Gilbert Pratt

Directing

Gilbert Pratt

Born — Died

1892-02-15 — 1954-12-10

Place of birth

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Film credits

1910s · 11 titles

Behind the camera

The Farmer's Daughter poster
10.0

The Farmer's Daughter is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson.

The Farmer's Daughter

1928

Fight Night poster
6.0

While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.

Fight Night

1926

No artwork available
8.0

At the Second Annual Athletic Meet, "The Fat Men's Race" is open to anybody ~ under a ton and a half... The entries are 'Hippo' (Loback) and 'Rhino' (Parrott) who get on the scales to be weighed. Rhino is assisted by extra padding and a third leg supplied by Wallace Howe on the scales in an attempt to boost his weight. The judge spots his attempts to cheat and orders Rhino to carry extra weight in order to qualify for the race so he is stuffed with filled sacks.

Whispering Lions

1925

Bees in His Bonnet poster
NR

Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.

Bees in His Bonnet

1918

The Lamb poster
NR

The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.

The Lamb

1918

Mud and Sand poster
6.1

Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years later, he is living in Madrid as a national hero , when he becomes involved with Filet de Sol, and his lover finds out, he must fight the most deadliest in Spain, in the last bull fight of the season.

Mud and Sand

1922

Move On poster
4.7

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

Move On

1917

Two Scrambled poster
NR

Roomers in a boarding house break the rules and are caught cooking if their room. A frantic run-in with the landlady ensues.

Two Scrambled

1918

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Three Cheers

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Dynamite poster
6.0

Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.

Dynamite

1920

The Non-Stop Kid poster
5.1

Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.

The Non-Stop Kid

1918

Campus Romeos poster
8.0

A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt.

Campus Romeos

1927

The Big Killing poster
7.0

The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.

The Big Killing

1928

No artwork available
8.0

Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

High & Dry

1921

Court Plaster poster
8.0

Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.

Court Plaster

1924

Why Pick on Me? poster
5.0

A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.

Why Pick on Me?

1918

Going! Going! Gone! poster
5.5

Lloyd and Pollard help a young girl out of the water but they are then chased by a shrew. On a bicycle built for two, Lloyd lazes about on the back while Pollard sweats from all of his effort. Thieves escape by car but it breaks down. Lloyd and Pollard help them start up again but the thieves steal the tandem bicycle, leaving the car in the hands of the heros.

Going! Going! Gone!

1919

A Harem Knight poster
8.0

A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.

A Harem Knight

1926

Just Married poster
7.0

After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

Just Married

1928

Timothy's Quest poster
4.7

Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).

Timothy's Quest

1936

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

Sic 'Em, Towser poster
NR

At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.

Sic 'Em, Towser

1918

Keep Smiling poster
7.0

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate.

Keep Smiling

1925

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

No artwork available
8.0

"Ton of Fun" comedy short.

How High Is Up?

1927

No artwork available
10.0

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

1926

No artwork available
10.0

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

1926

The City Slicker poster
5.2

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

The City Slicker

1918

Clancy's Kosher Wedding poster
9.0

Clancy's Kosher Wedding is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.

Clancy's Kosher Wedding

1927

Sealskins poster
6.7

In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.

Sealskins

1932

Boys Will Be Girls poster
7.3

Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.

Boys Will Be Girls

1938

No artwork available
7.0

This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar.

Old Tin Sides

1927

The Egg poster
6.6

Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.

The Egg

1922

No artwork available
10.0

Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy!

The Heavy Parade

1926

No artwork available
10.0

A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.

Elmer and Elsie

1934

Are Parents Pickles? poster
9.0

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

Are Parents Pickles?

1925

Beat It poster
NR

Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.

Beat It

1918

No artwork available
NR

Al attempts to sneak inside the studio to keep a date with an actress. He finally exchanges places with a dummy and lands within the walls of the studio, finds the girl and is promptly thrown out when he spoils several scenes and nearly causes a riot.

A Studio Rube

1922

Hit Him Again poster
NR

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Hit Him Again

1918

Are Crooks Dishonest? poster
5.6

Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.

Are Crooks Dishonest?

1918