He teamed with vaudevillian Henry Dixon in a "Dutch" comedy act, which meant they were playing broad stereotypes of German characters.

The plot managed to combine a phony movie-producing company, a burlesque battlefield scene for Anger's soldier character, several interruptions by a kicking chorus line and plenty of songs for Barnard.

Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger reported that the audience "enjoyed the act immensely and demanded a number of bows".

After a stint at the Reelcraft Film Corporation, where he headed up the Cincinnati and Indianapolis offices,[9] he was hired by movie executive Joseph Schenck.

Arbuckle would have total script and cast control and would receive a salary of $5000 per week, in addition to a percentage of the profit[10] and a signing bonus of a new Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost touring car.

[12] The Comique Film Corporation operated autonomously under Anger's direction, with no interference from Schenk or a board of directors.

[14] Anger talked Keaton into coming along for a visit to Joe Schenck's studio on the Lower East Side where Arbuckle made his two-reel comedies.

On the advice of Anger,[17] Schenck acquired the Balboa Studio and moved the Comique Film Corporation to Long Beach, California.

According to a 1919 Los Angeles Herald article "you will hear Lou Anger at the studio pattering around overhead with bills and discounts and other things and wondering if such and so comes F.O.B., C.O.D.

"[23] In 1923 he formed Lou Anger productions, under the banner of United Artists, with a capital of $1 million to produce two-reel comedies.

Once, after having just recovered from a sick spell, he was "cheered lustily" when discovered to be "sitting like a yiddisher Buddha" at the Blossom Room in the Roosevelt Hotel.

[28] For a time, Anger was part owner of the San Francisco based Mission Reds minor league team.

[29] With Keaton, Anger also entered into several business ventures, such as the purchase of several oil wells near Long Beach, which were sold for a 100% profit.

[30] Among his real estate ventures, Anger headed a group of investors who acquired Lido Isle, a 120-acre mound of sand near Newport Beach for the sum of $3 million.

Anger died in Los Angeles on May 21, 1946, after a long illness,[33] a victim of dermatomyositis, and is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.