Movies: James Parrott

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short....

SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to...

James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy....

Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)...

The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino....

Love's Detour is a 1924 comedy short...

Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest....

A lightning rod salesman gets in the middle of a western shootout....

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

A woman and her dog defend an innocent man....

Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him....

Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the th...

Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners....

Many Scrappy Returns...

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

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....

...

A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss....

A man arrives late at his own wedding....

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...