| Harry Langdon | |
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| Born | June 15, 1884 Council Bluffs, Iowa |
| Died | December 22, 1944 (aged 60) Los Angeles, California |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Francis Mensolf (1903 - 1929) Helen Walton (1929 - 1932) Mabel Sheldon (1934 - 1944) |
Harry L. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Council Bluffs is a city in and the County seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Langdon (June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1944) was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films (where he had his greatest fame), and talkies. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience primarily by making them laugh Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s [1]
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Life and career
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he began working in vaudeville then joined Vitagraph Movie Studios. Council Bluffs is a city in and the County seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s American Vitagraph was a United States Movie studio, founded by J He eventually went over to Keystone Studios where he became a major star. Keystone Studios was an early Movie studio founded in Edendale California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by At the height of his film career he was considered one of the four best comics of the silent film era. His screen character was that of a wide-eyed, childlike man with an innocent's understanding of the world and the people in it. He was a first-class pantomimist.
Most of Langdon's 1920s work was produced at the famous Mack Sennett studio. Mack Sennett ( January 17, 1880 &ndash November 5, 1960) was an Academy Award -winning director and was known as the innovator His screen character was so unique, and his antics so different from the broad Sennett slapstick, that he soon had a following. Success led him into feature films, directed by Arthur Ripley and Frank Capra. Frank Russell Capra ( May 18, 1897 &ndash September 3, 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American Film When Langdon had such good directors guiding him, he produced work that rivaled Charlie Chaplin's, Harold Lloyd's, and Buster Keaton's. Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr ( April 20, 1893 &ndash March 8, 1971) was an American Film actor and producer Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton ( October 4 1895 &ndash February 1 1966) was an Academy Award -winning American His best films were The Strong Man (1926) and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926). The Strong Man ( 1926) is an American Comedy Silent film starring Harry Langdon and directed by Frank Capra. Events August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film Don Juan. Tramp Tramp Tramp ( 1926) is an American Comedy Silent film directed by Harry Edwards After his initial success, Langdon took creative control of his films and career, but his appeal faded soon afterward. His last starring silent feature was made in 1928; he wouldn't star in another feature until 1940. Capra later claimed that Langdon's decline stemmed from the fact that, unlike the other great silent comics, he never fully understood what made his own film character successful. [2]
Harry Langdon's babyish character didn't adapt well to sound films; as producer Hal Roach remarked, "he was not so funny articulate. Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr ( January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and " But Langdon was a big enough name to command leads in short subjects for Educational Pictures and Columbia Pictures. For the current and unrelated company of the same name see Educational Pictures (image archive }} Columbia Pictures Industries Inc is an American Film production and distribution company In 1938 he adopted a Caspar Milquetoast-type, henpecked-husband character that served him well, He also contributed to comedy scripts as a writer, notably for Laurel and Hardy. Caspar Milquetoast was a Comic strip character created by Harold Webster in 1924 for his comic strip The Timid Soul, published in the Laurel and Hardy were the popular American -based comedy team of thin British-born Stan Laurel (1890-1965 and heavy American-born Oliver Hardy (1892-1957 Langdon continued to work steadily in low-budget features and shorts, always playing mild-mannered goofs, into the 1940s. As a point of interest, when Hal Roach was in a contract dispute with Stan Laurel, one-half of the great Laurel and Hardy comedic pair, the studio paired Langdon with Oliver Hardy in a 1939 film titled Zenobia. Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr ( January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 &ndash February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor writer Laurel and Hardy were the popular American -based comedy team of thin British-born Stan Laurel (1890-1965 and heavy American-born Oliver Hardy (1892-1957 Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 &ndash August 7, 1957) was an American comic Actor Zenobia (also known as Elephants Never Forget ( UK) and It's Spring Again) is a 1939 Comedy film starring [3]
Harry Langdon kept busy right up until his death in 1944 (in Los Angeles, from a cerebral hemorrhage). A cerebral hemorrhage (or intracerebral hemorrhage, ICH) is a subtype of Intracranial hemorrhage that occurs within the Brain tissue itself He was interred in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery at 1341 GlenwoodRoad in Glendale California was established in 1884. Glendale ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the height of his career, Langdon was making $7,500 per week, a fortune for the times. Upon his death, The New York Times wrote, "His whole appeal was a consummate ability to look inexpressibly forlorn when confronted with manifold misfortunes--usually of the domestic type. He was what was known as 'dead-pan'. . . the feeble smile and owlish blink which had become his stock-in-trade caught on in a big way, and he skyrocketed to fame and fortune. . . "[4]
In 1997, his hometown of Council Bluffs celebrated "Harry Langdon Day" and in 1999 named Harry Langdon Boulevard in his honor. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Harry Langdon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that
Selected filmography
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
- The Strong Man (1926)
- Long Pants (1927)
- His First Flame (1927)
- Three's a Crowd (1927)
- The Chaser (1928)
- Heart Trouble (1928)
See also
References
- ^ Harry Langdon at the Internet Movie Database. Tramp Tramp Tramp ( 1926) is an American Comedy Silent film directed by Harry Edwards The Strong Man ( 1926) is an American Comedy Silent film starring Harry Langdon and directed by Frank Capra. Long Pants (AKA Johnny Newcomer) ( 1927) is a American Comedy Silent film starring Harry Langdon and His First Flame ( 1927) is a American Comedy Silent film starring Harry Langdon and directed by Harry Edwards " Heart Trouble " was the third official release by the Detroit Soul group The Parliaments. This is a list of United States Comedy films. It is separated into two categories Short films and Feature films Any film over 40 minutes
- ^ Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers) 689.
- ^ Katz, Ephraim. Ibid.
- ^ The New York Times, Obituary, December 23, 1944. Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
External links
- Harry Langdon at the Internet Movie Database.
- Harry Langdon at Allmovie. Allmovie (previously All Movie Guide) is a commercial database of information about Movie stars movies and television shows.
- Harry Langdon at Film Reference.
- Harry Langdon at The Harry Langdon Society (biography and filmography).
- Harry Langdon at Find A Grave. Find A Grave is a Website allowing its users to access maintain and expand an online Database of Burial records
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