Known For
Complete Filmography

Fighting Back
1948
Director
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.

Arthur Takes Over
1948
Director
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.

The Bullfighters
1945
Director, Writer
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison o...

The Big Noise
1944
Director
During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

Swing Out the Blues
1943
Director
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your proble...

The Dancing Masters
1943
Director
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor...

Jitterbugs
1943
Director
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon o...

Two Weeks to Live
1943
Director
When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perfo...

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

The Man in the Trunk
1942
Director
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

The Bashful Bachelor
1942
Director
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a ...

Over My Dead Body
1942
Director
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) a...

Meet the Missus
1940
Director
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

Young as You Feel
1940
Director
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go b...

Quick Millions
1939
Director
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
Director
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Everybody's Baby
1939
Director
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Down on the Farm
1938
Director
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Safety in Numbers
1938
Director
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A Trip to Paris
1938
Director
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be vict...

Dangerously Yours
1937
Director
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one...

She Had to Eat
1937
Director
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con...

Born Reckless
1937
Director
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion rac...

Time Out for Romance
1937
Director
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Crack-Up
1936
Director
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

The Boudoir Diplomat
1930
Director
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.

Remote Control
1930
Director
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Dangerous Nan McGrew
1930
Director
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lod...

Montana Moon
1930
Director
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

Night Parade
1929
Director
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensna...

Welcome Danger
1929
Director
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Side Street
1929
Director, Writer
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

The Canary Murder Case
1929
Director
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the C...

The Fleet's In
1928
Director
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with he...

Sporting Goods
1928
Director
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets ...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928
Director
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

Breakfast at Sunrise
1927
Director
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

Knockout Reilly
1927
Director, Producer
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out ...

The Popular Sin
1926
Director
Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne fi...

The Show Off
1926
Director
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to th...

Good and Naughty
1926
Director
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.

A Social Celebrity
1926
Director
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves...

Fascinating Youth
1926
as Malcolm St. Clair
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases ...

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
1926
Director
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and c...

A Woman of the World
1925
Director
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather p...

The Trouble With Wives
1925
Director
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but h...

Are Parents People?
1925
Director
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are plannin...

After Business Hours
1925
Director
A young woman marries a rich young man. However, he doesn't trust her with money and won't let her have any of her own. Desperate, she turns to gambli...

The Lighthouse by the Sea
1924
Director
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of l...

Find Your Man
1924
Director
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Bla...

Sherlock's Home
1924
Director
Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees G...
Money to Burns
1924
as The drunk
After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his liter...
Money to Burns
1924
Director
After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his liter...
Fighting Blood
1923
Director, Writer
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clar...
Fighting Blood
1923
Director, Writer
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark...
Fighting Blood
1923
Director, Writer
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clar...

The Blacksmith
1922
as Engineer
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with...

The Blacksmith
1922
Director, Writer
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with...

Bright Eyes
1921
Director
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Call a Cop
1921
Director
Wacky shenanigans ensue when our gang of merrymakers "Call a Cop"!

The Goat
1921
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.

The Goat
1921
Director, Writer
A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.

Don't Weaken!
1920
Director
A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
I'll Say He Forgot
1920
Director
Otie Otis forgets his own marriage and then stumbles through the honeymoon, constantly forgetting one thing or another. But when he makes a big mistak...

Why Beaches Are Popular
1919
as Mal St. Clair / The Crown Prince
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919
as The Crown Prince Freddy
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

Rip & Stitch: Tailors
1919
Director
Comedy Short
Did She Do Wrong?
1918
An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.

Lost: A Cook
1917
as Dog Owner

Lost: A Cook
1917
Writer

Cactus Nell
1917
as The Courier
Cactus Nell

The Camera Cure
1917
A couple fires there butler over a misunderstanding. When the husband is sent off to hire a new one, he spends most of his time annoying a women in t...

Dollars and Sense
1916
as Angy - the English Heir
A country girl and a foppish Englishman are to inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided: The two must get married, and if one ref...

His Bitter Pill
1916
as Barfly
Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all hi...