Larry Semon

Actor
Larry Semon

About

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Birth Place
West Point, Michigan, USA
Born
July 06, 1889
Died
October 08, 1928
Cause of Death
Pneumonia

Filmography

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Spuds (1927)
Director
Stop, Look, and Listen (1926)
Director
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Director
The Girl in the Limousine (1924)
Director
The Rent Collector (1921)
Director
The Simple Life (1919)
Director

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Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) There Once Bloomed A Rose

Family & Companions

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Lucille Carlisle
Wife
Actor. First wife.
Dorothy Dawn
Wife
Actor. Second wife; died in 1980.

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Spuds (1927)
Director
Stop, Look, and Listen (1926)
Director
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Director
The Girl in the Limousine (1924)
Director
The Rent Collector (1921)
Director
The Simple Life (1919)
Director
Bears and Bad Men (1918)
Director
Huns and Hyphens (1918)
Director
Babes and Boobs (1918)
Director
Frauds and Frenzies (1918)
Director
Rough Toughs and Roof Tops (1917)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Spuds (1927)
"Spuds"
Underworld (1927)
Slippy Lewis
Stop, Look, and Listen (1926)
Luther Meek
Go Straight (1925)
Himself
The Perfect Clown (1925)
Bert Larry
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Scarecrow
The Girl in the Limousine (1924)
Tony

Writer (Feature Film)

Spuds (1927)
Writer
Stop, Look, and Listen (1926)
Scen
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Scen

Cast (Short)

Animal Antics (1950)

Life Events

1916

Joined Vitagraph to write and direct comedy shorts

1917

Began appearing as actor

Videos

Movie Clip

Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Townsfolk Of Oz Opening and scarcely resembling the 1939 approach or the novel, director and star Larry Semon comments, then appears un-credited as the toymaker, introducing the story device with grand-daughter Jean Johnston, and in Oz, Josef Swickard, Virginia Pearson and Otto Lederer, all unfamiliar characters, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1925.
Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) There Once Bloomed A Rose Director and star Larry Semon as the toymaker is reading the famed novel to his unhappy granddaughter, who prefers he jump to Kansas, thus we meet Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Aunty Em and Uncle Henry (Mary Carr, Frank Alexander) then Oliver Hardy as a farmhand and suitor (and later the Tin Woodsman), in The Wizard Of Oz, 1925.
Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Thoughts Of Lollypops Again in Kansas, fuller exposition regarding the two nameless farmhands (director Larry Semon, and Oliver Hardy) who are both suitors to Dorothy (Dorothy Dwan), and who will later appear as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman, though they’re only disguises, not characters, in Semon’s off-beat 1925 silent, The Wizard Of Oz.
Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) You Doubt My Powers? Now in Oz and in trouble with unsympathetic authorities, the Wizard (Charles Murray), who freely admits he’s only a mortal huckster, hopes to demonstrate his value by his fake transformation of two Kansas farmhands, director Larry Semon as the Scarecrow, and Oliver Hardy the Tin Woodsman, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1925.

Family

'Zera the Great'
Father
Magician.

Companions

Lucille Carlisle
Wife
Actor. First wife.
Dorothy Dawn
Wife
Actor. Second wife; died in 1980.

Bibliography

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