Noah Young

Acting

Noah Young

Born 1887-01-31 · Cañon City, Colorado, USA

Noah Young Jr. joined the Hal Roach studios as an actor, mainly playing comic villains. He appeared in several Laurel and Hardy comedies but was more notable as a foil for Harold Lloyd, whom he supported in over 50 films.

Acting credits

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

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

Hustling for Health poster
5.2

Stan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where the wife is having a suffragette meeting. None too pleased they cause mayhem and then the neighbours are brought into it as Stan cleans up the backyard by throwing all the rubbish into their award winning garden.

Hustling for Health

1919

Thundering Landlords poster
10.0

Thundering Landlords is a 1925 short

Thundering Landlords

1925

Newly Rich poster
4.3

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.

Newly Rich

1931

The Battle of the Century poster
6.9

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

The Battle of the Century

1927

Crack Your Heels poster
9.0

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Crack Your Heels

1919

A Thief in the Dark poster
7.0

Ernest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest learns that his colleagues are burgling homes in districts they pass through. Ernest sets about to expose Xeno and his cohorts.

A Thief in the Dark

1928

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NR

Charley looks for a job position but is not anxious to find one. He ends up getting into all sorts of trouble at a masquerade ball.

Position Wanted

1924

Soft Money poster
8.0

Soft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.

Soft Money

1919

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

Sharp Shooters poster
7.0

A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.

Sharp Shooters

1928

Ask Father poster
6.5

Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.

Ask Father

1919

Don Mike poster
7.0

Following the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers, hero Don Miguel Arguella is double-crossed by the group leader who files a claim on his land and makes a move towards his girlfriend. Sadly, this is a lost film.

Don Mike

1927

Looking for Sally poster
6.5

Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.

Looking for Sally

1925

Sugar Daddies poster
6.0

After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.

Sugar Daddies

1927

No artwork available
NR

James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.

No Pets

1923

Gun Gospel poster
10.0

From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and ranches. Wells Fargo organizes an express service that will insure the shipments and ensure a guaranteed delivery. Granger Hume is hired to help Wells-Fargo deliver on their promise.

Gun Gospel

1927

There Goes the Bride poster
10.0

What bridegroom could be romantic with a swollen jaw and a yelling tooth? His young bride thinks that's no excuse!

There Goes the Bride

1925

Swat the Crook poster
10.0

The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.

Swat the Crook

1919

365 Days poster
8.0

A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.

365 Days

1922

Fresh Paint poster
6.0

A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.

Fresh Paint

1920

Do Detectives Think? poster
6.4

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

Do Detectives Think?

1927

Everything’s Rosie poster
6.0

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Everything’s Rosie

1931