'Little Billy' Rhodes

'Little Billy' Rhodes

Nacimiento : 1895-02-01,

Muerte : 1967-07-24

Perfil

'Little Billy' Rhodes

Películas

The Embracers
The Drunken Man
A girl and a boy meet, and a sexploitation feature ensues.
El maravilloso mundo de los hermanos Grimm
Grumpy the Dwarf
Biografía de los hermanos Grimm a través de la creación de su obra. Intercala escenificaciones de sus cuentos más célebres: "La princesa y el leñador", "El zapatero y los enanitos" y "El hueso cantor".
The Terror of Tiny Town
The Villain (Bat Haines) (as Little Billy)
Using a conventional Western story with an all dwarf cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.
Maria Antonieta
Midget in Student Ball Number (uncredited)
Siglo XVIII. La princesa de Austria María Antonieta (Shearer) se casa con el delfín de Francia, Luis XVI (Morley), un hombre tan retraído que su relación con la joven es puramente formal. Antonieta se dejará fascinar por las fiestas de París y derrochará el dinero a manos llenas, aunque esta situación no durará mucho. Un drama de época que obtuvo 4 nominaciones a los Oscar: Actriz principal (Norma Shearer), actor secundario (Robert Morley), banda sonora y dirección artística.
The Daredevil Drivers
Cigar Smoking Midget (uncredited)
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
Artists & Models
King (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Men in Black
Tiny Patient
The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
They Never Come Back
Master of Ceremonies
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
A Regular Trouper
Bobby (uncredited)
Ruth Eton (Ruth Etting), a singer with a traveling show troupe, is engaged to the troupe manager, Joe Grant (Edward Leiter), but when Ruth's younger sister, Laura (Wanda Perry) arrives, fickle Joe transfers his attentions and intentions to her. For the sake of her sister and the show, Ruth accepts her tough break philosophically, and sings "Why Did It Have To Be Me?"...because she is a real trouper.
Polly, la chica del circo
Half-Pint
Cuando Polly Fisher, una trapecista de circo, es herida en el desempeño de su trabajo, es llevada a la casa de un ministro cercano, John Hartley. Mientras se recupera, se enamoran, y en secreto se casan. Pero cuando la verdad se sabe, los rebeldes de la congregación de John rechazan tener a una mujer de circo como la esposa de su pastor, y él es despedido. Polly decide dejar a John, entendiendo que para él es demasiado sacrificio abandonar su vocación. Pero el destino interviene y reorganiza todos los planes.
The Shadow of the Eagle
The Midget
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Running Hollywood
Little Billy
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
The Stolen Jools
Film Delivery Boy
Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
Swing High
Major Tiny
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
The Sideshow
P.W. Melrose (as Little Billy)
Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus. Meanwhile, he's also hired a beautiful young woman as the magician's assistant, with eyes toward more - but he realizes that, as a midget, she won't have him.
Oh, Baby!
Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship when Charley Burns (Arthur Graham?) discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife.