
Directing
Alfred J. Goulding
Born 1885-01-25 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Former vaudevillian. Directed Harold Lloyd comedies for Hal Roach. In the early 20's, joined Mack Sennett, then turned out two-reel comedies at RKO and Columbia, sometimes featuring Edgar Kennedy. In England after World War II, directing 'quota quickies'. Close friend of Stan Laurel.
Acting credits
5.8A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
The Lady
1925
9.0Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.
A Yank in Australia
1942
A Short comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and Bebe Daniels.
Love's Young Scream
1919
9.0A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
Learning to Love
1925
Behind the camera
7.0Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
Musclebound Music
1926
6.9The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
A Chump at Oxford
1940
9.0A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Crack Your Heels
1919
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
High Rollers
1921
10.0A guy has troubles on a trolley
Trolley Troubles
1921
9.0Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.
Si, Senor
1919
7.0A Baby Peggy two-reeler
Sweetie
1923
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.
Kicked Out
1918
6.0A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.
Fresh Paint
1920
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
His Bridal Sweet
1935
Jack Haley joins the circus.
Wrongorilla
1933
6.0A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
The Campus Carmen
1928
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
Big Game
1921
8.0Ham 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.
Toot Sweet!
1929
7.0Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Everything Is Rhythm
1936
5.5This omnibus of film clips include a Savanna golf course made from Civil War trenches, wooden Indians used ourside cigar stores, an American Indian artist from South Dakota who paints upside down, the smallest residence house, a Bronx River statue with mysterious Civil War origins, the Ocean Grove community in New Jersey that closes on Sundays and a futuristic automated parking garage. Vitaphone No. 1364.
Believe It or Not (Second Series) #10
1932
6.0Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
Somewhere in Turkey
1918
5.2A nine-year-old boy named Charlie McCarthy is sent by his teacher to an eye doctor. The lad has been complaining about headaches and has missed a lot of school. The doctor, with the help of a nurse, conducts an examination. They learn that when the boy isn't at school, he does a lot of fishing. In the course of the exam, the doctor recommends glasses, and Charlie convinces the doc to accompany him on a trip.
The Eyes Have It
1931
4.3Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.
Dick Barton: Special Agent
1948
4.3Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.
Dick Barton: Special Agent
1948
5.5In this short film, Robert L. Ripley introduces narrator Leo Donnelly who presents various "Believe It or Not" oddities from around the world as gathered by Ripley. Segments include a NYC clothier that caters to very large men and circus elephant grooming. Vitaphone No. 1363.
Believe It or Not (Second Series) #9
1932
9.0Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she accidentally poisoned Edgar instead of giving him his real medicine.
Poisoned Ivory
1934
Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers.
Drink Hearty
1920
In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter (Lucien Littlefield) gets a job as a professional divorce-case correspondent. He is hired by a lawyer to make love to the wife of a man seeking a divorce. The problem is that Pa forgets to tell Ma (Lucille Ward) it is all make-believe.
Big Money
1930