Harry Langdon

AKA: The Sad Clown, The Little Elf
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1884-06-14

Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA

Biography

Henry "Harry" Philmore Langdon (June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1944) was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films (where he had his greatest fame), and talkies.

Crew Roles

Block-Heads
Writer
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Producer
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Story
The Strong Man
Producer
Piano Mooner
Writer
The Stage Hand
Director
Three's a Crowd
Director
The Chaser
Director
The Chaser
Writer
The Flying Deuces
Screenplay
House of Errors
Story
Long Pants
Editor
Long Pants
Executive Producer
Goodness! A Ghost
Writer
The Stage Hand
Writer
Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Writer
Road Show
Screenplay
Heart Trouble
Director
Wise Guys
Director
A Chump at Oxford
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {98}

The Hitchhiker

1963-12-17 2

The Sound of Laughter

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's. ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

(archive footage)

1953-12-02 0

Yesterday and Today

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Comm ...
Genre :Documentary

Paul Bergot

1926-11-19 6.3

The Strong Man

A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Hap Holden

1941-10-31 4.2

All-American Co-Ed

Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a wom ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Egghead

1933-02-03 7.4

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

edited from 'The First 100 Years'

1960-03-29 6.7

When Comedy Was King

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Documentary

Harry Shelby

1927-03-26 5.5

Long Pants

Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marr ...
Genre :Comedy

Professor McCrackle

1939-04-21 4.6

Zenobia

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Logan

1926-03-21 5.8

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's bi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Adventure

Harry

1932-11-05 4.5

The Big Flash

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at t ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1933-05-06 0

Knight Duty

Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carr ...
Genre :Comedy

1933-08-24 0

Hooks and Jabs

Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keepe ...
Genre :Comedy

The Hitchhiker

1933-02-11 0

The Hitchhiker

Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do, when they learn they are stuck flying with "THE HI ...
Genre :Comedy

The Groom

1933-07-01 1

Tied for Life

We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo of his bride. Friends serenade Harry outside, but w ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-06-06 0

Horace Greeley, Jr.

Horace jumps in a caravan car covered with a large tarp, only to discover that a band of hooded rebels are hidden under the canopy. He fights first with the gang's leader, then all join in. He manages ...
Genre :

Harry Lamb

1925-08-15 7

Lucky Stars

Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Hudson

1925-04-14 7

Remember When?

Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Il ragazzo - Chester Winfield

1925-02-01 6.7

Boobs in the Wood

Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite a ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

The Boy

1925-03-28 7

Plain Clothes

Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000. ...
Genre :

The Groom - Harold Hope

1925-03-01 5.5

His Marriage Wow

In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1935-04-29 0

Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)

Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to promote Goodrich Tires. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Crump

1935-12-25 2

I Don't Remember

Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1935-05-08 0

The Leather Necker

Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Harry Langdon

1935-03-14 0

His Bridal Sweet

Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house. ...
Genre :Comedy

Gus Guitar

1924-04-27 0

Flickering Youth

Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1933-09-07 0

The Stage Hand

The story is set in the village of Oskaloosa, which is in Iowa -- Langdon's home state. A silent movie-style opening title informs us that the town needs a new fire engine, so they decide to stage a p ...
Genre :Comedy

Tim

1930-10-30 4.5

A Soldier's Plaything

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

The Soldier / King Strudel the 13th of Bomania

1926-05-01 0

Soldier Man

After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on. ...
Genre :

Harry Higgins

1926-01-31 5.6

Saturday Afternoon

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend... ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Hogan

1927-11-27 6

Fiddlesticks

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Howells

1927-05-02 5.5

His First Flame

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that c ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Doolittle

1924-10-12 4

The Hansom Cabman

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée ...
Genre :Comedy

Otto Focus - the Hero

1924-03-01 5

Smile Please

Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving th ...
Genre :Comedy

The Boy

1924-09-13 5.3

The Luck o' the Foolish

Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Holdem - The Boy

1924-12-06 7

Feet of Mud

As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himsel ...
Genre :Comedy

The Boy

1924-11-08 7.5

All Night Long

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France. ...
Genre :Comedy, War

A Newly-Wed

1924-08-16 6.4

The First 100 Years

A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old fr ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy

A Shoe Clerk

1924-02-02 3.786

Picking Peaches

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them ...
Genre :Comedy, Animation

A Farmer Boy

1924-06-21 4.6

His New Mamma

The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His wor ...
Genre :Comedy

An Immigrant

1925-01-04 7

The Sea Squawk

A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner. Blackie Dawson, the uncrowned king of jewel thieves, and his accomplice Pearl Blackstone, ...
Genre :Comedy

Stooge

1942-08-04 0

Beautiful Clothes

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Harry Langdon

1938-12-05 0

A Doggone Mixup

Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog. ...
Genre :Comedy

Snapper McGillicuddy

1935-08-25 5.5

Atlantic Adventure

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Self (archive footage)

1942-01-01 0

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to ...
Genre :Documentary

Dan Cupid

1933-09-22 0

My Weakness

A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin. ...
Genre :Music

(archive footage)

1984-01-01 10

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War. ...
Genre :Documentary

Henry Butler

1940-12-20 4.75

Misbehaving Husbands

Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman". ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Harry

1944-04-03 0

Defective Detectives

El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him. ...
Genre :

Wally

1930-11-23 0

See America Thirst

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

1944-06-16 0

Mopey Dope

Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a beautiful blonde with an insanely jealous husband. ...
Genre :Comedy

1935-10-30 0

His Marriage Mix-up

Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry - the Odd Fellow

1927-08-28 5.3

Three's a Crowd

Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in hi ...
Genre :Comedy

The Banjo Player

1930-02-06 0

The Fighting Parson

Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Whiffle

1944-04-22 4.7

Hot Rhythm

Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music, War

Minister (uncredited)

1938-10-14 7.1

There Goes My Heart

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The King

1930-06-14 3.6

The King

The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns, drilling his soldiers, and dallying with the wife ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1930-05-03 0

The Shrimp

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dobbs, the butler

1929-11-30 2

Skirt Shy

Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry, Temporary Station Master

1930-01-11 3.333

The Head Guy

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1930-03-29 3

The Big Kick

Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shooto ...
Genre :Comedy

Himself (archive footage)

2011-04-03 9

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performanc ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

The Husband

1928-02-12 4.2

The Chaser

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dres ...
Genre :Comedy

Himself (uncredited)

1926-06-06 7

Ella Cinders

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she i ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Eddie Elgin

1924-05-24 0

The Cat's Meow

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Langdon

1938-09-15 0

Sue My Lawyer

Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job ...
Genre :Comedy

1933-01-02 0

Tired Feet

Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films. ...
Genre :Comedy

A Shanghaied Sailor

1924-03-30 4.3

Shanghaied Lovers

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Albert "Bert" Prattle

1941-11-21 0

Double Trouble

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-a ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Langdon

1940-10-18 0

Cold Turkey

Harry wins a turkey at a raffle. ...
Genre :Comedy

1940-03-08 0

Goodness! A Ghost

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chester Willouby

1945-09-01 0

Swingin' on a Rainbow

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Self (archive footage)

1961-03-21 5.5

Days of Thrills and Laughter

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. ...
Genre :Documentary

Oscar Hammond

1943-09-24 3

Spotlight Scandals

A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama, Music

Bert

1942-04-10 0

House of Errors

Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon ...
Genre :Comedy

Egbert Slipp

1943-01-22 0

A Blitz on the Fritz

Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout. ...
Genre :Comedy

Darrow Langdon

1934-10-24 1

Counsel on De Fence

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1942-03-26 0

What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?

This Columbia short (production number 3431) has Harry Langdon and Elsie Ames billed above the title, but it is all Elsie Ames with Langdon and Monty Collins (if his name is Monte, how come---except f ...
Genre :

Harry Langdon

1942-06-04 0

Tireman, Spare My Tires

Harry picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a runaway heiress. Under threat, Harry agrees to help her hide by pretending to be husband and wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

Egbert Slipp

1943-07-23 0

Here Comes Mr. Zerk

Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1945-04-04 0

Pistol Packin' Nitwits

Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Harry

1942-12-11 0

Piano Mooner

Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1943-04-16 0

Blonde and Groom

Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and gets the wrong idea. ...
Genre :

Harry

1942-09-03 2

Carry Harry

After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Fenner

1944-01-14 0

To Heir Is Human

Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance. ...
Genre :

Harry

1925-11-29 0

There He Goes

1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short. ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-08-17 0

Hotter Than Hot

Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry Van Housen

1928-10-01 0

Heart Trouble

No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent heroism in foiling a ring of spies. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ichabod Somerset Crop

1934-12-24 0

Shivers

To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house. ...
Genre :Comedy

1945-02-03 0

Snooper Service

Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Higgins

1944-07-22 0

Block Busters

Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to r ...
Genre :Comedy

(archive footage)

1943-01-01 0

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era. ...
Genre :Comedy

Otto Schultz

1938-03-25 4

Stardust

Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

archive footage

1957-12-26 6.9

The Golden Age of Comedy

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Stowaway

1929-10-05 0

Sky Boy

Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1929-04-01 0

Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon

Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1930-03-29 0

The Gas Station

Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1934-01-22 0

Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Self

1930-02-01 0

The Voice of Hollywood No. 5

This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars and this episode includes Langdon, Lola Lane, Harry ...
Genre :Documentary