Alfred J. Goulding

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

Behind the camera

Musclebound Music poster
7.0

Bill 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

A Chump at Oxford poster
6.9

The 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

Crack Your Heels poster
9.0

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Crack Your Heels

1919

No artwork available
5.3

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

Trolley Troubles poster
10.0

A guy has troubles on a trolley

Trolley Troubles

1921

Si, Senor poster
9.0

Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.

Si, Senor

1919

Sweetie poster
7.0

A Baby Peggy two-reeler

Sweetie

1923

No artwork available
NR

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

Fresh Paint poster
6.0

A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.

Fresh Paint

1920

No artwork available
9.0

Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.

His Bridal Sweet

1935

No artwork available
9.0

Jack Haley joins the circus.

Wrongorilla

1933

The Campus Carmen poster
6.0

A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.

The Campus Carmen

1928

No artwork available
9.0

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

Toot Sweet! poster
8.0

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.

Toot Sweet!

1929

Everything Is Rhythm poster
7.0

Based 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

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #10 poster
5.5

This 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

Somewhere in Turkey poster
6.0

Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.

Somewhere in Turkey

1918

The Eyes Have It poster
5.2

A 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

Dick Barton: Special Agent poster
4.3

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.

Dick Barton: Special Agent

1948

Dick Barton: Special Agent poster
4.3

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.

Dick Barton: Special Agent

1948

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #9 poster
5.5

In 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

Poisoned Ivory poster
9.0

Edgar'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

No artwork available
7.0

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

No artwork available
NR

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