Movies: James Parrott

A landlord is attending his new tenants' rollicking and well-attended housewarming party. As midnight arrives, a ghostly apparition appears outside the window--and our frightened hero immediately breaks out the shotgun to fend off the phantom menace....

A James Parrott comedy short....

A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor....

Only known footage of the German language version of Pardon Us (1931) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy....

The Radio Rogues, salesman for a cure-all tonic called Nervoto, decide to go to Hollywood and cure invalids with mirth, melody and music instead of medicine....

Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack....

When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time to receive the reward of $1,000....

The penniless tourist, "Appetite Andy" (Paul Parrott) stops by at the Hollywood Cafateria (sic) where the gullible boss (Mark Jones) welcomes him in to sample many of the soups and delicacies available to customers. After savoring many of the dishes...

The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more....

The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film....

Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure....

Sid Smith plays a chauffeur to James Parrott who helps a vamp captivate his boss while foiling a bank robbery....

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short....

Well executed but unexceptional one-reeler about a couple of incompetent paperhangers. James Parrott, brother of Charley Chase, was an equally skilled man behind the camera, later writing and directing some of Roach's best two-reelers, before he died...

Hapless photographer James Parrott attempts to shoot a bathing beauty pageant....