Fred C. Newmeyer
Yönetmen · 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.
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Film7.7KomediRomantikŞehrin yüksek binalarından birinin üzerinde yer alan saatin yelkovanına asılmış bir adam görüntüsü ile izleyenlerin zihnine kazınmış ve daimi bir tebessüm bırakmış olan Safety Last!, 1923 yapımı bir sessiz komedi filmidir. Para kazanma hırsıyla şehre gelen genç bir adam, bir mağazada satış sorumlusu olarak çalışmaya başlar ve müdürüyle, mağazaya dikkat çekerek müşterilerin artmasını sağlayacak olan kişiye ödül olarak para vermesi konusunda anlaşır. Ancak mağazanın bulunduğu binanın dışına tırmanması için anlaşmış olduğu kişi bir kanun kaçağı çıkınca olayların seyri tamamen değişir ve genç adam kendisini binaya tırmanırken bulur. Heyecan ve komedi yüklü filmin başrolünde Harold Lloyd bulunmaktadır.
FilmKomediLonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
FilmKomediA day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
Film6.2KomediFantastikAfter 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
Film6.9KomediA 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 · 30 votes
FilmKomediAs a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
Film5.8KomediOur 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
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An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
FilmKomediLonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
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Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Film5.0KomediHarold 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
Film4.9KomediLonesome 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
FilmKomediLuke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
FilmKomediLuke, working in a fireworks factory.
Film5.9KomediSnitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
Over the Fence
1917 · 6 votes
Film5.0KomediThe beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
Luke Joins the Navy
1916 · 2 votes
FilmKomediLuke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
Film5.9KomediWhile running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
Young Mr. Jazz
1919 · 25 votes
Film6.8KomediIn order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Bashful
1917 · 8 votes
Film5.7KomediA bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
A Sammy in Siberia
1919 · 9 votes
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Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
Film5.2KomediIn pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
Clubs Are Trump
1917 · 2 votes
FilmKomediLuke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.
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Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.