Fred C. Newmeyer Trailers
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A native of Central City, Colorado, Newmeyer is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing several Harold Lloyd movies. With Sam Taylor, Newmeyer co-directed Lloyd in films including Safety Last! (1923), Girl Shy (1924), and The Freshman (1925). Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in other comedy short films. He appeared as an actor in 71 films between 1914 and 1923.
Prior to his film career, Newmeyer played professional baseball. Partial statistics exist for his time as a left-handed pitcher in Minor League Baseball at the Class D level from 1911 to 1913 in the Southwest Texas League, Michigan State League, and Central Association.[6] He made at least 66 appearances and was the winning pitcher of at least 26 games.
Newmeyer was the original director of the first short in the Our Gang series, also titled Our Gang; his version tested poorly, and producer Hal Roach scrapped most of the footage and remade the short with Robert McGowan as the director. Newmeyer, after directing numerous other shorts at Roach, returned to the Our Gang series in 1936 to direct The Pinch Singer, Arbor Day, Mail and Female and the feature film General Spanky.
Newmeyer and his wife, Berna, had a son, Fred W. After his film career, Newmeyer worked with the athletic department of University High School in Los Angeles. Newmeyer died on April 24, 1967, in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 78.
Most Popular Fred C. Newmeyer Trailers
Total trailers found: 83
26 November 1922
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
20 September 1925
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie.
22 August 1932
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch.
14 January 1934
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party.
02 November 1919
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor.
22 October 1921
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation.
26 December 1920
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend.
08 November 1930
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
10 May 1932
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm.
29 July 1935
A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.
23 August 1930
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.
07 October 1934
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son.
03 January 1932
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios.
04 September 1916
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing.
23 September 1917
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason.
20 April 1919
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks.
30 November 1919
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures.
06 April 1919
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
29 May 1921
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
14 December 1925
A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
26 October 1924
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow.
11 October 1926
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University.
31 August 1919
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
02 April 1927
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.
25 May 1919
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
21 August 1916
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
14 September 1929
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
25 December 1921
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
09 September 1917
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game.
11 December 1936
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat.
15 October 1916
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
27 November 1927
Silent boxing sports comedy about a boxer whose grandmother wants him to be a ballet dancer, so he hs
28 August 1920
A 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini slapstick comedy.
05 August 1917
While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
10 December 1916
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
10 August 1919
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
21 November 1932
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
03 December 1916
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time.
18 July 1926
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
05 April 2022
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shorts produced by the Hal Roach Studios: Anniversary Trouble (1935) to Arbor Day (1936)—with each short newly scanned and restored from the original Hal Roach 35mm film elements.
20 April 1924
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men.
14 February 1934
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks.
01 May 1931
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
24 December 1916
As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.
02 December 1917
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
17 December 1916
Luke, working in a fireworks factory.
16 September 1928
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
10 July 1916
Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
16 May 1920
Beatrice is a maid to a naughty society girl. The latter's lover takes a liking to the maid and a riot follows during a dance.
07 August 1916
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
18 September 1916
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
01 April 1923
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
04 August 1928
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues.
21 October 1917
An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.
02 February 1930
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly.
04 November 1917
An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
01 October 1916
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
30 September 1917
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
01 February 1920
Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.
19 November 1916
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.
