Directing
F. Richard Jones
Born September 7, 1893 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Died December 14, 1930 · aged 37
An American director, screenwriter, and producer. In 1915 he joined Sennett at Keystone and later signed with Hal Roach Studios. Jones died in 1930 at the age of thirty-seven. He left behind a widow, designer Irene Lentz, two former wives, Carol and Josephine, and a daughter, Dickey.
Known For
The Gaucho · 1927The Gaucho
★ 6.31927
MovieActionAdventure
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
Why Beaches Are Popular · 1919Why Beaches Are Popular
★ 7.01919
MovieComedy
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Down on the Farm · 1920Down on the Farm
★ 5.81920
MovieComedy
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Yankee Doodle in Berlin · 1919Yankee Doodle in Berlin
★ 5.71919
MovieComedyWar
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Seeing the World · 1927Seeing the World
★ 7.11927
MovieComedy
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Bulldog Drummond · 1929Bulldog Drummond
★ 6.51929
MovieActionThriller
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes · 1926Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
★ 5.71926
MovieComedy
The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he's shutting her shop down. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Napoleon has invented a plaster that restores youth. The dean accidentally sits on the plaster and reverts back to his younger days when he himself used to chase college girls. Complications ensue.
The Extra Girl · 1923The Extra Girl
★ 6.41923
MovieComedyRomance
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.










