Fred Newmeyer


Director

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Rodeo Rhythm (1942)
Director
General Spanky (1936)
Director
Scream in the Night (1935)
Director
Secrets of Chinatown (1935)
Director
No Ransom (1934)
Director
The Moth (1934)
Director
Lost in the Legion (1934)
Director
The Big Race (1933)
Director
Easy Millions (1933)
Director
Discarded Lovers (1932)
Director
They Never Come Back (1932)
Director
The Night Rider (1932)
Director
The Fighting Gentleman (1932)
Director
Gambling Sex (1932)
Director
Subway Express (1931)
Director
The Grand Parade (1930)
Director
Fast and Loose (1930)
Director
Queen High (1930)
Director
It Can Be Done (1929)
Director
The Rainbow Man (1929)
Director
Sailor's Holiday (1929)
Director
That's My Daddy (1928)
Director
Warming Up (1928)
Director
The Night Bird (1928)
Director
The Potters (1927)
Director
On Your Toes (1927)
Director
The Lunatic at Large (1927)
Director
Too Many Crooks (1927)
Director
The Savage (1926)
Director
The Quarterback (1926)
Director
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925)
Director
The Freshman (1925)
Director
The Perfect Clown (1925)
Director
Hot Water (1924)
Director
Girl Shy (1924)
Director
Why Worry? (1923)
Director
Safety Last! (1923)
Director
Doctor Jack (1922)
Director
Grandma's Boy (1922)
Director
A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Director
Among Those Present (1921)
Director
Now or Never (1921)
Director
Number, Please? (1920)
Director

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
Director, <I>The Freshman</I>

Cast (Short)

Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Never Weaken (1921) -- (Movie Clip) In A Certain City The opening of Harold Lloyd’s last short, for Hal Roach Studios, before moving to features, introducing Mildred Davis as his love interest and Mark Jones as an acrobatic office building neighbor, in Never Weaken, 1921.
Never Weaken (1921) -- (Movie Clip) Like A Hollow Sepulcher Wrongly convinced that his beloved (Mildred Davis, occupant of the office next door) is marrying someone else, the boy (Harold Lloyd) proceeds with the first two of several suicide attempts, in the three-reel Hal Roach short Never Weaken, 1921.
Freshman, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, College Yells Opening credits and introduction of producer and star Harold Lloyd (as budding college man "Harold Lamb), along with his parents, from the 1925 silent comedy hit The Freshman.
Freshman, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Just A Regular Fellow Told he must make a speech to the students, with a kitten hidden in his sweater, new man Harold (Harold Lloyd) thinks he's made a success in The Freshman, 1925.
Safety Last! (1923) -- (Movie Clip) Mannequin Hoping not to get caught sneaking back into work late at the department store, "the boy" (Harold Lloyd) resorts to an improbable disguise in Safety Last!, 1923.
Safety Last! (1923) -- (Movie Clip) Clock Tower Just a portion of Harold Lloyd's famous "Clock Tower" sequence, "the boy" being helped by pal Bill Strother, shot on a Los Angeles high-rise, from Saftey Last!, 1923.
Safety Last! (1923) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Minutes "The Boy" (Harold Lloyd) has ten minutes to get back to work, so he improvises transportation in the big city in a famous sequence from Safety Last!, 1923.
Safety Last! (1923) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Great Bend A gag in the very first shot, Nebraska-born Harold Lloyd as "The Boy" appearing doomed when he's only waiting for a train, introduction of "The Girl" (Mildred Davis) and framing the story, opening the hit Hal Roach comedy Safety Last!, 1923.
Why Worry? (1923) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Great Doctor! Established as a famous affluent hypochondriac, Harold (Lloyd) in his first scene boards the liner for South America with his butler (Wallace Howe) and devoted nurse (Jobyna Ralston, in her first of many roles as his love interest), who sets his heart aflutter, in Why Worry?, 1923.
Why Worry? (1923) -- (Movie Clip) Prisoners To Be Shot In South American "Paradiso," oblivious to the revolt being staged by crooked Yankee mercenaries, idle-rich hypochondriac Harold (Lloyd) complains to the ringleader (Jim Mason) about his hotel, local giant Colosso (John Aasen) also introduced, early in Why Worry?, 1923.
Why Worry? (1923) -- (Movie Clip) I Need More Ballast Recuperating in a South American republic, still not aware of the revolt around him, hypochondriac Harold (Lloyd), befriended by the benevolent giant Colosso (John Aasen), is determined to help his new pal with his toothache, in Lloyd's last film for Hal Roach, Why Worry?, 1923.
Girl Shy (1924) -- (Movie Clip) My Vampire For sure vamping it up, Harold Lloyd ("The Poor Boy") and an apprentice tailor by day, at work on his unfounded manual on romance, imagining the vampire (Nola Dolberg), the first of several, early in Girl Shy, 1924.

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