John Lancaster

1912

A Day Off

Con Ology and Hi Flyer, two henpecked husbands, hit upon a plan whereby they can escape fr…

1912

A Freight Train Drama

Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want…

1912

How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable r…

1912

The Hobo's Rest Cure

Bill Grogan, a happy hobo, having successfully eluded all sorts of allurements to go to wo…

1913

Alas! Poor Yorick!

A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.

1913

Sweeney's Dream

While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the m…

1913

The Gold Brick

Reporter Jones, a hustler, discovers a gold-brick displayed in a jeweler's window and sees…

1914

An Embarrassing Predicament

Billy Quill, a bashful bookkeeper, loves Marjorie Keyes, the pretty stenographer. Anatole,…

1917

Chased Into Love

The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire est…

1917

The Cloud Puncher

It hasn't rained for week and there are no symptoms of coming rain to be found. An itinera…