Frank Alexander

This documentary investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. (Roxie Releasing)

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman. (imdb)

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers. (imdb)

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring. (imdb)

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman. (imdb)

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerin, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll. (imdb)

Avery DuPoise is a wealthy business man, organising a race. He meets one the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoises daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love DuPoises daughter. DuPoise suggests that who ever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action packed races commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race. (imdb)

Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel. (imdb)

When a young man discovers his brother horning in on his girlfriend he exacts the sort of punishment common to siblings: he strands him in the wrong part of town. But the prank turns deadly when the brother has a run-in with a deranged psychopath and the guilt-ridden cuckold vows revenge. Trouble is the psycho rises from the grave and decides to exact his own vengeance on his killer.

Another of the fast and furious slapstick comedies produced for Keystone that is long on speed and mugging and short on jokes. Gussle and his wife decide to go mountain climbing and shoot at each other in a not very interesting effort. Syd does not even manage his usual graceful surprise movements in this, but spends, like most of the cast, a lot of time falling down. (imdb)

This film concerns the adventures of Gussle, played by Sydney Chaplin, in Big Bear Lake area of California. The picture opens with our hero riding a mule through a creek bed, when he is set upon by some robbers. Gussle outsmarts them by attempting to hand over his goods by stretching across the stream, but dropping the goods into the water thereby making the robber also fall in. (imdb)

Dell takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors. (imdb)

Our hero saves a man from drowning, only to find that it is the wrong man. (imdb)

After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel. (en.wikipedia.org)

The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c. (imdb)

This film represents one of Larry Semon's pro-war films. He is a clumsy guy working in a restaurant and oddly, everyone who works in the place as well as many of the customers are Kaiser-loving spies. Why they would be headquartered in a restaurant in California, I have no idea! Regardless, their aim is to steal some plans from some old guy and his daughter. When Semon finds out, he comes to the rescue. (imdb)

Larry and his wife are desperately poor--with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and everything and eventually chase the pair up onto the room--where various stunts occur. (imdb)

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.

A comedy short by and with Larry Semon. (imdb)

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks. (imdb)

Larry Semon stars a guy being chased. Here we have a small twist on the sitting on the tram path and the tram goes the other way at the last minute stunt. (imdb)

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy. (imdb)

The Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog. The film stars Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Al Thompson, Frank Alexander and William Hauber. (imdb)

A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced! (imdb)

Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his somewhat bumbling son to rescue her. (imdb)

A heavyweight slapstick comedy with "A Ton Of Fun". (imdb)

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless. (imdb)

Ton O' Fun comedy produced by Joe Rock with Frank Alexander, Hilliard Karr, William Ross. (imdb)

A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money. (imdb)

In this one, Ton of Fun play house builders who offer help to Lois Boyd on her home. While the whole thing looks very askew, the young lady doesn't seem to mind and, unlike most women in comedies, even joins in some of the slapstick shenanigans. (imdb)

A young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar. (imdb)

Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy! (imdb)

This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar. (imdb)

A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt. (imdb)

A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Albert Herman. (imdb)

A comedy short with Frank Alexander, Jack Cooper & Violet Palmer from the J.R. Bray Studios. (imdb)

Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels. (imdb)

Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.

Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man. (imdb)

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

Larry going investigating a Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

Larry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!

Larry in Sing Sing prison..... (imdb)

Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose. (imdb)

After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate. (imdb)

Mr. Gussle takes Mrs. Gussle to the department store to do some shopping. While Mrs. Gussle goes about her shopping errands, Mr. Gussle can't help but cause havoc for the store employees and other customers. (imdb)

"Ton of Fun" comedy short.

A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back. (imdb)

Ton O' Fun comedy produced by Larry Darmour.

Fat, Fatty and Fatter are seen rescuing their old Ford from the scrap wagon that is hauling it away. And then report to work, where they have a dyspeptic boss. With the help of a monkey they manage to wreck the office. (imdb)

In this classic comedy, a hotelier continues to find himself in promiscuous situations involving a newlywed bride on her honeymoon much to the chagrin of his wife.

A Keystone comedy with Charles Murray, where the poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...

Larry Semon goes out west.

Karl Dane & George K. Arthur enter a gangster town.

The Ton of Fun -- aka The Three Fatties -- go out to a Wyoming ranch, where their enormous weight is about the sum total of the jokes, as in the others in this series.

Ton of Fun out in the desert with a mule and a lady.

Larry Semon working as a stage hand.

Larry Semon winds up in possession of a stolen sacred necklace, so the Hindoos of the title chase him.

The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides food, the scenes are garnished with a couple of trayfuls of beautiful girls.

A Mickey McGuire short comedy.