Larry Semon Movies

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

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...

A man comes home drunk in this slapstick comedy.

Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man's car and kidnaps his girlfriend.

The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. They meet up with a girl and become rivals for her...

Hughie Mack, Eddie Dunn, and Frank Kingsley secretly leave their homes to enjoy a night out without their wives' knowledge. The wives find out about...

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...

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

Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to...

Larry Semon goes out west.

Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a...

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.

The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.

This film, with Larry as a dry agent, pokes fun at the situations which the Prohibition Act produced throughout the country.

Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't...

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

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque...

Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get...

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...