Biography
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....
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
2022
Director
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shorts produced by the Hal Roach Studios: Anniversary ...

Rodeo Rhythm
1942
Director
Fred Scott tries to keep crooks from taking over his sister's orphanage.

Mail and Female
1937
Director
The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in reaction to not being invited to one of the girl's part...

General Spanky
1936
Director
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wron...

Arbor Day
1936
Director
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

The Pinch Singer
1936
Director
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.

A Scream in the Night
1935
Director
A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.

Secrets of Chinatown
1935
Director
Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.
No Ransom
1934
Director
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son....
Lost In The Legion
1934
Director
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!

The Big Race
1934
Director
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old m...

The Moth
1934
Director
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous o...

The Gambling Sex
1932
Director
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more ...

The Fighting Gentleman
1932
Director
A young mechanic loses an amateur fight at a carnival, and sets out to train hard to become a professional boxer.

The Night Rider
1932
Director
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage f...

They Never Come Back
1932
Director
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to ...

Discarded Lovers
1932
Director
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Emine...

Subway Express
1931
Director
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspec...

Fast and Loose
1930
Director
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Queen High
1930
Director
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he pro...

The Grand Parade
1930
Director
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the s...

Sailor's Holiday
1929
Director
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a s...

Rainbow Man
1929
Director
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.

The Night Bird
1928
Director
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.

Warming Up
1928
Director
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the e...

That's My Daddy
1927
Director
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they a...

On Your Toes!
1927
Director
Silent boxing sports comedy about a boxer whose grandmother wants him to be a ballet dancer, so he has the boxers at his training camp pose as ballet ...

Too Many Crooks
1927
Director
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Dav...

The Potters
1927
Director
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

The Lunatic at Large
1927
Director
Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger for financial reasons. Only when the men in the whi...

The Quarterback
1926
Director
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twe...

The Savage
1926
Director
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...

The Perfect Clown
1925
Director
A 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.

Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925
Director
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things ...

The Freshman
1925
Director
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way...

Hot Water
1924
Director
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new aut...

Girl Shy
1924
Director
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young ...

Why Worry?
1923
Director
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Safety Last!
1923
as Car Driver Who Gets Parking Ticket (uncredited)
When 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
Director
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Dr. Jack
1922
Director
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after yea...

Grandma's Boy
1922
Director
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

A Sailor-Made Man
1921
Director
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

Never Weaken
1921
Director
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend inj...

Among Those Present
1921
Director
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

Now or Never
1921
Director
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Number, Please?
1920
as carnival staff (uncredited)
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in...

Number, Please?
1920
Co-Director
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in...
Alias Aladdin
1920
Director
Money to Burn
1920
Director
A 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini slapstick comedy.
Merely a Maid
1920
Director
Beatrice is a maid to a naughty society girl. The latter's lover takes a liking to the maid and a riot follows during a dance. After a free-for-all mi...
Raise the Rent
1920
Director
Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an ...

All Lit Up
1920
Director
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their fa...

Captain Kidd's Kids
1919
as Ah Nix (Chinese Cook)
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasize...

Bumping Into Broadway
1919
A 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 win...

Don't Shove
1919
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.

The Marathon
1919
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

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.

It's a Wild Life
1918
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.
The Tip
1918
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Step Lively
1917
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take...

Bashful
1917
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.

We Never Sleep
1917
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.

All Aboard
1917
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When ...

Clubs Are Trump
1917
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.

Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.

Rainbow Island
1917
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.

From Laramie to London
1917
An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.

Birds of a Feather
1917
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

By the Sad Sea Waves
1917
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!

Pinched
1917
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, the...

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

Over the Fence
1917
as (uncredited)
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball pl...

Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917
While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.

Luke Locates the Loot
1916
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916
Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.

Luke's Movie Muddle
1916
Lonesome 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 projectioni...

Luke, Patient Provider
1916
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready s...

Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.

Luke's Speedy Club Life
1916
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.

Luke and the Mermaids
1916
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.

Luke Joins the Navy
1916
The 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 ...

Luke Does the Midway
1916
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.

Luke's Lost Lamb
1916
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916
Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.

Luke Rides Roughshod
1916
Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.

Luke's Society Mixup
1916
Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then ma...

Luke's Late Lunchers
1916
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.