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Harry Edwards is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Canadien born on 11 october 1887 at Calgary (Canada)

Harry Edwards

Harry Edwards
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Birth name 1887
Nationality Canada
Birth 11 october 1887 at Calgary (Canada)
Death 26 may 1952 (at 64 years)

Harry Edwards (October 11, 1887 - May 26, 1952) was a Canadian-born American film director and actor. He worked in films from the 1910s to the 1950s.

Biography

He once worked for the now largely forgotten L-KO Kompany during the silent era. In his later years at Columbia Pictures, Edwards established a reputation as the studio's worst director. Both Vera Vague and the Three Stooges requested they not work with him.

He is best remembered for his collaboration with comedian Harry Langdon. He worked with Langdon in the 1920s in some of his best short films, and directed one of Langdon's best known films, the feature Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926). Langdon later became swell-headed with success and later dispensed with Edwards and Frank Capra, who also directed some of Langdon's most successful films, deciding he could direct himself. Langdon's decision proved to be a costly one as his career declined, though he later reconciled with Edwards and worked with him again in various short comedies in the 1930s and 1940s until Langdon's death in 1944.

Shortly after directing his first television production, Edwards died of carbon tetrachloride poisoning on May 26, 1952.

Usually with

Hugh McCollum
Hugh McCollum
(5 films)
Vernon Dent
Vernon Dent
(5 films)
Monte Collins
Monte Collins
(3 films)
Del Lord
Del Lord
(4 films)
Curly Howard
Curly Howard
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Harry Edwards (12 films)

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Actor

His Nibs
His Nibs (1921)

Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charles "Chic" Sale, Colleen Moore, Joseph J. Dowling, J.P. Lockney, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Harry Edwards
Roles First Villain
Rating63% 3.186723.186723.186723.186723.18672
The Slippery Elm Picture Palace screens the film He Fooled ’Em All as various rural characters watch. The owner, operator, and projectionist is "His Nibs". He tells the audience that he has cut the titles from the film but will explain the action. "The Boy" (Sale) leaves a small town in the film-within-the-film to get rich in the city, but he is swindled out of his money, his clothes are stolen, and he is forced to become a dishwasher to pay his rent.

Director

Three Little Twirps
Directed by Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Stanley Blystone, Chester Conklin, Bud Jamison
Rating70% 3.5278353.5278353.5278353.5278353.527835
The Stooges are poster hangers who manage to destroy one of the main posters when Moe pushed Curly into the poster just as their boss Herman (Stanley Blystone) comes by to check on them and they just got fired. The boys soon realize that their pay consists of tickets to the circus, but when Curly finds a huge roll of tickets, the trio start scalping them at discount price. After being caught by the circus owner (Herman as well) and the local sheriff (Bud Jamison), Herman decides to hire the Stooges as human targets for the spear-throwing "Sultan of Abudaba" (Duke York).
Matri-Phony
Directed by Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent, Monte Collins, Bobby Barber
Rating71% 3.565933.565933.565933.565933.56593
The Stooges live in "Ancient Erysipelas," (parody of Ancient Rome) where they run Ye Olde Pottery shop. The powerful Emperor Octopus Grabus (Vernon Dent) is in search for a new wife again, with his sights set on redheads. Lovely Diana (Marjorie Deanne), who has kindled Grabus' interest, hides out in the Stooges' shop. A palace guard catches onto the scheme and all are brought to Grabus which are condemned to be fed to the lions at the colosseum. The boys help Diana escape, while Moe and Larry convince Curly to dress up as Octopus's prospective bride. These two then destroy the glasses of the nearly-blind Grabus, who cannot see past his nose. The Stooges make a rapid escape by jumping out a palace windows, but end getting caught, upside-down, on the spears of two guards, even on the horn of a rhinoceros and are sent to the colosseum which they meet their executions.
Sappy Birthday, 17minutes
Directed by Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Andy Clyde, Matt McHugh, Olin Howland, Esther Howard, Vernon Dent, Bruce Bennett
Rating60% 3.0435553.0435553.0435553.0435553.043555
This script must be run from the command line
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts, 20minutes
Directed by Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Actors Andy Clyde, Shirley Temple, Bud Jamison, Fern Emmett, Florence Gill, Billy Engle
Rating57% 2.8993952.8993952.8993952.8993952.899395
Teacher Andy is fixated on both Dora who runs a bakery and her donuts that he has every morning on his way to teach school. He proposes using the musical talent of his students to perform on a radio show to advertise the bakery. Once on the air bickering mothers of the students fight and brawl with the manager leading listeners to believe the show is a comedy.
His First Flame, 48minutes
Directed by Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Ruth Hiatt, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Dot Farley
Rating58% 2.908232.908232.908232.908232.90823
The story tells of Harry Howells (Langdon), a recent college graduate who's madly in love with his sweetheart Ethel (Kingston) and hopes to marry her. His woman hating uncle, however, Fire chief Amos McCarthy (Dent), tells his nephew to avoid marriage because all women want is money.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, 1h2
Directed by Frank Capra, Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Harry Langdon, Alec B. Francis, Tom Murray, Brooks Benedict
Rating62% 3.144753.144753.144753.144753.14475
The film tells of Harry (Langdon) a ne'er-do-well who falls in love with Betty, a girl on a billboard (Crawford). Harry participates in a cross country foot race hoping to win prize money in hopes of marrying her.

Scriptwriter

Some More of Samoa
Directed by Del Lord
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Mary Ainslee, Symona Boniface, Louise Carver
Rating69% 3.4785053.4785053.4785053.4785053.478505
The 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 fictional 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 sister. The Stooges manage to escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
No Census, No Feeling
Directed by Del Lord
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent, Symona Boniface, Max Davidson
Roles Story
Rating78% 3.92053.92053.92053.92053.9205
The Stooges are caught sleeping in a closed awning situated over a store. A brief argument among the trio results in Curly casually tossing a pot over his shoulder, breaking several dishes. The shopkeeper (Max Davidson) becomes irate, calls the police and chases the Stooges for vandalizing his store, who quickly dash into a building’s revolving door. Upon exiting the building, the Stooges have clipboards in tow, having inadvertently landed jobs as census takers.