Harry McCoy

Harry McCoy

Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor), 2 (Director), 60 (Writer)

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    Run, Girl, Run
    Run, Girl, Run (1928) - Short Film
    A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills. (imdb)
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    The Road to Hollywood
    Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography. (imdb)
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    Three\
    Langdon's directorial debut, THREE'S A CROWD (1927), didn't just dabble in pathos, it plunged its hapless hero into a netherworld of loneliness worthy of Samuel Beckett (a self-avowed Langdon fan). Harry stars as a slum-dweller who invites a freezing woman (Gladys McConnell), pregnant with another man's child, into his home. Nursing mother and child back to health, he achieves his dream of having a family... or so he hopes. (Amazon.com)
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    Ghost Parade
    Ghost Parade (1931) - Short Film
    A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor. (imdb)
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    The Bees\
    The Bees' Buzz (1929) - Short Film
    Andy and Harry get into trouble while trying to stop the marriage of Andy's daughter. (imdb)
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    I Surrender Dear
    A girl, in love with the radio voice of Bing Crosby, is kissed by him in mistake for his sister; she won't believe it's him, and in a slapstick search through hotel corridors for his new flame, Bing runs afoul of a married woman with jealous husband. (imdb)
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    Sing, Bing, Sing
    After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again. (imdb)
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    Catalina, Here I Come
    Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. (imdb)
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    The Beach Club
    The Beach Club (1928) - Short Film
    In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club. (imdb)
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    Taxi Dolls
    Taxi Dolls (1929) - Short Film
    "Taxi Dolls" is about robots that are incredibly lifelike. One wanders off to a taxi and the inventor retrieves it. Due to a mix-up a real woman is mistaken for one of these weird automatons and hilarity does NOT ensue. (imdb)
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    Broke in China
    Broke in China (1927) - Short Film
    Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. (imdb)
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    A Dozen Socks
    A Dozen Socks (1927) - Short Film
    A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey. (imdb)
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    The Fainting Lover
    This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. (imdb)
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    Movie-Town
    Movie-Town (1931) - Short Film
    In this fictional film with fictional characters, Baron Gonzola (Luis Alberni)is trying to sell Mack Sennett (Mack Sennett) and William Beaudine (William Beaudine)on the idea of starring his new prodigy, Marge (Marjorie Beebe) in one of their films. Set around a swimming pool in which Sennett's bathing beauties take a back seat to diving-and-swimming champion of the time, and then moves to a nightclub set featuring George Olsen) and his orchestra.
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    Crazy to Act
    Crazy to Act (1927) - Short Film
    Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set. (imdb)
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    Black & White & Red All Over
    In this contemporary neorealist drama, six young African-American men gather in an apartment after the funeral of a friend. Trying to escape from the afternoon's somber mood, they talk, watch TV, listen to music, crack jokes, smoke marijuana, and try to avoid the social, political, and emotional issues behind the black-on-black crime devastating their community. However, these issues still present themselves, whether or not they are invited into the proceedings. (New York Times)
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    The Golf Nut
    The Golf Nut (1927) - Short Film
    Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. (imdb)
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    Dream House
    Dream House (1932) - Short Film
    A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby.
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    Counsel on De Fence
    New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband. (imdb)
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    Billboard Girl
    Billboard Girl (1932) - Short Film
    Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates. (imdb)
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    Midnight Daddies
    A man wins a dance contest at a cabaret, but his wife hears it on the radio and decides to get back at him.
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    Bulls and Bears
    Bulls and Bears (1930) - Short Film
    Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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    Half Holiday
    Andy Clyde trying to wear the pants in the family.
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    False Impressions
    Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
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    The Quack Doctor
    In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
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    His Unlucky Night
    Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends.
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    Smith\
    13th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. The Smiths at the candy shop.
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    Smith\
    Smith's Cook (1927) - Short Film
    The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everything goes wrong.
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    Smith\
    Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.
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    Smith\
    Smith's Pony (1927) - Short Film
    Jimmy and Mabel Smith and their infant daughter Bubbles are visiting San Francisco. After getting off the boat, their first stop is a Chinatown restaurant, where they and by association their fellow restaurant customers get into a few misadventures with the noodle dishes. The next stop is the horse show, where they get into more hijinx, first because of their dog Cap who is the size of a horse.
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    The Jolly Jilter
    Ben Turpin, now engaged to a gold digger, goes to visit his former lover, a dancing girl at the theater. The dancing girl doesn't want to let Ben go and makes many empty threats. Eventually she follows Ben home and he is also visited be his fiancée and her mother.
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    Midnight Blunders
    The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
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    The Girl in the Tonneau
    When the story begins, Dad insists that his daughter not marry some reporter but instead marry Luis. The problem is that Luis is a playboy and he's got Dad fooled. But when the three of them go on a hunting trip, the lady Luis jilted shows up and things get crazy. And, after this 'lady' burns up all of their clothes, Dad and his daughter are forced to try to drive home in the PJs...when they are stopped by a cop.
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    Monkey Business in Africa
    When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit.
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    Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ.
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    One More Chance
    One More Chance (1931) - Short Film
    Bing Bangs (Crosby) is a salesman for "Magic" washing machines and his demonstration of the machine at the beginning of the film results in disaster. Crosby later gains a transfer from Hoboken to California and he drives his wife Ethel and her Uncle Joe (who dislikes Bing) in an open car on the journey having many adventures en route.
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    A Blonde\
    Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
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    Clancy at the Bat
    The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?
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    Fat Wives for Thin
    The short is a domestic comedy starring Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud. It begins with the husband berating his wife for being fat. Later, you learn that the husband is actually running around with a married woman and her husband is extremely jealous...and violent. What happens next? Well, surprisingly, the 'fat' wife comes to the rescue!
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    Honeymoon Zeppelin
    Nick Stuart & Marjorie Beebe in "romantic" air-scapades that ends up in Zeppelin.
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    He Trumped Her Ace
    Marjorie Beebe and pals at a card party.
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    The Boudoir Butler
    When the story begins, Andy's wife has convinced him to join her in a ruse. It seems that a man is looking for widows to invest in his company...which SHOULD have alerted her that the guy was up to no good. But instead, she convinces her husband to pretend to be the butler and help her entertain the guy.
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    Sleepless Hollow
    Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife (Anita Garvin) home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
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    One Too Many
    One Too Many (1934) - Short Film
    Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
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    Honeymoon Bridge
    His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
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    The All-American Kickback
    Harry Gribbon is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Geneva Mitchell. A jealous rival tries sabotaging Harry.
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    Shopping with Wifie
    Andy Clyde and his buddy are planning on getting an early start fishing. However, when Andy's adoring wife gets involved, though she says she wants him to go, she sure prevents him from going fishing.
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    Hold \
    A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he must be the bandit--right?
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    Courting Trouble
    When the story begins, Charlie (Charlie Murray) is fighting with his overbearing mother-in-law. The old battleaxe lives with Charlie and his wife and she orders Charlie about as if she's his wife. Charlie wants to go out to the lodge meeting with his pals...and the mother-in-law insists he stay home. An argument (which is way overdone) results but Charlie is able to get away thanks to a friend who pretends to be a cop.
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    The Flirty Sleepwalker
    A Mack Sennett Talking Picture comedy about a sleepwalker cause embarrassing situations.
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    Hot Paprika
    Hot Paprika (1935) - Short Film
    Andy puts down a revolution on the island of Paprika.
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    The Giddy Age
    The Giddy Age (1932) - Short Film
    A quirky short about love and liars.
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    Listening In
    Listening In (1932) - Short Film
    Arthur Stone gets into trouble due to a crossed phone line in this Mack Sennett comedy.
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    The Great Pie Mystery
    A master criminologist examines clues which may lead him to a missing diamond necklace, or to whoever is throwing pies. A clue leads to a subplot about Harry Gribbon selling eggs and getting married at shotgun.
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    Hatta Marri
    Hatta Marri (1932) - Short Film
    Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.
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    Poker Widows
    Poker Widows (1931) - Short Film
    Dance instructor Arthur Stone's wife, Gertrude Astor, is a jealous woman. Patsy O'Leary's husband, Wade Boteler, is a jealous man. Boteler goes out to play poker every night, so Miss O'Leary phones Stone for a private dance lesson at her apartment. When there's a knock at the door, Stone goes out the window and enters an apartment, where Boteler is playing poker.
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    Won by a Neck
    Won by a Neck (1930) - Short Film
    Ed Brady has killed about a dozen of the police department's detective squad, so they have promoted a batch to that rank and sent Lloyd Hamilton to capture Brady.
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    The Cannonball
    The Cannonball (1931) - Short Film
    Andy fixes his rocket invention to a locomotive in order to win a race with a bus.
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    The Albany Branch
    Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.
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    A Hollywood Theme Song
    A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
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