Larry Semon

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Larry Semon

Born 1889-02-09 West Point, Mississippi, USA 71 films

American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight, Larry Semon was the son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great. He grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics. A talent for drawing and cartooning led to art school and then work as a cartoonist for various New York City newspapers. The humor evident in his published cartoons prompted executives at New York's Vitagraph Stud…

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Filmography

71 films
A Simple Sap poster

A bumbling grocery-store employee must deal with such job-related problems as a conniving boss, unr…

A Simple Sap

★ 7.0 1928

Dummies poster

A young man is part of a traveling medicine show owned by an elderly "professor" and his beautiful…

Dummies

★ 7.0 1928

The Stunt Man poster

A movie stuntman, whose wealthy girlfriend has just turned down his marriage proposal, is determine…

The Stunt Man

★ 7.5 1927

Underworld poster

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but…

Underworld

★ 7.0 1927

Spuds poster

In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nickn…

Spuds

★ 8.0 1927

Go Straight! poster

Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywo…

Go Straight!

★ 7.0 1925

Kid Speed poster

Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the ra…

Kid Speed

★ 5.5 1924