Lige Conley

Lige Conley

Born: December 4, 1897
Died: December 11, 1937
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for Lige Conley...

Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Comic Routine with Fred Allen
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Too Many Highballs
Title: Too Many Highballs
Character: Ambulance Attendant
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
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A Horse on Barney
Title: A Horse on Barney
Released: April 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A new batch of immigrants arrives.
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The Beautiful Spy
Title: The Beautiful Spy
Character: Gómez
Released: May 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.
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Love at First Flight
Title: Love at First Flight
Character: Andy McCannick
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.
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The Battling Kangaroo
Title: The Battling Kangaroo
Character: Pete Brush
Released: December 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Lige Conley goes into a fight to collect money to marry his girl. Then, hooking up with Holloway and George Gray, they get involved in several other schemes to make money fast.
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Matrimony Blues
Title: Matrimony Blues
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Tin Ghost
Title: The Tin Ghost
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Lige Conley is a newspaper reporter covering a demonstration of a new invention to some money-men. The inventors boss wants to get the credit for the device and crosses the wires so that it doesn't work right. Lige's sweetheart is the daughter of the inventor, and Lige sets out to help out.
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A Punch in the Nose
Title: A Punch in the Nose
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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Cheap Skates
Title: Cheap Skates
Character: Johnnie Jones
Released: December 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!
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Below Zero
Title: Below Zero
Released: July 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
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That's Funny
Title: That's Funny
Released: December 21, 1924
Type: Movie
A Mermaid Comedy
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What a Night!
Title: What a Night!
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: The Demonstrator
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
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Neck and Neck
Title: Neck and Neck
Character: The Country Hick
Released: February 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.
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This Way Out
Title: This Way Out
Character: The Boy
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
A rival courtships in a variety of absurd situations.
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The Steeplechase
Title: The Steeplechase
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy short with Lige Conley.
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Free and Easy
Title: Free and Easy
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Campers on a vacation have all the comforts of home fitted into their Ford car. Eggs are fried on the hot engine, and coffee is percolated in the radiator.
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She Sighed by the Seaside
Title: She Sighed by the Seaside
Character: The Boob Fisherman
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.
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Astray from the Steerage
Title: Astray from the Steerage
Character: The Rich Husband
Released: April 23, 1921
Type: Movie
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
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Bang!
Title: Bang!
Released: March 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Bang! is a 1921 silent comedy
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Holy Smoke
Title: Holy Smoke
Released: February 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Educational.
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Don't Weaken!
Title: Don't Weaken!
Character: Reilly's Poker Pal (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
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A Fresh Start
Title: A Fresh Start
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.
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Pay Your Dues
Title: Pay Your Dues
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.
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Soft Money
Title: Soft Money
Released: September 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Soft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.
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He Leads, Others Follow
Title: He Leads, Others Follow
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
He Leads, Others Follow is a 1919 American short comedy film. It is presumed to be lost.
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The Rajah
Title: The Rajah
Released: September 14, 1919
Type: Movie
A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp
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Be My Wife
Title: Be My Wife
Released: September 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.
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Don't Shove
Title: Don't Shove
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
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Heap Big Chief
Title: Heap Big Chief
Released: August 24, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
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Count Your Change
Title: Count Your Change
Released: August 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
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Never Touched Me
Title: Never Touched Me
Released: July 26, 1919
Type: Movie
At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."
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Spring Fever
Title: Spring Fever
Released: June 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Title: Why Beaches Are Popular
Character: Lige Crommie
Released: May 10, 1919
Type: Movie
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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A Sammy in Siberia
Title: A Sammy in Siberia
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
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That's Him
Title: That's Him
Released: August 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes with him. The assailant's victims pursue our man while his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
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Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
Title: Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
Released: July 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Our hero has a dream, while in the trenches at the front, that he is in Berlin rescuing a Red Cross nurse from the hands of the Kaiser and his henchmen.
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Somewhere in Turkey
Title: Somewhere in Turkey
Released: June 16, 1918
Type: Movie
Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
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The City Slicker
Title: The City Slicker
Character: (as Lige Cromley)
Released: June 2, 1918
Type: Movie
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
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Fireman Save My Child
Title: Fireman Save My Child
Character: (as Lige Cromley)
Released: May 25, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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Hey There
Title: Hey There
Released: April 28, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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His Busy Day
Title: His Busy Day
Released: April 28, 1918
Type: Movie
A two-reel comic number featuring Toto the clown in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes dressed as a girl. He then invades the grounds of a dancing school, and later the winter quarters of a circus.
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It's a Wild Life
Title: It's a Wild Life
Released: April 21, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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Pipe the Whiskers
Title: Pipe the Whiskers
Character: (as Lige Cromley)
Released: April 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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On the Jump
Title: On the Jump
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Look Pleasant, Please
Title: Look Pleasant, Please
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
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A Gasoline Wedding
Title: A Gasoline Wedding
Released: March 3, 1918
Type: Movie
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.
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Hit Him Again
Title: Hit Him Again
Released: February 17, 1918
Type: Movie
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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The Big Idea
Title: The Big Idea
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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Step Lively
Title: Step Lively
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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The Late Lamented
Title: The Late Lamented
Character: Boarder
Released: September 23, 1917
Type: Movie
The Late Lamented is a 1917 Comedy short.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Character: Employment Agency Representative (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1917
Type: Movie
A woman has moved to a small town boarding house to seek peace and quiet. All too soon she finds herself in a Keystone movie, where there's everything but.
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Dollars and Sense
Title: Dollars and Sense
Character: Algy's Valet
Released: September 10, 1916
Type: Movie
A country girl and a foppish Englishman are to inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided: The two must get married, and if one refuses, then the other gets the entire estate. The girl schemes with her twin brother to trick the Englishman out of his part of the inheritance. The girl's corn-fed crush helps out, while the twins' father dreams of being force-fed dog sausage.
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A Hash House Fraud
Title: A Hash House Fraud
Released: June 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
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Danger!
Title: Danger!
Character: The Speed Boy of Comedy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Starring Lige Conley as "The Speed Boy of Comedy"