Larry Semon Movies

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase...

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

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...

Larry acts as a fearless hunter who claims he is completely unfazed by small creatures like rabbits, canaries, and field mice. He remains entirely...

Tony and Freddie, who have been rivals all their lives, vie for the hand in marriage of their childhood sweetheart. Big Freddie has the upper hand...

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

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.

Pa Glitters and his daughter are beset upon by Slippery Ike who is intent on separating them from their jewels until Bunco Charley comes to their...

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

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!

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

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

Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.

Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.

The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides...

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