William Blaisdell

William Blaisdell

Nascimento : 1865-01-01, California, USA

Morte : 1931-01-01

Perfil

William Blaisdell

Filmes

Reckless Rosie
A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......
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.
Happy Heels
Stage manager
Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.
Say Uncle
Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.
Campus Cuties
Police 1
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.
Dizzy Sights
The Boss
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.
The Yankee Clipper
Ike
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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 the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
Crazy Like a Fox
Gov. Harrison
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, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan.
Chase Yourself
Fat Friend
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, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
Page Me
Comedy Short
For Sadie's Sake
Chaos behind the scenes at a show.
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 but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.
Africa F.O.B.
King Obogeegeem if Puskudnick
Monty Banks becomes a car salesman and is shifted to Africa to sell one to King Obogeegee.
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.
The Hansom Cabman
Cop
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?
Court Plaster
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
The Golf Bug
Hired Man
Golf with Monty Banks and pals.
Wedding Bells
Another Groom
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, he can't find the phone, but there's several other guys sleeping it off. The landlady suspects that some hijinks have gone on and looks to investigate. Monty figures things out pretty quickly. Luckily for him, one of the gentlemen sleeping it off is in a policeman's uniform and Monty has him pretend he's arrested everybody in the room.
Hot Sands
Detective Dick Harris
Monty Banks finds love and mischief at the amusement park, in this two-reel comedy
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
The Covered Schooner
The Captain
Monty Banks becomes a sailor in the hunt for his girl.
Always Late
Monty is chronically late. He comes to work late and loses his job, and then manages to miss his own wedding...
Derby Day
Very hungry Monty chases a garbage truck all around town to retrieve a box lunch thrown away by a picky young lady.
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.
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.
A Bedroom Scandal
Another Husband
A Monty Banks comedy short.
On the Fire
Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
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 escape by car but it breaks down. Lloyd and Pollard help them start up again but the thieves steal the tandem bicycle, leaving the car in the hands of the heros.
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.
Hear 'Em Rave
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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.
Why Pick on Me?
A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.
Swing Your Partners
Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet.
Bees in His Bonnet
Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
An Ozark Romance
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Professor Goulash
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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.
Forasteiro Trapalhão
Bebe's rejected suitor
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
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.
Gussie de Duas Armas
Dagger-Tooth Dan
Um jovem educado saiu de casa e agora está tocando piano em um bar no oeste. O perigoso criminoso Dagger-Tooth Dan entra no bar onde o jovem está jogando. Logo depois, chega também o xerife local, com algumas cartas que recebeu. Eles notificam as cartas e ele troca as informações nelas para fazer o xerife pensar que o pianista é o perigoso.
The Non-Stop Kid
Bebe's father
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
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.
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, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
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.
Pipe the Whiskers
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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 gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
On the Jump
On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Let's Go
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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 playfully bashful.
Look Pleasant, Please
(uncredited)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
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 glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.
Hit Him Again
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
The Lamb
The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.
The Tip
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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.
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.
Bashful
Uncle Bill (uncredited)
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Move On
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
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.
Bliss
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
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!
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 and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.