Larry Semon Movies

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in...

Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.

Slapstick comedy short about a quarreling couple and a nosy mother-in-law.

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a...

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can...

A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer...

One of many Larry Semon directed Vitagraph comic shorts. Like a large portion of them this is lost.

Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

Larry Semon goes out west.

Short comedy set against the backstage lives of a group of performers.

Two blowhard amateur bowlers boast about their prowess only to be shown up for the Big Bluffs they are.

A comedy short produced by Vitagraph and released in 1916. This is entitled Walls and Wallops, and features Hughey (also spelt Hughie) Mack with...

Hafed, a Turkish prince, imprisons an American girl and her father. The girl sends for Jim, who attempts a rescue. Jim is captured, but Hafed's...

Larry Semon in a double role as a poor man chasing an opportunity to steal secret plans (for a reward of $1,000.83 from a rich man) and as the...

This film represents one of Larry Semon's pro-war films. He is a clumsy guy working in a restaurant and oddly, everyone who works in the place as...

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...