John A. Waldron

Nacimiento : 1891-06-21, Utica, New York, USA

Muerte : 1947-12-26

Películas

Before All Others
Screenplay
A young woman's world is turned upside down when she is struck with a paralyzing disease and forced to live with her estranged grandmother who she hasn't seen since she was a little girl. Rose, a widowed and lonely senior, finds a new purpose in life: to fix a 20-year-old family secret.
Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
Writer
A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.
The Giddy Age
Writer
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
Billboard Girl
Writer
Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.
Dream House
Writer
A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby.
The All-American Kickback
Writer
Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
I Surrender Dear
Writer
A short musical comedic romance starring Bing Crosby as ... Bing Crosby. This 2 reel short was directed by Mack Sennett.
Ghost Parade
Writer
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
Midnight Daddies
Writer
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
The Bluffer
Screenplay
A man tries to win the admiration of a girl's father, by pretending he's earned medals for bravery.
Radio Kisses
Writer
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
He Trumped Her Ace
Writer
He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.
Bulls and Bears
Writer
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
Sugar Plum Papa
Story
Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Scotch
Writer
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
A Hollywood Star
Writer
Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.
The Campus Carmen
Production Supervisor
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Taxi for Two
Production Supervisor
Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan is asked by the boss to drive Dolly to the taxi depot, Dan believes he can make his millions instead by buying a cab and starting his own taxi company. Interactions with Dolly's visiting brother - a hosiery salesman - who Dan mistakenly believes is Dolly's boyfriend, a pair of inflatable legs, and an angry foreman who was fired because of Dan's mistakes in the garage lead to one misadventure after another for Dan.
Smith's Army Life
Production Supervisor
19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Run, Girl, Run
Production Supervisor
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
Fiddlesticks
Production Supervisor
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
The Pride of Pikeville
Production Supervisor
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Hoboken to Hollywood
Production Supervisor
Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood office. He is going to drive there with his wife and mother. Along the way, they encounter Mr. Pinkney and his new bride, who too are heading west. Their misadventures together and meeting up with a band of marauding Indians may prevent any of them from reaching their intended destination. If Billy and Mr. Pinkney ever make it to Hollywood, they're both in a for a big surprise.
A Sea Dog's Tale
Production Supervisor
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
Ice Cold Cocos
Production Supervisor
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Tarde de sábado
Production Supervisor
Harry y sus amigos han planeado ir a divertirse una tarde. Pero primero, Harry debe ingeniárselas para escaparse de su dominante esposa con algo de dinero para gastar. Cuando por fin lo consigue, descubre que sus problemas acaban de empezar.
A Rainy Knight
Supervising Technical Director
Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
Cold Turkey
Supervising Producer
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Production Supervisor
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Water Wagons
Scenario Writer
A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.
Galloping Bungalows
Writer
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Riders of the Purple Cows
Writer
When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
The Hansom Cabman
Title Graphics
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 and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
Lizzies of the Field
Writer
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
Black Oxfords
Writer
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
The Hollywood Kid
Title Graphics
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Writer
Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Picking Peaches
Title Graphics
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 when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Writer
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Pitfalls of a Big City
Director
Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
Nip and Tuck
Title Designer
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Director
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923