In the 1920s, he began working for Hal Roach, appearing in numerous two-reeler comedies including "Call of the Cuckoo" with Charley Chase, "Get 'Em Young" with Stan Laurel, and "Why Girls Say No" and "Love 'Em and Feed 'Em" with Oliver Hardy, as well as the early talkie Our Gang short "Moan and Groan, Inc." (1929), as the crazy old man who haunts a house. He starred alongside a young Jackie Coogan in a pair of silent features, "The Rag Man" (1923) and "Old Clothes" (1925).