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
Her Boy Friend poster

Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the p…

Her Boy Friend

★ 5.8 1924

Horseshoes poster

A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through…

Horseshoes

★ 4.9 1923

Lightning Love poster

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wiz…

Lightning Love

★ 6.4 1923

The Gown Shop poster

Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Se…

The Gown Shop

★ 5.5 1923

The Barnyard poster

Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmlan…

The Barnyard

★ 6.3 1923