H.M. Walker
WALKER, H.M. (Harley Marquis Walker) started as a telegrapher, tapping out the descriptions of sportswriters at boxing matches and sending them to the offices of their newspapers. In 1903 he became a sportswriter himself and wrote a column, “The Wisdom of Blinkey Ben,” for the Los Angeles Examiner before joining Roach in 1917 as a part-time scenario and title writer for Harold Lloyd. In 1920, he left newspaper work and joined Roach full time as head of the editorial department. A brilliant title writer in the silent era, Walker was less skilled at dialogue; he was credited for providing these elements on more than 350 Roach comedies. He usually came up with the title for each film and also wrote fairly severe critiques after each preview. After leaving Roach in 1932 he wrote dialogue for some features, including Son of a Sailor (1933) with Joe E. Brown, W.C. Fields’ The Old Fashioned Way (1934), and the ZaSu Pitts picture Affair of Susan (1935). Walker died in the home of his good friend Leroy Shield, who had written scores at the Roach lot in 1930 and ’31. Died June 23, 1937, Chicago, Illinois, age 58; of a heart attack.
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Harley M. "Beanie" Walker (June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932. The title cards he wrote for Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedies "have entered legend, both for silent films, and as opening remarks for the earlier talkies." He was also an officer of the Roach Studio corporation.
On Roach's "Lot of Fun", script development usually started with meetings among the gag men, who would develop what was known as an "action script": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which generally would run three to six legal-size pages. This document would then pass to Walker, the head of the editorial department, which oversaw not only script editing, but film editing as well. Walker usually came up with the title of each film, wrote "brilliantly witty" title cards which would be produced and inserted into the film, and wrote a critique before the picture went out to the distributors, Pathé Exchange, or later, M-G-M.
Walker's writing did not transition well to talkies and by 1931 he had left Roach studio and wrote dialogue for comedies produced by ex-Roach general manager Warren Doane at Universal Pictures. Later, he worked at Paramount Pictures, where he contributed to the W. C. Fields picture The Old Fashioned Way (1934).
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Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)
2025 · Writer
Public Ghost # 1
1935 · Writer
Them Thar Hills
1934 · Writer
Love Birds
1934 · Additional Dialogue
Her First Mate
1933 · Screenplay
They Just Had to Get Married
1933 · Screenplay
Girl Grief
1932 · Dialogue
Alum and Eve
1932 · Dialogue
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932 · Writer
Scram!
1932 · Writer, Dialogue
Young Ironsides
1932 · Dialogue
Show Business
1932 · Dialogue
What Price Taxi
1932 · Writer, Dialogue
County Hospital
1932 · Writer, Dialogue
The Pooch
1932 · Writer
The Old Bull
1932 · Dialogue
First in War
1932 · Dialogue
The Chimp
1932 · Writer
Choo-Choo!
1932 · Writer
Strictly Unreliable
1932 · Writer
In Walked Charley
1932 · Writer
The Music Box
1932 · Writer, Dialogue
You're Telling Me
1932 · Dialogue
Spanky
1932 · Writer
Red Noses
1932 · Dialogue
The Nickel Nurser
1932 · Writer
Any Old Port!
1932 · Writer
Free Eats
1932 · Writer
The Tabasco Kid
1932 · Writer
Helpmates
1932 · Dialogue
On the Loose
1931 · Writer
Hasty Marriage
1931 · Dialogue
Beau Hunks
1931 · Writer
War Mamas
1931 · Dialogue
What a Bozo!
1931 · Dialogue
One Good Turn
1931 · Dialogue
Shiver My Timbers
1931 · Writer
The Pajama Party
1931 · Dialogue
Skip the Maloo!
1931 · Dialogue
Come Clean
1931 · Dialogue
Call a Cop!
1931 · Dialogue
Catch-As Catch-Can
1931 · Dialogue
Pardon Us
1931 · Dialogue
The Panic Is On
1931 · Writer
Let's Do Things
1931 · Dialogue
One of the Smiths
1931 · Dialogue
Haunted at Midnight
1931 · Writer
Our Wife
1931 · Dialogue
Playing at Politics
1931 · Writer
Rough Seas
1931 · Dialogue
Messing Around
1931 · Writer
Little Daddy
1931 · Writer
The soul of the party
1931 · Dialogue
Chickens Come Home
1931 · Dialogue
Love Business
1931 · Writer
Be Big!
1931 · Writer
The Chiselers
1931 · Writer
Thundering Tenors
1931 · Dialogue
Helping Grandma
1931 · Writer
High C's
1930 · Dialogue
Temps d'Hiver
1930 · Writer
Another Fine Mess
1930 · Dialogue
A gray in the air
1930 · Writer
School's Out
1930 · Dialogue
Los cazadores de osos
1930 · Writer
Night of Goblins
1930 · Dialogue
Teacher's Pet
1930 · Dialogue
The prince of the dollar
1930 · Story
Gold Diggers
1930 · Story
Dollar Dizzy
1930 · Dialogue, Story
Doctor's Orders
1930 · Writer
Follies of love
1930 · Writer
Girl Shock
1930 · Writer
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930 · Writer
Fast Work
1930 · Dialogue
The King
1930 · Writer
Hog Wild
1930 · Dialogue, Writer
Bear Shooters
1930 · Story Editor
The Shrimp
1930 · Writer
Below Zero
1930 · Dialogue
The Night Life
1930 · Writer
The golf player
1930 · Writer
The golfer
1930 · Writer
All Teed Up
1930 · Dialogue
When the Wind Blows
1930 · Story Editor
The Big Kick
1930 · Writer
Brats
1930 · Dialogue
Whispering Whoopee
1930 · Dialogue
The First Seven Years
1930 · Story Editor
Blotto
1930 · Dialogue
The Fighting Parson
1930 · Writer
The Real McCoy
1930 · Story Editor
Shivering Shakespeare
1930 · Story Editor
The Head Guy
1930 · Writer
Night Owls
1930 · Writer
Angora Love
1929 · Other
Moan & Groan, Inc.
1929 · Story Editor
Skirt Shy
1929 · Story
Bouncing Babies
1929 · Story Editor
Sky Boy
1929 · Writer
Boxing Gloves
1929 · Dialogue
Crazy Feet
1929 · Scenario Writer
Hotter Than Hot
1929 · Writer
Men O' War
1929 · Writer
Berth Marks
1929 · Title Designer
Double Whoopee
1929 · Writer
Small Talk
1929 · Dialogue
Unaccustomed as We Are
1929 · Dialogue
Big Business
1929 · Writer
Wrong Again
1929 · Writer
Liberty
1929 · Writer
Early to Bed
1928 · Writer
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928 · Writer
Their Purple Moment
1928 · Writer
Fair and Muddy
1928 · Title Designer
You're Darn Tootin'
1928 · Writer
From Soup to Nuts
1928 · Writer
Came the Dawn
1928 · Writer
The Finishing Touch
1928 · Writer
Should Tall Men Marry?
1928 · Title Graphics
Playin' Hookey
1928 · Writer
The Battle of the Century
1927 · Title Designer
Fighting Fathers
1927 · Writer
Putting Pants on Philip
1927 · Writer
Hats Off
1927 · Title Designer
The Second 100 Years
1927 · Title Graphics
Sailors, Beware!
1927 · Writer
Sugar Daddies
1927 · Writer
The Sting of Stings
1927 · Writer
Fluttering Hearts
1927 · Writer
No Man's Law
1927 · Title Designer
Ten Years Old
1927 · Title Designer
Should Men Walk Home?
1927 · Writer
Many Scrappy Returns
1927 · Writer
The Nickel-Hopper
1926 · Writer
Get 'Em Young
1926 · Writer
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
1926 · Title Graphics
Bromo and Juliet
1926 · Title Designer
Crazy Like a Fox
1926 · Title Designer
Along Came Auntie
1926 · Title Designer
Thundering Fleas
1926 · Title Designer
Long Fliv the King
1926 · Writer
Wandering Papas
1926 · Title Designer
Good Cheer
1926 · Writer
Should Sailors Marry?
1925 · Title Designer
The Black Cyclone
1925 · Writer
Dog Days
1925 · Title Graphics
Papa Be Good!
1925 · Writer
Just a Good Guy
1924 · Writer
The White Sheep
1924 · Writer
The Battling Orioles
1924 · Writer
A Truthful Liar
1924 · Writer
Wide Open Spaces
1924 · Writer
Brothers Under the Chin
1924 · Writer
The King of the Wild Horses
1924 · Title Designer
Mother's Joy
1923 · Writer
Uncensored Movies
1923 · Writer
The Soilers
1923 · Title Graphics
The Whole Truth
1923 · Writer
Heavy Seas
1923 · Writer
Dogs of War!
1923 · Title Graphics
Dr. Jack
1922 · Title Designer
Grandma's Boy
1922 · Writer
Never Weaken
1921 · Writer
Now or Never
1921 · Writer
Number, Please?
1920 · Writer
Get Out and Get Under
1920 · Writer
High and Dizzy
1920 · Writer
An Eastern Westerner
1920 · Writer
Haunted Spooks
1920 · Writer
His Royal Slyness
1920 · Writer
From Hand to Mouth
1919 · Title Graphics
Captain Kidd's Kids
1919 · Title Graphics
Bumping Into Broadway
1919 · Writer
Don't Shove
1919 · Title Graphics
Heap Big Chief
1919 · Dialogue
Chop Suey & Co.
1919 · Writer
Count Your Change
1919 · Title Graphics
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919 · Writer
Ask Father
1919 · Writer
Fireman Save My Child
1918 · Writer
Here Come the Girls
1918 · Dialogue
A Gasoline Wedding
1918 · Writer
Beat It
1918 · Dialogue
The Tip
1918 · Dialogue
Step Lively
1917 · Writer
We Never Sleep
1917 · Writer
All Aboard
1917 · Writer
Clubs Are Trump
1917 · Writer
The Flirt
1917 · Writer
Love, Laughs and Lather
1917 · Writer
Rainbow Island
1917 · Writer
From Laramie to London
1917 · Writer
Bliss
1917 · Writer
Birds of a Feather
1917 · Writer
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917 · Writer
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