Charles Avery Movies

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Her Last Chance

An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covered with banana skins, inviting slip-and-fall...

Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a...

Fatty, his wife and mother-in-law are on a ferry to Catalina Island for an outing. So are Mabel and her father. Mabel and Fatty flirt with each...

The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

Charles Murray out romancing in the park.

Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage. Father and mother...

Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.

Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being...

Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her...

One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself....

Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.

This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father...

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman...

Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch...

Hank Kinney, a ranger, witnesses the accidental death of a man and the survival of a motherless infant. Kinney asks the county sheriff to process...