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If I said the name Harry Langdon would you know it? Now I'm not talking about Harry Langdon Jr here, the celebrated photographer but rather his father the 1920s silent comedian. Harry Langdon Snr came to the movies quite late really, he was about 40 before he made his first movie. He ended up at Sennett Studios after working with Sol Lesser at another studio. Mack said that Harry was the greatest comedian that he had ever seen, having worked with a few above-average comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle to name a few, Mack should have known a comedian when he saw one, so this statement has some weight behind it. Hal Roach had shown interest too in Langdon.  Initially, Harry didn't really get to do much at Sennett, but stand around and do a couple of silly things with the legendary Sennett Bathing Beauties filling in the space about him. But soon Harry got to be Harry and slowly you see his character coming out more and more , Mack must have been ...