Lloyd Hamilton

Lloyd Hamilton

Born: August 19, 1891
Died: January 19, 1935
in Oakland, California, USA

Movies for Lloyd Hamilton...

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Title: Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
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Wedding Belles
Title: Wedding Belles
Released: June 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Lloyd stows away on a ship to be near his girlfriend.
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Pop's Pal
Title: Pop's Pal
Character: Mr. Peabody
Released: December 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan comedy short involving warring fathers-in-law, Lloyd Hamilton in small role. --IMDb reviewer
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Doubling in the Quickies
Title: Doubling in the Quickies
Character: Joe Diltz
Released: December 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Marge Clancy leaves her small town and boyfriend Joe behind to strike it big in Hollywood. The only work she can get is stunt doubling. Joe goes after her and causes many messes in the studio.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
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Too Many Highballs
Title: Too Many Highballs
Character: Harold Hobbs
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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False Impressions
Title: False Impressions
Character: Lloyd Maxwell
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
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Ex-Plumber
Title: Ex-Plumber
Character: Elmer Swift - Plumber
Released: March 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Ex-Plumber is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Marriage Rows
Title: Marriage Rows
Character: Elmer
Released: January 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Marriage Rows is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Up a Tree
Title: Up a Tree
Character: Elmer Dolittle
Released: November 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Up a Tree is a 1930 Comedy short.
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Love Your Neighbor
Title: Love Your Neighbor
Released: October 12, 1930
Type: Movie
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
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Won by a Neck
Title: Won by a Neck
Character: Percy
Released: October 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.
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Prize Puppies
Title: Prize Puppies
Character: Dog Show Judge
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Needy Ham Hamilton is mistaken for a dog show judge and he takes advantage of the situation for material gain.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Character: Self - Guest Host
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Toot Sweet!
Title: Toot Sweet!
Character: Lloyd
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.
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Tanned Legs
Title: Tanned Legs
Character: Detective
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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Don't Be Nervous
Title: Don't Be Nervous
Character: Vernon Snodgrass / Nick the Sheik
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Gangster leader Nick the Sheik is released from jail and manages to run into "collector of rare coins" Vernon Snodgrass, who looks exactly like him. With the cops after Nick AND Nick's old girlfriend wanting to get the romance cooking, you can imagine the confusion that ensues.
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Black Waters
Title: Black Waters
Character: Temple
Released: April 5, 1929
Type: Movie
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
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A Home Made Man
Title: A Home Made Man
Character: Ham
Released: July 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
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Blazing Away
Title: Blazing Away
Character: Lloyd - 1st Cab Driver
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Rivals go at it as cab drivers, romancers of the same girl and football teams.
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Papa's Boy
Title: Papa's Boy
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy".
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Life in Hollywood No. 2
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 2
Character: Himself
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Breezing Along
Title: Breezing Along
Character: S. Sylvester Sebastian
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
This is a better than average Hamilton film thanks to the presence of a bratty kid who makes Lloyd's life miserable. It seems that Lloyd was hired as a combination chauffeur, butler, cook, etc. and isn't particularly adept at any of these tasks. however, to make things worse, there is a bratty kid in the home who does his best to ruin everything.
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Somebody's Fault
Title: Somebody's Fault
Character: The Electrician's Helper
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
In this one, we are introduced to a pretentious and uppity family who we just KNOW will be brought down to size later in the short. Then we cut to Lloyd Hamilton, stumbling along, and finding a job advertisement for an electrician's helper. He applies for the job (literally dangling over the business!), and from there on out there is solid physical comedy of all kinds.
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Peaceful Oscar
Title: Peaceful Oscar
Character: Peaceful Oscar
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Peaceful Oscar is a 1927 Comedy short
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One Sunday Morning
Title: One Sunday Morning
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
One Sunday Morning is a 1926 Comedy short.
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Movieland
Title: Movieland
Character: Man starting car
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy man pretends to be a dummy on a movie set in order to meet to his favourite actress.
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Move Along
Title: Move Along
Character: Walter Rawleigh
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best, gag-filled 20s comedy style.
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Nobody's Business
Title: Nobody's Business
Character: Lunch Wagon Manager
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely everything goes wrong.
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Careful Please
Title: Careful Please
Character: Bill Collector
Released: February 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
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The Movies
Title: The Movies
Character: A Country Boy
Released: October 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
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Hooked
Title: Hooked
Character: Lloyd
Released: February 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Lloyd Hamilton goes fishing.
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Crushed
Title: Crushed
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.
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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: Lloyd Hamilton
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Jonah Jones
Title: Jonah Jones
Character: The Hired Man
Released: September 20, 1924
Type: Movie
This two-reel Lloyd Hamilton comedy. Set in the bucolic countryside, the opening sequence introduces Ham and his girlfriend Babe London as "the hired man and his three acres of love.". Ham encounters an attractive, prosperous-looking young lady who is having car trouble. After gallantly fixing her flat tire and when he realizes that the young lady has left her purse behind with her address inside he sets out to return it, no doubt hoping for a reward, either monetary or romantic.
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His Darker Self
Title: His Darker Self
Character: Claude Sappington
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse. Originally a 5-reel feature (50min), now only 2 reel edit exists.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Lloyd Hamilton
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Speeder
Title: The Speeder
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
The Speeder is a 1922 comedy short
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The Vagrant
Title: The Vagrant
Released: September 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Pursued by a cop, Lloyd tries desperately to demonstrate that he has a job so he won't be pinched as a bum, including posing as a peanut vendor, shoe shiner and toy balloon man.He helps corn remedy sales by hitting passers-by's feet with a hammer, and eventually he and the cop accidentally get high when opium is burned during a raid on Chinatown.
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Moonshine
Title: Moonshine
Character: Ham
Released: December 26, 1920
Type: Movie
A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.
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April Fool
Title: April Fool
Character: Lead Character
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Sent as a missionary to cannibals, Lloyd Hamilton boards a ship, but encounters many problems along the voyage.
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The Simp
Title: The Simp
Character: Ham
Released: October 23, 1920
Type: Movie
A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.
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Dynamite
Title: Dynamite
Character: Ben Zeen
Released: October 20, 1920
Type: Movie
Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.
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A Twilight Baby
Title: A Twilight Baby
Released: January 24, 1920
Type: Movie
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His Musical Sneeze
Title: His Musical Sneeze
Character: Woodrow Butts
Released: February 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
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A Bathtub Bandit
Title: A Bathtub Bandit
Character: Ham
Released: November 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Bathtub movers on the job.
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Whirlwind of Whiskers
Title: Whirlwind of Whiskers
Character: Ham
Released: October 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Ham and Bud try to catch a counterfeiter.
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The Deadly Doughnut
Title: The Deadly Doughnut
Character: Ham
Released: March 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Baker John Doe develops a hole-less doughnut, but rival Henry Mudguard fears the success of his invention and desperately attempts to steal the secret.
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A Flyer in Flapjacks
Title: A Flyer in Flapjacks
Character: Ham
Released: February 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Ham and Bud, while trying to evade a policeman, become cooks in a pancake house.
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The Blundering Blacksmiths
Title: The Blundering Blacksmiths
Character: Ham
Released: January 23, 1917
Type: Movie
It is Sunday in Cobweb Corners. The ring of hammer in our hero's blacksmith shop is silent. The melody of a hymn steals out of the village church. The village belle is flirting with the simple-hearted smith. It is Monday, and the village belle is plunged in sorrow. Hiram Hardheart demands her hand in marriage. He will foreclose the mortgage. Enter the smith. Exit the villain. Fate opens the way to pay off the mortgage. The smith challenges One Punch Murph. They fight for a purse of $1,000. The village belle in boy's clothing sits near the ring, to urge her sturdy champion on. Round one. Saved by the bell. Round two. The blacksmith knocks out everybody, including the referee. Hardheart gets the money and the smith gets the girl.
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The Love Magnet
Title: The Love Magnet
Character: Ham
Released: October 10, 1916
Type: Movie
Ham & Bud fight over the ladies.
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Ham's Whirlwind Finish
Title: Ham's Whirlwind Finish
Character: Ham
Released: July 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Ham and Bud get jobs as cooks. They flirt with Bombino Souptureeno, and incur the wrath of her boyfriend, Tony Slambango, and his gang.
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The Great Detective
Title: The Great Detective
Character: Ham
Released: July 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Ham, with his 999 disguises, is called on by Mrs. Worry to keep an eye on her husband. Armed with a photograph of hubby, the two set out on a riotous sleuthing career which ends with a bang when they find hubby at dinner with another fair lady and send the news to wifey.
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Midnight at the Old Mill
Title: Midnight at the Old Mill
Character: Ham
Released: June 6, 1916
Type: Movie
"Midnight at the Old Mill" has some nice "Guignol" touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.
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Ham and the Masked Marvel
Title: Ham and the Masked Marvel
Character: Ham
Released: April 1, 1916
Type: Movie
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Some Romance
Title: Some Romance
Character: Ham - Member of D.S.C.
Released: July 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Ham and Bud rescue a lady on a runaway horse, and Ham falls in love with her.
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Raskey's Road Show
Title: Raskey's Road Show
Character: Ham - the Property Man
Released: June 15, 1915
Type: Movie
A shabby troupe of vaudeville performers put on a show in a hick town theatre, where stage hands Ham & Bud incompetently miss cues, foul up props and ruin several acts on stage.
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The Phoney Cannibal
Title: The Phoney Cannibal
Character: Ham
Released: April 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Ham fears he has accidentally killed his landlady so he and Bud go on the run, disguised as a missionary and a cannibal.
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Ham and the Jitney Bus
Title: Ham and the Jitney Bus
Character: Ham - the Chauffeur
Released: February 26, 1915
Type: Movie
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside. They use that money to buy a car, and then set up their own taxi company. The competition is fierce, and their clumsiness creates many problems. They even turn to transvestism and the kidnapping of passengers to boost their business.
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Love, Oil and Grease
Title: Love, Oil and Grease
Character: Ham
Released: December 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Ham and Bud, working as mechanics, wreak havoc at a new car dealership, almost wrecking a big sale.
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Sherlock Bonehead
Title: Sherlock Bonehead
Character: Chief of Detectives - Sherlock Bonehead
Released: August 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with Helen, a girl from the city