Harry Langdon
Popularity:0.049
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1884-06-14
Place of Birth:Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
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Also Known As:The Sad Clown, The Little Elf

The Sound of Laughter (1963)
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

Yesterday and Today (1953)
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...

The Strong Man (1926)
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...

All-American Co-Ed (1941)
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...

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

When Comedy Was King (1960)
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.

Long Pants (1927)
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...

Zenobia (1939)
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
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...

The Big Flash (1932)
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer...

Knight Duty (1933)
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...

Hooks and Jabs (1933)
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....

The Hitchhiker (1933)
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,...

Tied for Life (1933)
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...

Horace Greeley, Jr. (1925)
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...

Lucky Stars (1925)
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.

Remember When? (1925)
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

Boobs in the Wood (1925)
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...

Plain Clothes (1925)
Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.

His Marriage Wow (1925)
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,...

Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!) (1935)
Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to promote Goodrich Tires.

I Don't Remember (1935)
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.

The Leather Necker (1935)
Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.

His Bridal Sweet (1935)
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.

Flickering Youth (1924)
Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.

The Stage Hand (1933)
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...

A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

Soldier Man (1926)
After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.

Saturday Afternoon (1926)
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...

Fiddlesticks (1927)
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.

His First Flame (1927)
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is...

The Hansom Cabman (1924)
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...

Smile Please (1924)
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....

The Luck o' the Foolish (1924)
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...

Feet of Mud (1924)
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...

All Night Long (1924)
Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.

The First 100 Years (1924)
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...

Picking Peaches (1924)
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...

His New Mamma (1924)
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...

The Sea Squawk (1925)
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...

Beautiful Clothes (1942)
Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.

A Doggone Mixup (1938)
Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.

Atlantic Adventure (1935)
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....

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
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...

My Weakness (1933)
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...

Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".

Defective Detectives (1944)
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...

See America Thirst (1930)
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

Mopey Dope (1944)
Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a beautiful blonde with an insanely jealous husband.

His Marriage Mix-up (1935)
Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.

Three's a Crowd (1927)
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...

The Fighting Parson (1930)
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.

Hot Rhythm (1944)
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to...

There Goes My Heart (1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

The King (1930)
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...

The Shrimp (1930)
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.

Skirt Shy (1929)
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.

The Head Guy (1930)
Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.

The Big Kick (1930)
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...

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
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...

The Chaser (1928)
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...

Ella Cinders (1926)
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...

The Cat's Meow (1924)
Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.

Sue My Lawyer (1938)
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job

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

Shanghaied Lovers (1924)
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

Double Trouble (1941)
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...

Cold Turkey (1940)
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.

Goodness! A Ghost (1940)
Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
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.

Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Spotlight Scandals (1943)
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...

House of Errors (1942)
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...

A Blitz on the Fritz (1943)
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.

Counsel on De Fence (1934)
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

What Makes Lizzy Dizzy? (1942)
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...

Tireman, Spare My Tires (1942)
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.

Here Comes Mr. Zerk (1943)
Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.

Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945)
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.

Piano Mooner (1942)
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...

Blonde and Groom (1943)
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.

Carry Harry (1942)
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...

To Heir Is Human (1944)
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.

There He Goes (1925)
1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.

Hotter Than Hot (1929)
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.

Heart Trouble (1928)
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...

Shivers (1934)
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.

Snooper Service (1945)
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.

Block Busters (1944)
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...

Happy Times and Jolly Moments (1943)
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

Stardust (1938)
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...

The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

Sky Boy (1929)
Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.

Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon (1929)
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.

The Gas Station (1930)
Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.

Hollywood on Parade No. B-4 (1934)
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.

The Voice of Hollywood No. 5 (1930)
This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars...