Acting
Grover Ligon
Born — Died
1885-01-31 — 1965-03-03
Place of birth
Kerney, Missouri, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
41 titles
Known for
6.2A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
6.3Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
The St. Louis Kid
1934
5.7A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
Making a Living
1914
6.0A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Time Out for Romance
1937
5.7Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
The Masquerader
1914
5.8To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
The Knockout
1914
Film credits
1930s · 3 titles
6.3Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
The St. Louis Kid
1934
6.0A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Time Out for Romance
1937
9.0Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
Father's Son
1931
1920s · 7 titles
8.0Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.
The Million Dollar Collar
1929
5.5In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Ten Dollars or Ten Days
1924
4.7Well-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.
The Bakery
1921
7.0A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
The Show
1922
5.7Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Kid Speed
1924
The proprietors of a hairdressing and beauty emporium and the neighboring delicatessen battle over everything including the hairdresser's love of the deli owner's daughter.
The Dome Doctor
1925
Scarem Much is a 1924 comedy short.
Scarem Much
1924
1910s · 31 titles
6.2A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
5.7A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
Making a Living
1914
5.7Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
The Masquerader
1914
5.8To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
The Knockout
1914
5.7Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
5.8A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
5.7Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
A Lover's Lost Control
1915
5.5Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance
1915
5.8When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
Caught in the Rain
1914
5.6A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913
5.9Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Mabel's Married Life
1914
5.7Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
His Prehistoric Past
1914
5.6Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Those Love Pangs
1914
5.7Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
1915
5.0After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
Love, Speed and Thrills
1915
5.1A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
5.0Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
A Bird's a Bird
1915
5.5A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
The Great Toe Mystery
1914
5.3Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Shot in the Excitement
1914
4.9A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
A Submarine Pirate
1915
6.5A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Hearts and Flowers
1919
NRCount Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
He Would a Hunting Go
1913
5.7Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
1915
6.0Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
Fatty's Day Off
1913
4.7Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
1915
4.2After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914
5.0A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Her Torpedoed Love
1917
4.4A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.
Hearts and Planets
1915
An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he appears to be more interested in its female workers, an explosive situation results.
The Cannon Ball
1915
4.2Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...
Love in Armor
1915
