
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
7.0Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location. But Bill changes plans and Hanley catches up with him and this leads to the showdown.
Law of the North
1932
NRLuke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
NRLuke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
Birds of a Feather
1917
10.0The Farmer's Daughter is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson.
The Farmer's Daughter
1928
6.0While 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
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
Film credits
1910s · 11 titles
NRLuke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917
NRLuke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
Birds of a Feather
1917
NRAn Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917
NRLonesome Luke's Honeymoon is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917
5.2In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
Clubs Are Trump
1917
NRAn Englishman and his valet tour the American West.
From Laramie to London
1917
4.6While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917
NRLonesome Luke, Plumber is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917
10.0Nell Saunders is the daughter of an innkeeper in a college town. She is loved by Glen Dale, the quarterback of the college team, and also Pierson, the fullback.
College Days
1915
NRLuke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
We Never Sleep
1917
NRStop! Luke! Listen! is a 1917 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917
Behind the camera
10.0The Farmer's Daughter is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson.
The Farmer's Daughter
1928
6.0While 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
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
NRBees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
NRThe Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.
The Lamb
1918
6.1Rhubarb 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
4.7Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
Move On
1917
NRRoomers 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 synopsis available yet.
Three Cheers
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6.0Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.
Dynamite
1920
5.1Bebe 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
8.0A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt.
Campus Romeos
1927
7.0The 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
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.
High & Dry
1921
8.0Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
Court Plaster
1924
5.0A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.
Why Pick on Me?
1918
5.5Lloyd 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
8.0A 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
7.0After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Just Married
1928
4.7Timothy (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
5.0Harold 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
NRAt 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
7.0The 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
5.0Harold'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
"Ton of Fun" comedy short.
How High Is Up?
1927
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
1926
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
1926
5.2Our 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
9.0Clancy's Kosher Wedding is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.
Clancy's Kosher Wedding
1927
6.7In 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
7.3Matronly 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
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
6.6Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
The Egg
1922
Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy!
The Heavy Parade
1926
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.
Elmer and Elsie
1934
9.0James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.
Are Parents Pickles?
1925
NRHarold 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
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
NRA short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Hit Him Again
1918
5.6Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918
