Lloyd Hamilton

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers. (imdb)

Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely everything goes wrong. (imdb)

Egbert Eggleston is a correspondence-school private detective. A gang of crooks rob some local homes and Edbert follows them into the big city and on into Chinatown. To keep from being detected he poses as a Buddah statue, and the incense puts him to sleep. And dreams he is a fairy queen. (imdb)

Charlie has just been notified that he has secured the job of floorwalker at a large new department store. Fortified with confidence he visits the home of Virginia, daughter of the store owner, and proposes marriage. The father says "No!." It doesn't help Charlie's cause any that he breaks the bottle on the owners head at the store christening. Charlie gets put in charge of the one-hour bargain sale. He lives to regret it. (imdb)

Lloyd gets to Grace's house just in time to hear her father say he is taking her away on a trip to Europe. Graces asks Lloyd to meet her at the pier to say goodbye. But Lloyd catches the wrong bus to the pier and, before he knows it, has signed up with the U. S. Navy for a four year tour-of-duty. From there it is slapstick and sight gags. (imdb)

A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots. (imdb)

Ham and Bud, working as mechanics, wreak havoc at a new car dealership, almost wrecking a big sale. (imdb)

Ham fears he's accidentally killed his landlady, so he and Bud go on the run, disguised as an explorer and a cannibal. (imdb)

Ham and Bud, while trying to evade a policeman, become cooks in a pancake house. (imdb)

Ham and Bud try to catch a counterfeiter. (imdb)

A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.

This two-reel Lloyd Hamilton comedy. Set in the bucolic countryside, the opening sequence introduces Ham and his girlfriend Babe London as "the hired man and his three acres of love.". Ham encounters an attractive, prosperous-looking young lady who is having car trouble. After gallantly fixing her flat tire and when he realizes that the young lady has left her purse behind with her address inside he sets out to return it, no doubt hoping for a reward, either monetary or romantic. (imdb)

Although his parents have warned him to stay away from the movies, our hero winds up acting in a costume picture, doubling for comedian Lloyd Hamilton. (imdb)

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best, gag-filled 20s comedy style. (imdb)

Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy". (imdb)

In this one, we are introduced to a pretentious and uppity family who we just KNOW will be brought down to size later in the short. Then we cut to Lloyd Hamilton, stumbling along, and finding a job advertisement for an electrician's helper. He applies for the job (literally dangling over the business!), and from there on out there is solid physical comedy of all kinds. (imdb)

This is a better than average Hamilton film thanks to the presence of a bratty kid who makes Lloyd's life miserable. It seems that Lloyd was hired as a combination chauffeur, butler, cook, etc. and isn't particularly adept at any of these tasks. however, to make things worse, there is a bratty kid in the home who does his best to ruin everything. (imdb)

Rivals go at it as cab drivers, romancers of the same girl and football teams. (imdb)

This is a Lloyd Hamilton classic. Gangster leader Nick the Sheik (Hamilton) is released from jail and manages to run into "collector of rare coins" Vernon Snodgrass (also Hamilton), who looks exactly like him. With the cops after Nick AND Nick's old girlfriend wanting to get the romance cooking, you can imagine the confusion that ensues. The dual role really allows Hamilton to shine, and this master physical comedian steals the show. (imdb)

A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman. (imdb)

A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside. They use that money to buy a car, and then set up their own taxi company. The competition is fierce, and their clumsiness creates many problems. They even turn to transvestism and the kidnapping of passengers to boost their business.

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

"Midnight at the Old Mill" has some nice "Guignol" touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.

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.

A man tired of his wife's mother and brother living in their house tries to teach his lazy brother-in-law a lesson. However, this prank and his attempt to skip work to attend the championship fight both backfire on him in comedic ways.

Ham and Bud rescue a lady on a runaway horse, and Ham falls in love with her.

Ham & Bud fight over the ladies.

Ham and Bud get jobs as cooks. They flirt with Bombino Souptureeno, and incur the wrath of her boyfriend, Tony Slambango, and his gang.

It is Sunday in Cobweb Corners. The ring of hammer in our hero's blacksmith shop is silent. The melody of a hymn steals out of the village church. The village belle is flirting with the simple-hearted smith. It is Monday, and the village belle is plunged in sorrow. Hiram Hardheart demands her hand in marriage. He will foreclose the mortgage. Enter the smith. Exit the villain. Fate opens the way to pay off the mortgage. The smith challenges One Punch Murph.

Bathtub movers on the job.

A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse. Originally a 5-reel feature (50min), now only 2 reel edit exists.

Lloyd Hamilton goes fishing.

Baker John Doe develops a hole-less doughnut, but rival Henry Mudguard fears the success of his invention and desperately attempts to steal the secret.

Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.

Marge Clancy leaves her small town and boyfriend Joe behind to strike it big in Hollywood. The only work she can get is stunt doubling. Joe goes after her and causes many messes in the studio.

Needy Ham Hamilton is mistaken for a dog show judge and he takes advantage of the situation for material gain.

Lloyd stows away on a ship to be near his girlfriend.

Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn’t the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.

Billy Bevan comedy short involving warring fathers-in-law, Lloyd Hamilton in small role.

A burlesque on the life of a sailor at sea.

A shabby troupe of vaudeville performers put on a show in a hick town theatre, where stage hands Ham & Bud incompetently miss cues, foul up props and ruin several acts on stage.

Stanley Blystone is a jealous man. His wife, Addie McPhail, had been pursued around Europe by Russian Duke Mitchell Lewis, until she had lied and told him she was married. Now Blystone is worried that she will prefer him to Blystone. After he stalks off, she asks plumber Lloyd Hamilton to pretend to be her husband, so she won't have to explain his absence.

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.