James Parrott Movies

SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in...

A crooked lawyer sells his car.

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

Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression...

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria...

The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with...

Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for...

A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.

An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.

Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.

Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.

For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice....

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the...

This movie is the Spanish language version of THE PIP FROM PITTSBURG

A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.

The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the...

Paul, a great college athlete, is sent to his uncle's farm to be developed, but turns against the continual round of chores. And at the table he is...