Fred C. Newmeyer

Fred C. Newmeyer

1888-08-08 Central City, Colorado, USA 92 Credits

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....

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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

2022

Director

Directing

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

Rodeo Rhythm

1942

Director

Directing

Fred Scott tries to keep crooks from taking over his sister's orphanage.

Mail and Female

Mail and Female

1937

Director

6.8
Directing

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

General Spanky

1936

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Arbor Day

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

The Pinch Singer

The Pinch Singer

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.

A Scream in the Night

A Scream in the Night

1935

Director

4.7
Directing

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

Secrets of Chinatown

1935

Director

4.5
Directing

Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.

No Ransom

1934

Director

Directing

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

Directing

Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!

The Big Race

The Big Race

1934

Director

Directing

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

The Moth

1934

Director

Directing

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

The Gambling Sex

1932

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Fighting Gentleman

1932

Director

Directing

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

The Night Rider

The Night Rider

1932

Director

Directing

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

They Never Come Back

1932

Director

5.5
Directing

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

Discarded Lovers

1932

Director

4.3
Directing

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

Subway Express

1931

Director

Directing

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

Fast and Loose

1930

Director

4.9
Directing

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

Queen High

1930

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Grand Parade

1930

Director

Directing

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

Sailor's Holiday

1929

Director

5.2
Directing

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

Rainbow Man

1929

Director

Directing

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

The Night Bird

The Night Bird

1928

Director

6.0
Directing

A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.

Warming Up

Warming Up

1928

Director

Directing

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

That's My Daddy

1927

Director

Directing

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!

On Your Toes!

1927

Director

Directing

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

Too Many Crooks

1927

Director

Directing

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

The Potters

1927

Director

Directing

Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

The Lunatic at Large

The Lunatic at Large

1927

Director

Directing

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

The Quarterback

1926

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Savage

1926

Director

Directing

Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...

The Perfect Clown

The Perfect Clown

1925

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1925

Director

Directing

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

The Freshman

1925

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Hot Water

1924

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Girl Shy

1924

Director

7.0
Directing

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?

Why Worry?

1923

Director

6.5
Directing

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Safety Last!

Safety Last!

1923

as Car Driver Who Gets Parking Ticket (uncredited)

7.7
Acting

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!

Safety Last!

1923

Director

7.7
Directing

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

Dr. Jack

1922

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Grandma's Boy

1922

Director

6.4
Directing

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

A Sailor-Made Man

A Sailor-Made Man

1921

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Never Weaken

1921

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Among Those Present

1921

Director

5.8
Directing

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

Now or Never

Now or Never

1921

Director

6.1
Directing

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Number, Please?

Number, Please?

1920

as carnival staff (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

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?

Number, Please?

1920

Co-Director

6.6
Directing

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

Directing

Money to Burn

1920

Director

Directing

A 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini slapstick comedy.

Merely a Maid

1920

Director

Directing

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

5.0
Directing

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

All Lit Up

1920

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Captain Kidd's Kids

1919

as Ah Nix (Chinese Cook)

6.3
Acting

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

Bumping Into Broadway

1919

6.9
Acting

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

Don't Shove

1919

5.5
Acting

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Count Your Change

Count Your Change

1919

5.0
Acting

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

The Marathon

The Marathon

1919

5.8
Acting

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

Young Mr. Jazz

Young Mr. Jazz

1919

as (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

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

A Sammy in Siberia

1919

as (uncredited)

5.2
Acting

A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.

It's a Wild Life

It's a Wild Life

1918

5.0
Acting

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

Pipe the Whiskers

1918

5.0
Acting

Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.

The Tip

1918

Acting

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Step Lively

Step Lively

1917

4.6
Acting

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

Bashful

1917

6.9
Acting

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

We Never Sleep

We Never Sleep

1917

Acting

Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.

All Aboard

All Aboard

1917

4.9
Acting

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

Clubs Are Trump

1917

5.2
Acting

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

Love, Laughs and Lather

Love, Laughs and Lather

1917

Acting

An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.

Rainbow Island

Rainbow Island

1917

5.0
Acting

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

From Laramie to London

1917

Acting

An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

1917

Acting

Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

By the Sad Sea Waves

By the Sad Sea Waves

1917

5.8
Acting

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

Pinched

Pinched

1917

5.0
Acting

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

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

Acting

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

Over the Fence

Over the Fence

1917

as (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

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

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

1917

4.5
Acting

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

Luke Locates the Loot

Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Acting

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

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Acting

Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

Luke, Rank Impersonator

Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916

Acting

Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.

Luke's Movie Muddle

Luke's Movie Muddle

1916

5.0
Acting

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

Luke, Patient Provider

1916

Acting

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

Luke and the Bang-Tails

1916

Acting

Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.

Luke's Speedy Club Life

Luke's Speedy Club Life

1916

Acting

Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.

Luke and the Mermaids

Luke and the Mermaids

1916

Acting

Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.

Luke Joins the Navy

Luke Joins the Navy

1916

5.0
Acting

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

Luke Does the Midway

1916

Acting

Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.

Luke's Lost Lamb

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

Acting

A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

Luke, Crystal Gazer

Luke, Crystal Gazer

1916

Acting

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

Luke Rides Roughshod

1916

Acting

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

Luke's Society Mixup

1916

Acting

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

Luke's Late Lunchers

1916

Acting

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