William Blaisdell

AKA: Bill Blaisdell
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1865-04-01

San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {77}

1928-06-09 0

Say Uncle

While there isn't a clear synopsis of this short it it known that it was a slapstick "Christie Comedy," a popular series of shorts from that era known for mechanical gags and situational humor. ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-04-06 0

Naughty Baby

A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show...... ...
Genre :Comedy

The Captain

1923-09-29 0

The Covered Schooner

Monty Banks becomes a sailor in the hunt for his girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Detective Dick Harris

1924-02-29 0

Hot Sands

Monty Banks finds love and mischief at the amusement park, in this two-reel comedy ...
Genre :Comedy

Another Groom

1924-03-16 0

Wedding Bells

Monty Banks plays a groom who is about to get married. In fact, he has the marriage license just about in hand. Apparently, he's had a bachelor party the night before and when his fiancée rings him, h ...
Genre :Comedy

Bebe's rejected suitor

1918-06-02 5.2

The City Slicker

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dagger-Tooth Dan

1918-05-19 5.3

Two-Gun Gussie

A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Bebe's father

1918-05-12 5.1

The Non-Stop Kid

Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor. ...
Genre :Comedy

Uncle Bill (uncredited)

1917-12-23 6.9

Bashful

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

1917-10-28 5

Rainbow Island

After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals. ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1917-09-09 5.917

Over the Fence

Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "G ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-03-16 0

Turn Him Loose

A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy ...
Genre :Comedy

Police 1

1928-04-07 6

Campus Cuties

Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's school, with the usual watchdogs on duty. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-09-15 0

Bees in His Bonnet

Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-04-07 5.5

Follow the Crowd

A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally ge ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-10-12 5

Why Pick on Me?

A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

1919-02-22 5

On the Fire

Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-12-09 4.7

Move On

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-12-30 5.75

The Big Idea

A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-12-30 4.6

Step Lively

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 no for an answer. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-02-03 0

The Lamb

The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-06-09 0

Sic 'Em, Towser

At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-09-29 5

Swing Your Partners

Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-12-01 4.8

Hear 'Em Rave

Genre :Comedy

1922-06-23 0

Derby Day

Very hungry Monty chases a garbage truck all around town to retrieve a box lunch thrown away by a picky young lady. ...
Genre :

1919-01-25 4.7

Going! Going! Gone!

Lloyd and Pollard help a young girl out of the water but they are then chased by a shrew. On a bicycle built for two, Lloyd lazes about on the back while Pollard sweats from all of his effort. Thieves ...
Genre :Comedy

Professor Goulash

1918-06-23 5.6

Are Crooks Dishonest?

Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Rival

1924-03-17 5

Pay or Move

Monty is trying to collect rent from a couple of tough deadbeats who have made a sport of beating rent collectors. ...
Genre :

King Obogeegeem if Puskudnick

1925-09-15 0

Africa F.O.B.

Monty Banks becomes a car salesman and is shifted to Africa to sell one to King Obogeegee. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-07-06 0

An Ozark Romance

Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family. ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-04-13 0

Sappy Service

In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-12-15 6.125

Take a Chance

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ike

1927-05-07 6.4

The Yankee Clipper

A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea. ...
Genre :Drama

1926-02-28 0

Page Me

Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complications that ensue he finds himself handing from the hotel's ledge from many stories up. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cop

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

1917-09-30 5.929

By the Sad Sea Waves

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

1917-10-14 4.3

Bliss

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title." ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-04-28 6.75

Hey There

In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, ...
Genre :Comedy

Fat Friend

1926-06-26 0

Chase Yourself

Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but ...
Genre :

1918-03-31 0

On the Jump

On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. ...
Genre :Comedy

1923-01-01 0

Always Late

Monty is chronically late. He comes to work late and loses his job, and then manages to miss his own wedding... ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-02-16 0

His Angel Child

A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-09-23 5

Pinched

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, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker ...
Genre :Comedy

Another Husband

1921-01-15 0

A Bedroom Scandal

A Monty Banks comedy short. ...
Genre :

1921-01-15 0

Where Is My Wife?

Lovable buffoon Monty Banks tries to relax, but ultimately spends his day worrying about who is keeping company with his wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-01-06 0

The Tip

A short film starring Harold Lloyd. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-02-24 0

Beat It

Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-03-17 2

Here Come the Girls

Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfull ...
Genre :Comedy

Angry vendor

1918-03-24 0

Let's Go

A short film starring Harold Lloyd. ...
Genre :Comedy

Diner

1918-04-21 5

It's a Wild Life

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-05-05 0

Kicked Out

Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-10-26 0

Nothing But Trouble

Harold appears as an active young man who gets a job as waiter in a restaurant. Disaster overtakes him and he is hurried off to jail at the close. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-04-14 5

Pipe the Whiskers

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

1918-02-17 0

Hit Him Again

A short film starring Harold Lloyd. ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-05-25 5.5

Fireman Save My Child

In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground. ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1918-03-10 5

Look Pleasant, Please

A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues. ...
Genre :Comedy

Baron Island

1920-09-01 0

A Flivver Wedding

The misadventures of a young man who sets out in his flivver to stop the girl he loves from being forcibly married to a rival. ...
Genre :Comedy

A rival

1921-10-01 0

Fresh Air

A hunting comedy full of cartoonish gags. ...
Genre :Comedy

A Society Raffles

1921-11-01 0

Cleaned and Dry

Monty is the driver of a delivery wagon for a cleaning and dyeing establishment, romps with a Ford and gets himself into many ridiculous scrapes. ...
Genre :Comedy

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Squirrel Food

A fortuneteller informs Monte that he will marry the first girl he meets. After several false starts, he meets what he is sure is "the" girl. She takes him to jail, hits him with a book, and affects h ...
Genre :Comedy

The Sweetheart's Father

1923-07-26 0

Paging Love

Monty appears as a chap whose prospective father-in-law, to find out the stuff of which he is made, sets him out to peddle an encyclopedia which no one else can sell. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Rival

1924-06-02 0

A Wild Goose Chase

Monty chases a goose. Hilarity ensues. (This film is partially lost.) ...
Genre :Comedy

Gov. Harrison

1926-08-26 6.2

Crazy Like a Fox

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, an ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-09-28 0

Court Plaster

Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial. ...
Genre :Comedy

Hired Man

1924-07-08 0

The Golf Bug

Golf with Monty Banks and pals. ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-11-29 0

Fair But Foolish

The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape ...
Genre :Comedy

Stage manager

1929-01-19 0

Happy Heels

Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave. ...
Genre :Comedy

1926-01-24 0

For Sadie's Sake

Chaos behind the scenes at a show. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Boss

1927-12-17 0

Dizzy Sights

A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue. ...
Genre :Comedy

1927-02-13 0

Duck Out

At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through ...
Genre :Comedy

1923-11-30 0

Taxi Please

A wild taxi driver can't get ahead with his fares but he is still willing to help his sweetheart at the drugstore, especially when he figures out how to sell hair tonic ...
Genre :Comedy

1921-07-17 0

In and Out

Monty and his wife are newlyweds dealing with things like making breakfast that’s edible and dealing with a persistent book salesman. Only reel 1 survives, so a proper plot synopsis is difficult. ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-03-29 0

A Rarin’ Romeo

A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks. ...
Genre :Comedy

1926-04-25 2

Fresh Faces

Bingville is holding a beauty contest and the three finalists are Mary, Dora, and the Village Vamp. Dora's beau Eddie asks Walter, the contest judge, who will win, and is told that Dora will. Walter g ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-03-03 5.75

A Gasoline Wedding

A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it. ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-12-02 0

We Never Sleep

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

The Baron

1917-11-25 4.9

All Aboard

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 discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, ...
Genre :Comedy