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

Film credits

1930s · 3 titles

1920s · 7 titles

The Million Dollar Collar poster
8.0

Bill 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

Ten Dollars or Ten Days poster
5.5

In 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

The Bakery poster
4.7

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.

The Bakery

1921

The Show poster
7.0

A 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

Kid Speed poster
5.7

Avery 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

No artwork available
4.5

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

No artwork available
8.0

Scarem Much is a 1924 comedy short.

Scarem Much

1924

1910s · 31 titles

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.2

A 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

Making a Living poster
5.7

A 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

The Masquerader poster
5.7

Charlie 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

The Knockout poster
5.8

To 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

Mabel's Busy Day poster
5.7

Mabel 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

Mabel at the Wheel poster
5.8

A 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

A Lover's Lost Control poster
5.7

Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.

A Lover's Lost Control

1915

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance poster
5.5

Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

1915

Caught in the Rain poster
5.8

When 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

Mabel's Dramatic Career poster
5.6

A 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

Mabel's Married Life poster
5.9

Mabel 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

His Prehistoric Past poster
5.7

Set 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

Those Love Pangs poster
5.6

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

Those Love Pangs

1914

Fatty's Tintype Tangle poster
5.7

Hubby 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

Love, Speed and Thrills poster
5.0

After 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

That Little Band Of Gold poster
5.1

A 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

A Bird's a Bird poster
5.0

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.

A Bird's a Bird

1915

The Great Toe Mystery poster
5.5

A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.

The Great Toe Mystery

1914

Shot in the Excitement poster
5.3

Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.

Shot in the Excitement

1914

A Submarine Pirate poster
4.9

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

A Submarine Pirate

1915

Hearts and Flowers poster
6.5

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

Hearts and Flowers

1919

He Would a Hunting Go poster
NR

Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.

He Would a Hunting Go

1913

Fatty’s Faithful Fido poster
5.7

Fatty 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

Fatty's Day Off poster
6.0

Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.

Fatty's Day Off

1913

Fatty’s Reckless Fling poster
4.7

Left 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

Ambrose's First Falsehood poster
4.2

After 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

Her Torpedoed Love poster
5.0

A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.

Her Torpedoed Love

1917

Leading Lizzie Astray poster
4.4

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

Leading Lizzie Astray

1914

No artwork available
NR

A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.

Hearts and Planets

1915

No artwork available
1.0

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

Love in Armor poster
4.2

Mae 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