
Directing
Harry Edwards
Born — Died
1887-10-11 — 1952-05-26
Place of birth
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Known for
Directing
Credits
44 titles
Harry Edwards was a Canadian born American film director and actor
Known for
8.0Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Remember When?
1925
2.0A slapstick comedy short with Lige Conley.
The Steeplechaser
1922
7.5Mortimer grabs an opportunity to take a truck driving job; Matthew intends to hang onto it.
Out Bound
1924
6.7Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
Boobs in the Woods
1940
7.0Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
South of the Boudoir
1940
10.0After the armistice of WW1, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for. He's wandering the fields of fictional Balkan state Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on. To his detriment, the unpopular king of Bomania bears a striking resemblance to him.
Soldier Man
1926
Film credits
1920s · 3 titles
7.0Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.
His Nibs
1921
8.0Planning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president of San Salvador, a country in which Dodd holds mining interests.
His Pajama Girl
1920
A wealthy father tries to discourage his daughter's taste for stories of the Mounted; her imagination conjures up the ideal lover as one who wears that red coat and whose slogan is "get your man." She arrives at her father's camp in the frozen North the victim of a frameup: her father had planned that his employees must discourage her in every manner possible. The idea is if she sees him she will be disillusioned. A few hunters spying the "wolves" shoot with intent to kill, and a real bear enters the hut and scatters the plotters. The scheme works well, even with all these inconveniences, until a genuine Mountie appears on the scene and administers punishment to the arch-villain and his dwarf-like henchman. As a result the girl's romantic imagination vindicates her beau ideal. The two lovers are last seen standing chest-deep in the snow.
Cold Feet
1922
Behind the camera
8.0Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Remember When?
1925
2.0A slapstick comedy short with Lige Conley.
The Steeplechaser
1922
7.5Mortimer grabs an opportunity to take a truck driving job; Matthew intends to hang onto it.
Out Bound
1924
6.7Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
Boobs in the Woods
1940
7.0Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
South of the Boudoir
1940
10.0After the armistice of WW1, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for. He's wandering the fields of fictional Balkan state Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on. To his detriment, the unpopular king of Bomania bears a striking resemblance to him.
Soldier Man
1926
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1 criminal on the "Ten Most Wanted" list.
Cleaning Up
1930
Moran and Mack decide to attend the races and end up winning a large sum on a horse named Mud Lark. They decide that to make even more money, they need a horse of their own. They buy a horse with a broken leg from a crooked gambler, but manage to con the gambler into buying back his own horse.
Hot Hoofs
1933
7.5A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
The Best Man
1928
7.5A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
The Best Man
1928
3.7While in a nightclub, Hugh doesn't recognize his wife, who has recently changed her hair color to blonde.
Wife Decoy
1945
4.2After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake.
Carry Harry
1942
4.2After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake.
Carry Harry
1942
5.9A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1926
5.8Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend...
Saturday Afternoon
1926
First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.
As the Crows Fly
1933
5.2A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
1933
5.5The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Matri-Phony
1942
9.0Gangsters pry incriminating evidence from Hugh through the use of a gun moll.
The Mayor's Husband
1945
Three klutzy moving men end up in a museum that may or may not be haunted - slapstick hijinks ensue.
Phoney Cronies
1942
10.0Leon Errol wants to retain his maid; complications ensue.
Maid Trouble
1946
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Cold Turkey
1940
Late silent installment in the "Handy Andy" series starring comedian Andy Clyde.
The Nightwatchman's Mistake
1929
10.0Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
Calling Hubby's Bluff
1929
In this Educational Pictures short, the boss' secretary is in love with the boss' son and they are planning on getting married. But before this, they plan on having the boss over for dinner to meet her mother. Unfortunately, earlier on that same day, the father and mother have a nasty altercation...not realizing who the other person is.
Leave It to Dad
1933
6.5Jonathan Bass (Tom Kennedy), an inventor working for the government, makes the mistake of his life. He moves next door to Shemp. Lazy, obtuse and obnoxious, Shemp plays the good neighbor by wrecking the Bass' garage, car and china... and somehow makes it look to Bass' wife (Christine McIntyre) that Jonathan is clumsily at fault. Bass' latest project is a new bomb for the Army, and it's only a matter of time before helpful Shemp turns up in the laboratory basement offering his assistance.
Where the Pest Begins
1945
Andy Clyde is in desperate need of a vacation, and it's not exactly helping the stress.
Feeling Rosy
1933
9.0El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
Defective Detectives
1944
8.0Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
Gold Digger of Weepah
1927
6.0The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
Some More of Samoa
1941
5.8Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to being a beat cop and Marcie works as a seamstress. One evening, she delivers a dress to a party; a Lothario asks the hostess to get Marcie to stay. Outside the same house, Harry the cop is investigating strange noises. Thieves, bombs, a wallet, a swimming pool, and misunderstandings figure in the luck of our foolish but winsome pair.
The Luck o' the Foolish
1924
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Ham and the Masked Marvel
1916
6.5The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
Three Little Twirps
1943
7.0Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.
Clunked on the Corner
1929
Moran and Mack become farmers.
The Farmers' Fatal Folly
1933
The stereotype in old movies and TV shows is that the man hates his mother-in-law. Well, in "Loose Relations" it doesn't follow this convention, as Andy Clyde is actually happy that his mother-in-law is coming to stay with them and he plans on fixing up a place for her to stay. In a funny scene, when he tells his neighbors, they offer his an axe and a gun!
Loose Relations
1933
9.0Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Motorboat Mamas
1928
9.0Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
The Girl from Nowhere
1928
7.2Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.
Boobs in the Wood
1925
9.0Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
His Bridal Fright
1940

