Alfred J. Goulding

Directing

Alfred J. Goulding

Born — Died

1885-01-25 — 1972-04-25

Place of birth

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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

Trolley Troubles poster
10.0

A guy has troubles on a trolley

Trolley Troubles

1921

Excuse Me poster
8.0

A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.

Excuse Me

1925

No artwork available
5.2

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

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

Kicked Out poster
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

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

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

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

Heap Big Chief poster
6.5

Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.

Heap Big Chief

1919

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl poster
8.0

Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

1935

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

The Pride of Pikeville poster
7.0

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

The Pride of Pikeville

1927

Smith's Army Life poster
8.0

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Smith's Army Life

1928

Sweetie poster
7.0

A Baby Peggy two-reeler

Sweetie

1923

By the Sad Sea Waves poster
5.8

Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!

By the Sad Sea Waves

1917

Hot Cakes for Two poster
8.0

Country girl Alice responds to an advertisement for a "movie school" that promises to transform her into a shining star in record time. Upon arriving at the school, Alice is immediately taken advantage of by the operators, who take her "bank roll". The school staff immediately begins a screen test to see how she "registers" in front of a camera, ordering her to perform various poses and emotional expressions to prove her potential.

Hot Cakes for Two

1926

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany poster
2.0

Our hero has a dream, while in the trenches at the front, that he is in Berlin rescuing a Red Cross nurse from the hands of the Kaiser and his henchmen.

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany

1918

Hot News Margie poster
6.7

Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.

Hot News Margie

1931

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

The Devil’s Jest poster
6.5

An aristocratic widow discovers that her former lover, a medical officer in the British army, is secretly a German spy.

The Devil’s Jest

1954

Step Lively poster
4.6

Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take no for an answer.

Step Lively

1917

Fireman Save My Child poster
5.5

In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.

Fireman Save My Child

1918

Don't Shove poster
6.1

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Don't Shove

1919

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

The Dark Road poster
5.0

Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss.

The Dark Road

1948

Off the Trolley poster
6.0

Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in love with a female collector who doesn't care much about him and he also annoys the trolley conductor. But it seems that odds and luck will be on his favor.

Off the Trolley

1919

Ring Up the Curtain poster
5.8

Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.

Ring Up the Curtain

1919

The Dutiful Dub poster
8.0

Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment.

The Dutiful Dub

1919

Hey There poster
6.7

In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.

Hey There

1918

Sea Shore Shapes poster
9.0

The story of a bad organ grinder, a life saver, a pretty girl and her baby sister. A dog takes an active part in the final rescue and helps save the child from the fleeing kidnapper.

Sea Shore Shapes

1921

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

The Honorable Mr. Buggs poster
7.0

Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.

The Honorable Mr. Buggs

1927

No artwork available
NR

Ninth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family buys a new home.

Smith's New Home

1927

One Good Turn poster
8.0

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.

One Good Turn

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Incidental to the business of getting married and living scrappily ever after, Charlie and Louise are engaged on a flivver jaunt. Charlie has invited Louise along, never dreaming that she would invite the family. But the girl has asked dad, and dad asks mother, and mother invites grandpa and grandma, and they in turn invite the children.

A Family Affair

1921

A Yank in Australia poster
9.0

Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.

A Yank in Australia

1942

A Yank in Australia poster
9.0

Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.

A Yank in Australia

1942

The Adventures of Jane poster
3.9

Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.

The Adventures of Jane

1949