09-12-1889
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
68
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Birth
09-12-1889
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
68
Total Films
H. McCoy
Also Known As (male)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Birth
actor
68 Works
producer
1 Works
director
62 Works
writer
56 Works
other
0 Works
Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.Year:
1936
Woman Wanted
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.Year:
1935
Heads Up
Bored with his daily routine, Breckenridge Gamble accepts a secret mission from some oil magnates to deliver a message to President Losada of the South American Republic of Centralia. Upon his arrival, Gamble learns from Angela, the president's daughter, that her father has been imprisoned by Cortez, the leader of the revolutionaries. Gamble also is imprisoned but frees all the prisoners as well as himself by impersonating the prison comandante. After forming an army, Gamble delivers the message--a large money draft sufficient to pay the army and secure President Losada's government--and is rewarded with Angela's love.Year:
1925
Stick Around
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?Year:
1925
Put and Take
The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."Year:
1921
After the Dough
The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking one, they finally get another, and preparing to drink it they run afoul of a policeman.Year:
1921
High & Dry
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.Year:
1921
The Garage
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.Year:
1920
Taming the West
The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and Ferdie (Neely Edwards) buy themselves a couple of cowboy suits, then head out west. They flirt with the pretty bar maids, knock out the local banditos with golf balls and play some poker. It's slight, low-key and amusing.Year:
1919
Her First Kiss
Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.Year:
1919
A Hoosier Romance
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law.Year:
1918
His Cool Nerve
Year:
1917
Her Torpedoed Love
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.Year:
1917
His One Night Stand
Film directed and starring Harry McCoyYear:
1917
Cinders of Love
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.Year:
1916
A Movie Star
The star of a film attends a public showing.Year:
1916
Because He Loved Her
Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.Year:
1916
A Village Scandal
Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain the populace by wonderful feats of magic and sleight-of-hand. His plans are all set awry by his sudden infatuation for Flora Zabelle, who plays the hotel waitress and sweetheart of Fatty Arbuckle.Year:
1915
Saved by Wireless
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.Year:
1915
The Regeneration
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.Year:
1915
Dirty Work in a Laundry
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.Year:
1915
Merely A Married Man
A Keystone slapstick comedy Harry McCoy & Mae Busch.Year:
1915
Those Bitter Sweets
Harry takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors.Year:
1915
For Better - But Worse
Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.Year:
1915
A Bear Affair
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.Year:
1915
Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.Year:
1915
Ambrose's Lofty Perch
King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.Year:
1915
Ambrose's Fury
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.Year:
1915
A One Night Stand
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.Year:
1915
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.Year:
1915
That Little Band Of Gold
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.Year:
1915
Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance
Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.Year:
1915
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.Year:
1915
A Lucky Leap
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.Year:
1915
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.Year:
1915
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.Year:
1915
Peanuts and Bullets
A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.Year:
1915
His Second Childhood
This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.Year:
1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.Year:
1914
Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.Year:
1914
Fatty's Magic Pants
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.Year:
1914
Getting Acquainted
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.Year:
1914
Leading Lizzie Astray
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.Year:
1914
The Noise of Bombs
Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.Year:
1914
How Heroes Are Made
It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.Year:
1914
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Stout Hearts But Weak KneesYear:
1914
Hello, Mabel
Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.Year:
1914
Mabel's Blunder
Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.Year:
1914
His New Profession
Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.Year:
1914
The Masquerader
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.Year:
1914
The Face on the Barroom Floor
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.Year:
1914
A Coat's Tale
Year:
1914
The Property Man
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.Year:
1914
The Great Toe Mystery
A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.Year:
1914
Mabel's Married Life
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.Year:
1914
Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.Year:
1914
The Knockout
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.Year:
1914
Mabel’s Nerve
A silent comedy short directed by Mabel Normand.Year:
1914
Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.Year:
1914
Mabel at the Wheel
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.Year:
1914
The Star Boarder
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.Year:
1914
His Favorite Pastime
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.Year:
1914
Tango Tangles
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.Year:
1914
A Film Johnnie
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.Year:
1914
Mabel's Strange Predicament
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.Year:
1914
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Mabel Normand stars in this comedy short in which she has a world of trouble with her rival lovers.Year:
1914
Mike and Jake as Heroes
By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.Year:
1913
Her Birthday Present
Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leading to a shootout.Year:
1913
