Harry McCoy

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and...

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie...

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her...

1925 silent comedy.

By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.

Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.

Stout Hearts But Weak Knees

It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in...

Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the...

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other...

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.

A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries...

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.

Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain...

'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected...

A Keystone slapstick comedy Harry McCoy & Mae Busch.

Harry takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors.

Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A...

The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and...

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

A Keystone film, especially from the beginnings, is always worth attention.This film is notable for the profit which it manages to derive from...

The star of a film attends a public showing.

Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which...

A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.

Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.

Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.

A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.

At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned...

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at...

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment....

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is...

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He...

Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with...

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests...

The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."

Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

Film directed and starring Harry McCoy

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his...

A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.

The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking...

Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.

A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.

King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts...

Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.

This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father...

Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they...

Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her...

Mabel Normand stars in this comedy short in which she has a world of trouble with her rival lovers.

A silent comedy short directed by Mabel Normand.