · 6 votes
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Larry Semon in a double role as a poor man chasing an opportunity to steal secret plans (for a reward of $1,000.83 from a rich man) and as the headmistress of a girl's college.
Film5.5KomediA Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
A Pair of Kings
1922 · 4 votes
Film7.5KomediA clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
The Perfect Clown
1925 · 3 votes
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Short comedy set against the backstage lives of a group of performers.
Footlights and Fakers
1917 · 1 votes
Film4.7SuçKomediWell-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
The Bakery
1921 · 5 votes