James D. Davis

Tom Covington, a freight train conductor, who tries to get his rival Ralph Lasher into trouble by putting oil on the tracks.

Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.

Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train...

In this film, Snub leaves his extremely tiny town to go live with his aunt, who he doesn't even know. He arrives at her house when she's throwing a...

Snub comes to town with his pet duck where people think that he has struck oil at home, and so is briefly pursued by the young women, before settling...

The film begins with Snub going off to war in WWI. He manages to get lost behind enemy lines and spends most of the movie hiding or just barely...

The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made...

"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville...

A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer...

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox...

A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced!

A heavyweight slapstick comedy with "A Ton Of Fun".

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

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...

A lost silent short comedy.

A lost silent short comedy.

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

A 1927 short

After many difficulties getting into a baseball game with his girl, Paul is pressed into service as a pinch hitter.

Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the...

A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.

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.

Bobby has to become an athlete in order to win a girl's love.

Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.

Monty Banks plays a paramour who starts all sort of silly highjinks with Eva Novak and Carolyne Wright

Silent boxing sports comedy about a boxer whose grandmother wants him to be a ballet dancer, so he has the boxers at his training camp pose as ballet...

At the Sans Scruples Hotel, the house fire inspector has to steer clear of a vamp and her jealous husband, and put out a fire to win the girl.

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox...