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Larry Semon. Highest Rated: 89% Underworld (1927) Lowest Rated: 89% Underworld (1927) Birthday: Jul 16, 1889. Birthplace: West Point, Mississippi, USA. Former cartoonist who joined Vitagraph in ...
Oct 8, 2015 · Oct 8, 2015. On October 8, 1928, Larry Semon, briefly a superstar actor, producer and director during Hollywood’s silent era, died, at the age of 39. Semon was a shooting star, whose fall was nearly as quick as his ascent. Human Chameleon Peter Sellers Dies. J.D. Salinger Publishes Catcher in the Rye. This Day / 'Holy Troublemaker' Is Born.
Sep 10, 2012 · THE SHOW (1922) Starring: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlise, Oliver Hardy, Frank Alexander, Alice DavenportDirected by Larry Semon and Norman TaurogVitagraph Film...
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Stars. L arry Semon was a director of numerous silent films, as well as an actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and cartoonist. Semon was born in West Point, Miss. His mother and father were actors, and as soon as he was old enough he too appeared on stage. In school in Savannah, Ga., Semon began cartooning and became an expert working on ...
Larry Semon was an early 20th-century American film comedian and director. He was one of the most popular stars of the 1910s and 1920s and worked together with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they became a duo. Nowadays Semon has faded away in obscurity, though remains a household name among fans of movies from the silent era.
Nov 3, 2015 · Prior to his premature death from tuberculosis in 1928, Larry Semon was one of the most popular comics on the silent screen. For a time he rivaled comedy legends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton for fame and fortune. The son of magician Professor Zera the Great, Semon participated in many of his father's early performances.
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 16 July 1889, Lawrence “Larry” Semon rose to considerable fame as a silent film actor and director during the 1920s. While today his movies are difficult to find and his name has been virtually erased from American film history, during the early years of cinema he rivaled Charlie Chaplin in […]
