Acting
William Hauber
Born — Died
1891-05-19 — 1929-07-17
Place of birth
Brownsville, Minnesota, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
6.2A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
5.5A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz
1925
5.4A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
Mabel's Strange Predicament
1914
5.7Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
6.4Comedy on the golf links.
Golf
1922
5.8A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
Film credits
1920s · 16 titles
5.5A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz
1925
6.4Comedy on the golf links.
Golf
1922
4.9Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
The Suitor
1920
6.7Larry acts as a fearless hunter who claims he is completely unfazed by small creatures like rabbits, canaries, and field mice. He remains entirely unafraid when dealing with the dozens of wives belonging to a Sultan. True panic sets in—and his bravado vanishes—when a half-dozen lions are suddenly let loose inside a conservatory, leading to signature slapstick acrobatics and frantic chase sequences.
The Sportsman
1921
6.4The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Lightning Love
1923
7.0A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
The Show
1922
4.7Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
The Bakery
1921
5.6Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!
The Fly-Cop
1920
5.5A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
A Pair of Kings
1922
6.7The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
The Rent Collector
1921
6.8A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
The Bell Hop
1921
5.7Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Kid Speed
1924
6.5The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
The Midnight Taxi
1928
6.3Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
The Barnyard
1923
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Stage Hand
1920
6.8Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
School Days
1920
1910s · 44 titles
6.2A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
5.4A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
Mabel's Strange Predicament
1914
5.7Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
5.8A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
5.2In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Tango Tangles
1914
5.1A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
5.6A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913
5.6Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Those Love Pangs
1914
4.4Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Won in a Closet
1914
5.1Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
A Thief Catcher
1914
5.2Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Mabel's Blunder
1914
5.2This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Cruel, Cruel Love
1914
5.3Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Fatty Joins the Force
1913
5.3A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
His Favorite Pastime
1914
5.5Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
A Noise from the Deep
1913
5.9Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
His New Profession
1914
6.0This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Peeping Pete
1913
5.3When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
A Flirt's Mistake
1914
5.7Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914
5.8Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915
5.0A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
Her Friend the Bandit
1914
Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Rastus and the Game Cock
1913
A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.
Their Fatal Bumping
1914
No synopsis available yet.
He Loved the Ladies
1914
4.7A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
Love, Loot and Crash
1915
6.0An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing and compelled to return to the station.
The Gangsters
1913
6.0Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
Fatty's Day Off
1913
5.0Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
A Bird's a Bird
1915
5.1Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.
His Bitter Pill
1916
5.5The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
A Film Johnnie
1914
7.0Larry Semon goes out west.
Well, I'll Be
1919
5.8Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.
Scamps and Scandals
1919
4.5Two groundskeepers compete for the attention of a pretty park visitor. When the woman’s daughter goes missing, the two set out to rescue her.
Love and Rubbish
1913
6.0Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
His Musical Career
1914
4.5Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
The Gusher
1913
5.0The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
The Water Dog
1914
7.0Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.
His Home Sweet Home
1919
5.0Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
A Strong Revenge
1913
5.5Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
A Bandit
1913
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
A Lucky Leap
1915
6.9Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Passing the Buck
1919
6.5Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.
Dull Care
1919
Fatty's Finish is a 1914 comedy short.
Fatty's Finish
1914
NRWhen a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
The Riot
1913
