William Blaisdell

William Blaisdell

Born: April 1, 1865
Died: January 1, 1931
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for William Blaisdell...

Sappy Service
Title: Sappy Service
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT allow any of these process servers in the place. Unfortunately, Bobby (Bobby Vernon) is instructed to serve this angry doc.
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Naughty Baby
Title: Naughty Baby
Released: April 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......
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His Angel Child
Title: His Angel Child
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
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.
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Happy Heels
Title: Happy Heels
Character: Stage manager
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.
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Say Uncle
Title: Say Uncle
Released: June 9, 1928
Type: Movie
Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.
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Campus Cuties
Title: Campus Cuties
Character: Police 1
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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Dizzy Sights
Title: Dizzy Sights
Character: The Boss
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
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.
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The Yankee Clipper
Title: The Yankee Clipper
Character: Ike
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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Duck Out
Title: Duck Out
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
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!
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Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Gov. Harrison
Released: August 26, 1926
Type: Movie
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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Chase Yourself
Title: Chase Yourself
Character: Fat Friend
Released: June 26, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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Page Me
Title: Page Me
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Comedy Short
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For Sadie's Sake
Title: For Sadie's Sake
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Chaos behind the scenes at a show.
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Fair But Foolish
Title: Fair But Foolish
Released: November 29, 1925
Type: Movie
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.
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Africa F.O.B.
Title: Africa F.O.B.
Character: King Obogeegeem if Puskudnick
Released: September 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Monty Banks becomes a car salesman and is shifted to Africa to sell one to King Obogeegee.
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A Rarin’ Romeo
Title: A Rarin’ Romeo
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
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.
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The Hansom Cabman
Title: The Hansom Cabman
Character: Cop
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
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?
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Court Plaster
Title: Court Plaster
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
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The Golf Bug
Title: The Golf Bug
Character: Hired Man
Released: July 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Golf with Monty Banks and pals.
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Pay or Move
Title: Pay or Move
Character: The Rival
Released: March 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Monty is trying to collect rent from a couple of tough deadbeats who have made a sport of beating rent collectors.
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Wedding Bells
Title: Wedding Bells
Character: Another Groom
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
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.
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Hot Sands
Title: Hot Sands
Character: Detective Dick Harris
Released: February 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Monty Banks finds love and mischief at the amusement park, in this two-reel comedy
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Taxi Please
Title: Taxi Please
Released: November 30, 1923
Type: Movie
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
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The Covered Schooner
Title: The Covered Schooner
Character: The Captain
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Monty Banks becomes a sailor in the hunt for his girl.
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Always Late
Title: Always Late
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Monty is chronically late. He comes to work late and loses his job, and then manages to miss his own wedding...
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Released: June 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Very hungry Monty chases a garbage truck all around town to retrieve a box lunch thrown away by a picky young lady.
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In and Out
Title: In and Out
Released: July 17, 1921
Type: Movie
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.
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Where Is My Wife?
Title: Where Is My Wife?
Released: January 15, 1921
Type: Movie
Lovable buffoon Monty Banks tries to relax, but ultimately spends his day worrying about who is keeping company with his wife.
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A Bedroom Scandal
Title: A Bedroom Scandal
Character: Another Husband
Released: January 15, 1921
Type: Movie
A Monty Banks comedy short.
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On the Fire
Title: On the Fire
Released: February 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
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Going! Going! Gone!
Title: Going! Going! Gone!
Released: January 25, 1919
Type: Movie
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.
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Take a Chance
Title: Take a Chance
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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Hear 'Em Rave
Title: Hear 'Em Rave
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Nothing But Trouble
Title: Nothing But Trouble
Released: October 26, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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Why Pick on Me?
Title: Why Pick on Me?
Released: October 12, 1918
Type: Movie
A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.
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Swing Your Partners
Title: Swing Your Partners
Released: September 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet.
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Bees in His Bonnet
Title: Bees in His Bonnet
Released: September 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
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An Ozark Romance
Title: An Ozark Romance
Released: July 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
Title: Are Crooks Dishonest?
Character: Professor Goulash
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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Sic 'Em, Towser
Title: Sic 'Em, Towser
Released: June 9, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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The City Slicker
Title: The City Slicker
Character: Bebe's rejected suitor
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
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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Two-Gun Gussie
Title: Two-Gun Gussie
Character: Dagger-Tooth Dan
Released: May 19, 1918
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.
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The Non-Stop Kid
Title: The Non-Stop Kid
Character: Bebe's father
Released: May 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
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Kicked Out
Title: Kicked Out
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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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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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
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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Follow the Crowd
Title: Follow the Crowd
Released: April 7, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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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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Let's Go
Title: Let's Go
Released: March 24, 1918
Type: Movie
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Here Come the Girls
Title: Here Come the Girls
Released: March 17, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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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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Beat It
Title: Beat It
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
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.
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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 Lamb
Title: The Lamb
Released: February 3, 1918
Type: Movie
The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.
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The Tip
Title: The Tip
Released: January 6, 1918
Type: Movie
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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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 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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Bashful
Title: Bashful
Character: Uncle Bill (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1917
Type: Movie
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
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Move On
Title: Move On
Released: December 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
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Rainbow Island
Title: Rainbow Island
Released: October 28, 1917
Type: Movie
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
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Bliss
Title: Bliss
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Title: By the Sad Sea Waves
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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Pinched
Title: Pinched
Released: September 23, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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Over the Fence
Title: Over the Fence
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
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Turn Him Loose
Title: Turn Him Loose
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy