The best Andy Clyde’s comedy movies

Andy Clyde

Andy Clyde

25/03/1892- 18/05/1967
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Andy Clyde’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Andy Clyde.
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It's a Wonderful World

It's a Wonderful World
6.8/10
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.

Million Dollar Legs

Million Dollar Legs
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/07/1932
  • Character: The Major-Domo
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

The Golden Age of Comedy

The Golden Age of Comedy
7.1/10
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

Picking Peaches

Picking Peaches
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1924
  • Character: Near-Sighted Shoe Customer
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan
6.8/10
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.

Dora's Dunking Doughnuts

Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
5.8/10
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.

Money Squawks

Money Squawks
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/04/1940
  • Character: Andy
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?

Black Oxfords

Black Oxfords
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/05/1924
  • Character: Prison Batter / Rural Sheriff / Umpire
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.

Matchmaking Mamma

Matchmaking Mamma
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/03/1929
  • Character: The Minister
This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.

A Sea Dog's Tale

A Sea Dog's Tale
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1926
  • Character: King Gumbo
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.

Ghost Parade

Ghost Parade
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 23/05/1931
  • Character: Andy Martin
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.

Broke in China

Broke in China
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/04/1927
  • Character: Ruth's Father
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

Smith's Army Life

Smith's Army Life
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/02/1928
  • Character: Clarence
19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Hot Paprika

Hot Paprika
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/12/1935
  • Character: Andy
A former bank clerk who believes he has three months to live goes to the island of Paprika and gets involved in a revolution.

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/06/1925
  • Character: Burbank Watts
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.

Red Lights Ahead

Red Lights Ahead
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 28/11/1936
  • Character: Grandpa Hopkins
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.

The Dare-Devil

The Dare-Devil
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1923
  • Character: The Scenery Mover
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.

His Unlucky Night

His Unlucky Night
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/08/1928
  • Character: Homer's Father-in-Law
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.

Water Wagons

Water Wagons
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1925
  • Character: Capt. Noah Barr
A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold
6.1/10
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.

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