Fred C. Newmeyer

Directing

Fred C. Newmeyer

Born — Died

1888-08-08 — 1967-04-24

Place of birth

Central City, Colorado, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

82 titles

A native of Central City, Colorado, Newmeyer is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing several Harold Lloyd movies. With Sam Taylor, Newmeyer co-directed Lloyd in films including Safety Last! (1923), Girl Shy (1924), and The Freshman (1925). Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in other comedy short films. He appeared as an actor in 71 films between 1914 and 1923. Prior to his film career, Newmeyer played professional baseball. Partial statistics exist for his time as a left-handed pitcher in Minor League Baseball at the Class D level from 1911 to 1913 in the Southwest Texas League, Michigan State League, and Central Associ…

Known for

Safety Last! poster
7.7

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Safety Last!

1923

Bumping Into Broadway poster
6.9

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

Bumping Into Broadway

1919

Girl Shy poster
6.9

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.

Girl Shy

1924

The Freshman poster
7.0

An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.

The Freshman

1925

They Never Come Back poster
6.3

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

They Never Come Back

1932

Billy Blazes, Esq. poster
5.9

Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.

Billy Blazes, Esq.

1919

Film credits

1910s · 40 titles

Bumping Into Broadway poster
6.9

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

Bumping Into Broadway

1919

Billy Blazes, Esq. poster
5.9

Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.

Billy Blazes, Esq.

1919

Luke Joins the Navy poster
5.0

The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.

Luke Joins the Navy

1916

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients poster
NR

Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle poster
NR

Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Lonesome Luke, Messenger poster
4.6

While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

1917

Birds of a Feather poster
NR

Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

Birds of a Feather

1917

Captain Kidd's Kids poster
6.2

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.

Captain Kidd's Kids

1919

Luke's Movie Muddle poster
4.9

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.

Luke's Movie Muddle

1916

From Laramie to London poster
NR

An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.

From Laramie to London

1917

Luke's Late Lunchers poster
NR

Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.

Luke's Late Lunchers

1916

Love, Laughs and Lather poster
NR

An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.

Love, Laughs and Lather

1917

Over the Fence poster
5.9

Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.

Over the Fence

1917

Luke, Patient Provider poster
NR

When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.

Luke, Patient Provider

1916

Clubs Are Trump poster
5.2

In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.

Clubs Are Trump

1917

Luke's Speedy Club Life poster
NR

Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.

Luke's Speedy Club Life

1916

Luke's Society Mixup poster
NR

Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.

Luke's Society Mixup

1916

Luke Locates the Loot poster
NR

As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.

Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Luke and the Mermaids poster
NR

Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.

Luke and the Mermaids

1916

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

Pinched poster
5.0

Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.

Pinched

1917

Luke and the Bang-Tails poster
NR

Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.

Luke and the Bang-Tails

1916

Luke's Lost Lamb poster
NR

A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

Luke Rides Roughshod poster
NR

Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.

Luke Rides Roughshod

1916

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

Luke Does the Midway poster
NR

Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.

Luke Does the Midway

1916

It's a Wild Life poster
5.0

Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.

It's a Wild Life

1918

A Sammy in Siberia poster
5.7

A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.

A Sammy in Siberia

1919

Count Your Change poster
6.7

Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.

Count Your Change

1919

Bashful poster
6.8

In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.

Bashful

1917

Luke, Rank Impersonator poster
NR

Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.

Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916

All Aboard poster
4.9

In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.

All Aboard

1917

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

We Never Sleep poster
NR

Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.

We Never Sleep

1917

Young Mr. Jazz poster
6.0

While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.

Young Mr. Jazz

1919

The Marathon poster
5.7

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

The Marathon

1919

Luke, Crystal Gazer poster
NR

Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.

Luke, Crystal Gazer

1916

Rainbow Island poster
5.0

After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.

Rainbow Island

1917

Pipe the Whiskers poster
5.0

Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.

Pipe the Whiskers

1918

No artwork available
NR

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

The Tip

1918

Behind the camera

Safety Last! poster
7.7

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Safety Last!

1923

Girl Shy poster
6.9

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.

Girl Shy

1924

The Freshman poster
7.0

An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.

The Freshman

1925

They Never Come Back poster
6.3

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

They Never Come Back

1932

Queen High poster
6.5

The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.

Queen High

1930

A Scream in the Night poster
5.0

A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.

A Scream in the Night

1935

It Can Be Done poster
9.0

Jerry Willard, a clerk in a publishing house who is possessed of a massive inferiority complex, is fired from his job and, on the way out of the office, is mistaken for the boss, Watson, by Anne Rogers, the daughter of an author.

It Can Be Done

1929

Grandma's Boy poster
6.4

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

Grandma's Boy

1922

General Spanky poster
5.8

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.

General Spanky

1936

The Night Bird poster
7.0

A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.

The Night Bird

1928

The Perfect Clown poster
7.5

A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.

The Perfect Clown

1925

Warming Up poster
9.0

Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.

Warming Up

1928

A Sailor-Made Man poster
6.4

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

A Sailor-Made Man

1921

The Savage poster
9.0

Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...

The Savage

1926

Now or Never poster
6.2

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Now or Never

1921

That's My Daddy poster
9.0

A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.

That's My Daddy

1927

Dr. Jack poster
6.8

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.

Dr. Jack

1922

The Big Race poster
9.0

Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.

The Big Race

1934

Among Those Present poster
6.0

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

Among Those Present

1921

Fast and Loose poster
5.3

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Fast and Loose

1930

Why Worry? poster
6.5

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Why Worry?

1923

Secrets of Chinatown poster
5.3

Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.

Secrets of Chinatown

1935

Seven Keys to Baldpate poster
7.0

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1925

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 poster
NR

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shorts produced by the Hal Roach Studios: Anniversary Trouble (1935) to Arbor Day (1936)—with each short newly scanned and restored from the original Hal Roach 35mm film elements.

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

2022

Subway Express poster
10.0

Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.

Subway Express

1931

The Quarterback poster
6.5

Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.

The Quarterback

1926

Too Many Crooks poster
10.0

Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

Too Many Crooks

1927

The Moth poster
NR

Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous old man who has the hots for her, hires a private detective to spy on her. He tails her to a train headed for New Orleans, but she catches on to him. She befriends a young woman aboard the train and they both give the private eye the slip. What Diane doesn't know, however, is that that her newfound friend is actually a notorious criminal known as The Moth, and she has her own reasons for helping Diane escape--she, too, is being tailed by a detective, who's after a cache of jewels she's stolen.

The Moth

1934

Discarded Lovers poster
4.9

In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.

Discarded Lovers

1932

All Lit Up poster
7.5

Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.

All Lit Up

1920

Arbor Day poster
6.2

Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

Arbor Day

1936

Hot Water poster
6.8

Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!

Hot Water

1924

The Night Rider poster
8.0

Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage from the Rogers mine to the Rogers house used by the Night Rider and also a note written by the Night Rider to his henchmen. Practicing his hand writing, he has a plan to trap him.

The Night Rider

1932

The Lunatic at Large poster
9.0

Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger for financial reasons. Only when the men in the white coats put the collar on him does Sam realize that the "millionaire" was actually an escaped mental patient.

The Lunatic at Large

1927

Rainbow Man poster
10.0

The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.

Rainbow Man

1929

No artwork available
10.0

Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!

Lost In The Legion

1934

Mail and Female poster
6.9

The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in reaction to not being invited to one of the girl's parties.

Mail and Female

1937

Never Weaken poster
6.9

A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suicide.

Never Weaken

1921

The Pinch Singer poster
7.7

Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.

The Pinch Singer

1936

Sailor's Holiday poster
6.1

Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.

Sailor's Holiday

1929