Larry Semon

Larry Semon

Directing 1889-07-14 West Point, Mississippi, USA

American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight, Larry Semon was the son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great. He grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics. A talent for drawing and cartooning led to art school and then work as a cartoonist for various New York City newspapers. The humor evident in his published cartoons prompted executives at New York's Vitagraph Studios to hire him as a gag writer in 1916. He quickly proved himself and was promoted to director for the Hughie Mack series of comedies. His background in magic helped him create interesting new gags for the comedian. When Mack left the studio in 1917, Semon took over the starring role himself. His one-reelers were quite successful, and Vitagraph sent him to California to participate in its new West Coast operation. He produced as well as wrote, starred in and directed his own films, at the same time also producing films for other comics. In the summer of 1928 Semon apparently fell ill with tuberculosis and simultaneously, it seems, suffered a nervous breakdown. He entered a sanitarium near San Bernardino, CA, where he reportedly died on October 8. However, an air of mystery surrounds his death, since his wife (and former co-star) Dorothy Dwan was allowed almost no contact with him and never saw his body, which was ordered cremated after a tightly secured funeral, which was carried out per Semon's "previous instructions" and to which almost no attendees were allowed. The whereabouts of Semon's cremated remains are to this day a mystery, and his widow professed until her death to be mystified by the circumstances of his passing. With enormous financial obligations facing him Larry Semon could easily have considered a dramatic escape of this sort from his creditors. Whether he did, or whether his death was the sad final chapter to a high-rising, briefly brilliant, but ultimately short-lived career may never be known for certain.

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1928 The Entertainer
1928 It
1928 Director
1928 Director
1927 Slippy Lewis
1927 Larry
1927 The Detective
1927 Spuds
1927 Scenario Writer
1927 Writer
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1927 Director
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1927 Producer
1925 Scarecrow / Toymaker
1925 Self
1925 Borden Rhoom / Getz A. Bunn
1925 Bert Larry
1925 Peter Pep
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1925 Scenario Writer
1925 Producer
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1924 The Speed Kid
1924 Larry, the Chief's son
1924 Government agent
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1923 Larry, a Suitor
1923 Larry, a Waiter
1923 Larry
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1923 Larry, a salesman
1923 Lay Zee, Farm Hand
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1922 The Dumb-Bell
1922 The son
1922 Larry, the Counter Jumper
1922 King August / Stranger
1922 The Prop Man / Gentle Onlooker
1922 Director
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1922 Executive Producer
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1922 Editor
1921 Larry, the Hick
1921 Larry, a Bakery Clerk
1921 Larry, the Rent Collector
1921 The Bellhop
1921 The Sportsman
1921 Larry, the Fall Guy
1921 Director
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1921 Story
1921 Producer
1921 Writer
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1921 Story
1920 Joe
1920 The Suitor
1920 The Fly Cop
1920 The Stage Hand
1920 Writer
1920 Director
1920 Director
1920 Director
1920 Writer
1920 Producer
1920 Director
1920 Writer
1920 Producer
1919 A Farmer's Boy
1919 The House Detective
1919 Larry, the Handy Man and a Drunkard
1919 Larry
1919 Star Boarder / Little Joe, Escaped Convict
1919 The Grocery Clerk
1919 The Husband
1919 Larry, the Detective
1919 Larry, a Detective
1919 Detective Sparks
1919 The Head Waiter
1919 The Sheriff
1919 Writer
1919 Scenario Writer
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1919 Director
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1919 Director
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1918 The Janitor
1918 Larry Cutshaw
1918 Caesar / A Minstrel
1918 Larry, First Prisoner
1918 Larry
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1918 Scenario Writer
1918 Director
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1917 Larry
1917 O.U. Dubb
1917 Our Hero
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1916 Writer
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1916 Story
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1916 Scenario Writer
1915 Director