Biography
From Wikipedia James Parrott (August 2, 1897 – May 10, 1939) was an American actor and film director; and the younger brother of film comedian Charley Chase. James Gibbons Parrott was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Charles and Blanche Thompson Parrott. In 1903, his father died from a heart attack, leaving the family in bad financial shape, which forced them to move in with a relative. Charley Jr. quit school, so he could go to work, in order to support his mother and brother. Eventually the c...
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Complete Filmography

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Director, Writer
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their success moving into 1928 galvanized the efforts o...

Laurel & Hardy: Year One
2023
Director
Laurel & Hardy: Year One, The Newly Restored 1927 Silents, as proudly presented by Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films®, offers fans new and old the rar...

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
Set Decoration
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out ar...

Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
2002
Director
Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction workers or try to impress two young ladies as sailors. ...

Block-Heads
1938
Writer
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old ...

Swiss Miss
1938
Screenplay
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, ...

Way Out West
1937
Screenplay
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is de...
Do Your Stuff
1935
Director
The Radio Rogues, salesman for a cure-all tonic called Nervoto, decide to go to Hollywood and cure invalids with mirth, melody and music instead of me...

The Misses Stooge
1935
Director
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.

The Tin Man
1935
Director
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The invento...

Sing Sister Sing
1935
Director
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Altho...

Treasure Blues
1935
Director
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.

Washee Ironee
1934
Director
Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help hi...
Opened by Mistake
1934
Director
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
Benny, from Panama
1934
Director
Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the gu...
A Duke for a Day
1934
Director
Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories ab...

Mixed Nuts
1934
Director
Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a v...

The Midnight Patrol
1933
Writer
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.

Twice Two
1933
Director, Writer
A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and...

Mr. Bride
1932
Director
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.

Now We'll Tell One
1932
Director
Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.

Their First Mistake
1932
Writer
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says ...

Girl Grief
1932
Director
Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.

Young Ironsides
1932
Director
Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.

County Hospital
1932
Director
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

The Chimp
1932
Director, Writer
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are g...

Hinter Schloss und Riegel
1932
Director
Only known footage of the German language version of Pardon Us (1931) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

The Music Box
1932
Director, Writer
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von ...

Helpmates
1932
Director, Writer
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tel...

What a Bozo!
1931
Director
A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.

One Good Turn
1931
Writer
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord t...

Skip the Maloo!
1931
Director
Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for nobi...

Come Clean
1931
Writer
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and...

Pardon Us
1931
Director
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

The Panic Is On
1931
Director
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression i...

One of the Smiths
1931
Director
Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying m...

Haunted at Midnight
1931
Director
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When Stan's rich uncle Ebeneezer dies and leaves behind ...

Rough Seas
1931
Director
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Messing Around
1931
Director
Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)

The lady from Chicago
1931
Director
This movie is the Spanish language version of THE PIP FROM PITTSBURG

The Pip from Pittsburg
1931
Director
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself...

Another Fine Mess
1930
Director
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

Night of Goblins
1930
Director
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
Director
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soo...

Radiomanía
1930
Director
Spanish language version of Hog Wild

The King
1930
as Minor Role (uncredited)
The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns,...

Hog Wild
1930
Director, Story
First, Ollie can't find his hat. Then he and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.

Shivering and Shaking
1930
Director
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argum...

Below Zero
1930
Director
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argum...

The Night Life
1930
Director
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.

Brats
1930
Director, Writer
Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their rec...

Blotto
1930
Director
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.

Thieves
1930
Director
Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack.

Night Owls
1930
Director
Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the sack....

The Hoose-Gow
1929
Director
Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watc...

They Go Boom!
1929
Director
Stan and Ollie try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Ollie, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, while Stan snores. Both of them have trouble falling ...

Perfect Day
1929
Director
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires...
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929
Director
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
Lesson No. 1
1929
Director
Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
Furnace Trouble
1929
Director
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Ruby Lips
1929
Director
Ruby Lips is a comedy short

Chasing Husbands
1928
Director

Habeas Corpus
1928
Director
Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

Two Tars
1928
Director
Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered moto...

Should Married Men Go Home?
1928
Writer, Director
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.

Their Purple Moment
1928
Director
The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys r...

Galloping Ghosts
1928
Director
A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful but fearful black valet (Oliver Hardy), it is stole...

All for Nothing
1928
Director
Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife...

Never the Dames Shall Meet
1927
Director
Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.

Assistant Wives
1927
Director
Slapstick film about two married couples.

Now I'll Tell One
1927
Director
This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a...

The Lighter That Failed
1927
Director
For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice. Fina...

The Sting of Stings
1927
Director
Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivil...

What Women Did for Me
1927
Director
A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at -- a ladies' seminary.

Us
1927
Director
Short comedy about airplanes.

Fluttering Hearts
1927
Director
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly mi...

Bigger and Better Blondes
1927
Director
Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief

Forgotten Sweeties
1927
Director
Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.

A One Mama Man
1927
Director
Charley Chase on a boat with girls.

Are Brunettes Safe?
1927
Director
Are Brunettes Safe?

Many Scrappy Returns
1927
Director
Charley and his wife (Eugenia Gilbert) decide to teach a lesson to his brother (Eugene Pallette) who constantly battles with his wife (Anita Garvin). ...

There Ain't No Santa Claus
1926
Director
Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.

On the Front Page
1926
Writer, Director
After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story ab...

Get 'Em Young
1926
Writer
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.

Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
1926
Writer
The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he'...

Along Came Auntie
1926
Writer
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

Say It with Babies
1926
Writer
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expen...

Wandering Papas
1926
Writer
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the ...
Pay the Cashier
1926
The penniless tourist, "Appetite Andy" (Paul Parrott) stops by at the Hollywood Cafateria (sic) where the gullible boss (Mark Jones) welcomes him in t...
Soft Pedal
1926
as Willing
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
Don't Butt In
1926
as The Roustabout
James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
Between Meals
1926
as In Trouble
James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, but not released until 1926.

Are Parents Pickles?
1925
as Fire Salesman
James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

Should Sailors Marry?
1925
Director

The Caretaker's Daughter
1925
as The Caretaker (as Jimmie Parrott)
The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the grea...

Unfriendly Enemies
1925
Writer
Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land, ...

Chasing the Chaser
1925
Writer
A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide ...

The House of Flickers
1925
The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.

Laughing Ladies
1925
Scenario Writer
Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his off...
A Deep Sea Panic
1924
A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.

Sittin' Pretty
1924
as Bearded Lunatic
When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time ...
Get Busy
1924
as Taller pal
A couple of pals tries to stay out of trouble, without much luck.

The 'Fraidy Cat
1924
Director
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their fa...
Love's Detour
1924
Director
Love's Detour is a 1924 comedy short

Just a Minute
1924
Director, Writer
A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.

Hard Knocks
1924
Writer, Director
A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.

Powder and Smoke
1924
Director, Writer
A lightning rod salesman gets in the middle of a western shootout.

Don't Forget
1924
Director, Writer
A man arrives late at his own wedding.

Join the Circus
1923
as Trainer
'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
Dear Ol' Pal
1923
as Lucian Dillgiggle
Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.
No Pets
1923
James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.
Take the Air
1923
as Iron-worker
James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitati...

Post No Bills
1923
as The Bill Poster
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Sno...
The Uncovered Wagon
1923
as Bill Bunion
Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West ...
The Smile Wins
1923
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.

Shoot Straight
1923
SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in t...
Tight Shoes
1923
as The New Clerk
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of s...
Jailed and Bailed
1923
as Paul (as Paul Parrott)
A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
Paste and Paper
1923
Well executed but unexceptional one-reeler about a couple of incompetent paperhangers. James Parrott, brother of Charley Chase, was an equally skilled...
Watch Your Wife
1923
A James Parrott comedy short.
Blaze Away
1922
Paul is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off ...
Harvest Hands
1922
as The Son
Paul, a great college athlete, is sent to his uncle's farm to be developed, but turns against the continual round of chores. And at the table he is co...

Shine 'Em Up
1922
as Paul, the Hustler
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train ...
The Golf Bug
1922
as Paul
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
Shiver and Shake
1922
as The Newlywed Husband
A landlord is attending his new tenants' rollicking and well-attended housewarming party. As midnight arrives, a ghostly apparition appears outside th...
Face the Camera
1922
Hapless photographer James Parrott attempts to shoot a bathing beauty pageant.
Bone Dry
1922
Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners.
The Landlubber
1922
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
Touch all the Bases
1922
as Paul Parrott
After many difficulties getting into a baseball game with his girl, Paul is pressed into service as a pinch hitter.
Take Next Car
1922
as Chief Engineer
In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the str...
The Sleuth
1922
as Bellboy / the Sleuth
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik

The Pickaninny
1921
Director
The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
Big Town Ideas
1921
as Spick Spague
A woman and her dog defend an innocent man.
His First Flat Tire
1920
Sid Smith plays a chauffeur to James Parrott who helps a vamp captivate his boss while foiling a bank robbery.
Way Out West
1920
Hank Mann heads Way Out West in this silent comedy.

Don't Shove
1919
as Party Guest
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Count Your Change
1919
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.

Don't Park Here
1919
as A Car Owner
Not one but two of Charlie Chaplin impersonators, Harry Mann and Monty Banks, a film directed by Charley Chase still under the name of Charles Parrott...

Young Mr. Jazz
1919
as (uncredited)
While 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...

A Sammy in Siberia
1919
as (uncredited)
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.

Hustling for Health
1919
as Man missing his train
Stan 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 to...

Do You Love Your Wife?
1919
Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and...
An Auto Nut
1919
as The Auto Nut's Lawyer (as Paul Parrott)
A crooked lawyer sells his car.

Just Rambling Along
1918
as Waiter / chef assistant
A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.

Bride and Gloom
1918
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

An Ozark Romance
1918
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.

Fireman Save My Child
1918
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water...

Hey There
1918
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a...

It's a Wild Life
1918
as Cab driver
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.

Pipe the Whiskers
1918
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
Let's Go
1918
as Sophisticated gentleman
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Here Come the Girls
1918
Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task...

Look Pleasant, Please
1918
as Drunken Swell (uncredited)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.

A Gasoline Wedding
1918
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.

Beat It
1918
Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to re...

Hit Him Again
1918
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

The Lamb
1918
The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.