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comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
featuring
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.Obituary ''Variety'', March 10, 1971, page 55.
One of the most influential film co ...
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It was Lloyd's last film as his "Lonesome Luke" character.
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Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.Obituary ''Variety'', March 10, 1971, page 55.
One of the most influential film co ...
as Lonesome Luke
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Snub Pollard
Harold Fraser (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962), known professionally as Snub Pollard, was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.
Career
Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 No ...
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Bebe Daniels
Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such ...
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Gilbert Pratt
Gilbert Pratt (February 16, 1892 – December 10, 1954) was an American film director, actor and writer. He directed 87 films between 1917 and 1936. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Selected film ...
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Fred C. Newmeyer
* Billy Fay
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Bud Jamison
William Edward "Bud" Jamison (February 15, 1894 – September 30, 1944)Okuda, Ted, and Edward Watz. 1999. The Columbia Comedy Shorts: Two-reel Hollywood Film Comedies 1933–1958'. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. . was an American film actor. ...
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Charles Stevenson (as Charles E. Stevenson)
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Sammy Brooks
Sammy Brooks (July 10, 1891 – May 16, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in 218 films between 1916 and 1938. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California.
Selected filmography
* Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (19 ...
* David Voorhees
* Virginia Baynes
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Dorothea Wolbert
Dorothea Wolbert (April 12, 1874 – September 15, 1958) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1916 and 1957. She appeared on the television series '' I Love Lucy'' (with her character named Dorothea Wolb ...
* Max Hamburger
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Gus Leonard
Gus "Pop" Leonard (February 4, 1859 – March 27, 1939) was an American film actor.
Biography
The French-born actor began his long career on the stage in San Francisco, California, while he was still a child in the 1860s. In later years, h ...
* Ruth Churchill
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Golda Madden
Golda Madden (July 17, 1886 – October 26, 1960) was an American actress active during Hollywood's silent era.
Biography
Madden was born in Red Cloud, Nebraska, in 1886. She was a first cousin of actor/director Harold Lloyd on her mother' ...
* Estelle Harrison
* Ray Braxton
* John Gardner
* Ardulus Bixby
* Rudolph Bylek
* William Blaisdell
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Marie Mosquini
Marie Mosquini (born Marie de Esy; December 3, 1899 – February 21, 1983) was an American film actress.
Biography
Born in 1899, Mosquini appeared in more than 200 silent films between 1917 and 1929. After leaving high school she became the res ...
* Evelyn Page
* Nina Speight
* Walter Stile
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Harry Todd
Harry Todd (December 13, 1863 – February 15, 1935) was an American actor.
He appeared in nearly 400 films between 1909 and 1935. On Broadway, Todd was a member of the ensemble in '' The American Way'' (1939).
Todd died in Glendale, Cal ...
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Margaret Joslin
Margaret Joslin (August 6, 1883 – October 14, 1956), born Margaret Lucy Gosling, was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 160 films between 1910 and 1923. She was born Cleveland, Ohio and died in Glendale, California. She ...
(as Margaret Joslin Todd)
See also
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Harold Lloyd filmography
These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies.
Most of these films are known to survive in Lloyd's personal archive collection ...
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1917 films
1917 comedy films
1917 short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Hal Roach
Silent American comedy films
Lonesome Luke films
American comedy short films
1910s American films
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