Best comedies 1911 – 1920 - Charts
Best comedies 1911 – 1920
1. One Week (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts
2. The Scarecrow (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
3. Shoulder Arms (1918)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
4. Neighbors (1920)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
5. A Dog's Life (1918)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
6. The Oyster Princess (1919)
German Empire, Comedy
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda
7. Easy Street (1917)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
8. Behind the Screen (1916)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin
9. The Adventurer (1917)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
10. The Rink (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
11. Haunted Spooks (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
12. One A.M. (1916)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin
13. The Immigrant (1917)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
14. The Fireman (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
15. The Champion (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Bacon
16. Convict 13 (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
17. The Cure (1917)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
18. The Count (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell
19. The Doll (1919)
German Empire, Comedy / Fantasy
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson
20. The Pawnshop (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman
21. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
22. Noční děs (1914)
Austria-Hungary, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Jan Arnold Palouš
Cast: Alois Charvát, Růžena Šlemrová
23. Charlot vagabond (1915)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
24. Get Out and Get Under (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
25. The Vagabond (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
26. Sunnyside (1919)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
31. The Bank (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
32. I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918)
German Empire, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson
34. The Parson's Widow (1920)
Sweden, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Greta Almroth, Mathilde Nielsen
35. The Floorwalker (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
36. High and Dizzy (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
38. Czech Castles and Palaces (1916)
Austria-Hungary, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Karel Hašler
Cast: Karel Hašler, Anna Steimarová
39. Ask Father (1919)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Harry 'Snub' Pollard
40. A Woman (1915)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
41. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
USA, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Winsor McCay
Cast: Winsor McCay, Tom Powers
42. His New Job (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin
43. An Eastern Westerner (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
45. Look Out Below (1919)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Harold Lloyd
46. Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916)
German Empire, Comedy
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Rasp
47. His Trysting Place (1914)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
48. Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
USA, Comedy
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan
49. Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels
50. From Hand to Mouth (1919)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
51. A Tooth for a Tooth (1913)
Austria-Hungary, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Antonín Pech, Václav Piskáček
52. True Heart Susie (1919)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron
53. Max and His Dog (1912)
France, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Max Linder, René Leprince
Cast: Max Linder, Henri Bosc
54. Erotikon (1920)
Sweden, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Mauritz Stiller
Cast: Lars Hanson, Tora Teje
55. Shanghaied (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
57. A Night in the Show (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
59. The Professor (1919)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman
60. Chase Me Charlie (1918)
UK / USA, Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
62. Čertisko (1918)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy
Directed by: Jan Arnold Palouš
Cast: Milada Haunerová, A. Hlaváček
66. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse
67. Hey There! (1918)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Alfred J. Goulding
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Harry 'Snub' Pollard
69. The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Willis H. O'Brien
70. When the Clouds Roll by (1919)
USA, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Theodore Reed, Victor Fleming
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Ralph Lewis
71. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: John Emerson
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love
72. Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Frank Griffin
Cast: Charley Chase, Josef Swickard
73. Učitel orientálních jazyků (1918)
Austria-Hungary, Comedy
Directed by: Olga Rautenkranzová, Jan S. Kolár
Cast: Quido del Noce, Josef Rovenský
74. Police (1916)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
76. Number, Please? (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
77. His Musical Career (1914)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain
80. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
USA, Comedy
Directed by: Mack Sennett
Cast: Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin
81. Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels
83. His Royal Slyness (1920)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
84. Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Mabel Normand
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
85. Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Harry 'Snub' Pollard
86. Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920)
German Empire, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jakob Tiedtke, Henny Porten
88. A Night Out (1915)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin
89. The Fatal Mallet (1914)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Mack Sennett
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
90. The Merry Jail (1917)
German Empire, Comedy
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Emil Jannings, Ernst Lubitsch
91. Polykarpovo zimní dobrodružství (1917)
Austria-Hungary, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Jan S. Kolár
Cast: František Nesvadba, Marie Vítková
92. Dough and Dynamite (1914)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin
97. Algie, the Miner (1912)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Alice Guy, Harry Schenck
Cast: Billy Quirk, Mary Foy
98. The Property Man (1914)
USA, Comedy / Short
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Alice Davenport
99. Work (1915)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
100. In the Park (1915)
USA, Short / Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance