Billy West

Billy West

출생 : 1892-09-22, Russia

사망 : 1975-07-21

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Billy West

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She Couldn't Take It
Reporter
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Motive for Revenge
Ray - Convict
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
Perfectly Mismated
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.
The Defense Rests
Reporter
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
He Was Her Man
Chick
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
The Personality Kid
Sparring Partner
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
A Very Honorable Guy
Mike
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Jimmy the Gent
Halley (uncredited)
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
어느 날 밤에 생긴 일
Reporter (uncredited)
재산을 노리고 구혼을 한 비행사인 킹 웨슬리와 결혼하고자 하는 엘리를 아버지 알렉산더가 반대하고 요트에 가둬 두자 엘리는 헤엄을 쳐 해안으로 도망쳐나와 뉴욕으로 가는 그레이하운드 버스에 오른다. 그 버스에는 근무 중에 술을 마셔 해고당한 신문 기자 피터가 맨 뒷 좌석에 자리잡고 있는데, 엘리는 피터와 맨 뒤의 좌석에 나란히 앉게 된다. 여행 도중 엘리가 소지품이 든 가방을 잃어버렸음에도 신고하기를 거부하자 피터는 엘리의 신분에 대해 의심을 하게 된다. 그레이하운드로 계속되는 여행 다음날 둘은 잠시 쉰 휴게실에서 느긋하게 아침 식사를 하다가 엘리와 피터는 버스를 놓치게 되고, 피터는 엘리의 신분을 알게 된다. 엘리는 피터에게 뉴욕에 도착하도록 도와주면 자신에 대한 특종 기사를 쓰게 해 주겠다며 거래를 제안하지만 부잣집 딸이나 부를 탐내 결혼하려는 킹 웨슬리 같은 사람한테 전혀 관심이 없다면서 퉁명스럽게 이 제안을 거절한다.하지만 북쪽 으로 향하는 여행에서 몇 가지 우연찮은 사고가 일어나게 되고 피터와 엘리는 여러 곤경에 같이 빠지게 되는데...
Ex-Lady
Panhandler (uncredited)
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Picture Snatcher
Reporter Stacy (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Diamond Trail
Lefty
Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster. Flash and his gang head west guning for Bill Miller who failed to send some diamonds on to Flash. Speed hopes to bring Flash to justice but is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Bum
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
The Shadow of the Eagle
Bob the Clown
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.
Newly Rich
(uncredited)
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Lucky Fool
J. Anthony Bowden
Thrilling Youth
Billy Davis
Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family.
Hard Boiled Yeggs
Producer
A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event of Billy's death, two thugs get the money and the 'Cafe', and the thugs try, through various means, to see that Billy meets his demise. But Billy manages to thwart their efforts, with the help of a pretty young girl.
Hard Boiled Yeggs
Billy
A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event of Billy's death, two thugs get the money and the 'Cafe', and the thugs try, through various means, to see that Billy meets his demise. But Billy manages to thwart their efforts, with the help of a pretty young girl.
Hop to It!
Producer
Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
Fiddlin' Around
Director
A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.
Fiddlin' Around
A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.
The Joke's on You
Hubby
Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.
Fiddlin' Around
An Italian fiddler
FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).
Rivals
Billy
A 1925 silent comedy.
Rivals
Producer
A 1925 silent comedy.
Hey, Taxi!
Producer
Stick Around
Producer
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
Meet Father
The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champion.
Line's Busy
A Tourist
Billy West comedy for Arrow.
Line's Busy
Director
Billy West comedy for Arrow.
Not Wanted
After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a fedora -- but with the mustache. These movies involved him in cartoonish situations in which he executed some extended gags very nicely -- in this one he does the one in which the water pump only works when he's not ready for it and another in which he can't catch a fish with some expensive gear, while the boy next to him catches whoppers with a stick and a bent pin -- and gradually moved behind the camera.
Not Wanted
Director
After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a fedora -- but with the mustache. These movies involved him in cartoonish situations in which he executed some extended gags very nicely -- in this one he does the one in which the water pump only works when he's not ready for it and another in which he can't catch a fish with some expensive gear, while the boy next to him catches whoppers with a stick and a bent pin -- and gradually moved behind the camera.
Hello Bill
Billy West comes home and is greeted in so many ways.
Hello Bill
Director
Billy West comes home and is greeted in so many ways.
Don't Be Foolish
Billy
Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
Don't Be Foolish
Director
Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
The Trouble Shooter
The Tender Foot
Billy West wanders into town and is made sheriff because the older ones got killed or ran away.
Italian Love
A Billy West slapstick comedy.
Ship Ahoy
Charlie
Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his landlady's daughter.
Rolling Stone
Writer
A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone
A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
He's In Again
A Customer
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
Playmates
Kid
A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Bright and Early
A Bellboy
Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
The Scholar
The Scholar
Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
The Rogue
Billy
'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by a landlady who seems to be a cross between Alice Davenport and Marie Dressler, with a dash of Hattie Jacques. He crosses paths with a counterfeit count (White) and a stolen violin worth $20,000.
His Day Out
Billy
Imagine this, and you are in the world of Billy West, who looks like Chaplin, and acts something like Chaplin, but does not think like him, or come close to moving like him. In this film, West escapes a couple of cops, and fights for the Mabel Normand imitation with Oliver Hardy (who in this film is an Eric Campbell imitation). The dynamic between West in Hardy is more Popeye and Bluto (without the funny gags). The only original jokes involve our heroine's romantic assaults on Hardy's mustache.
The Stranger
The Prospector
After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town.
The Pest
The Pest
The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off roles.
The Hobo
The Hobo
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
The Candy Kid
The Candy Kid
A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
The Chief Cook
The Star Boarder
The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.
The Villain
The Villain
In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.
Cupid's Rival
Janitor
A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
The Hero
The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
Little Nell
Suitor
Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.